Magic: The Gathering Arena

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2.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 209 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 45 out of 209
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 209
  3. Negative: 147 out of 209

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  1. 13_triste
    Sep 11, 2023
    0
    If the game had a decent shuffler, would be one of the best free games.

    But, they don't
  2. Faded0cean
    Sep 6, 2023
    4
    This game sucks. The card balance needs to be fixed. There will be days where I can't win a game. Wizards of the coast needs to be better,.
  3. jared3453453
    Aug 17, 2023
    0
    Just buy a cheap commander deck and go to your LGS, don't waste your time on this dumpster fire.
  4. TurgidTenthInc
    Aug 11, 2023
    2
    I'm a lifelong paper MtG player and I have to say that this isn't it. First, WotC clearly prioritized cosmetics and monetization over client stability and performance. That is all exacerbated by the decisions WotC has made with regard to format balancing in both digital and paper over the years. Gameplay wise, the game is in the worst shape it has been in for years. Don't botherI'm a lifelong paper MtG player and I have to say that this isn't it. First, WotC clearly prioritized cosmetics and monetization over client stability and performance. That is all exacerbated by the decisions WotC has made with regard to format balancing in both digital and paper over the years. Gameplay wise, the game is in the worst shape it has been in for years. Don't bother investing in the Historic format as WotC has reserved the right to nerf cards after you have acquired them without refunding or giving you the option to exchange them back for wildcards. You'll see the same handful of decks, especially in Bo1 ranked, every game. Currently if you don't have a maindecked response to a certain 4 mana indestructible artifact that draws you a ton of cards every tun, you will lose. That brings me to the biggest problem with the format: Alchemy. It is an abysmal format with terrible balance, very little interactibility thanks to perpetual effects, and basically just seems like an excuse for WotCto create stupidly pushed cards that you need to use wild cards on to be competitive, nerfing those cards, and then not refunding your wildcards. Remarkable. Stability and performance -wise, the game is somehow in the worse state than in was during its "beta" period. I get crash and stutters on a high end PC. There's no way to turn off the annoying 3D particle effects that nobody asked for as well. Despite all this, WotC has clear put tons of time and effort into more pets, and assorted cosmetics. Honestly this game has one of the most egregious live-service models I have ever encountered. I'll give the game a 2 because of the rare fun back an forth matchup, but with the rampant roping, those are increasingly hard to find.… Expand
  5. Magnus1
    Jul 13, 2023
    0
    Let's try an experiment together.
    Build a mono red deck and play 10 games. The matchmaker will pit You exclusively against other mono red decks, azorius and mono black decks.
    Now let us switch over to, let's say, mono blue. Result: mirror matches, graveyard hate and Hull-breaker Horror. Want to try rakdos? You will come up against full control 50% of the time. Oh excuse me? You wanted    Let's try an experiment together.
    Build a mono red deck and play 10 games. The matchmaker will pit You exclusively against other mono red decks, azorius and mono black decks.
    Now let us switch over to, let's say, mono blue. Result: mirror matches, graveyard hate and Hull-breaker Horror.
    Want to try rakdos? You will come up against full control 50% of the time.
    Oh excuse me? You wanted to have some fun playing MtG today? Tough luck a-hole!    … Expand
  6. TeWufi
    Jul 12, 2023
    0
    Community: Why don't real life booster packs include redeem codes for Arena?
    Wotc: FU! Give us Your money!
    Community: Why does cracking packs in game only yield crappy rares that You will not use in any of Your decks until You get to about 98% of that sets collection progress? Wotc: FU! Give us more money! Community: Why promote a dead, digital only format that no one wanted, no    Community: Why don't real life booster packs include redeem codes for Arena?
    Wotc: FU! Give us Your money!

    Community: Why does cracking packs in game only yield crappy rares that You will not use in any of Your decks until You get to about 98% of that sets collection progress?
    Wotc: FU! Give us more money!

    Community: Why promote a dead, digital only format that no one wanted, no one plays and no will play realistically because the cards get nerfed on a regular basis?
    Wotc: FU! We just want money! Who cares about what You want?

    Community: Why can't we crush unwanted cards into wildcards? Why is the game economy so bad?
    Wotc: Ok, FU! Just shut up and consume the crap we give You!    … Expand
  7. HgGyFl99
    Jul 12, 2023
    0
    In recent years we have noticed wizards becoming ever more greedy and disrespectful with their hardcore fan base. Voices of discontent are ignored or silenced. I guess they have to make inflated profit quotas for hasbro but it still breaks my heart to see what's happening to a card game that I've loved since high school. MtG Arena is the worst offender. Alchemy which no one wants to playIn recent years we have noticed wizards becoming ever more greedy and disrespectful with their hardcore fan base. Voices of discontent are ignored or silenced. I guess they have to make inflated profit quotas for hasbro but it still breaks my heart to see what's happening to a card game that I've loved since high school. MtG Arena is the worst offender. Alchemy which no one wants to play is being forced down our throats and cheated into the new player experience. Pointless, cumbersome mechanics enter standard and turn a fun streamlined experience into a slog. And of course micro transactions and booster packs that make You spend money on promises that won't be kept. How long will it be before MtgA stops making a profit, the servers go down and You'll be left holding a bag of digital garbage? If You're thinking of trying out this "FTP"game do Your future self a huge favor and just don't.… Expand
  8. JessieJane
    Jul 11, 2023
    0
    Giving this game a positive review score just because one has sentiment for the cardboard version is not doing the community any favors... wizards should acknowledge that 5 years after release people still have a strong opinion about their product. And that opinion isn't favorable. The only reason to play this game is to learn the mechanics of MtG through the tutorial (which is superb forGiving this game a positive review score just because one has sentiment for the cardboard version is not doing the community any favors... wizards should acknowledge that 5 years after release people still have a strong opinion about their product. And that opinion isn't favorable. The only reason to play this game is to learn the mechanics of MtG through the tutorial (which is superb for new players) and then uninstall the game and switch over to real life. If You stick with the game for much longer after that Your in for disappointment, frustration, predatory practices and alchemy. Who even wanted alchemy in the first place?… Expand
  9. Lucius_18
    Jul 10, 2023
    0
    I play paper magic, mostly commander and I HATE this version of it. The game is rigged ladies and gentlemen, pure and simple. if You don't believe me just play, let's say 10 games in a row. You will witness situations so over the top it's laughable. And if by some miracle You actually win 5 or six games in a row - that's when the circus starts. Odds of probability? Yeah, right... wizardsI play paper magic, mostly commander and I HATE this version of it. The game is rigged ladies and gentlemen, pure and simple. if You don't believe me just play, let's say 10 games in a row. You will witness situations so over the top it's laughable. And if by some miracle You actually win 5 or six games in a row - that's when the circus starts. Odds of probability? Yeah, right... wizards are corporate shills for hasbro now. All that matters is the bottom line… Expand
  10. AJCk19
    Jun 30, 2023
    7
    tldr; low rating comes from people who don't play paper magic, the game has PLENTY of room for improvement, wizards can sometimes be evil, however the overall experience is still enjoyable as the digital brother of paper magic.

    For once, I consider the Critic Review's rating more accurate, if not only a tad bit high. The user review rating is so low, because most of the gaming crowd,    tldr; low rating comes from people who don't play paper magic, the game has PLENTY of room for improvement, wizards can sometimes be evil, however the overall experience is still enjoyable as the digital brother of paper magic.

    For once, I consider the Critic Review's rating more accurate, if not only a tad bit high. The user review rating is so low, because most of the gaming crowd, haven't step foot in the "arena" with paper magic. Which is a expensive card game of the big 3 TCGs. Not only that, it is the #1 most expensive card game. To make things worse, it is the 1st modern tcg, with all other tcg copying it.

    If anything, magic is not even a teen game because I mostly just see older adults, some young adults, and the rare child or girlfriend, because the older adults brought them along. This is a game where the people have disposable income, and they have been playing since they were a older teen or younger adult.

    With all that being said, you think the digital version of magic was going to be cheap? I think this is the worst criticism of the game, because its' game theory is completely separate from a VIDEO GAME. I wouldn't even call it free to play or fee to pay. Because paper magic is consider a investment, and premium in the collector's market.

    Now onto the actual negatives of the games (which are plenty, but it is still enjoyable as a digital brother of the paper game). 1) is no way to trade your cards with other players or sale on the market for currency (which big mmos already do this, don't see why we can't do that here). 2) needing to fix some game balance issue's with stall decks (Hearthstone Control Warrior is worse). 3) extremely long game timers. 4) no auto deck builder like duels had. 5) organization and search engine needs more options, especially easy of life click options. 6) Not enough sets and formats have been added. 7) Top magic arena players need more representation in the pro scene. 8) needs more cross promotion with the physical card game, like physical packs should include one free scanner for a digital pack.

    9) The biggest one, not enough guarantees they are going to pull the plug on us, like they did Duels. However if they do, I'm going to do more than just complain on Steam. Keep in mind everyone, this is Magic we are talking about, so be warned, this is a expensive game, and it is not a free to play. I wouldn't even call it a fee to pay, because paper magic is not cheap compared to other TCGs. So when you just pull/vanquish someone collection like that, or end support, it isn't cool. Especially with no way to transfer it out or compensation.

