![]() ![]() Content creation is the most accessible form to get into, but also the hardest one to excel at. You create a YouTube or Twitch channel, get some editing and recording software, start either pre-recording MTG content and upload it or stream it directly to the platforms so people can interact with you live. This is a route anyone can join without question. Indomitable Creativity | Illustration by Deruchenko Alexander Going into this kind of field requires a significant time and has a huge opportunity cost. I was doing content full time for nearly five months and earning less than $20 a month in the very beginning. There are some exceptions that earn in the thousands, of course, but the opposite is true as well. Only after being in the field for a few years is that amount going to increase. After one year of working on any route full time, you’ll likely earn max $300 USD per month for quite some time. One thing all routes have in common is that they require a significant time investment. There are several routes to becoming an MTG pro, and not all of them require you to be a good player. Instead, I want to focus on actually achievable ways to become a pro that both you and I can do. I’ll go into great detail some other time covering all the avenues of how WotC handles their event structure, but that’s for another time. So if you do plan to go for the professional route by all means try, but keep your expectations low. One bad mulligan into another, and your odds of making it through an event are near zero already. Statistically, it’s almost impossible for anyone to make it through two days’ worth of random matchups where you’re only allowed to lose up to three games but must win 5 to 10 games depending on the event. While Magic is a great game, the inconsistency and punishing mechanics in terms of land and resource management ( more on that here), primarily when you draw too many or too few of either, causes the game to be not only skill-intensive but also very luck dependent.Įven some of the world’s best players, like Crokeyz - who consistently gets in the top 10 of the Mythic queue - rarely make it to Day 2 in the Mythic Qualifiers that lead to higher events. ![]() Since we’re now all on the same page, let’s get the big question out of the way! The Road to Becoming a Professional MTG Playerįork in the Road | Illustration by Jung Park Should you become a professional MTG player and aim for WotC events?Īfter spending nearly a full year on content creation, I realized that it’s statistically nearly impossible to ever make it to the top. ![]() I’ll narrow it down further by saying that, to be a professional, these activities should be capable of sustaining a living, or at the very least, earn you equal to minimum wage. If this is what you want to be, we’ve got plenty of content on Draftsim that can help you achieve just that.īut in my understanding, a professional is someone that turns an activity into a source of (stable) income. Some would call a “pro” simply someone who was good at the game. Yet, there is a dark side to the whole professional gaming industry: the pay versus hours spent is abysmally low. I have a few people supporting me on Patreon and was winning some prizes from in-game and third-party tournaments. This event made me realize that I had reached a point where gaming was starting to become quite profitable. I joined the first-ever MTG Arena Open back when it only granted cash prizes and gems, managed to go to Day 2 and win the $2,000 cash prize. I ended up playing MTG on Arena every single day, honed my skill, and before I knew it, I was consistently hitting the top 1200 in the Mythic queue every single month. ![]() Growing a channel to several thousands of subs, streaming, and sharing my methodology of finding the best deck in any given format was a means of helping and entertaining people. I’m an ex-biochemist, so I used my analytical skill to put together decks that match up well against the current meta. I started my YouTube channel about a year ago. Into the Story | Illustration by Jason Rainville ![]()
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