After our brief dalliance into the past with The Brothers’ War, Magic: The Gathering Arena has decided to take the fight straight to the Phyrexians, with a plunge into the machine hells of Phyrexia: All Will Be One. With oil, poison, and compleated Planeswalkers everywhere, All Will Be One is a brutal set full of surprises.

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Some of those surprises can be found in the Mastery Pass, which gives you dozens of rewards simply for playing the game. Here’s everything you need to know about both the free and paid tracks, and how best to make the most of your time in the Fair Basilica.

What Is The Magic: The Gathering Arena Mastery Pass?

A red and white landscape of New Phyrexia.
Phyrexia All Will Be One Key Art by Matteo Bassini

Like most ‘service games’, Magic: The Gathering Arena has its own take on the battle pass, known as the Mastery Pass.

By completing quests, winning games, and levelling up, you can unlock a series of rewards. These rewards include booster packs, gems, gold, cards, and ‘card styles’ – extended-art versions of cards that appear as if they’re three-dimensional.

The Mastery Pass is separated into two tracks, the free pass that is available to every player, and the full pass that requires you to pay to unlock it. Unlocking the pass costs 3200 gems, or approximately $19.99 – with a few gems left over. Alternatively, you can pay 5400 gems to unlock both the pass and enough ‘Mastery XP’ to give you ten free levels.

The Mastery Pass In MTG Arena

When you pay to unlock the Mastery Pass, you will retroactively be given every reward you previously missed out on, depending in your current level. For example, if you complete the free pass first, then pay to unlock, you’ll be given an additional 50 levels of rewards straight away. This is the best way to ensure you’re getting your money’s worth – level up the free pass until you’ve maxed it out, then pay to unlock the full thing safe in the knowledge you won’t miss out on rewards.

Alongside the Mastery Pass is the Mastery Tree, a second set of rewards you unlock using Mastery Orbs earned in the regular pass. These rewards are all cosmetic, with card styles and avatars of all five Phyrexian Praetors up for grabs this time around.

The Phyrexia: All Will Be One Mastery Pass will run until the next set’s launch, which is March of the Machine in April.

How To Level Up The Mastery Pass

A compleated, Phyrexian Jace.
Jace, The Perfected Mind by Chase Stone

While you can pay 250 gems per level to boost your Mastery to anywhere on the pass, it is surprisingly simple to level up just by playing. All you need to do is complete the daily and weekly quests.

Daily quests are by far the most time-effective way of levelling up the pass. Each day, you will be given new quests to complete, such as destroying your opponent’s creatures or playing with certain colours. Fortunately, you don’t need to beat the quests that day – up to three quests can be active at a time, and they won’t go away until you’ve either completed them, or re-rolled the quest by clicking on it on the main menu.

The Daily Quests in MTG Arena

However, it is heavily recommended that you beat all of your daily quests, as doing so will give you a massive amount of XP. Each daily quest will reward you with 750 gold and 500 Mastery XP, which, if you complete two per day, equates to one level every day, and enough gold for three booster packs every two days.

After daily quests, the Daily Wins and Weekly Wins are the next most efficient way of levelling up. Each quest tasks you with winning 15 times in the Play queue of a format like Standard or Explorer. Daily Wins rewarding you with 25 XP and 100 gold per win, and the Weekly a whopping 250 XP per win. These stack, too, meaning your first 15 wins of the week will reward you with 275 XP instead, for a total of 4125 XP.

Earning XP on MTG Arena

While it is advisable to complete at least the Weekly Win for that 4125 XP, the Daily Wins don’t give you enough XP to be worth the effort. 15 wins every day is a serious time commitment, and for just 375 XP and 1500 gold, you’re barely making more than a single Daily Quest which can be finished in just one or two games. Treat Daily Wins are incidental XP while completing other tasks, rather than a main way of completing the pass.

The Phyrexia: All Will Be One Mastery Pass

Atraxa, a compleated Phyrexian Angel flying above adoring crowds of Phyrexians.
Atraxa, Grand Unifier by Marta Nael

Here is every reward you can unlock in the regular Mastery Pass for Phyrexia: All Will Be One. Like the last few passes before it, this one has 80 levels, each 1000 XP apart.

The free track includes 33 Phyrexia: All Will Be One booster packs, as well as five Mastery Orbs – which isn’t enough to complete a single track of the tree, but is enough to claim the first reward from all five colours.

Meanwhile, the paid pass offers a lot more, offering an additional 21 booster packs, 26 card styles, and, crucially, 1,200 gems – effectively giving you back a third of what you paid for the pass. You’ll also have access to exclusive cosmetics, like the animated Atraxa, Grand Unifier Exquisite Sleeves, and the Mite pets.

