You know, I always heard people talking about this process but I always thought it was an urban myth. Nice to know the option is in fact there.

My commentary is out of the curve, but I need to say that your channel is awesome to learn english. You speak in a good pace, not too slow nor too fast, and the words are pronounced clearly. And I dont even play magic. Keep it up!

I haven't played either yet but have been debating which one to get into.... this definitely helped with information... thanks but also made my decision more difficult. Thanks for always making awesome informative videos you're the best.

Probably My Favourite Channel Ever, Thanks You So Much Prof, you Are Legendary!

I just did this last week after I realized the 30-ticket commander decks I put together 2-3 years ago (and haven't played in two years) had appreciated in value to the point that I could trade them for complete sets of Theros Beyond Makeup Tutorial and Ikoria. Bots have existed as long as MTGO - I know that Cardbots and MTGOTraders were both big when I started playing in 2004, and I originally sold my MTGO collection to the latter way back in 2006. Good to see they're still around. And yes, Wizards has nerfed redemption several times over years - closing redemption windows, raising prices, and so on. Like the Reserved List, it feels like redemption only exists at this point because Wizards made a promise 20 years ago that they can't get out of now.

Was surprised to hear Prof say he prefers "overwhelmingly" to play MTGO. I'm not faulting him; I prefer MTGO for the very reasons he mentions, but he's been pretty hard on MTGO over the years.

Thanks for this video Prof, didn’t realise there was another way to play other than Arena. Quarantine has just got better!

I don't even play MTGO but I will watch this video anyway because the prof is the best

00:52 I think you really overestimate my internet connection professor...

I started with Arena but I think you just made me a convert. I'm definitely downloading this and giving it a try. Thank you!

I don't even play MTG but this channel is so good i'll watch anyway :)

So magic online is more expensive but actually has a payout... If it wasn't so ugly there would've been no need for Arena.

Great tips! I had no idea this was even an option

This is so helpful, especially since MTGO is getting more users. Thanks!

I'm calling it now. Because the professor has explained the process, wizards will soon try to take it away. Don't let them. That would be going back on their promises as a company.

No other channel makes me feel like im in school so much....and i love it! 😅

Good lesson Prof. I would add the following concerning selling full collections. Bots have algorithms designed to keep them in business. You need to be aware that some bots offer 20 to 40% of their sale price for cards and some offer much less. Additionally bots will discount their buy price further when multiple copies of cards are sold to them. Also, you need to shop around to get the better prices. If you dump your collection on one bot, you may not be getting the best value. They may ignore the value of lesser valued cards of your collection as part of their profit. On the other hand selling piecemeal to multiple bots has the issue that you will leave behind fractional tix in many places.

I've never really got into MTG, but I do like casually collecting some cards for their artwork. Am I the only one then that finds it odd that you pay for digital boosters to get the digital cards, *then* have to pay even more money to exchange the digital set for the irl counterpart? I can understand having to pay for shipping, but $25USD for digital cards you've already paid for seems a bit over-the-top, no?

Thanks for the info

Just started playing pauper on MTGO last week. Got my green stompy deck that I've been playing at my lgs for 13 bucks. It's really nice getting in some practice every week. I think I'll opt for the rental price on some of the bigger priced decks though.

that flex of lands at the end, damn! great video, prof! ty for the info..

Awesome ! definitely going to try out MTGO, souds like more fun than MTGA. I hope I wont loose track on it.

