My theory on the economy: Somewhere in between Duels and MTGO.

So like Duels some cards can be unlocked by playing and like MTGO some other cards will have to be bought with cash or purchased through participating in an event like a Draft. I bet it will allow you to own as many copies of each card as you want and it will not have rarity limits. I also think you will be able to trade cards and when you make a deck it will use up each card in it until you delete that deck.

I think it will be different from MTGO in that not every card from every set that comes out will be in it.

It will also be different from Duels in having some cards that are purchase only and not having rarity limits for deck building or a limit on how many copies of each card you can have in your collection.

I'm thinking it might not keep up with the Standard releases, it might be more like a collection of Magic's Greatest Hits.

This is only my theorizing though, and I haven't played on MTGO in like 12 years.

Going off something in one of the Prof's recent videos, maybe they could incentivise paper and digital at the same time and have physical packs provide a code for the digital equivalent like they do with Pokemon?

Oh I just noticed wizards have made a mini article on it now: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/ar ... 2017-02-17
Suppose it doesn't really expand on anything though.

The more it goes, the more I am under the impression that once next is online, MTGO players will have their collections transferred and we duel players will have to restart collections from scratch.

I hope there will be at least some kind of small welcome package like " oh you played duels, nice, here , have X booster packs to get started in Next"

I get it that duels is free and that they are not obligated to give anything away to f2p players, but still, would be nice to do so if Duels gets effectively terminated by Next's arrival.

Expand, no.

It does, however, describe what Magic Next is...a little. It basically says it isn't a product but a project name covering WotC's efforts to improve MTG experiences in the digital gaming world.

Imo it will be a HS copy in terms of grind. I don't think they're able to come with anything better so why not just copy the leader?

Expand, no.

It does, however, describe what Magic Next is...a little. It basically says it isn't a product but a project name covering WotC's efforts to improve MTG experiences in the digital gaming world.