    10) Shuffle algorithm is bad, but it is as bad as most digital TCGs, it can never compare to a physical TCGs shuffling.

    11) Report system and tech support, is almost non-existent. Like most of the gaming industry.    … Expand
  11. JezebelST
    Jun 20, 2023
    0
    "Professional" critics are worthless hacks that have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to reviewing games. The users are always on the receiving end and their opinion should count. Alas it never was and never will be the case. Go ... yourself hasbro. Same for wotc. Hate You both and hate this game.
  12. StarLord77
    Jun 16, 2023
    0
    Piece of garbage game, couldn't rate it low enough. The biggest offender for me is matchmaking. Constant mirror matches or just perfect counters to Your deck. Lose 4 games in a row and be grateful for getting a pity win over someone that had to mulligan down to four or just quits 20 seconds into the match. Opponents always top-deck perfectly to turn the match around. If You think: no wayPiece of garbage game, couldn't rate it low enough. The biggest offender for me is matchmaking. Constant mirror matches or just perfect counters to Your deck. Lose 4 games in a row and be grateful for getting a pity win over someone that had to mulligan down to four or just quits 20 seconds into the match. Opponents always top-deck perfectly to turn the match around. If You think: no way he top-decked a board wipe... Just guess what's in his hand. Uninstall...… Expand
  13. Will1999
    Jun 7, 2023
    0
    What could be said that hasn't been said already by the scores of unhappy people critiquing this game. It's a tedious chore to play if You want Your daily gold done and You have to lose a set number of games whatever the makeup of Your deck might be. It's rigged harder than a Vegas casino. Thoroughly not enjoyable
  14. CheckYourMate
    Jun 6, 2023
    0
    This game is garbage. It's rigged to a point where it's unplayable. Paper Magic would struggle to recreate the situations that happen in this game on a regular basis. For example: lets draw six cards with "Flow of Knowledge". You've just drawn six lands, count them wit me - six! Someone please tell me what are the actual mathematical odds of that happening? And it happened to me twiceThis game is garbage. It's rigged to a point where it's unplayable. Paper Magic would struggle to recreate the situations that happen in this game on a regular basis. For example: lets draw six cards with "Flow of Knowledge". You've just drawn six lands, count them wit me - six! Someone please tell me what are the actual mathematical odds of that happening? And it happened to me twice already, TWICE! Scummy game and a huge flaming middle finger to the community. Thanks wotc!… Expand
  15. Cecil_Marche
    Jun 3, 2023
    0
    This game will make You hate Magic the Gathering if You ever held any affection for it. Play at Your own risk.
  16. ChickensBrother
    May 31, 2023
    0
    Your interaction with this "game" will look like this on most days:

    1. Launch game 2. Jump into standard match to get some daily wins 3. Concede the mach before even looking at Your hand because the first 2-3 games of the day are rigged to be forced losses 4. Repeat steps #2 and #3 2-3 times 5. Get a forced win 6. Repeat whole process until satisfied with number of daily wins 7.    Your interaction with this "game" will look like this on most days:

    1. Launch game
    2. Jump into standard match to get some daily wins
    3. Concede the mach before even looking at Your hand because the first 2-3 games of the day are rigged to be forced losses
    4. Repeat steps #2 and #3 2-3 times
    5. Get a forced win
    6. Repeat whole process until satisfied with number of daily wins
    7. Alt+F4 game during Your last mach to rope someone, come back tomorrow

    Sounds like fun to You?    … Expand
  17. HappyGilmore
    May 27, 2023
    0
    I hope You know by now that You shouldn't believe any of these shill critics and fake reviews that actually endorse this game. If You've ever played paper Magic and have decided to play this trash game a few very important things will become evident quite fast. Arena is laughably and obviously rigged. The shuffler, the matchmaking, the cards in the booster packs and the games themselves.I hope You know by now that You shouldn't believe any of these shill critics and fake reviews that actually endorse this game. If You've ever played paper Magic and have decided to play this trash game a few very important things will become evident quite fast. Arena is laughably and obviously rigged. The shuffler, the matchmaking, the cards in the booster packs and the games themselves. Do Yourself a massive favor and never play this garbage. It might actually kill Your affection for the IRL version… Expand
  18. Martin_D
    May 26, 2023
    0
    Yeah, this game blows big time.
    25 lands in Your deck? - no lands drawn in 4 to 5 turns.
    19 lands in Your deck? - get flooded for 4 to 5 turns.
    Toxic community, shady business practices from WOTC and don't expect to have fun playing the game.
    But please, don' forget spend some money in the shop on Your way out!
  19. firezone
    Mar 24, 2023
    1
    i swear that the shuffler is rigged. some games i will get everything i need from off the top while others i struggle in even getting a single card i need. i played a event and around 8 out of 13 games i was stuck on 2 lands, at this point it feels like a slog just to play the game with how much net decking there is along with the alchemy cards . i wouldn't recommend this if you want toi swear that the shuffler is rigged. some games i will get everything i need from off the top while others i struggle in even getting a single card i need. i played a event and around 8 out of 13 games i was stuck on 2 lands, at this point it feels like a slog just to play the game with how much net decking there is along with the alchemy cards . i wouldn't recommend this if you want to play casual or don't want to spend much money on the game… Expand
  20. netbattler15
    Mar 6, 2023
    6
    Magic the Gathering is the best card game ever created. I have played the game competitively for more than 10 years. Arena is essentially designed for me. I am not reviewing the current state of MTG formats as they exist outside (and inside) of Arena. Due to letting me play MTG, I start Arena at a 5.

    Arena launched as a barebones implementation of the game. You could play magic,    Magic the Gathering is the best card game ever created. I have played the game competitively for more than 10 years. Arena is essentially designed for me. I am not reviewing the current state of MTG formats as they exist outside (and inside) of Arena. Due to letting me play MTG, I start Arena at a 5.

    Arena launched as a barebones implementation of the game. You could play magic, sure, but not much more than that. Animations are a bit lackluster, match making can be slow at times, I've recently had some visual bugs.

    The economy is greedy. I have to spend about $100 quarterly to mostly (not entirely) keep up with the metagame, and that gives me no ability to sell out when I no longer have use for my cards.

    The feature roll out has been slow and drip fed. Features users have asked for for literal years get deprioritized behind new digital only formats that are incredibly unpopular (and require additional cards at additional cost).

    I can't give this game a 0 or a 1. Magic itself is too good for that. But I will give it a 6. It's worth it to play magic if you can't play in paper, but paper will always be better.    … Expand
  21. PizzaWorm
    Feb 14, 2023
    9
    I'm aware the game has problems, but it's one of the most fun ways of playing Magic casually.
  22. Krefted
    Feb 13, 2023
    0
    Don't listen to the reviews from players that are just bad. There's a guy crying about Gigantosaurus lol. Coming from a spike though, Magic The Gathering is the greatest game ever made but Arena is a poor approximation of it. Biggest problem is alchemy. That is the cancer that has infected Arena and secured its steep decline. For those unaware, alchemy is digital only mechanics aka fakeDon't listen to the reviews from players that are just bad. There's a guy crying about Gigantosaurus lol. Coming from a spike though, Magic The Gathering is the greatest game ever made but Arena is a poor approximation of it. Biggest problem is alchemy. That is the cancer that has infected Arena and secured its steep decline. For those unaware, alchemy is digital only mechanics aka fake cards. Diverging from paper is a horrible mistake, but the biggest issue is it infected a lot of people's favorite format historic. You can no longer play historic without encountering fake cards or them changing how your cards function. Yes you read that right, the buff or nerf cards to make them different from paper. Blasphemy. The Explorer format however has saved Arena. It is pioneer lite without any fake card nonsense, but it's missing a lot of cards still. Once it gets to the point where you can play every single top 20 pioneer deck exactly like how you could in paper or MTGO I'll change my review to 10 stars.… Expand
  23. Sephrix
    Jan 11, 2023
    0
    First things first, I love magic. I've been playing almost every week for years with my friends at my local game store. I still love the game.

    Magic arena has almost destroyed my enjoyment of the game entirely since its release. If you are a new player, avoid this game entirely and instead talk to friends that play the game and see about getting into it that way. Trust me, it'll be more    First things first, I love magic. I've been playing almost every week for years with my friends at my local game store. I still love the game.

    Magic arena has almost destroyed my enjoyment of the game entirely since its release. If you are a new player, avoid this game entirely and instead talk to friends that play the game and see about getting into it that way. Trust me, it'll be more enjoyable.

    At first I thought this would be a wonderful practice tool as I was working towards more competitive play at the time but the more I played the more I realised this was going to be the worst thing to happen to magic ever.

    The meta has become a stagnant pool of the same cards put into the same 3/4 decks over and over. I played 20 games yesterday and 18 of them were against the same deck which is the defacto #1 deck in the meta with a 60%+ win rate. The meta was solved the day the sets became available online. It used to be a process of people finding fun jank to play with and sometimes things would stick but now it's a case of 99% of players online copy/pasting the exact same mythic deck that someone posted on untapped or whatever other tool people use to netdeck these days.

