How to attract Johnnys to play MTG Arena - Reward JANK

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Published on May 11, 2018 3:49:05 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX_iu4v1r-0

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Magic: The Gathering Arena (2019)

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FROM REDDIT: "MTG is HELL for a Johnny"

I know it's been touched on a lot but I feel like it bears repeating. As it stands, MTGA is a terrible platform for player creativity.
The game is fine for Spikes and can be okay for Timmy too but if you are Johnny, you are in for a bad time. It's sad because my favorite thing to do was to build a super janky deck and just set sail for magic Christmas land. It never mattered how often I "got there" because the one time that janky deck did its job was worth all of the times it didn't.

But as I'm sure everyone else is aware, this economy as is just slams the door on creativity...then hunts it down and kills its family...and burns it house down, and...well you get the idea.

If you build that Janky deck then your chances of winning go down so the rate you accrue cards goes down and your ability to brew goes down in a vicious cycle.

So to any fellow Johnnys out there who haven't go a key yet or who are waiting until launch, unless there are fairly major changes to the economy I can only offer you once piece of advice:

"Stay away from MTGA, there are better platforms to use as a Johnny, use those."

EDIT: Feel like I should clarify some things. I feel the true thing that kills player agency is not meta, nor the types of ways a player can accrue rewards, hell its not even the rate a player gains wildcards (which is a hotly debated topic as is). My Problem is that if you wanted to play test a card you don't have and invest a wildcard and then later decide that it would be better suited as something else then you have no way of reclaiming that investment.

On other platforms such as MTGO, paper magic or Hearthstone the cards still have some value either via dust or trading or just being used for cube but in arena they are true sunk costs."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/8ibmmx/mtga_is_hell_for_a_johnny/


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