Magic: The Gathering Arena

Name: Magic: The Gathering Arena
Rating: 4.62174 (62108 reviews)

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Magic: The Gathering Arena

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User Reviews for Magic: The Gathering Arena

So much potential but falls flat where it counts

The core game is there so that’s a win but no commander game type which is a huge loss considering it’s all most play nowadays. I still enjoy playing but can’t bring myself to spending actual money on cards since they are useless. You can’t redeem them if you ever stop playing,or sell them off / trade them which is a BIG part of Magic. At least put codes in booster packs to redeem in Arena, it would boost sales of physical and digital cards so much. If I could buy packs then redeem them in Arena I could practice with decks I’ve built IRL and would be more then willing to buy digital cards I’m missing just to practice in downtime and try new cards out in my decks. It’s almost like they just gave a rough explanation of the rules to a group of programmers that have never played before and this was the result. The last main flaw is the way the app updates. It will not auto update and it seems like once a week there is a big update (500mb- 1.5gb) so many times I’ve been on my lunch break or out of town and wanted to get a quick match’s in only to have the app refuse to start. Go to re download it here from the App Store and see there is an update. Why is it that every single app I have auto updates when I’m connected to WiFi but this one? You are a multi million dollar company and make bags of cash off this app but can’t get the basics of it down.

Addo_Nexus, Oct 15, 2021

Charged twice

I was charged 40$ when I only spent 20$ today. I want a refund please. I tried to confirm my email but that is not working so I am unable to even access basic support services. So they 2 hours I’ve just wasted trying to figure this out has really turned me off this game. The lack of being able to see orders is a huge sore point with me the lack of support available. Is there trading? It is a trading card game after all? Am I just missing something I am hoping trading becomes a feature otherwise this is just a waste of money and time. It’s like other programs you’ve made in the past for consoles and pc’s you spend all this money for nothing because you can’t turn the set into paper. If you don’t have a market or trading system and a way to complete sets and be able to get paper cards people would be more likely to drop large wads of cash on this. But it’s annoying the only way to get cards is to find them and then use the clone feature to make another. Those are some major drawbacks. I have the pc version and those cards still hold value and can be traded. It would be nice if those cards would be transferable. That would make a ton of people thrilled and you a lot more money. Please help with the double charge today. Or somehow reset my account I’m getting the confirm emails but it keeps giving me an error.

agdegiv, Feb 16, 2022

Excellent way to play !

I’ve loved magic since high school and played paper for quite a while. I’ve played several games developed for phone and console . This in my opinion is the best . I suggest the game to anyone looking to play, for their first time or a veteran. It is very helpful for new players breaking down the phases and when things can be done that you might not realize if your new. I’ve played well over 2k matches . It is a daily thing for me , playing matches , making decks , improving on decks and new strategies I enjoy so much I often fall asleep making a deck . The game is not bogged down with adds , or useless player info , their is no way to communicate with another player which is probably a good thing , other than emotes. Anyways I would definitely recommend to anyone old or new looking to get back into magic . The only things I find a bit buggy in the game or that I in general don’t like is Their is a cap limit on creatures .. I’ve had games where I should have had well over a thousand creatures and it limits it and crashes , sometimes it will freeze and force close very seldom , sometimes it will bug and a card that you were about to play will stay big and not get out of blocking your view . Other than that the game functions well I enjoy it , making decks is not inherently difficult to navigate or figure out how to find what your looking for . Thank you wizards and all the developers .

BigBoi1700, Dec 16, 2021

Great Application

This is everything I wanted in a mobile app for MTG Arena. I had already been playing since Beta initially released. I was one of the vocal fans pleading for a mobile port. I love being able to play wherever I am at. The only issue I have is the lack of a multiplayer option and the likelihood that its never going to happen. I miss the days in MTGO when we had 2HG. That is my favorite format. Now I play mostly brawl but that is fun too. The issue I have with standard is more of a how magic works issue and has nothing to do with the app itself. The app itself is not without its flaws but they regularly update it and are always adjusting things. I appreciate that. The lack of trading or even being able to craft cards into desired cards is annoying. It’s greedy and I don’t like it. Yet, even with that said, MTG Arena is less expensive to play than paper or MTGO. Anyone complaining about cost just wants everything to be free. Sorry MTG has always been a game that cost to play. You also can build off of the free component so its not pay to play like some say either. It’s just a matter of how you play.

