M:tg pros?

I used to play Magic: The Gathering years ago. I was pretty good back in the day. I hear there is some big revolution of it online. I was wondering if there were any online Magic pros yet, if do we have any hourly estimates?

Its almost impossible to make money playing MTGO. I think the best you could do at it, when it first went live was about $3 an hour. You can make money setting up online stores and selling the virtual cards.

[tubalkain]

Depending on the set, you can also make money just buying cards cheap and redeeming them for full physical sets. Idiots pay too much for full sets of paper cards on eBay, so this is a good moneymaker.

Im pretty sure you make more setting up one of those trading bots.

trading bots?

There's quite a lot of trading bots at mtgo-trading area nowadays, buying and selling rares/uncommons for little profit. A person I know did a healthy amount of money in the first years of mtgo trading with newbies and playing the tournaments and leagues that at the time had much larger prizepools than nowadays, he kept on about 2 years but then decided that he'd make the money easier playing poker :/.

Is bot short for "robot"? What makes your friend a robot?

[tubalkain]

He runs an automatic trading program that runs unattended and buys and sells cards at predetermined prices. From what I'm told, they can be quite lucrative, although I'm personally not seeing how the multitudes of "64 COMMONS FOR 1 TICKET!!!!111eleventyone" bots can be making enough to cover their owners' ISP bills, let alone any profit.

Well, you have a robot printing money. ISP bills are not that high anyways.