If you have questions regarding what sets can be redeemed, see the schedule above. Note: Since there can be a significant delay between the time you purchase your Redemption Request and when it is shipped, we cannot automatically provide you with a tracking number for your Redemption Requests. After your Redemption Request has successfully processed, however, you may contact Wizards of the Coast Game Support and we will provide your tracking number as soon as possible.
All Magic Online redemptions are final. Once the cards are removed from your account, the order cannot be reversed and you will not be refunded for your redemption order. Redeemed cards cannot be returned to your Magic Online account for any reason. If you receive the wrong redemption set or your redemption set is damaged, you will need to file a replacement claim using the guidelines listed below:.
If you have a damaged or defective redemption set, please contact Wizards of the Coast Game Support to determine the best course of action. Often this will involve returning the damaged or defective set and receiving a replacement set. Typically, we will need to receive the returned set into our inventory before we can issue a replacement.
Before returning any redemption sets, please be aware that Wizards of the Coast will only reimburse the basic shipping cost of a set. Express shipping or additional handling costs are not covered unless specifically authorized by our Game Support team. Please note that cards with minor defects or imperfections inherent in the redemption set printing, collating and packing process are not considered damaged and will not be eligible for replacement.
Redemption Schedule Below is a summary of current Magic Online redemption dates. Redemption Policy In order to take advantage of the redemption feature and redeem a Magic Online card set, the following restrictions apply: You must have an active Magic Online account that is in good standing with Wizards of the Coast. To redeem a set, you must have at least one of every card in the set you are trying to redeem in your collection.
Please note that only full sets can be redeemed. Collections, decks, and individual cards cannot be redeemed. All cards must be regular to redeem a regular set. You won't find expensive cards in these bots, but you'll find some cards to play with and get your start. The following free bots are currently available:. Free bots tend to be very busy; stay persistent and you'll eventually get in to trade for your freebies.
Free Tournaments PREs : Player Run Events, also known as PREs, are a great way to play in tournaments that cost nothing but have prize support generally the prizes are bot credits or gift certificates to dealer shops. There are certain special PREs run throughout the year which typically have much higher prize support, where the winners can win several hundred dollars worth of prizes.
There are a few downsides to PREs. First, they are not widely attended because WOTC does not allow players to advertise them anywhere on the client. Most players don't know about them, so you often have the same folks playing in these events - and they tend to be very experienced PRE players. Second, unlike WOTC sanctioned tournaments, there is no formal tournament structure for these events - you have to join a chat room, and play your games in the open constructed tables.
Third, there is occasionally more drama than one would like to see in events because of the first two downsides. Having said all that, though, these are FREE events with prizes - your expected value to play doesn't really get much better than playing in these events. There are a few components of the expected value:.
Your best resource for these calculations is Goatbots EV Calculator. Of course, the EV is only an estimate that is based on a number of assumptions and the statistical averages on the value of prizes and cards you open. The following assumptions come into play:. For those not interested in getting into the very nitty gritty of the EV of events, Goatbots EV Calculator is a fantastic resource for you to choose the best events for you to keep your cost to play as small as possible.
Pauper Format : Pauper format only allows commons to be played. As you can imagine, this makes the decks significantly less expensive than those allowing uncommons, rares and mythics - but don't let that fool you on two fronts: 1 this format is highly competitive and 2 some cards aren't cheap the most expensive common on MTGO is Daze - more than 13 Tix to purchase.
Despite the expense of some cards, this format is fantastic for the budget-conscious players looking for a competitive format. The Pauper subreddit has information and links for those interested in the format. Penny Dreadful : Penny Dreadful is an incredibly budget format meant to be played solely on Magic Online. In Penny Dreadful, any card that costs 0.
The format includes many powerful cards, such as Aetherling, Animate Dead, and Mother of Runes, and it self-regulates. If a deck becomes too dominant, it will eventually increase slightly in price, and become illegal to play. One thing MTGO is terrible for is finding like-minded players - chatting is difficult on the client, the clan system is buried in the Accounts section, and the official "community" forums have become far less active over the past few years. Luckily, there are many communities in the MTG O community you can find and become a part of.
These communities enable you to share information, test decks, and maybe even loan or give you some cards. If you have any comments, questions, suggestions or any other way to improve this guide, please reach out to us at support cardhoarder. All rights reserved.