    I used to at least enjoy the games but with the cards wizards have printed lately there's no diversity in any of the metagames. It's the same cards over and over and over from standard through to historic because they were printed to be busted and sell packs and guess what, the cards are totally busted.

    I find myself constantly disappointed with arena despite being someone who has given it chance after chance to be redeemed.    … Expand
  24. dorble
    Jan 5, 2023
    0
    This game is really bad. I could give you an explanation of how and why but I don't need to. When you start this game it tricks you into thinking it is fun and cool with an intro that is NOT AT ALL what the actual game is like. Then you get into it. And the real game is awful. You'll feel it. Go ahead. Go suffer
  25. aburb
    Jan 4, 2023
    0
    The game gives an idea that it could be fun when you start but it is just very harsh and not enjoyable when you really get into it.
  26. Bethrezzzen
    Dec 21, 2022
    0
    Absolutely random donation dump. Artificially complicated and incredibly boring. Waste of time and money
  27. perp
    Dec 13, 2022
    0
    Do not play this trash game! Do not give wizards your money! Force them to fix it! The match making is garbage. The economy is garbage. The interactions do not work how they should. It is pay to win not only because you need to build a collection, but it's pretty blatantly obvious that if you pay more money the game favors you. As far as cash grabs go, it's 100% that. Do not waste yourDo not play this trash game! Do not give wizards your money! Force them to fix it! The match making is garbage. The economy is garbage. The interactions do not work how they should. It is pay to win not only because you need to build a collection, but it's pretty blatantly obvious that if you pay more money the game favors you. As far as cash grabs go, it's 100% that. Do not waste your time and spend your money on the physical game or if you need to play mtg online, play the online variant and not this dumpsterfire.… Expand
  28. juanparranda
    Nov 18, 2022
    0
    cada vez se hace un juego mas pay to win, con el tiempo quienes no son capacez de costear las cartas de nuevas ediciones evidentemente sufren de malos pairing, robos para nada aleatorio, donde claramente es un exceso de tierras o una completa nulidad de esta, nisiquiera el mulligan permite a los jugadores acomodar las manos, 5 de cada 6 partidas en mis manos aparecen dos tierras paracada vez se hace un juego mas pay to win, con el tiempo quienes no son capacez de costear las cartas de nuevas ediciones evidentemente sufren de malos pairing, robos para nada aleatorio, donde claramente es un exceso de tierras o una completa nulidad de esta, nisiquiera el mulligan permite a los jugadores acomodar las manos, 5 de cada 6 partidas en mis manos aparecen dos tierras para despues no volvera a salirme tierras, es mas que nada frustrante querer jugar un juego competitivo no para ser el mejor, si no para ir subiendo escalones acorde a los mazos pero que se encargue de hacer pasar malos ratos, estoy casi seguro que si alguien capaz de entrar a los datos del juego revisa el randomizador de los mazos esta manipulado, deprimente que solo piensen en el dinero y que reciban siempre top decks quienes tienen todos los comodines gastados en las nuevas ediciones… Expand
  29. ILikeBosch
    Sep 29, 2022
    4
    It has engaging gameplay loops that keep pulling you back in, but the sad reality is that this is just another game for whales to exploit lowly free-to-play users. If you don't buy cards in this game and construct a godlike deck made of countless rares and mythic rares, you're not getting out of Platinum ranked. You can get a mono aggro deck to Platinum easily, which speaks volumes aboutIt has engaging gameplay loops that keep pulling you back in, but the sad reality is that this is just another game for whales to exploit lowly free-to-play users. If you don't buy cards in this game and construct a godlike deck made of countless rares and mythic rares, you're not getting out of Platinum ranked. You can get a mono aggro deck to Platinum easily, which speaks volumes about the state of matchmaking. If you're playing standard casual, you're getting rocked by master players with cards f2p can't seem to find. Bronze to Gold ranked is almost all the same skill level, it's where free to play players go to grind their wins because they can't go anywhere else. Even if you do get out of platinum and into mythic, you're going to get destroyed by the "rigged" shuffler algorithm. It's not uncommon, and I mean this happens on a daily basis, to somehow draw up to 6 or even 7 lands in a row. I have lost count of how often this happens, and people were complaining about this "bug" as far back as launch many years ago. The fact that it hasn't been "fixed" seems to all but confirm all of the conspiracy theorists' thoughts about how this feature punishes free-to-play players into spending money. The algorithm pits you against players based on deck composition, so you're either getting people with the same deck, or people with the exact deck to counter your cards, and then sometimes it's down to who gets to go first in a game that decides the outcome.

    The economy is awful, often making it simply impossible for casual players to redeem wildcards to craft new decks. Rares and Mythic Rares are locked behind all-to-uncommon wildcards needed to create them, and copies of them once unlocked. This system may have been reasonable when there were only a handful of sets, but there are like 20 sets in MTG Arena now, if you don't specifically play standard, and even then, the handful of standard sets make up thousands of cards. If you're lurking on aetherhub or some other card builder site and you've spotted a popular mono white aggro deck or something that wins 55% of games, you're likely missing anywhere from 10-20 wildcards to make it. I've been playing casually off and on for a few years and I've still not been able to make more than a handful of new, fresh decks from scratch because MTG is so miserly with their rewards. Gold is locked behind dailies and weeklies, so once you've completed them, you can't make any more gold for the rest of the day. This is insane, as it restricts players for...playing the game. Card packs now cost 1300 if you want to guarantee a Mythic Rare in it. They strategically place this pack right next to the regular packs, and then hide Alchemy packs in-between so you could potentially buy an alchemy pack instead of a regular pack if you're not paying attention. The whole thing feels like a scam, and remains predatory toward casual players; this is ironic considering the entire game is marketed toward this demographic. The game is free to play, after all. Casual players don't drop whale fortunes on games.

    The one upside is that this display of shortsighted greed has made me want to explore paper Magic for the first time. If I'm spending money, I'd rather have something tangible with collectible value, and then I know I won't get screwed by statistically impossible land draw dysfunction every 6 games.    … Expand
  30. UnblessedBe
    Sep 17, 2022
    0
    Wizards of the Coast took the best part of MTG out of the game....being able to communicate with your opponents. MTG is a social game yet this is a shell of what it is meant to be.

    A absolute joke of a game. Shame on Wizards of the Coast for this buggy garbage with zero chat functionality. Slow paced, buggy, trash. it's also so much fun playing against players who run down the clock on    Wizards of the Coast took the best part of MTG out of the game....being able to communicate with your opponents. MTG is a social game yet this is a shell of what it is meant to be.

    A absolute joke of a game. Shame on Wizards of the Coast for this buggy garbage with zero chat functionality. Slow paced, buggy, trash. it's also so much fun playing against players who run down the clock on you just out of spite wasting your time.    … Expand
  31. JarlOfJarylton
    Sep 15, 2022
    0
    This game is the fattest, peanut riddled, frothy, piece of **** I've ever played in my life and I've played nearly any game you could think to name that is an RPG, RTS, MOBA, MMORPG, Isometric, ARPG.

    I have never. In my life — felt more raped after investing in a game, in my life. I mean that. DO NOT DO IT! Play the original!! HERE I'll give you the link    This game is the fattest, peanut riddled, frothy, piece of **** I've ever played in my life and I've played nearly any game you could think to name that is an RPG, RTS, MOBA, MMORPG, Isometric, ARPG.

    I have never. In my life — felt more raped after investing in a game, in my life. I mean that. DO NOT DO IT! Play the original!! HERE I'll give you the link https://magic.wizards.com/en/mtgo OR GO FIND IT ON YOUR OWN IDC BUT TRUST ME YOU ARE MAKING A HUGE MISTAKE!!

    The so called, "Random Number Generator" Algorithm, that WOC uses is festered with intentional loss stratagems built into the code. Which can make you lose 20 times in a row with an AAA deck. You can be matched against counter decks, given 3 of the same creature in your opening hand along with 1 land and 3, 5-drops in 9/10 games in a row or a mixture of this all because WOC decides you have "won/played enough for today". Basically telling you to go f^(& yourself. I have never in 20 years of MTG competitively or for fun — seen this type of "randomness" and that says a lot. I have been witness to every type of Korean RNG algorithm you can imagine (BDO, BnS, TERA,, etc) and have never experienced treachery to this extent.

    No game should EVER, EVER intentionally, force a player to lose for ANY reason. Let the RNG system do it's FU$*#* job!!! SCUM!!    … Expand
  32. lCaptainBob
    Aug 15, 2022
    0
    The software is **** garbage. The only way to make the game play smoothly on lower end PCs is to lower the resolution to the point that the text becomes unreadable. The reconnect feature doesn't work, it will pop up a message with the options to "reconnect" or "log out" and it can't be dismissed, even if the connection is back and you can clearly see your opponent playing in theThe software is **** garbage. The only way to make the game play smoothly on lower end PCs is to lower the resolution to the point that the text becomes unreadable. The reconnect feature doesn't work, it will pop up a message with the options to "reconnect" or "log out" and it can't be dismissed, even if the connection is back and you can clearly see your opponent playing in the background, so the only way to get rid of the message is to hit reconnect, which will disconnect you from the match and not even kick you to the home screen but instead basically restart the program and then take a long-ass time reconnecting you. In this time, the game will have skipped over your turn and not even have used your timeouts.
    Animations can't be disabled which makes the game run even worse. Sometimes the game gets stuck loading the home screen after a match, forcing me to alt-f4 and restart in order to get a new game.
    The game will also randomly reset to max resolution causing freezing and bad performance.

