

This guide is all thanks to a feature that Wizards of the Coast introduced called Duplicate Protection. But if you don’t have the money, or you just like the challenge, you can actually complete sets almost for free. If you have the money to spend you can just buy enough packs to open up pretty much whatever you need. In order to play a variety of decks, a requirement not just for playing competitively but also for completing events and daily quests, you need to collect more cards. The only way to gain cards is from opening packs plus some in-game rewards. You also can’t “dust” your cards, a term borrowed from Hearthstone which describes the action of destroying cards in your collection for a special currency that allows you to craft cards. You can’t trade cards on Magic the Gathering Arena.


Duplication Protection facilitates this entire process.
