Magic: The Gathering Arena's March of the Machine is perhaps the biggest release in the game's history. A massive battle spread right across the multiverse, it pulls together settings and characters we haven't seen in years for a final all-out war against Elesh Norn and her Phyrexian army.

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Every new set needs a new Mastery Pass, and March of the Machine's offers up tons of Booster packs, Gems, Gold, and cosmetics. Here's everything you need to know about the Mastery Pass, including how to level up as quickly as possible.

What Is The Magic: The Gathering Arena Mastery Pass?

The Mastery Pass is two collections of rewards you can earn just by playing MTG Arena. It is Arena's take on the old service game staple, the Battle Pass found in games like Fortnite and Apex Legends.

In order to earn Booster packs, cosmetics, cards, and in-game currency, you'll need to win games and complete quests in order to rank up your Mastery level. Like many other battle passes, there are two 'tracks', a free one all players have access to, and a paid pass that offers many more rewards.

The free pass will be unlocked the first time you log into MTG Arena, starting you at level one. By going through the in-game store, you can unlock the full pass for 3200 gems, which is roughly $19.99 with some gems left over to spend elsewhere. If you'd rather skip a few levels and give yourself some breathing room for finishing the pass, you can also pay 5400 gems instead to unlock both the pass and enough XP to gain ten levels.

Unlocking the Mastery Pass is retroactive, meaning that, once you've paid for the pass, you'll unlock everything you'd missed up to that point. This means a good way to ensure value for money is to not pay until near the end of the season, and use the 5200 gem option to gain those last ten levels.

The Mastery Pass will last until June 20, 2023.. Note that, while March of the Machine Aftermath is launching on May 12, it will likely not have its own Mastery Pass.

How To Level Up The Mastery Pass

The Mastery Pass is levelled up in different ways: completing quests, winning games, or paying to skip levels.

Paying to skip levels is the easiest method. Each level costs 250 gems to skip, and so skipping from the first level to level 70 will cost you 17250 gems. However, keep in mind that the pass only rewards you a total of 1200 gems. Skipping more than four levels will result in a net loss of gems, lowering the value of paying for the pass.

Winning games and clearing quests is the main way of completing the pass. Each day, you will be assigned up to three daily quests, which each reward 500 XP and 500 Gold each. These quests could involve playing specific colours, card types, or destroying your opponent's creatures, meaning it's a good idea to have at least one deck for each colour to speed up your progress.

As levels are a fixed interval of 1000 XP each, you'll be able to clear a level and a half every day just by doing these quests.

There are two more quests: Daily Wins and Weekly Wins. Daily wins are probably the least time-efficient way of levelling up the pass, as it only awards 25 XP per level, for a total of 375 per day. Winning 15 games per day is very time-intensive, and as the rewards are minimal it is better to treat this as incidental XP earned while doing your other tasks, rather than grinding out all those wins every single day.

Weekly Wins are a much better source of XP. The first 15 games you win each week will earn you 250 XP, for a total of 3750 per week. This stacks with your daily wins, meaning the first 15 wins of the week will actually give you a whopping 4125 XP total. Considering that is enough for four levels, it's well worth winning at least 15 times per week.

Everything In The March Of The Machine Mastery Pass

As this is a slightly shorter season than previous ones, there are fewer levels in the March of the Machine pass than usual. Across 70 levels (rather than the usual 80), you can earn:

• One avatar
• Two sleeves
• Three pets
• 23 cards
• 25 Card Styles
• 47 Booster Packs
• 1200 Gems
• 4000 Gold

Everything In The March Of The Machine Mastery Tree

In the Mastery Pass, you will sometimes unlock Mastery Orbs. These are used to unlock further rewards on a second track of rewards known as the Mastery Tree.

Every reward in the Mastery Tree is purely cosmetic, with Card Styles offering extended-art versions of various cards from March of the Machine, and five Legendary Team-up Sleeves.

To unlock everything on the Mastery Tree, you will need every Mastery Orb on the pass, with the last one unlocked at level 70.

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