    As for the gameplay side of things, I'll spend a week grinding enough gold to play best-of-three draft, which is the only format I really enjoy only to get disconnected out of a winning position and basically waste the 10.000 gold entry fee.

    If you are a newcomer to Magic, maybe you will enjoy your time, but If you are a paper player don't bother with this game, it's just suffering for the sake of it.

    2022 edit: Revised score from a 3 to a 0.    … Expand
  33. Simpson_761
    Jul 29, 2022
    0
    When a games storefront is updated daily but bugs are left unfixed forever... then I have an issue.
  34. BenzoSt
    Jul 12, 2022
    8
    The gameplay of Magic Arena is faster, flashier, and more responsive than the older Magic Online game. But Arena isn’t necessarily better than Magic Online if your true goal is to improve your skill at real (paper) Magic; since Arena rewards players with loot for every game won, players disproportionately play fast, aggressive decks and also tend to concede games at the first moment theirThe gameplay of Magic Arena is faster, flashier, and more responsive than the older Magic Online game. But Arena isn’t necessarily better than Magic Online if your true goal is to improve your skill at real (paper) Magic; since Arena rewards players with loot for every game won, players disproportionately play fast, aggressive decks and also tend to concede games at the first moment their luck takes a turn for the worse. Sometimes custom formats are available, and these opportunities are my favorite way to play because they give me a chance to capitalize on my strong deck building skills.… Expand
  35. back1
    Jul 3, 2022
    0
    Pay to win game. It algorith will asure you won't open meta high used rares and mythic cards, and will get unfavorable matchups and draws unless you spend big bucks within the game. Extremely frustrating.
  36. encarvlucas
    Jun 22, 2022
    0
    Unplayable mess stuffed with predatory monetization and bad consumer practices. Bugs are rampant, server issues and constant crashes.
  37. Pietriej
    Jun 6, 2022
    6
    A really nice MTG experience you can enjoy on your smartphone, but with a bad monetization system.

    + A way to enjoy MTG from home with a much better interface than MTG Online. + Easy to find opponents. + A meaningful progression system - you can actually get booster packs and build decks by playing the game. - Limited number of formats. You can't enjoy fan favorite Commander on    A really nice MTG experience you can enjoy on your smartphone, but with a bad monetization system.

    + A way to enjoy MTG from home with a much better interface than MTG Online.
    + Easy to find opponents.
    + A meaningful progression system - you can actually get booster packs and build decks by playing the game.
    - Limited number of formats. You can't enjoy fan favorite Commander on Arena, and you don't have access to commander cards. Instead, there is Brawl that feels like a crippled version of Commander/EDH.
    - Monetization is bad. Like... REALLY BAD. You can enjoy the game for free or spending very little on it (e.g. welcome pack), but your deckbuilding options will be very limited. Then, if you would like to honor the creators and actually spend some cash your options are really bad - you can spend as much as you would for a triple A game and you won't be able to make a single deck out of it. I'm at a point where I'm missing some critical cards for what I'd like to make, and am willing to spend some cash, but the options I see in shop are outrageous.    … Expand
  38. infantryman9244
    May 18, 2022
    0
    This game caters to whales really hard. the shuffler algo is broken and will not be fixed even tho they have been told too many times. the "support" team is a joke only copy/paste responses. game is full of cheaters as well and yes you can cheat the game. i love the real card game but this shell of a game is a joke even the mechanics are broken! stay away from this game!!
  39. UrbanEelf
    Apr 20, 2022
    7
    decent game decent game decent game decent game decent game decent game decent game
  40. V01DRenegade
    Jan 30, 2022
    0
    The game is absolutely rigged. Situations that should happen once in a hundred games happens almost every other games. You or your opponent will routinely draw all copies of a single card within 10 turns. I played my fair share of MTG irl and let me tell you drawing 3 or 4 copies of a card almost never happens unless the game draws out to 20+ turns. The game will mess with you every way itThe game is absolutely rigged. Situations that should happen once in a hundred games happens almost every other games. You or your opponent will routinely draw all copies of a single card within 10 turns. I played my fair share of MTG irl and let me tell you drawing 3 or 4 copies of a card almost never happens unless the game draws out to 20+ turns. The game will mess with you every way it can. It will give you too little mana or too much. Your opponent will routinely and conveniently draw the single card that can clutch save him and screw your game plan over. I'm not saying these situations should never happen but I know enough about probabilities to understand **** when I see it, and this game is full of it. Oh and you can't even challenge your friends outside the 60 cards best of one format. Wanna brawl against a friend? Good luck that won't happen.

