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Great tip, I've heard that from a few places recently, but haven't seen it myself yet.

The best time to crack the golden packs is 'as late as possible', but that means you don't get the value from them until later on. I'm going to open mine after my main quick draft spree after the first few weeks. If you wanted to make sure you get the most long-term value out of the golden packs, you could save some of them until rotation happens, then they'll give you 6 rares all from the most recent set (I'm guessing).

@@gameschooldadMTG Yeah - that’s what I thought - be interesting to see how well it fills in the collection gaps for the older sets. I mean I only have a few - but they add up!

If you pick a Jump-In pack where you already have some of those cards in your collection, you'll still get the extra copies (up until 4 copies). If you already have 4 copies of any card, you'll get vault progress for any commons and uncommons, and you'll get gems for any rares and mythics.

I'd open any packs as soon as you're sure you don't want to draft that set any more. Quick Drafting after opening lots of packs increases your chance of getting gems instead of a new card if you have 4x of a rare/mythic card that you open in a draft pack. For any older packs, the principle is the same. As long as you're not planning to draft after opening the packs, then you shouldn't miss out on any cards. I'm not sure if that's answering your question or not. Is that what you mean?

I'm going to try waiting until the July set release each year. That's when the sets about to rotate drop from the icrs i think.?

You can look up lists online for most of the Jump In packs to see what rares and other cards you can get in them.

@@gameschooldadMTG Thank you. I have list on my desk and I am marking every I have already used so I get twice only those I need more rares from. Few are new - not in the list I found (cutthroat for example - those are propably from recent patch) But mostly I get old sets. Is there a way to trick the game for new sets? I have even seen multiple of old ones. Or the problem is that my overall collection is new so the offer me everything to expand?

@@TheGiltanas The game will always offer you a pack that you haven't chosen before. There are at least 60 other packs (I think) that were released before the Phyrexia set, so if your account is new, there are lots of options for it to show you that aren't from the new set. If you pick two new ones every time you can in a new event, you should start to eliminate some of those options and you will get a chance to pick all the new ones as well. Cutthroat is one of the new ones :)

That sounds good. Do whatever works for you, there isn't just one way to approach it :)

You should be back to 0 weekly wins since the normal weekly reset yesterday. Tomorrow when the app updates for the new set, everything will reset again, so you'll have rewards available for another 15 weekly wins and three new daily gold quests. I'd recommend completing as much of them now as possible, otherwise you'll basically lose them.

There's nothing wrong with that. Standard events are pretty good at converting gold into gems, so if you do those and spend the rest on the most recent packs, then I can see that working out pretty well.

Awesome, thank you!

Coming soon!

I could make a video on Sealed events. My general thoughts are that it's a good way to get lots of commons and uncommons to start with, but you need to be able to get at least 3 wins for it to be worth it.

I could make a video going through the main mechanics in Standard and how they all work. I think that would be pretty valuable in general for new or returning players. Are there any particular parts that you find more confusing than others?

You just have to play honestly. I started a few months ago and played a lot of "Jump In". So many different mechanics, but once you play for a while you start to figure them out. Took me like 2 months to figure out how to use Ninjitsu lol.

It has been updated. I have seen two of the new half-packs already. I will post about them in detail when I can. I haven't seen any announcements about the packs online yet.

Yes please update regarding the jump in

@@AdamGoldbergOmaha I've got a video coming out tomorrow about 5 of the new Jump In packets 👍

The daily quests and weekly wins will all reset and reload when the new update happens, so it's best to use them all up before the update, and then you'll get them back again straight after.

If you don't like or want to do draft games, then buying packs are ok as an alternative, but drafting is definitely better to start with. I'll have some videos on drafting tips coming out soon, before the first quick draft season starts.

If you want to do some draft events, you'll potentially get more out of them if you've opened fewer packs, but I don't think it'll make too much difference for you if you've just opened a few of them. If you're not planning on doing any drafts, then you might as well just open packs as you get them and make the best constructed deck that you can from what you open.