Liked the video. I tryed to get mtgo after it just to test it, since nowadays making an account is free. The installation crashes and gives errors no matter what I do:) You mention Hearthstone's dusting, prof. As someone who played Hearthstone for 4 years after release and gave up on it, I must say that one of the reasons I enjoy playing MTG Arena is the fact that it is so easy to grow your collection and get the cards you need. Dusting in Hearthstone is completely inefficient and Daily quests guarantee you a 5 card pack each 2 days + each pack has a guarantee rare (which is equivalent to an uncommon), so you can get, and you will most of the time, 4 commons and 1 rare. In Arena, daily play gets you always money to buy 1 pack, but you also have many events with prizes (which come more often than the Hearthstone brawl), and the mastery, which even in its free variant offers a lot. Also, on Arena, wildcard drop chances are quite good, and you also get free wildcards each 6 packs. In hearthstone, you need to dust about for cards of a certain rarity to craft one of the same rarity in return, which is just sad compared to the one wildcard buys one card system of Arena. The frustration of how hard it was to build a decent collection before rotation messed everything up was the main reason I decided to leave Hearthstone for good (maybe they improved the problems since I left the game, but I'm not going back to play dice cards: the game now that magic is so readily available for free -- paper magic and other paper tcgs are mostly extinct in my country).

Awesome, I have not been in MTGO in years, but now I might go back now and sell the cards worth something, then try to buy paper copies from the same store.

I haven't played MTGO since Ravnica: City of Guilds and Time Spiral. Maybe I should cash out my collections. Thanks for this video Professor!!!

I hope more people do this I like to buy these items off ebay now and then. last one I found for a good price was m20 for $170. a win for everyone

You’re the bomb prof

I had no clue this was possible! I have been living under a rock for years.

This is real clever, but a bit costly being overseas. Great video!

Thank you so much! I didnt even know this exists. I just started with magic recently I bought some paper cards and downloaded MTGA. I became pissed about MTGA quite quickly despite spending not a single penny on that game, or most likely, because I didnt do so. MTGA feels like a fing online Casino.

May I ask This feature to redeem from digital to physical version Is unique only to Magic The gathering Online ? Or there is other tcg games that follow the same pattern, thank you so much for your time to create this video.

I love how this comes out not even a week after i got into MTGO. Thanks so much!

cool video. I've been playing mtgo since 2006. yes, "selling out" is a thing. but i have been able to pay for alot of cards by buying and selling cards - mtgo market is like um.. a stock market of sorts... the price of cards changes daily and there can be wild fluctuations of price depending on supply/demand. for example- the 'edgar markov' card when newly released went up to $35 tix or so. if you got it early before the price went up, then sell while its good you can make a good profit. now edgar goes for around 5 tix.. another supreme verdict sat for years at around 1-2 tix, but when pioneer became a thing, it shot up to around 10-11 tix. buy low, sell high..this is something ive been able to do for years and it has kept my out of pocket costs within reason. and yes by comparison...ARENA IS COOL BUT like you said it is 1 way and i cant trade nor sell my cards so it is very hard to just go out and build a new deck with out having alot of wild cards.

I hope one day they do improve the international shipping options. It would be a lot better with more sets available given the shipping cost staying the same with multiple sets, but as it is now just better off buying a box or two. I would love to redeem a full copy of each set to keep sealed but i cant do that 4 times a year. There are also so many variants in sets now that it just feels incomplete. Great for getting playsets of cards/selling off extras, but not as good for collecting

Nice video proffe

My tin foil hat tells me WotC will eventually be closing out of all redemption options, followed by announcement they are no longer supporting new releases in MTGO. I believe this because MTGA has a very profitable model. Eventually the suits in Hasbro will pressure WotC to migrate all digital players to the cash cow.

I don't play MTGO but I've never been this early so I'll watch anyways lol

I.... Need to do this

Downloaded arena, it made me start the tutorial even though I've played since the 90's, and I've never gone back.

You can currently get a sealed factory set of Theros: Beyond Death off Ebay for $260 (including shipping). With the outrageous $25 redemption fee per set, it's basically a wash to buy from MTGO redemption vs Ebay. It USED to be better to redeem when it was $9 for first set + $5 for each additional set. Especially when you could go back a couple of years to redeem at your leisure.

Do you think MTGA will eventually go along with this set up where you can buy, sell trade? I doubt it but that would be nice

Yes! Thanks for this bold old-school-statement, Prof!

to get around the shipping cost they could order the cards from a Location closer to the customer. Rather then shipping from USA to canada the cards could just be made in an order at a magic store in canada

Great video as always! Quick question is it worth it to start playing mtgo if I just do it to complete the set?