    Even though MTG had glaring shortcomings from the get go, Pay to Win anyone?, it was still fun to play IRL with your friends (which, again, is almost impossible in MTGA). This iteration of Magic the Gathering brought the game itself to a new low in my eyes. I wish I could lower my score even more.    … Expand
  41. Niceguy3000
    Jan 13, 2022
    1
    The game is horrible. It predetermined whether you will win or lose before the match even starts. You can play 10 games and it will give you 3 mana in 11 turns each game. Even if you pay anything for the game, you will still lose. It is a complete cash grab. Nobody should play this game for learning purposes because it will teach you that no matter what, you’ll lose.
  42. AutoNacho
    Jan 5, 2022
    1
    There was some huge chances to improve paper magic with this product that was completely missed. Firstly either my account is glitched or there is a pay wall I have not found- regardless on my account I am lucky to go first once a night if I play many many games, at this point I build decks to go second. Also the "shuffler" is terrible, generally copies of cards always clump together,There was some huge chances to improve paper magic with this product that was completely missed. Firstly either my account is glitched or there is a pay wall I have not found- regardless on my account I am lucky to go first once a night if I play many many games, at this point I build decks to go second. Also the "shuffler" is terrible, generally copies of cards always clump together, especially land chunks. It is so predictable if I draw two land I know the next three are land. This makes games where both players have a fair fight around 20-25% of games. Might as well download a coin flip app instead.… Expand
  43. LaGuerra
    Dec 10, 2021
    0
    After 3 years WOTC decided ruin every ethernal formats in arena with forcing players to stupid Alchemy cards
  44. Ph4Ek4Tt
    Dec 5, 2021
    0
    Completely predatory game model. Don't start playing this game unless you want your wallet raped by greedy corporate scum.
  45. Eldoreth
    Dec 4, 2021
    2
    It doesn't deserve a 0 but Arena has a lot of problems that just never get addressed. Things that you would expect from a modern game, free to play or not.
    First of all, I have to say that not a single one of these is a deal breaker on its own, but as an aggregate you can tell where I'm going.
    1. The user interface just isn't very friendly. Figuring things out like how to change sleeves    It doesn't deserve a 0 but Arena has a lot of problems that just never get addressed. Things that you would expect from a modern game, free to play or not.
    First of all, I have to say that not a single one of these is a deal breaker on its own, but as an aggregate you can tell where I'm going.
    1. The user interface just isn't very friendly. Figuring things out like how to change sleeves etc. can require a google search or tutorial and it just shouldn't be like that.
    2. No information in the client. The event schedules are posted on websites rather than in the client. Why they can't tell me when an event will end until it's too late I don't know.
    3. Reporting tools are also not in client. That means I am further inconvenienced whenever I have to try and report another player's toxic behavior (stalling).
    4. Really bad payout structures for limited modes. Quick draft rotation sucks. No phantom draft. No drafting with friends.
    5. Slow and clunky match starts and ends. This creates really long down times between matches. Most games these days let you q up immediately after a match ends. Not so with this client that was perhaps created by an offshore outsourced dev team to cut corners and save money. STINGY
    6. Tone deaf developers who don't listen an iota to players.
    7. The only AI tool is a weak deck buggy mess called Sparky. It's an embarrassment to Arena that this thing even exists in its state. The AI kills its own creatures, attacks with abandon, and just horrible overall. I would expect a decent single player campaign or mode by now, but they can't even fix sparky's AI... embarrassing.
    8. The shop is so whale focused it's ridiculous. Prices are sky high for the littlest thing. If you just focused on making a good game and experience for everyone and not just the whales you could have farmed up a dedicated base of paying customers such as myself. But as it is, you really aren't giving me anything worth paying for...
    9. Expensive. Collecting cards is unwieldy, time consuming, and expensive. They're making it even worse with this Alchemy thing too, proving they are absolutely tone-deaf and greedy AF.
    STAY AWAY.    … Expand
  46. davey16
    Nov 15, 2021
    5
    I love the idea. Ive loved MTG for a long time but, the economy on it is horrible. Its no surprise that a game in this era of any kind is doing all its can to focus on profits. I get it. I dont have to like it, though. You can still make money and do things right for the customer but, they all chose not to these days. This is no different. MTG is a great game. This is a great idea. GreedI love the idea. Ive loved MTG for a long time but, the economy on it is horrible. Its no surprise that a game in this era of any kind is doing all its can to focus on profits. I get it. I dont have to like it, though. You can still make money and do things right for the customer but, they all chose not to these days. This is no different. MTG is a great game. This is a great idea. Greed keeps people out even more than the complexity of the game.… Expand
  47. pftbfkfvnu
    Oct 25, 2021
    0
    Such **** that I want to puke. The only thing that is interesting in this game is to collect a collection and **** off from the greed of developers. You would at least improve the service, and not introduce another donation.
  48. theasic
    Sep 30, 2021
    0
    The most dishonest card game I've ever played in a digital format. Designed to specifically to extract the maximum amount of capital out of you, this game has some of the most dastardly and crooked algorithms baked into the core of it's gameplay. If you want to play magic, do yourself an immense favor and find somewhere local to play in person, or go back and play one of their digitalThe most dishonest card game I've ever played in a digital format. Designed to specifically to extract the maximum amount of capital out of you, this game has some of the most dastardly and crooked algorithms baked into the core of it's gameplay. If you want to play magic, do yourself an immense favor and find somewhere local to play in person, or go back and play one of their digital single player implementations. Papa Hasbro only cares about the dollars and does not have a single iota of regard for fair gameplay.… Expand
  49. Swaid
    Aug 27, 2021
    0
    Do you want to play Magic the Gathering with most of the best parts about the game stripped away and barely able to function? Then boy how do I have the game for you! Magic the Gathering: Arena! All your Magic the Gathering needs in one inconvenient place! Enjoy games that crash a lot or just don't let you play it at all? I can't even log in as i write this review and play the game itself!Do you want to play Magic the Gathering with most of the best parts about the game stripped away and barely able to function? Then boy how do I have the game for you! Magic the Gathering: Arena! All your Magic the Gathering needs in one inconvenient place! Enjoy games that crash a lot or just don't let you play it at all? I can't even log in as i write this review and play the game itself! What a feature! I can't wait to see what Blunders of the Cost come up with next.… Expand
  50. Saromon
    Aug 5, 2021
    0
    I played 5+ yrs of paper mtg got out due to cost this is a horrific replacement. I don't claim to understand all the coding but never have I played in this without constant mana flood or nothing almost no in-between. I tried prebuilt, homebrew, and meta no change. Spent $100 in it and regret every cent and every hour of my 50-70hrs play time.
    Anyway point is this isn't a decent or even    I played 5+ yrs of paper mtg got out due to cost this is a horrific replacement. I don't claim to understand all the coding but never have I played in this without constant mana flood or nothing almost no in-between. I tried prebuilt, homebrew, and meta no change. Spent $100 in it and regret every cent and every hour of my 50-70hrs play time.
    Anyway point is this isn't a decent or even tolerable substitute for paper mtg since its pay-to-win anyway almost matching real costs if not for fusing but $100 only got me 3-4 decks (viable decks). I'd literally rather flip paper cards than do this bs anymore. Also community is time stalling trash 50-70% of the time.    … Expand
  51. BrickN
    Aug 2, 2021
    0
    Do you like playing the same copy pasted meta deck loaded with rares that some jackass paid $80 to get instead of earning it? Do you like overpriced cosmetics that are earnable through either literal months of play or just paying WotC $20? Do you like waiting 5 minutes for each turn as your opponent waits down the timer just to piss you off more? Then this is the game for you! Every deckDo you like playing the same copy pasted meta deck loaded with rares that some jackass paid $80 to get instead of earning it? Do you like overpriced cosmetics that are earnable through either literal months of play or just paying WotC $20? Do you like waiting 5 minutes for each turn as your opponent waits down the timer just to piss you off more? Then this is the game for you! Every deck in every format is just copied from the top 8 of the last tourney posted on MtG Goldfish, and you won't get anywhere on ladder if you aren't willing to sell your soul and play some godless affront to MtG that is control now. If I could rate this lower than 0 I would. Not only is this game a scam freemium version of MTGO, which actually had purpose and value, but it doesn't even let you play MtG in any of the actually fun community formats. Instead the game forces you to play the **** formats that WotC promotes and wants to make popular, but now one gives a **** about. To top it off, Wizards killed their world tour in favor of the twitch streamer focused pro tour which absolutely flopped so hard that it killed local competitive magic.

    Long story short, save yourself some pain and just invest in irl MtG or MTGO, but don't give the developers an ounce of credit by wasting your time on this travesty.    … Expand
  52. Zyion
    Aug 1, 2021
    1
    This game is very pay-to-win. Tried playing for several months without spending any cash on cards and I would win maybe 20% of the time against the latest sets. And most of those times were only because my opponents got mana starved early on. Wild cards, which are cards that you can spend to craft any card in the game, could easily offset this if they weren't so heavily tied to time gatesThis game is very pay-to-win. Tried playing for several months without spending any cash on cards and I would win maybe 20% of the time against the latest sets. And most of those times were only because my opponents got mana starved early on. Wild cards, which are cards that you can spend to craft any card in the game, could easily offset this if they weren't so heavily tied to time gates and opening packs. Meaning the people who benefit most from the crafting system are those who spend lots of money on the game. The system is specifically set up so that you will never be competitive unless you spend allot of money on the latest set which becomes the new meta every couple of months.

    There are several card combinations that basically guarantee a win by turn 3, 4 or 5. There are also several high cost cards that are so powerful that they can completely flip a certain loss into a win in less than a turn. Which kills any strategy the game might have had as they turn every fight into a game of chance.

    All of this is made worse when you realize that WotC has locked out the ability to review the app on mobile devices. You can't review the product unless you purchase it, but since all purchases are done through the app instead of the store, the only way you can even review the product is if WotC gives you the opportunity to review their game. Which I was only granted after spending about $60 on cosmetics and playing for 3 months strait. They have so little confidence in how fun their game actually is that they have to maintain a stranglehold on reviews in the app store. Never trust any company that does this, and never purchase stuff from companies that use anti-consumer consumer practices like this.    … Expand
  53. RGB2
    Jul 13, 2021
    0
    Magic the gathering is fun but with unbearable bad optimization and algorithm rigged shuffler its not worth your time.
  54. FidgetyJester
    Jul 8, 2021
    10
    This is a fun free-to play game. I get that there's micro-transection to get cards pretty fast. But crafting makes it easier to get the cards pretty fast so you won't feel forced to just buy, atleast it wasn't for me.

    Plus although I don't like micro-transection all that much I feel like in a card game it's easier to handle for me, cause it's better than buying new sequel to a card game    This is a fun free-to play game. I get that there's micro-transection to get cards pretty fast. But crafting makes it easier to get the cards pretty fast so you won't feel forced to just buy, atleast it wasn't for me.

    Plus although I don't like micro-transection all that much I feel like in a card game it's easier to handle for me, cause it's better than buying new sequel to a card game and start collecting all over again, right? And sure you can get cards in real life instead but keep in mind there are no craft in real life so getting those deck in real life will be expansive plus not everyone has many friends to play with either.

    I saw some of the negative reviews and those are what I think about them. Also let me say I would like this game even more if it didn't had micro toward cards, but I still put it high up cause crafting won't make your hard work feel like a waste for pay to win players cause crafting is easy to begin with, and it's still better than buying new sequels everytime that's not free.

    And maybe I'm just lucky but I didn't found much bugs either. I do have a bit of a control problem whenever it asks me to discard a card but that's for Mobile, PC version is ok.

    That being said those negative reviews are old so maybe it was correct for some of them like the bugs at one point in the past but it certainly isn't like that for me now though. I wouldn't called it 10 but just putting it 10 here to make up for all those past negative atleast a tiny bit.    … Expand
  55. Disinflicted
    Jun 23, 2021
    0
    Long story short: MTGA matches you accordng to a hidden Match making rating. If you're ever good with a deck in any game mode you build a high MMR and you're doomed to lose with all weaker decks, even on the lowest rank possible.
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    I made an account just to warn people about this game, please heed my warning. I absolute LOVE Paper Magic, I can't get enough of it,    Long story short: MTGA matches you accordng to a hidden Match making rating. If you're ever good with a deck in any game mode you build a high MMR and you're doomed to lose with all weaker decks, even on the lowest rank possible.
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    I made an account just to warn people about this game, please heed my warning.
    I absolute LOVE Paper Magic, I can't get enough of it, but this game is absolutely broken.
    Somehow they thought it was a good idea to match people based on their MMR instead of their rank.
    After building a 'Brawl' deck I played it for weeks, grinding my quests out every day, perfecting the deck more and more and honing my skills with it. Slowly but surely I got matched against better and better players which was enjoyable at the time.
    Then I decided to make a new deck because the old one got boring and I started playing 'Standard Ranked' instead of 'Brawl', starting with the lowest rank: 'Bronze 4'. Now it turns out, MTGA matches you according to your MMR, not your rank. So now my fresh, semi-decent home brew standard deck got matched against people with decks and skills on the level of my previous 'Brawl' matches. People who played their meta-tuned decks extremely well. Safe to say I lost with my imperfect deck - which is not a problem to me - though what was a problem was the amount of losses. My first day of 'Standard Ranked' I went 15 losses to 2 wins.
    Some might be salty but I figured it must be my ignorance of the meta, matchups and of course my home-brewed deck. So I went on, tried to get better, crafted cards and tried to stick it thru. Only to get destroyed again and again and again. Until today I did not manage to make it out of the Bronze rank, I don't have the wildcards to improve my deck and I can't motivate myself to spend my free time losing often enough to slowly lower my MMR.