Cadence East, Jul 17, 2021

How I survived Covid-19 in retail.

Sooo, I used to have a pretty nasty Magic habit, and a pretty poor executed habit at that. I was working at GameStop when I first started playing again for the first time (x4). I was buying in small doses and Fatpacks because I loved the experience of playing a scratch off and still having something to show for it even if I didn’t get a decent win. I loved building decks, but sooner or later I would dread reorganizing, fall out of playing with friends, or decide not to spend an hour driving to come to work sleep deprived for Midnight releases, plus let’s be honest sometimes the smell at Magic events can be very strong and oh my god I’ve had people cheat, flip tables and steal cards. Enter Arena, organization? Meh. Cheaters? Nope. Flipping tables? Maybe theirs but mine isn’t flipping unless I chuck my phone or manhandle my monitor. Stealing cards? Yeah, okay. Smell? Maybe if I’m on public transit or it’s the day after chili night at my house. My only gripe is multiplayer. I want to play two-headed giant, Wizard’s Tower, Commander, but this is a great one on one experience, and the season pass is so worth the cash, it’s also (as has been mentioned) a great learning and experimentation tool for the formats provided. If you love strategy and deck building this is, in my opinion, one of the best games you can download to your phone.

Colombus Joe, Jun 02, 2022

Game has potential, but isn’t there yet

A long time MTG fan, I was ecstatic when I heard that Arena was coming to mobile. The game looked interesting, and I hoped to play as much as I could. However, after playing the game for a few weeks, I started to find the glaring flaws that just kept on presenting themselves. For one, the card economy is a mess. Getting the specific card you want requires wildcards, which are only attainable through opening vast amounts of packs. These packs are technically able to be earned through challenges, but in no where near a large enough quantity to facilitate brewing multiple fairly strong decks. This over the top pay-to-play aspect is in of itself enough to discourage me from recommending this game to other people. That being said, this excessive cost may have been able to be overlooked if not for the other problem with Arena. Frankly, the game does not work well. I’ve had multiple matches in which I was unable to tap lands, or activate abilities of creatures for no reason but Arena not responding to it. I play on a new 2020 iPad, which works perfectly well for other games (and even for other parts of Arena) but the random inability to input has cost me quite a few games. So all in all, despite my initial excitement and love for MTG, I can’t recommend new players to Arena in good faith. I look forward to potential future updates to the client, and hope this problems can be fixed going forward.

Finley Rolex, Jul 01, 2021

From Newbie to Seasoned

I downloaded this app when my boyfriend introduced me to the game in real life. I played Yugioh all the time before being introduced to MTG so I picked it up quicker with just a few adjustments to gameplay rules. My boyfriend and I played commander with real decks so transitioning to standard play was a bit of an adjustment but I loved it! It took a little bit of playing to start unlocking cards for a good deck to play in the ranked games, but I’ve ended up in the gold-platinum ranking every time! If I was willing to play more decks that included black cards I’d probably get higher but black isn’t my favorite card type to play. My boyfriend definitely noticed a difference the more I played in the MTG app. He said I was rapidly becoming more of a strategic player in commander and I started winning about 50% of our games pretty fast! I really love the app and all the cards we have access too! I just wish different land cards came up more often in the store. I like to see all the different basic land styles for real life game play and I wish I could add them to my virtual decks! Highly recommend this app! I have never spent any real money on this game and I still enjoy it immensely!!

fxrcngirl, Jul 28, 2022

Try it out, just try not to spend.

I’ve played for a good year now and even say I enjoyed the game. Sure the rigged matchmaking and shuffler were noticeable, but it wasn’t blatant enough to drain the amount of fun I’ve had playing this. Then I hit mythic once, and suddenly ranked became a mountain climb. Not that it wasn’t before, but imagine if on your next attempt several ledges or footholds were rigged to crumble and send you tumbling. That was when I started paying double what I used to spend on packs, to try working around the new meta of the new sets, and when I even bothered building a meta deck, you’d more times than not face your weaknesses or a mirror match. Once the game finds out you spend more to try working around matchmaking they’ll give you more absurd match-ups. Around this time was when I started experiencing those disgusting streaks of losses, and when you finally seesaw back to where you were, you hit another losing streak. Not fun losses, just the right match-up to shut down your equipped deck. There were times I’ve even had difficulty breaking out of silver to gold, a far cry from my first few experiences.The worst of it? I’ve served my purpose. This game sucked a few hundred out of my wallet over the year, and regardless of whether I stick around or quit, it won’t affect the company. Once you purchase your first mastery set you’ve given them all they needed from you.