I can garantee this video alone will get many people to at least buy into mtgo. There is so much benifit to redemption. If this was implimented on arena i would spend a lot more in it.

You had me up until the rules "in standard" and must be a "set"... Was really hoping to cash out these old commander decks I played on MTGO.

Not to mention that these sets arrive as a sealed product in Mint condition, which also gives them significant value on the secondary market ~

Someday I would like to meet these alloy myrs who painstakingly manage trading in MtGO. They are unsung heroes of our time.

As a long time mtg player with around 9 000 cards including bulk, its nice to have the physical cards themselves instead of just digitaly. Mtg arena is probably fun but i doubt that i will prefer those.

Great content and I didnt realize this was still available

Talking about Magic Arena, any thoughts it might eventually come to Android?

I played back in the day but cannot seem to recover that old account. It was a bit of a bummer. The last set I redeemed for physical cards was 8th edition.

What is the background music you are using at 5:34 and until about 7:40? Thanks!

The biggest thing wizards could do right now is supply redemption codes with all booster packs!

I was totally going to do this for Theros like you showed, but it is already past the date. :/

Core 21 looks amazing, and with all the recent negativity so rounding mtg (has been from my pesperctive) I think it is a nice thing to notice. Would love a video of thoughts on core 21

The redemption limits are so stricht that is almast always not convenient to do it. Best way to cash out still remains sell cards to a bot and get the tix equivalent payed in real money through paypal

I’ve got way to much time invested in arena... wish I could go back and put all that time into online

Waiting for the prof to make a vid on whether it's worth it to buy a box of core set 2021 or not

Prof, but what’s the goal of exchanging my digital card with paper cards of standard set in mtgo? Physical Collection? Money? If a person has a full set in mtgo means is invested money-time on it, so why would it exchange them and don’t have anymore on the platform has invested so much money/time? I don’t get it

You're giving away my secrets!! Jk. I tend to mention this to people I play commander with. Since with commander you can only have 1 of in a deck this is great for keeping up. I do expect prices on online to go up though the more people that know about this.

The shortened redemption make it almost useless as you can't play with the cards in Standard until they rotate and then redeemed as you have to do it about four month after the set releases and some sets are legal for 1 year and 9 months. Should be mentioned that if you want a full FOIL set this can be a good deal though. Especially if you want multiple foil sets as the shipping is the same no matter how many you order.

Does anyone know if the Ikoria Redemption Code is still available? I do not see any of these options in the store feature?

I like modern, but most of my modern decks are under $50 and they are pretty good, but not good enough to beat expensive decks. Is Magic Online a good way to play these decks, or would I get destroyed to the point where no fun will be had?

I much more prefer playing mtgo then arena. I feel like arena is designed to hook you in and force you to play. Master pass, daily quests. And constant grinding to keep up with the standard rotation. I can’t handle that. i don’t even like standard and having a full time job, it’s just not an option. That’s why i prefer mtgo, i can outright buy the decks i wanna play and play. Play when ever I want to. Don’t have to chance wild card and open packs at random. I just go to cardhoarder and get the card I need for my decks from the latest sets. Totally agree with you in it prof! It’s much better way to enjoy magic and actually cheaper the arena!

I don't know about MTGO, but with Magic Arena you can get by easily without spending any actual money at all. They give you a ton of free stuff, and it's easy to earn gold to buy packs and draft tickets.

Professor I know you made a double masters video but have you seen the vip edition on amazon? It’s 102 dollars for 33 magic cards.

Wait, So I can buy the whole set for the cost of a booster box?

I have a full set of Ikoria heading my way already. Thanks, prof.

