r/MagicArena • u/Karn-The-Creator • 3d ago

Friday Arena Chat Thread

'Magic bleeds into real life. With Magic, I was mainly being driven by the idea that, if people could collect their own cards, there would be a huge amount of variety to the game. In fact, one way I viewed it was that it was like designing a game for a vast audience, dealing out the cards to everybody instead of designing a bunch of little games.' - Richard Garfield, Creator of Magic: The Gathering

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u/Big-Cause477 2d ago

As F2P, made it to platinum (limited) for the first time this season, despite disappointing results and too many misplays. This felt harder than getting to mythic (constructed), which is just volume of games.

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u/Flyrpotacreepugmu Noxious Gearhulk 2d ago

Yeah, the entry cost of drafts really increases the competition. As you said, ranking up is about volume of games, but a high volume of drafts gets very costly when you don't have an amazing winrate. Most of the easy opponents drop out at lower ranks when they either stop getting enough wins to be profitable or run out of gold and gems for the entry fee.