Cube Draft Economics
Currently, Cube Drafts cost the same as Premier Drafts and provide the same placement rewards, but since Cubes are Phantom, it is significantly less economical to Cube Draft. This means that it rarely makes sense to participate in Cube, and feels significantly worse when you do participate and perform poorly. I suggest making some change so that Cube feels like an equally good use of resources compared to a Premier Draft. This could be reducing the cost of entry, increasing rewards (particularly for lower win counts), or even allowing players to keep their drafted cards.
AlphaIceKing#25170
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Misha64#85028
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Cube is life. Having said that, I will be passing on cube as long as the current price structure is in place on MTGA.
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silv3r#50928
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The latest MTG Arena article specifically mentions that this may be some players' first cube. Having high pricing for an introductory format is detrimental to onboarding new players onto that format, and bad for Magic as a whole. There is no reason why a high entry is required for cube drafts... especially when the drafts are phantom (which is "fine" but the entry cost should reflect that choice)
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Thefatmancometh#32290
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Wotc and hasbro greed knows no limits