Throne of Eldraine Season Rewards and Real World Value

Throne of Eldraine Season Rewards

&

Real World Values
 

Joe Stillman

9/27/19

Throne of Eldraine has arrived on Magic: The Gathering Arena this week. The peasants rejoice! 

Today's article will be about Real World Value for the Mastery Tree. I have calculated the values for both Free to Play and Mastery Pass players.

The Throne of Eldraine (ELD) season will go a little longer than Core Set 2020 did. ELD will run for 110 days total, starting on 9/26/16 and allegedly ending on 1/14/20 (110 days from 9/26).

I will be basing the Mastery Tree totals on what I actually see in game, since Wizards of the Coast's (WotC) own press release has incorrect numbers in it.

I will give you the TL:DR information first, then explain how things were calculated after.

TL:DR TL:DR Version

-----> The Spreadsheet <-----

Real World Value:

• F2P - $68.35
• F2P Returning Player - $75.76
• Mastery Pass - $318.17
• Mastery Pass Returning Player - $325.58

TL:DR Version

Free to Play (F2P)

This is the F2P path. You don't need to spend any money to receive these rewards.

Everyone who completes the Mastery Tree will receive the following:

• 46 Throne of Eldraine Arena Booster Packs
• 5 Orbs to use in the Mastery Tree for Card Styles of your choosing

• Real World Value: $68.35

 Free to Play - Returning Players

This also part of the F2P path. You don't need to spend any money to receive these rewards.
 
WotC offered players that logged in prior to 9/26/19 an extra bonus that was received post patch for ELD.

In addition to the rewards above, returning players will also receive the following extra bonuses in the Mastery Tree.

• 2 Throne of Eldraine Arena Booster Packs
• 4 Miscellaneous Arena Booster Packs from previous Standard sets
• 10 Random Uncommon Cards

• Real World Value: $75.76

Mastery Pass

The Mastery Pass can be purchased using Gems. Since Gems have multiple values, depending how you purchased them, the expected value will have some variance to it. I will explain this later in the article. 

In addition to the F2P rewards above, you will also receive the following:

• 5 Throne of Eldraine Arena Booster Packs
• 15 Miscellaneous Arena Booster Packs from previous Standard sets
• 25 Card Styles
• 10,000 Gold
• 2,000 Gems
• 10 Random Mythic Cards
• 3 Random Rare Cards
• 25 Orbs to use in the Mastery Tree for Card Styles of your choosing
• 2 Card Sleeves
• 1 Avatar
• 1 Pet
• + 1 Random Uncommon card for each additional level past level 110 that you go

• Real World Value: $318.17

Mastery Pass - Returning Players

As with the F2P path, returning players purchasing the Mastery Pass will also receive the Returning Player rewards as described above.

•  Real World Value: $325.58

That's all there is for now! I hope to see you on Arena!

For those of you interested in the data, keep reading.

The Long Version

The following link is a PDF spreadsheet of my compiled data

 -----> The Spreadsheet <-----

Values subject to change and are based on current pricing set on the Arena game client, as well as all physical paper cards in Standard at the time of this writing. I will attempt to update the list every month, or as I have time to reflect current Standard card prices. Card prices will only affect the Random card prices received.

Math and Stuff

People have been arguing the real world values on Arena since the beginning. I have yet to see anyone actually calculate anything showing values for everything in the game. What I have done was made a grand attempt at doing just that. This is what I came up with.

I am only going to focus in explaining my calculations for the Average Regular Value since that is what most people will be dealing with. For Welcome Packs and Explorer Pack bundles, you can do further math on your own to arrive at my own numbers.

Gem Value

Gems are calculated using multiple values since you can purchase them for different amounts.

Gems range in bundles from 750 to 20,000. Prices range from $4.00 to $99.00.

I first found the gem value for each price point: Gems/Price = Price per Gem
I did this for all 5 bundles, and then found the average.

The Welcome and Explorer bundles are of course a much better value.

• Average Regular Price Gem Value: $.005
• Welcome Bundle Gem Value: $.0020
• Explorer Bundle Gem Value: $.0043

Gold Value

This one was trickier since you can't buy gold or convert it from anything.

How I arrived at a value for this was converting what I could find.
For example, Avatars, Sleeves, Booster Packs and Ranked Draft costs all have both a Gem and Gold value.

For each of these, I found the Gold per Gem equivalent:  Gold/Gems = Gold per Gem
I did this for each of the items above, then found the average

Unless WotC changes their in game prices, nothing will affect the price of gold. Gold is a constant value with no variables.

• Gold Value: $.0011

ICR Value

I had to get creative with this one. Since you can't buy individual cards in game, the best I could compare to was real world value.

ICR's can include any random Uncommon, Rare or Mythic in Standard.

I created another page in my spreadsheet where I gathered all current values for all cards in Standard for each rarity level. I then found the average value of each of these rarities.

I then averaged the average values for Uncommon, Rare and Mythic cards only to find the ICR Value.

These values are not based on anything in game, as there is nothing to compare them to. These values are constant as far as Arena is concerned, since nothing in Arena effects them.

However, the real world values of these cards change constantly each day. I will need to update the data for this when I have time, hopefully once a month or whenever I get around to it. As of now, quite a few of the price value is based on expected value for ELD, which is only in Prerelease as of today.

• ICR Average Value: $1.63

Other Values

The other values were calculated from either their gem value, or in some cases the average between their gem and gold value. I was able to calculate the following:

These values are all based on the Average Regular Prices (Welcome/Explorer is much cheaper)

• Card Styles - $2.92
• 3 Pack Card Style Bundle - $5.84
• Orbs - $2.92 (Same as Card Style, since this is the only thing you can trade them for)
• Sleeves - $5.73
• Avatars - $3.13
• Arena Booster Packs - $1.17
• Pet - $0 (Just as we thought! There's no real way to calculate a value on this)
  

In Conclusion

I hope you found this article useful and informative. If you have  any further questions about any calculations, please let me know. While I double checked all the math and feel this is as accurate as I can get it, everyone can makes mistakes.

Feel free to leave me a comment, send me email, find me on Reddit or maybe I'll see you in Arena!