Artifacts allows you to sell and buy cards on the Steam Market. If you have a card with a high price since you first played, you can get back the IDR 300,000 you spent to buy this card game from Valve.
In the long run, if you can keep adding to your collection at minimal or even zero cost, you could be rich just from this game. The question is, how? Besides that, how can you play this game without spending too much money?
So, in this article, we will give you some tips on optimizing your economy Artifacts.
1. Good at Expert Draft = Rich
Apart from buying directly with money, the only way to get cardpack when your collection is very minimal is to play Expert Draft. If you are good at playing in this mode, you should be able to collect cards easily.
To play in Expert Draft, you have to pay with a ticket. When you first play Artifacts you should get five free tickets to enter the Expert Draft.
In this Draft mode, you will shape decks from a number of card options offered. After that you have to play against other players. The draft ends if you get five wins or two losses. If your record is good, you will get back the ticket you used plus one or two cardpack.
If you are good at playing in Expert Draft, you should be able to infinite alias never run out of tickets without having to have a complete collection. From there slowly but surely you will get cardpack to complete a collection or for sale.
Expert Draft, be it Phantom or Keeper, is a hard mode. All players will play super serious with decks strongest they can make. If you’re still not ready, you can practice Casual Phantom Draft for free but without reward.
2. Out of Tickets? Buy Cards for Recycle
You may occasionally get unlucky when playing Expert Draft and lose all the tickets you have. To be able to access Expert Draft again, you can buy it with money.
But there are more economical ways to get tickets than buying them in person.
In Artifacts, you can turn a total of 20 cards into one ticket. You can throw away cards that you don’t need or have a very low selling price. If you feel sorry for destroying your own card, destroy someone else’s.
If you visit the Steam Market for Artifacts, you will find a lot of people selling cheap cards for around IDR 400 to IDR 500. Buy 20 cards with similar prices (it doesn’t have to be the same), then recycle them to become tickets.
This method is cheaper than buying tickets directly. The cheapest price when buying tickets is IDR 71,000 for five tickets. This means that one ticket costs approximately IDR 14,000. Meanwhile, to buy 20 super cheap cards, you only need around IDR 8,000 to IDR 10,000.
3. Always Pay Attention to Market Prices
Okay, now that you can manage your tickets for the Expert Draft, it’s time to move on to the part of selling cards.
Card price Artifacts in the Steam Market will always change. For example, Ax once hit a price of IDR 300,000 when the game was first released. But a week later the price dropped, but it’s still very expensive at IDR 250,000.
Because market conditions are always changing, you are of course advised to diligently monitor the price of the card you have. Sell your rare card if the price goes up, hold it if nothing happens, but sell it immediately if the price keeps dropping.
Much like a stock exchange or auction? Wellbecause that’s basically what Steam Market is like.
Also read: 5 Most Expensive Cards at Artifact A Week After Release
In the end, just like any other card game, complete the collection in Artifacts for free still need time and qualified expertise. But at least now you know that there are ways to complete your collection or even make a profit on it Artifacts with minimal capital.
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