Magic: the Gathering and its respective properties are copyright of Wizards of the Coast. Cardhoarder is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast. Pros Play MTG at virtually any time, in virtually any format you wish; High level of competition; Rules engine handles all card interactions according to the rules bugs excepted ; Set your own budget see COST section below ; Ease of trading see BOTS section below ; Cons Non-intuitive interface makes it harder than it should be to learn; Mistakes can cost you games - mis-clicking has lost many a game; As with all online games, some people are just jerks - finding like-minded folks to play with isn't easy though isn't impossible ; No casual trading - this wasn't always true, but the prevalence and ease of trading with bots has all but eliminated casual trading; Windows required to play - Macs can be used with workarounds.
I'm In. What next? What do I need to know before I start? Do not open booster packs Booster packs should either be used to draft or sold for Event Tickets. The expected value of opening boosters online is very low - even lower than the expected value of opening boosters in paper MTG.
Do research before you trade Read the economy section before you start trading. Do your research, find the appropriate vendors for you, and stick with them. Practice before you play paid events Constructed is easier to practice than limited, and at times the practice rooms are no substitute for playing paid events.
Be aware that the skill level of those folks playing events is higher than what you are probably used to. Also be aware that playing on MTGO takes some getting used to; events include a timer that causes you to simply lose when it runs out. You also can make mis-clicks and other mistakes which may cost you games. Definitely take advantage of the "Solitaire" mode available in the client to get used to the interface without playing against another person.
Set your stops Before you play anything, you need to set up your stop priority for game play. This will tell the program when to give you priority in a match, and setting it up now will avoid any unfortunate scenarios where it skips important phases in a real match.
If you do not have a stop set on a particular phase, the program automatically assumes you do not want to do anything during that phase and thus skips it entirely without giving you priority; on the other end of the scale, setting stops on every step is not very efficient and could waste a significant amount of your limited play clock. Clearly not the definition of an Eternal staple, buying these up at rotation would have yielded next to no profit.
Rares are plentiful enough that redemption has little impact on their price at any time. Redemption is a key part of the MTGO economy and market. It subtly supports the prices of in print cards and can drive up the price of rotated mythics. Using this knowledge, combined with some basic market timing tied to rotation, it's possible to reap consistent profits with little to no risk.
For example, Quicksilver Gargantuan was at. It climbed up to 1. This junk mythic doubled and tripled in price, based only on redeemers. I actually tried this out last year and redeemed 4 sets of M12 that I had mostly drafted. Keep that in mind if you are outside of the US. In America, you can get them shipped by regular parcel, which significantly cuts down on costs. All told, I was basically breakeven.
The key is to control costs and to get close to retail prices when selling. For me, the shipping costs and duties grabbed most of my profit, and not having a network to sell to or a store to sell from, I could not capture full price for my sets.
Great article! I wasn't really playing much during the Scars block, what are some of the cards you would consider to be in the 'Eternal' category as targets for pickup?
Just a comment on the very last point of the article, about Bloodghast. As you said it's not a must in Modern format, but It is played in Dredge decks in classic and legacy maybe. Is buying Bloodghast for about 1 tix still a bad move? Redemption ending soon, and without any other consideration, is this going to drag down the price?
Typically though, the grass roots interest in Legacy and Classic is low. Read the forums at classicquarter. Investing in Legacy or Classic doesn't seem like a good move to me unless you are looking very long term. Redemption does not affect the value of rares, there are just too many of them. You must be logged in to post a comment. Browse thousands of prices with the first and most comprehensive MTG Finance tool around. Trader Tools lists both buylist and retail prices for every MTG card, going back a decade.
Are you a Quiet Speculation member? Learn More. Sign Up. Special sets, including Magic Online -only sets, cannot be redeemed. Sets become available for redemption roughly one month after release on Magic Online. Prior to Eldritch Moon , each set has a Redemption Guarantee Date which set in the last day the respect set is legal in Standard. After that the set can only be redeemed if Wizards of the Coast has remaining complete sets in stock until the cutoff date, which is roughly half years after the Redemption Guarantee Date.
Starting with Kaladesh , redemption for a given set is only be available until the first redemption set for the next block is available.
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