    I can't stress enough how badly designed the matchmaking in this game is. if I could I would give it a negative score.    … Expand
  56. AWShaki
    Jun 17, 2021
    0
    Total waste of Time if you ever played real Magic. Either you pay thousands of dollars to unlock the meta decks, or get wrecked. Even if you get the cards for the meta Decks it's limited fun, because everyone plays the same boring Decks over and over. And if you try to play a semi-strong Deck that's not the top meta, you get screwed by the shuffle algorithm or the Matchmaking. Today iTotal waste of Time if you ever played real Magic. Either you pay thousands of dollars to unlock the meta decks, or get wrecked. Even if you get the cards for the meta Decks it's limited fun, because everyone plays the same boring Decks over and over. And if you try to play a semi-strong Deck that's not the top meta, you get screwed by the shuffle algorithm or the Matchmaking. Today i again wasted 1h "playing" this game. 100% on the draw of course. And 11 of those matches were perfect counter-decks against mine. I don't get why wotc is not able to implement a normal way of matchmaking or shuffling. Shuffle is random and not "shuffle n times and pick the best hand (by another stupid algorithm) to present it to the player"... so many times the Deck is shuffled in a way, that you draw always the same cards that are in your starting hand. I am happy to stepped away from standard a long time ago to play commander (which is of course not supported in MTGA!).… Expand
  57. TooLateBlue
    Jun 8, 2021
    0
    Magic itself is a wonderful card game. The Arena UI is honestly pretty great all things considered. That said, the game is 100% rigged and Wizards of the Coast should be formally investigated by the FTC for stealing people's money under the guise of a fair gameplay experience.

    The matchmaker is rigged. The shuffler is rigged. Drafts are rigged. Bo1/Bo3; doesn't matter. AI is in control    Magic itself is a wonderful card game. The Arena UI is honestly pretty great all things considered. That said, the game is 100% rigged and Wizards of the Coast should be formally investigated by the FTC for stealing people's money under the guise of a fair gameplay experience.

    The matchmaker is rigged. The shuffler is rigged. Drafts are rigged. Bo1/Bo3; doesn't matter. AI is in control of your every move no matter what deck you decide to play. Occasionally it feels like the game lets up and you get a few "natural" back-and-forth games in, but it's not worth wading through the sea of fecal matter that makes up the MTG Arena experience. God draws, elongated win/loss streaks, land floods, constant opportunistic matchmaking... it's almost like some deity told Wizards to "make the most miserable game you possibly can". They succeeded.

    After nearly three years of playing this game almost every day I've had enough. The gameplay experience is never, ever going to get better, Wizards is never going to become an honest or transparent company right down to the sycophants that defend them at all costs on their official forums, and it's not worth the rage-inducing strife to get an occasional good game.

    Do yourself a favor and skip this one. It's a waste of time and, god-forbid you're crazy enough to open your wallet to these crooks, money.    … Expand
  58. huh7600
    Jun 5, 2021
    0
    This game is really fun until the game decides you need to spend money. Then it very quickly becomes "Lose Repeatedly Simulator". After my third game of 1 land in hand after 3 mulligans (24 lands in a 60 card deck), I got the message, Wizards. Uninstalled.
  59. Azametzin
    May 2, 2021
    4
    I love MTG, and I am the kind of person who will avidly defend even some pretty egregious monetization. Even with all that said, MTG Arena has the worst monetization in any game I've ever played, it makes even Hearthstone look like downright socialist by comparison, and it's just too much even for me.
  60. neilmagic
    Apr 20, 2021
    0
    Won't allow me to install the game on mobile, so 0/10

    Stop arbitrarily locking out devices, it's random discrimination
  61. morof_r
    Apr 14, 2021
    9
    This game is really amazing, it's all of standard and historic Magic without compromise, including the very exciting drafts. The interface to build decks is very practical, it's easier than with real cards. In my opinion you get enough new cards without having to pay any real money. Also, the animations and sounds are a success.
    The only downsides for me are the boring tutorial and the    This game is really amazing, it's all of standard and historic Magic without compromise, including the very exciting drafts. The interface to build decks is very practical, it's easier than with real cards. In my opinion you get enough new cards without having to pay any real money. Also, the animations and sounds are a success.
    The only downsides for me are the boring tutorial and the fact that it's not very well optimised for macs, I had to do some weird manipulations I found online to get it to fit to my screen, and it sometimes crashes when I quit the game.
    For the people that say that the shuffler is rigged, you should go revise your probabilities. And I didn't experience rigged matchmaking or anything like that.
    In any case, try it, it's free!    … Expand
  62. Rafarodfer
    Apr 13, 2021
    9
    Estou gostando bastante do jogo, o sistema de batalha é muito bom, quando você começa o jogo ganha várias cartas e decks e pode conseguir mais coisas gratuitamente. Pode duelar contra seus amigos, pessoas desconhecidas e bots. Tem momentos que o jogo te coloca pra enfrentar jogadores com decks melhores ou vem uma sequencias de mãos ruis para você perder e querer gastar no jogo, porem nemEstou gostando bastante do jogo, o sistema de batalha é muito bom, quando você começa o jogo ganha várias cartas e decks e pode conseguir mais coisas gratuitamente. Pode duelar contra seus amigos, pessoas desconhecidas e bots. Tem momentos que o jogo te coloca pra enfrentar jogadores com decks melhores ou vem uma sequencias de mãos ruis para você perder e querer gastar no jogo, porem nem sempre isso acontece e você tem a liberdade de decidir se vai gastar ou não. Um dos melhores jogos gratuitos que já joguem e uma ótima forma de jogar Magic gratuitamente.… Expand
  63. Plt712h
    Apr 5, 2021
    0
    On the mobile version: you can play only on a bluestacks emulator for a PC with a core i9 geforce2080super and 64gb of RAM. It won't save you from freezing and crashes, but you can at least read the text on the cards.

    On the game itself: I think most people in the world have installed this game out of nostalgia. I've played Magic irl since the 7th edition and the early 00s, participated    On the mobile version: you can play only on a bluestacks emulator for a PC with a core i9 geforce2080super and 64gb of RAM. It won't save you from freezing and crashes, but you can at least read the text on the cards.

    On the game itself: I think most people in the world have installed this game out of nostalgia. I've played Magic irl since the 7th edition and the early 00s, participated in small tournaments, and have never seen such matches in real life. 7 lands in a row? You are welcome! Do you or another player have perfect, "Magically" cards come out to counter everything that comes out of the opponent? You are welcome! All cards that can be useful against the opponent's deck do not come out at all after 7 moves, but only those that are completely useless come out? You are welcome! 1 land, and all the other most expensive cards from your deck in terms of mana cost after 3 mulligans? You are welcome! If you go second, you lose in almost 90% of such matches. You won too many times in a row and you start getting thrown against those types of decks that are most effective against you in the ratio of 2 such matches against 1 of your victory in addition, you always go second, without exceptions. And how do you like that, the enemy clearly does not know how to play and is constantly making mistakes, despite the fact that with his cards it was already possible to finish the whole game a long time ago if done wisely, and now he already has 8 cards or 1 life left and then the game just stops pretending that she initially played against you, you have one useless trifle or only lands in general, you scry 3 cards 3 times in a row, each time pull one and shuffle the deck and there are only lands again and again! And these are several moves in a row! And there are 12 out of 30 cards left that could have won you a game! This is even impossible according to the theory of probability! And like the icing on the cake - you finally draw the card you want, because you already pulled out all the lands)) and the game can no longer not give you them, but this turn you lose 100% because your opponent already has 10 of the most expensive and powerful creatures, either a full hand of canceling or directly damaging you instant spells! In this case, the enemy draws 4 identical cards in a row if it helps him without scrying.

    Summing up, this game plays by itself, and it itself determines who will win and who will lose even before the start of the match. I want to assure all those who got acquainted with Magic The Gathering thanks to this garbage that this has nothing to do with a real card game. It's a pity, because the idea was great, to play without leaving your home and going to your local club, without the need to look for other players in real life, especially if you live in a province and there are 20 people like you in the whole city, and you all know each other for a long time as flaky, especially in terms of the tactics of the game. But the implementation, alas, is not that unsuccessful, it simply does not exist.

    PS. About donation and Pay-to-Win, it is clearly has it place, but it is not that much useful, and it works very little. $50 for pre-ordering the new set of boosters gave me a decrease in the number of obviously "not my" matches for less than a week, then everything returned to "normal". So I do not advise you to download and install IT, and even more so to support it with your penny. The game does not develop and fix in any way from Beta. Technically it still manages to slow down on top computers and mobile phones, has an animation gliches, slow matchmaking connections and occasion crashes. In general it doesn’t solve it's problems about the balance and the problem of forcibly won and lost matches.    … Expand
  64. supremememe
    Apr 4, 2021
    10
    Really confused by the bad reviews. Cheaper than 'paper' magic and MTGO by a large margin, and possible to play free if you know what colors/strategies you like to play and don't care about set completion. Or, if you're really good, you can really rack up free sh*t in draft formats (I'm not, but have had some hot streaks).

