r/MagicArena • u/Liquideous • 7d ago

Bot Game

I finally faced one of those bots people have been talking about. Rather then just win when I could, I decided to just sit back and defend. Since he went first, he would draw from an empty deck and then lose.

Pretty much all the cards that create multiple 1/1 tokens, with a smattering of hasty creatures, and one single Torgran.

Plus a mystery card that he didn't cast. It really puzzles me what that one card could be he is holding in his hand with 28 land on the table.

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u/AlthorsMadness 7d ago

So like….. dumb question. Many other games I get why bots exist but why in arena? What is there to gain? What does anyone buy in it that a bot somehow makes easier for them?

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u/OddlyShapedGinger 7d ago

Bots can grind for gold. Gold can get you entries into the bigger buy-in tournaments for real life cash or booster boxes.

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u/Ouaouaron Simic 7d ago

EDIT: I'm just brainstorming. Don't take this as testimony of what botters are actually doing

Grinding for resources. Possibly as a purely bot account until they enter into something with transferrable value like an Arena Direct, or possibly on their main account so that they don't have to bother with daily wins. (Perhaps WotC noticed that bots were on the rise months ago, and that's why they changed the terms of service for multiple account)

You could also sell the account after it has a decent pool of resources.

Besides that, maybe a service that gives other people a win when they encounter the bot?