@@gameschooldadMTG thank you, sir

I love playing mono red, but I also love destroying it! 😈

@@gameschooldadMTG I’m honestly jealous of the mono black deck that is out right now. It has such great synergy. But almost all the cards are either mythic or rare so I’ve not invested any wildcards towards it yet. It being a mono color deck is a great place for new players to start as the mana base can be all basic lands. When I played paper Magic getting all the none basic lands for each set was always top priority for me because it meant I had an easier access to any deck I wanted to play. For Arena that requires wild cards to be used which limits the amount of actual threats you can spend the wild cards on. The Mono Blue and Red Deck Wins one seem to be the most cost effective one is the Brothers War standard environment. Both only have between 8-12 rares depending on build and both are able to get wins fairly reliably. Keep up the great work as I really enjoy your content even if I have played the game since 1996. Your approach to getting the most out of Arena has made my time back a blast. I was going to email you about maybe doing a video about all the current codes you can enter to get 3 packs of cards per set. I wasn’t aware that there was so many that was still active. Last night I stumbled on them while searching for something else. Every two codes gives you enough packs to generate one rare or mythic wildcard. Thanks to the progression wheel and random wildcards I increase my rare wild cards from 2 to 12 and my mythic from 3 to 7. Bonus was out of all those packs I got 3 different rares that I had been wanting copies of to make other decks. I’ll still need to spend some wild cards to make the extra copies needed but it’s nice to get a few copies without having to craft them.

Glad it was helpful!

Sealed is a higher entry cost, so you're putting more gems on the line. You need to win at least 3 games with Sealed for it to be worth it, and I imagine the competition would be tougher for that reason.

@@gameschooldadMTG I understand now, thank you!

Good luck!

Check out the Joy Of Draft series for some great tips for any draft format

2nd related question??? Would it be a good idea to do the Jump In's from the BRO (in the next few hours) to collect each half deck combination now? I guess I'm asking, if I do all 6 half decks now, will only one or two be new/unique when ONE launches or all 6?

I'm not aware of any way to see which packs you've previously picked, unfortunately. If I had planned ahead, I would have made note of the ones I've picked, but I have to make a best guess now. I don't think it would make any difference to do the BRO ones now or not. There are 10 packs from each set, and if it does always show you at least one pack that you haven't picked yet, then it would show them after the release anyway. My plan is to do the event after the update and pick anything that I don't recognise as much. I know some of the ones that I've picked before, so I'm hoping it'll work itself out.

@@gameschooldadMTG so i could do a ton of Jump Ins and it would keep presenting me with packs from older sets too? And, yes. I guess I will keep tabs on my combinations selected now moving forward. Thanks for the reply

Glad you like them!

It can be a great way to get lots of value out of a new set, but you only get one loss before you're out of the event, so you need to get at least 2 wins in a row first to get a small profit from the event. If you're really lucky and can get through a few wins without losing any matches, you would get a lot of value back!

There are normal constructed events that run all the time too, and they tend to be very rewarding if you are ‘ahead of the curve’ as a player

For anyone who can reliably get 4+ wins in Premier Draft, then that's probably the best way to go. Quick Draft is what I recommend for the average player who is likely to get about 3 wins or less per draft. It's accounting more for the drafted cards than the gem rewards.

@@gameschooldadMTG ok that makes sense, thx! I'm gonna shoot for a 4 win with my draft token and then buy the pass for this season. Thx for the reply and info!

It's a Phyrexian pun 🤓

@@gameschooldadMTG 😅 damm now i feel stupid but at least i touch enough grass.

The reason you might want to wait until later on to open packs is because they give you rare duplicate protection, meaning you'll always get a rare/mythic you don't already have 4x of, which is important if you want to more fully complete a set. BUT... holding on to packs for longer means delaying your ability to actually use those cards while they're new, so everyone needs to find the right balance for them between maximum efficiency and actually playing the game. If there's anything else you find confusing, then let me know and I can clarify it more 👍

If you watch the rest of the video after the 4 minute mark, that might also help 🙂

@@gameschooldadMTG Nobody is going to continue watching if nothing is making any sense from the start. Due to vague information. It makes more sense now you mentioned about duplicate protection. Because i thought wotc was not doing that for Arena. And not at all explained in the vid. So yes that would mean some form of balance would be needed. Which is my case now that I have a few of the free dual decks. And bought the two starter bundles that give 6000 gems. Which I've only used for Mastery Pass so far. But I might start opening packs half way through if that's the case. Because I might get most of what I need to make a real Standard deck from playing in draft.