Here some money strategies:
- Have an alternative win condition as a subtheme in your deck. These yield extra money. Once you have control of the game it is not that hard to find your good infect/mill/ “you win” card (
Felidar Sovereign,
Laboratory Maniac,
Door to Nothingness).
- Get the other bonuses. Get some fast wins by playing burn or dark rituals. Get the life difference bonus by winning with 1 big attack
- If you invest in a “charm of vigor” you'll have an extra game in every match to earn these bonuses
- Win draft tournaments. These yield money and extra cards, you can also choose cards as a reward that have a good selling price. When you’ve won a cheap tournament, you’ll often have the cash to enter a more expensive tournament
- Choose money rares during draft tournaments (a risky strategy as you also need to win the tournament, which for some formats is already pretty difficult without this extra complication. I like the tension this gives)
- Sell life in the bazar. This will sometimes enable you to enter a draft tournament. If you then lose in this tournament you got a big problem though
- Get lucky with the boosters you win
. 1 alpha/beta card can already boost your credits substantially
- Tweak the numbers of some preferences or play at a lower level. I always prefer to start with a bit more rares (you can sell what you don’t need) or make sure I win a booster after every match
- Play for ante against (some ) opponents. Most effective in the shandalar world (it feels a bit like cheating, some travel cost would alleviate that)
I do agree that playing on hard level makes it already very difficult to buy packs in the quest shop. The standard settings migt be a bit off here. Once you’re out of money it’s very hard to come back.