    Complaints about shuffler are complete eye rolls from me.    Really confused by the bad reviews. Cheaper than 'paper' magic and MTGO by a large margin, and possible to play free if you know what colors/strategies you like to play and don't care about set completion. Or, if you're really good, you can really rack up free sh*t in draft formats (I'm not, but have had some hot streaks).

    Complaints about shuffler are complete eye rolls from me. Sometimes you get mana screwed or flooded. Happens in paper all the time too. Just the nature of the game: there is a reason 'Opt' is consistently one of the best 1 mana spells in Magic (scry/draw). Go play hearthstone lol.

    Plenty of free packs and wildcards, easy to play a draft a week if you save your gold, and if you win you can keep going. Might be rough starting out, but as standard rotates out old sets you will naturally have many more options (as it's easiest to progress in the newest sets) if you stick with it.

    Overall the game is very responsive. Runs fine on my 6 year old 'gaming' desktop and fine on my i5 laptop with onboard video (obviously graphics turned to low, but no problem reading cards or even deck building.) Some card interactions and turn phases/priority checks are a little tedious in the client vs paper, but overall many things like shuffles being automated make for a much faster gameplay experience (tokens, +1/+1 counters, anthems etc). Queue times are extremely short for ranked until you hit mythic.

    Biggest complaint would be the sheer amount of net decking present but that is a problem that affects paper in 'current year'. Usually have no problem in ranked if you put together competitive 'jank' that is thoughtful of the current meta decks. Worth a try and brawl can be very fun if you get sick of standard. 'Best of 3' is also an option for some more thoughtful games versus hoping your deck lines up against the current meta with no sideboarding. Historic is shaping up to be an interesting format, but the price to entry is a little high if you're just jumping in now (you will need a lot of wildcards or know EXACTLY what your building for in your decks).

    Overall highly recommended if you like Magic the Gathering as a card game.    … Expand
  65. gudura24
    Mar 29, 2021
    0
    Rigged garbage,the same decks that are played in silver are played in the top rank because there is a forced 50 percent winrate,the mechanics itself are so repetitive that it becomes a chore not something you are supposed to enjoy.You can play banned cards in the historic format so whats the point of banning them?When i started playing i reached diamond now i cant get out of silver becauseRigged garbage,the same decks that are played in silver are played in the top rank because there is a forced 50 percent winrate,the mechanics itself are so repetitive that it becomes a chore not something you are supposed to enjoy.You can play banned cards in the historic format so whats the point of banning them?When i started playing i reached diamond now i cant get out of silver because when the game wants you to loose you are gonna loose.I suggested one of my friends to play it but he coudnt pass the tutorial since there is a specific glitch in one of the matches that makes the tutorial unpassable,do yourself a favor and stay away from this… Expand
  66. VesperCar392
    Mar 21, 2021
    1
    If you wanna spend hundreds of dollars in order to have a meta deck for a couple of months until they release a new set or ban key cards in your deck then this is the game for you. If you like playing card games where the game openly emits rigging your draws resulting in a forced 50% win-loss ratio then this is the game for you.
  67. Cerpin
    Mar 13, 2021
    1
    If you're sensitive to predatory game economies and love Magic the Gathering this game will hurt you deeply. I enjoyed it for quite a while, but the little insults really add up. They'll come out with interesting (enough) game modes every few weeks, but they cost just enough in game currency that it feels suffocating. You can technically earn the coins, but that income will fall offIf you're sensitive to predatory game economies and love Magic the Gathering this game will hurt you deeply. I enjoyed it for quite a while, but the little insults really add up. They'll come out with interesting (enough) game modes every few weeks, but they cost just enough in game currency that it feels suffocating. You can technically earn the coins, but that income will fall off quickly if you don't spend the coins on packs for the new sets.

    The biggest issue with this game is its dual nature. This is also a physical card game, and the prices for some in game modes seem analogous to costs irl. The problem is that irl you are obtaining a real product and forming memories in a physical space. Much of the warmth that people expect when doing something communal, like playing a fantasy card game, is absent. What's here is cold and repetitive. It's built to make you feel uncomfortable with anything you purchase. If you have memories of this game and want to revisit it this isn't how.

    I was going to give this no stars, but people with expendable incomes, or people that are willing to let wotc extort you into letting this being your only game can have a much better time. I would struggle to say the pay to win currency is generous, but it's not insulting. If you're a skilled limited player you can also get a decent ftp currency farm going. Also, it's possible to get a collection going playing ftp if you're very diligent and wait a few seasons, but honestly, your time has value, and what they ask you to spend in time is exorbitant.

    The image that the online format makes this famously overpriced card game more accessible is a mirage if you value your time, or like most people, need the money for food and shelter. If you really need free MTG. Proxy cards aren't against the law or WoTC's TOS. As long as you aren't selling them. Putting sharpy on bulk commons to play amongst friends seems like a higher barrier of entry than an online card game, but when that game is MTG Arena it's not.    … Expand
  68. neffu
    Mar 12, 2021
    0
    Bugged bugged bugged. Every update makes something not work. Stuck in constant "draws" of games that never actually start, just automatically end with a draw after looking for a long time to find an opponent. Server showing a message "connection to server error" or similar while in fact, behind tht message the game actually is being played and my opponent is moving, and im registeringBugged bugged bugged. Every update makes something not work. Stuck in constant "draws" of games that never actually start, just automatically end with a draw after looking for a long time to find an opponent. Server showing a message "connection to server error" or similar while in fact, behind tht message the game actually is being played and my opponent is moving, and im registering everything. But the message just hangs not letting me do anything. Have to restart the client to be able to move again. The technical aspect of this game is utter garbage. But even when it does work, the mechanics themselves are frustrating. I enjoy the paper version perhaps because I have less opportunities to play it in real life, thus not seing the same stupid card combos. Like the recent "Tibalt's Trickery" card which always ends in a 2 turn game, either my opponen wins automatically without me having any chance to respond, or if he is not lucky enough to get a good draw, he loses automatically on the second turn. Most stupid game play design ever created.… Expand
  69. TheNihilist
    Mar 6, 2021
    0
    Very slow and incompetent development. Terrible interface. The matchmaking and shuffler of the game is rigged. Non-existent quality of life improvements over the years

    For a company that makes millions of dollars by exploiting their customers, they have very little regard for the quality of life the game offers its players. For example. Many players have been requesting an in-game    Very slow and incompetent development. Terrible interface. The matchmaking and shuffler of the game is rigged. Non-existent quality of life improvements over the years

    For a company that makes millions of dollars by exploiting their customers, they have very little regard for the quality of life the game offers its players. For example. Many players have been requesting an in-game REPORT BUTTON but they have not implemented one until now. How do you then report players that use Asian characters in their usernames?

    They game's idle timers are constantly being abused by rage idlers. 1 out of 2 games you have to wait several minutes for the game to end while your opponent idles. It gives your opponent 2 extra idle counters after it's used up the accumulated ones. The game has been out for many years and the developers refuse to address this problem. The netcode doesn't allow the server to detect if someone is idling or got disconnected so that's just a clear example of how INCOMPETENT the developers are. Instead of hiring more people to improve development, they focus all their efforts on money-making features. Wizards of the Coast = pure greed.

    When you buy packs with gold there's no option to buy more than 1 pack and you have to click 3 times to buy 1 pack. You can imagine how tedious it is if you're buying 100 packs .