Mastery Level

Free Pass

Paid Pass

1

Koth Avatar, Furnace Mite Pet, and Myr Convert Sleeve

2

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Anoint With Affliction Card Style

3

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

4

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Basilica Skullbomb Card Style

5

Mastery Orb (x1)

Gold (x1000)

6

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mastery Orb (x2)

7

The Brothers' War Booster Pack

8

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mythic Card Reward

9

Contagious Vorrac Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

10

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Gems (x300)

11

Mythic Card Reward

12

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Dross Skullbomb Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

13

Dominaria United Booster Pack

14

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Flensing Raptor Card Style

15

Mastery Orb (x1)

Player Draft Token (x1)

16

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mastery Orb (x2)

17

Streets Of New Capenna Booster Pack

18

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mythic Card Reward

19

Furnace Skullbomb Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

20

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Booster Pack

21

Gems (x300)

22

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Gitaxian Raptor Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

23

Innistrad: Crimson Vow Booster Pack

24

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Hexgold Slash Card Style

25

Mastery Orb (x1)

Mite Overseer (x4)

26

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mastery Orb (x2)

27

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Booster Pack

28

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mythic Card Reward

29

Voidwing Hybrid Card Style

30

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Progress Mite Pet and Mastery Orb (x1)

31

Maze Skullbomb Card Style

32

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mythic Card Reward

33

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

34

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Oil-Gorger Troll Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

35

Mastery Orb (x1)

Serum Sovereign Card Style

36

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Cephalopod Sentry Card Style

37

The Brothers' War Booster Pack

38

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Gems (x300)

39

Mastery Orb (x2)

40

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Dominaria United Booster Pack

41

Planar Disruption Card Style

42

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Gold (x1000)

43

Streets Of New Capenna Booster Pack

44

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Quiksilver Fisher Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

45

Mastery Orb (x1)

Kinzu of the Bleak Coven (x4)

46

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Vivisection Evangelist Card Style

47

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Booster Pack

48

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Gems (x300)

49

Charforger Card Style

50

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Procelain Mite and Mastery Orb (x1)

51

Mythic Card Reward

52

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Surgical Skullbomb Card Style

53

Innistrad: Crimson Vow Booster Pack

54

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Testament Bearer Card Style

55

Rhuk, Hexgold Nabber (x4)

56

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mastery Orb (x2)

57

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Booster Pack

58

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Gold (x1000)

59

Slaughter Singer Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

60

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mythic Card Reward

61

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

62

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Volt Charge Card Style

63

The Brothers' War Booster Pack

64

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Bladehold War-Whip Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

65

Goliath Hatchery (x4)

66

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Booster Pack

Mythic Card Reward

67

End of the free Mastery Pass

Dominaria United Booster Pack

68

Gold (x1000)

69

Mastery Orb (x2)

70

Atraxa, Grand Unifier Exquisite Sleeve

71

Cinderclash Ravager Card Style

72

Mythic Card Reward

73

Streets Of New Capenna Booster Pack

74

Serum-Core Chimera Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

75

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Booster Pack

76

Mastery Orb (x1)

77

Innistrad: Crimson Vow Booster Pack

78

Necrogen Rotpriet Card Style and Mastery Orb (x1)

79

Mythic Card Reward

80

Tainted Observer Card Style

80+

Uncommon Card Reward

Totals:

  • 33 Booster Packs
  • Five Mastery Orbs

Everything in the free pass, plus:

  • 26 Card Styles
  • 21 Booster Packs
  • 25 Mastery Orbs
  • 11 Mythic Card Rewards
  • 20 Cards
  • Gold (x4000)
  • Gems (x1200)
  • Two Sleeves
  • Three Pets
  • One Avatar
  • One Player Draft Token

The Phyrexia: All Will Be One Mastery Tree

The All Will Be One Mastery Tree

While completing the Mastery Pass, you’ll frequently be rewarded with Mastery Orbs that are used to unlock further rewards on the tree.

Aside from the five avatars, every reward here is a card style, and follows four the major cycles of the set, such as the Sphere lands, the Twilight cycle, and the five Dominus.

Fully completing the Mastery Tree doesn’t require you to finish the entire pass, though it does come close: your final Mastery Orb will be unlocked at level 78.

Mastery Tree Rewards

White

Blue

Black

Red

Green

The Fair Basilica

The Surgical Bay

The Dross Pits

The Autonomous Furnace

The Hunter's Maze

Bladed Ambassador

Atmosphere Surgeon

Vat Of Rebirth

Exuberant Fuseling

Evolving Adaptive

Mite Overseer

Serum Sovereign

Kinzu of the Bleak Coven

Rhuk, Hexgold Nabber

Goliath Hatchery

Elesh Norn Avatar

Jin-Gitaxias Avatar

Sheoldred Avatar

Urabrask Avatar

Vorinclex Avatar

White Sun's Twilight

Blue Sun's Twilight

Black Sun's Twilight

Red Sun's Twilight

Green Sun's Twilight

Mondrak, Glory Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

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