Progression & Ranked

Almost everything you do pays into several tracks at once: your player level, the Covenant season, your daily goals, achievements, card and deck mastery, and the ranked ladder. Here's how each one works and what it pays.

Player level

You level up from 1 to 100 by earning XP. Each level needs a little more than the last: 100 XP to reach level 2, 120 for level 3, and so on (80 + 20 × your level).

Every level pays 150 coins and 20 Motes, and every 10th level adds 25 gems. Reaching level 100 also unlocks the achievement The Ascended (750 gems, 1,000 Motes and the title "Aether-Crowned").

The Covenant (season track)

The Covenant is the game's season reward track: 50 levels over a 56-day season, with a free track for everyone and a premium track you can unlock for 1,000 gems. "Animated mythic avatar frame at L10, season board at L25, exclusive Legendary at L50."

Earning Covenant XP

• Every battle: 40 XP, plus 60 more for a win (AI and online; surrenders give nothing).
• Each Daily Trials quest claimed: 50 XP.
• Bonuses for Tournament rounds, Arena Draft rounds, Dungeon Delve floors and Daily Trial wins, and big bonuses for winning a whole Tournament or Draft.

Levels get gradually more expensive: level 2 costs 100 XP, level 3 costs 150, and so on, about 66,000 XP to reach level 50.

What each track pays per season

Buying premium partway through still gives you every premium reward you've already reached. Rewards you forget to claim are sent to you automatically when the season ends. Covenant rewards are never sold and can't be crafted.

Covenant Legendaries are balanced like any other Legendary: "the Covenant sells prestige, not power."

Daily Bounty (login rewards)

Claim once a day from the hub banner. The calendar runs for 28 days with bigger milestones each week, and ends in a Legendary Pack. Missing a day resets your streak count but not your place in the calendar, so you never lose progress toward the next reward.

Daily Fortune

"A reliquary is set aside for you each dawn, and a grand one each week." Two free opens: a daily reliquary (resets 00:00 UTC) and a grand weekly one (resets Thursday 00:00 UTC). Every open pays something.

Keep your streak going: from day 3 the gem, pack and card prizes get more likely, and from day 7 your daily reliquary is "blessed": it always gives a Standard Pack or a Rare card for as long as the streak lasts.

Achievements

There are 130 achievements worth 3,850 Achievement Points (AP), in seven categories: Battle, PvP, Cards, Story, Modes, Economy and Social. 22 are hidden until you earn them. Rewards are claimed from the Achievements screen (the trophy button on the hub), and the Closest to done sort shows what you're about to finish.

Altogether, achievements pay out more than 22,000 coins, 28,000 gems and 23,000 Motes, plus dozens of titles.

Titles

Your title shows under your name. There are 75: everyone starts as Initiate, 26 can be bought in the Title Shop (10 to 100 gems, including the self-aware "Bought This"), 12 come from the Covenant, one from solving every puzzle (Puzzle Master), and the rest from achievements. Change it from your profile.

Card and deck mastery

Every card earns mastery as you play it (rank 3 unlocks an alt art), and every deck earns mastery as you play with it (levels unlock a deck box, playmat, sleeve and foil nameplate). See card mastery and deck mastery.

Ranked ladder

Online ranked play has six tiers: Initiate, Adept, Warden, Magus, Archon and Eternal, each with a painted crest. Every tier below Eternal has five divisions of 200 RP. Ladder splits last 28 days and pay out based on the highest tier you reached:

At the end of a split your RP is halved. A split where you earned no RP pays nothing. Win streaks show as On Fire (3+), Inferno (5+) and Ascendant (10+). Full matchmaking and fair-play rules are on the Game Modes page.