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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vael" data-source="post: 9435132" data-attributes="member: 57043">There is no way to trade or cash out of MtG Arena, it's entirely a sunk cost. One could with their earlier client, MTG Online, which does support trading and selling and renting cards. But ... that client is ancient and shows it.Honestly, that's why while I still play paper MTG, I don't touch Arena anymore. It's a good game, but doesn't support Commander, my main format, and I don't care to pay into it to draft, which sucks because it is a very convenient way to draft, my second fav MTG format.But I think Arena is instructive for looking at Beyond and D&D. Despite doom and gloom about becoming purely digital, paper MTG still sells like hotcakes, with several recent sets breaking sale records. Arena is viewed as a great way to teach MTG and a significant revenue stream, but it has not supplanted paper cardboard crack. They've tried Arena only cards and formats, and those are fine, but also completely ignorable because they aren't in paper and therefore not legal in paper formats. (well, sort of, there's a few cards that have been printed in a recent set, but that's a convention exclusive set ... I don't want to get too into the weeds here).I just can't see pen and paper play and just buying the books as something going away anymore than I see MTG becoming a digital only card game.</blockquote>