Magic Arena has many different game modes. From true to paper formats like Standard, to Digital only formats such as Historic or Alchemy, there’s pretty much something for everyone. One of the most popular formats in both paper and digital is Draft. Often times, Drats costs different amounts based on where you play them, so how much does Draft cost on Magic Arena?
Draft Cost on Magic Arena
On Magic Arena there are a few different types of draft formats, each with different costs associated with them. They can be best of 1 or best of 3 formats, and have varying levels of rewards associated with them. Here is the cost for each draft format in both Gems and Gold Costs as well as what it roughly breaks down to in terms of dollars.
Traditional Draft
Traditional Draft is a Best of 3 format, where you’ll have access to the rest of the cards you drafted as your sideboard. In Traditional Draft, you play a total of 3 matches, and receive rewards based on the number of wins you get.
- Gems: 1500
- Gold: 10,000
- Dollars: ~ $10
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Premier Draft
Premier Draft is a Best of 1 Format. In this event you play matches until you get 7 wins or 3 losses, whichever comes first, and you get scaling rewards based on your wins. This mode is also counts towards your Limited Ranked rating each season.
- Gems: 1500
- Gold: 10,000
- Dollars: ~ $10
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Quick Draft
Quick Drafts are another form of drafts, except what’s different here is that this mode is exclusively Bot Drafts, rather than Human Drafts. The benefit of this is that you can start up a draft and leave it in the middle of your picks and come back to it later. This is also a ranked mode, but the draft experience is a quite a bit more casual.
- Gems: 750
- Gold: 5,000
- Dollars: ~$5
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