ggttuj, Apr 30, 2022

It’s what one expects,although some minor issues ensue

Magic Arena is definitely a good game to play on PC and the idea of it being ported onto mobile devices is no easy task, and I think that for the most part the game looks and feels fine when it works as intended. As of writing the mobile version has been out for two days so hopefully by then the issues I state will be fixed. The only issues I have with Arena on mobile is that the ui is a direct copy of the PC’s version, making the screen seem much smaller than it is which can make it hard for some people to see what to press if they want to access their decks for example. Every time I boot up the game I keep getting a “asset error” when there’s nothing wrong with how stuff looks so I have to wait a bit to load into the main menus. Lastly whenever you tutor for a card or have a large board state the game becomes clunky as you can either type the card you want through a filter or search for it manually and have to use a scroll bar instead of just swiping; with large boardstates the game arranges your cards in a linear row instead of a large square like in the PC version so if you want to activate a creatures ability you swipe to scroll across your creatures which makes the game lag for a bit, and the overall size of what makes the game struggle is yet to be determined as I’ve only encountered this about two times.

godzillawilla, Mar 26, 2021

Played MTG since ‘94 - uninstalled and not coming back

Hasbro and WotC, when you think they couldn’t be more tone deaf and greedy, just give them a week to find a way. People begged for Historic Brawl queues, so they charged for them and doled them out every few months. They finally added them and it was great to brew new historic decks using cards that would otherwise be dormant with out any way to recycle them (another massive issue they refuse to address). The most recent update of Alchemy ruins and upends the cards I thought would be safe to craft and use. Now at anytime they can change the functionality of the cards and not provide a refund of the cards I spent money on. The new cards they released with this update are so ridiculously pushed that they will be changed only after enough people craft them with the possibility of refunds. Even worse they will have two versions of the same card in the client, a paper version as printed in the normally game and the “Alchemy” version which can be changed at anytime. If WotC wanted to do Alchemy, they should have made it a new game on its own based on MTG. What they have done with Arena is just inexcusable. Deleted two weeks ago with the Alchemy announcement and won’t look back. I’ll stick to my paper collection that I won’t have to worry that the card will say something different week to week.

Matt983457, Dec 16, 2021

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WELCOME THE CHALLENGE YOUR GATEWAY TO MAGIC You know the name. Now download and play the original strategy card game on your phone. Unlock powerful decks right away, earn rewards just by playing, and jump into action with a variety of game formats for players of all skill levels.

There’s never been a better time to get into Magic. Magic: The Gathering Arena supports iPhone 8 (all models), iPhone X, XR, XS, XS Max, iPhone 11 (all models), iPhone 12 (all models), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad (8th Generation), iPad Air (3rd and 4th Generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (1st and 2nd Generation), iPad Pro 12-inch (3rd and 4th Generation) - and newer devices. NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED New to Magic? No problem. Play the tutorial and practice against AI to learn the basics. Queue into casual matches to sharpen your skills at your own pace. CONTEND RIGHT AWAY Unlock 15 unique decks and discover your own playstyle. Collect daily rewards to grow your collection and build powerful decks of your own. PLAY WITH PERSONALITY Tell a story with your deck through Magic’s immersive lore and vibrant card art. Show off eye-popping cosmetics like avatars, card sleeves, and pets. MORE WAYS TO HAVE FUN Try out multiple game modes like Draft and Brawl. Special in-game events offer exciting prizes, and you could even be the next Magic pro with Esports qualifiers! All prices inclusive of VAT. Wizards of the Coast, their respective logos, the mana symbols, the planeswalker symbol, and all character names and their distinctive likenesses are property of Wizards of the Coast LLC. ©2021 Wizards. Please visit https://company.wizards.com/legal/wizards-coasts-privacy-policy to view Wizards of the Coast's privacy policy and https://company.wizards.com/legal/terms to view Wizards of the Coast's terms of use.