'Laughs in commander'

I started magic online a few year ago while breaking up with my local commander group. 1h drive to play with people that wanted to always increase the power level of their deck and would offuscate if I tried a proxy wasn't really the experience I needed as a jhonny player liking to try several deck. I slowly built up my commander collection online, trying as much as possible to have one copy of each and every card of magic to have the most possibility out of deck building. Playing one to two game a day after works, from cedh to pure casual jank, having fun whenever I want. That is the magic experience I enjoy. My only rants about magic online is that players tend to concede really fast in commander game (a single counterspell make them quit), and the exile system that hide lands is often infuriating. Should have a way to automate combo too when people don't have answer (like creating a loop and telling the game to do it a 100 time) to fast things up on certain deck. Wish you could build a cube and share it with the community in a phantom event too, creating a pod and getting back the cards afterwards. Except that, I love magic online and will continue to support it as long as wizards will keep it alive

I wish we could see how the complete set is shipped from wizards. What does the packaging look like etc.

When would be the best time to buy core 2020 from bots?

I wish this feature would come to MTGA :/ This makes me want to play MTGO or check it out before they pull the servers down

Just play on Cockatrice. Never pay a cent and have access to every single card ever printed. Play any format, on demand. Super simple and did I mention it was free?

Whoa I had no clue about any of this! Thanks for this great video professor! Very informative and easy to digest even for someone ass thick headed as I 😅 But why on earth doesn’t mtg “arena” let you do the same redeeming that mtg “online” does??? Isn’t it essentially the same thing!! Only diff I can see is online needs a web browser to run or access it but arena is its own app that can run on phones ect. Seems greedy on Wizards part IMO.

Wow! That is almost as easy as cashing out in an online casino. So I can buy a booster pack, open it, arrange the trade on a website, and then execute the trade on MTGO. That's like playing a game at a casino and winning some chips, negotiating a price for the chips at a corner store, and then going back to the casino to trade the chips for the agreed upon price. I wonder if Wizards has any issues with this?

Wow, didn't know that was a thing. Really cool!

Is it still possible to redeem the mtg arena cards for physical cards.

Totally unrelated, trying to grow my hair out after keeping it short for many years. What you using prof, hair looking good

how can you tell if you have a full set?

Not a fan of the glitching screen transition and at first thought there was an issue with my PC. I don't know if its because I just woke up or what but the effect was also slightly painful to look at.

I wish they dedicated more resources to arena. Commander ranked, two headed giant game modes, imported historic collections for little to no gold, etc.

is there redemption for masters sets?

As of last year I actually started playing more MODO rather than Arena, which had initially got me back into Magic. I feel that MODO, despite being a bit clunky, is a much more interactive and communicative platform than Arena. I am able to banter to my hearts content. Something which I miss very much when not playing paper magic (Yes I'm looking at you MTG Arena). Oops, Oops, Nice, Good Game! Just doesn't feel like interaction. It is the player screaming into the digital void in the hopes of hearing an echo.

Really regret not cashing out my older sets.

I find the ugly/clunky interface of mtgo oddly comforting and nostalgic... Even though I’ve never played it until now. I can’t wait to play paper again, but this feels like the next best thing.

Pioneer will be on Arena sooner then later, i do think after a year or two also Modern will be added and so on. No one will play MTGO soon since Arena can be played for free.

it is called historic, when a card u like is not in standard u can play it in historic. So it is not a dead card as u can still use it.

Can you please include the fact that both MTGO and Arena are PC only?! I haven't owned a PC in 10 years and have no plans to buy one anytime. My Mac works fine for all my other needs.

If you get a complete set in foil can you turn that into paper as well?

Wait...how do I do it the other way? My decks have collected a lot of dust during this recent pandemic 😂

I didn't know Magic Online was a thing. I've played Arena, but should I invest into Magic Online even if it is a little old and Arena is newer?

Hey I'm thinking of getting into pauper. To people who play how viable is ratlock?

MTG investors hate him! Learn how this Tolarian man got an entire set of Ikoria with these simple tricks!

I'm not saying Prof has insider info or anything but this is timely advice. I don't foresee MTGO lasting longer than another 3-5 years. It will definitely stop getting updates once they've decided Arena has settled into its place, and eventually they will pull the plug

Gotta make a magic online account

Wouldn't it be great if WotC just made these complete sets purchasable when the sets release? They're already manufacturing them for this redemption feature after all

He called it Theros Beyond Death. Wow.

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