Trading Cards

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	Trading Cards

Trading Basics
Magic Online is played with cards you can trade with other players. When you trade for a card, that card is put into your collection. Any cards you trade away are gone for good. Magic Online can't tell you if a proposed trade is good or bad, and it can't undo a trade that you agreed to. There aren't any hard and fast rules for trading, but you should probably know a few basics before you start.

Magic cards come in three rarities: common, uncommon, and rare. Each card has an expansion symbol on the middle right of the card that tells you what set it's from. The color of the symbol tells you the card's rarity: black for common cards, silver for uncommons, and gold for rares. Rares are much harder to find when opening booster packs than common and uncommon cards because of the distribution of the cards in the packs (there's one rare, three uncommons, and eleven commons in a booster pack).

All Magic Online cards come in two versions: regular and premium. The premium cards are shiny and have a shooting star logo at the bottom. Premium cards are harder to find than regular cards. Your odds of any given card in a booster pack being a premium card are about 1:100.

Where do I start?
Begin by going to the Collection screen and deciding which cards you own that you're willing to trade. To make cards tradable, make sure the Collection screen is in card view (the card view shows your collection as a binder of Magic cards). If it's in table view, click the card view button (

) in the upper right corner of the screen.

Note: Cards in a deck that you're currently using in an event can't be traded. Once the event is finished you can make those cards tradable.

The number next to the Tradable label is how many of the card you're willing to trade. Use the arrow buttons next to the number to increase or decrease the number of cards available for trading.

You can also change the cards available for trade by right-clicking the binder background and selecting Make excess tradable, Make all tradable, or Make all untradable. If you use the card search filter to change the cards shown on the Collection screen, any selection you make will only affect the cards shown on the screen.

Make excess tradable
The Make excess tradable option is useful if you want to keep only a certain number of copies of each card in your collection. Set the Number owned field to greater than the number you want to keep, then right-click the binder background and select Make excess tradable. For example, if you want to keep only four copies of each card, select > (greater than) and 4 in the Number owned fields. Then right-click the binder background and select Make excess tradable.

Make all tradable
Select Make all tradable to make all cards shown on the Collection screen available for trade.

Make all untradable
Select Make all untradable to make none of the cards shown on the Collection screen available for trade.

I've made some cards tradable. Now what do I do?
Now you need to find another player who wants to trade. You might chat with players during a game or in one of the rooms. The Trading Post room is set up so players who want to trade can gather to talk about what they're looking for.

Once you find a player who wants to trade with you, right-click on the other player's name and select Trade. If the player being asked clicks the OK button, the Trade screen appears.

Trade Screen

The Trade screen shows a binder of cards the other player is offering for trade.

Clicking the button in the upper right corner of the Player's cards for trade section (/) switches between table and card view. You can look at the cards for trade in table view, but you can only add cards to the You Get list from the card view.

The Trade screen has five sections:

The Player's cards for trade section shows all cards the other player has set as tradable. The word "player's" will actually be the other player's name. For example, Bob's cards for trade.

The chat area is where you can chat with the person you're trading with.

The card display area shows you larger images of cards in the Player's cards for trade section. In table layout, click on a card to show it in the card display. In binder layout, point at the card to show it in the card display.

The Trade tab shows the cards the other player wants (You Give) and the cards you want (You Get).

The Search tab has the Trade screen card search filter on it. You can use it to find cards in the Player's cards for trade section. See Collection and Trade Screen Card Search Filter for more information.

How do I find the cards I want?
One way to find the cards you want to trade for is to browse the Player's cards for trade section. You can click the red buttons in the upper right and upper left corners of the binder to page through it. You can also click the tabs to go directly to a section of the binder.

You can use the card search filter on the Search tab to find specific cards or types of cards quickly. See Collection and Trade Screen Card Search Filter for more information.

I've found cards I want. How do I trade?
When you've found cards you want to trade for, simply drag that card to the You Get section of the Trade tab. You can also double-click a card to put it in the You Get section. While you're doing this, cards the other player wants will appear in the You Give section of the Trade tab.

Once both you and the other player are satisfied with the cards being traded, you select Confirmed from the drop-down list on the Trade tab. When both players confirm the trade, you'll be taken to the Collection screen. The cards that were in the You Give section are removed from your collection and the cards in the You Get section appear in a pop-up window. Click the OK button to add the cards to your collection.