    The user score here also shows why they refuse to launch on Steam. They know they're going to get mostly negative reviews. Wizards of the Coast are cowards who refuse to make needed improvements.    … Expand
  70. scotyM
    Feb 21, 2021
    0
    vc deve conhecer games pay to win, mas não viu o magic, ele elevou um novo nível onde o jogo passa a ilusão de ser totalmente gratuito porem se alguém encher o rabo de cash vc vai tomar uma surra atrás da outra o jogo não tem balance entre player vc vai jogar contra um cara com cartas fodonas e vc com baralho inicial se quer jogar o magic prepare-se pra ser sofrer derrotas consecutivas evc deve conhecer games pay to win, mas não viu o magic, ele elevou um novo nível onde o jogo passa a ilusão de ser totalmente gratuito porem se alguém encher o rabo de cash vc vai tomar uma surra atrás da outra o jogo não tem balance entre player vc vai jogar contra um cara com cartas fodonas e vc com baralho inicial se quer jogar o magic prepare-se pra ser sofrer derrotas consecutivas e ser saco de pancada pra quem paga… Expand
  71. sparky176
    Feb 6, 2021
    1
    This game should not receive nearly the ranking from the official critic reviews. The true nature of this is very evident to a player of the paper version or for that matter any card game. The cards are not by any means randomly shuffled, dealt and played as in a normal card game. This version of MTG is nothing more than a good way to learn card play of the new sets coming out andThis game should not receive nearly the ranking from the official critic reviews. The true nature of this is very evident to a player of the paper version or for that matter any card game. The cards are not by any means randomly shuffled, dealt and played as in a normal card game. This version of MTG is nothing more than a good way to learn card play of the new sets coming out and their mechanics. The actual head to head game play turns into a candy Krush version of play where you just hope the right piece or card drops. It is not random. If there are any doubts read all the following reviews or speak with an actual MTG player. What a shame.… Expand
  72. C_Bat
    Feb 4, 2021
    0
    This is the company that killed Hex? The card effects don't work correctly & this game feels and looks like it is from 20 years ago
  73. Skarr89
    Jan 30, 2021
    0
    The game shuffle is rigged, the game many times "decide" u have to lose. You pay to play this game and you mull to 4 each time no lands or only lands, you keep a good hand never see land again, this game is so rigged played alot and I stop playing it cause even if u are a good player u will lose or if the "machine" decides u have to lose. Try wasting money and play and win some drafts andThe game shuffle is rigged, the game many times "decide" u have to lose. You pay to play this game and you mull to 4 each time no lands or only lands, you keep a good hand never see land again, this game is so rigged played alot and I stop playing it cause even if u are a good player u will lose or if the "machine" decides u have to lose. Try wasting money and play and win some drafts and u will the game saying in your face "not so fast man u wining to much" mulling after mulling no lands or only lands for 14 turn (yeh that happens). Playing game cards like magic only in paper, these type of game just wants to suck your money , if u keep wining u get gems and if u get gems u can draft again, so a player that wins dont need to waste money on gems, so the players need to lose get it?… Expand
  74. McLOVIN515
    Jan 25, 2021
    0
    Este juego es basura, lo mires por donde lo mires... Se desconecta cuando le da la gana, las constantes actualizaciones traen constantes bugs, pantallas negras, el mezclador está lejos de simular una partida real. Es otro juego que aún farmeando a diario nunca vas a conseguir todo si juegas gratuitamente, sumado al hecho de que no paran de añadir nuevas expansiones mensuales para sacarteEste juego es basura, lo mires por donde lo mires... Se desconecta cuando le da la gana, las constantes actualizaciones traen constantes bugs, pantallas negras, el mezclador está lejos de simular una partida real. Es otro juego que aún farmeando a diario nunca vas a conseguir todo si juegas gratuitamente, sumado al hecho de que no paran de añadir nuevas expansiones mensuales para sacarte los cuartos. Si no pagas te vas a ver con el mismo mazo todo el año, y reza por que no baneen cartas de tu mazo, porque sino todas esos comodines invertidos se van en cartas que jamás vas a volver a usar.
    Repito, basura es la palabra que mejor define a este intento de simulador del juego de cartas que ya de por sí es muy caro.    … Expand
  75. TheFeanture
    Jan 24, 2021
    4
    Pay-to-win classics game. Still can be enjoyable if play from time to time. But not too often. The more you play more pay-to-winier it gets. back to game after month and you win again) Matchmaking made to force you to pay more if you play more)
  76. LordDarkFox
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    Wizards of the Coast's Arena game for Magic The Gathering is an anti-consumer money pit ...

    They use cheating algorithms to entice users to spend more and more money. Play the same people (usernames) over and over, same meta decks over and over, depending on the deck you (the player) decide to play. Play control and face mostly other control decks, etc. The worst part is hands are    Wizards of the Coast's Arena game for Magic The Gathering is an anti-consumer money pit ...

    They use cheating algorithms to entice users to spend more and more money.
    Play the same people (usernames) over and over, same meta decks over and over, depending on the deck you (the player) decide to play. Play control and face mostly other control decks, etc. The worst part is hands are shuffled the same way, mulligan and get same scenario like 1 mana in hand, the games algo picks the winner before the match starts, ever see someone draw land for 10 turns, you will if it means letting the whale player win.

    MTG Arena is broken and criminal    … Expand
  77. qwerts216
    Jan 15, 2021
    2
    Good way to test deck ideas, but the player base is terrible. Nearly every game the opponent will either take incredibly long turns or spam chat when you take any time at all during your turn. Also it takes far too long to earn coins for drafting.
  78. djqualia
    Jan 12, 2021
    9
    I really enjoy MTG Arena. I used to play Hearthstone, and I appreciate the relative depth of Magic vs that (e.g. being able to play during other people's turns, and to bluff). I enjoy that there's always new sets of cards being added, with new mechanics, to keep things fresh. I just wish the mobile version was out already!
  79. 12abb17
    Dec 30, 2020
    0
    Cash grab with manipulated shuffler and matchmaking. Avoid this one like it was covid-19
  80. HMolinet
    Dec 26, 2020
    0
    One of the best experiences we MTG players could have until you find out that it is a pay to win game and winning is not guaranteed specially after a new card set is out.
  81. Nati
    Dec 16, 2020
    0
    Odds clearly are stacked to get you into the store and spend real money.

    Achieving 0.05% odds everyday yet never ever do you get lucky to the extent of below 1% odds... its absolutely stacked. Also 2021 Decks are the most imbalanced joke ive ever seen. This game is so dead... Wizards dont care anymore. There are decks that in 4 turns have x2 5/7 attackers and they spawn 16 1/1    Odds clearly are stacked to get you into the store and spend real money.

    Achieving 0.05% odds everyday yet never ever do you get lucky to the extent of below 1% odds... its absolutely stacked.

    Also 2021 Decks are the most imbalanced joke ive ever seen. This game is so dead... Wizards dont care anymore.

    There are decks that in 4 turns have x2 5/7 attackers and they spawn 16 1/1 minions on the 5th turn.

    Its just pathetic... this game used to be about having great battles and using odds/tactics. Now its literally about finding decks that can be manipulated to ruin the game.    … Expand
  82. JonBrunone
    Nov 20, 2020
    0
    MTG Arena’s shuffling algorithm is by far the worst. It makes this game unbearable. Do not spend your money on this game. If you go on a 3 game win streak, you will experience the inability to draw a land card for 6 turns, or, you’ll only draw lands for 5-6?turns. Game is absolutely terrible.
  83. Grismar
    Nov 17, 2020
    6
    I'm a fan of the CCG and this digital version plays fairly well. But there's far too much wrong with the game to rate it anything over a 6, no matter how much you like Magic the Gathering. Installation and network problems, stalling techniques of trolling players, strategies that cause endless animations, really poor social interfaces, it goes on. WotC's support seems powerless, resignedI'm a fan of the CCG and this digital version plays fairly well. But there's far too much wrong with the game to rate it anything over a 6, no matter how much you like Magic the Gathering. Installation and network problems, stalling techniques of trolling players, strategies that cause endless animations, really poor social interfaces, it goes on. WotC's support seems powerless, resigned to giving users advice to hack the registry to get stuff to work and promising developers are looking at even the most basic complaints about aspects of the game that promote unsportsman-like behaviour, but not moving on them at all for years. The store works perfectly though, it'll never fail to take your money. I'm not saying this game should be 100% free - just pointing out that it's fairly clear what part of this game is important to its owners.… Expand
  84. DonKnottsGhost
    Nov 12, 2020
    9
    I've been playing Magic Arena on my Mac now for the last 2 months. Sorry to see that many people had a bad experience with it when it launched on PC, but my 10 year old son and are loving it. Truly free to play as I've made zero in-game purchases and we have about 10 good decks we have put together. Of note, some of those decks are from digital codes from our real world decks, but I'veI've been playing Magic Arena on my Mac now for the last 2 months. Sorry to see that many people had a bad experience with it when it launched on PC, but my 10 year old son and are loving it. Truly free to play as I've made zero in-game purchases and we have about 10 good decks we have put together. Of note, some of those decks are from digital codes from our real world decks, but I've always felt this was a nice feature of buying physical cards and then getting to practice the deck digitally against others online in Arena. I didn't even know how to play Magic the Gathering until we got stuck at home with the COVID pandemic. Now I've been able to learn on Arena and with my son and we have ranked up to diamond status online. Really fun to progress. I'm having as much fun playing Magic Arena online for free as I've had with some full price $60 games on our home consoles. It looks like many of the issues from before may have been worked out and there are lots of free cards to play if you use readily available free codes in the Shop.… Expand
  85. WhyWizards
    Nov 10, 2020
    0
    Probably the worst Digital Card game in online game history...

    1. They only care about money... seriously there is no trade and most of your collection just eat digital dust. You need certain number of Rare or Mythic Wildcards in order to create a competitive deck (RDW is one of the closets decks for starters if you are f2p) 2. Worst Matchmaking system there will be a time that your    Probably the worst Digital Card game in online game history...

    1. They only care about money... seriously there is no trade and most of your collection just eat digital dust. You need certain number of Rare or Mythic Wildcards in order to create a competitive deck (RDW is one of the closets decks for starters if you are f2p)

    2. Worst Matchmaking system there will be a time that your deck will be paired to the your worst match up. Imagine that you are playing BO1 and you will lose 7 to 8 matches or worst 10 matches before you start facing the decks you are destined to win.

    3. Worst RNG or Algorithm in any game. I've played Yugioh in mobile and MTGO and I've got to say MTG Arena is rigged as fck...

    4. Their Customer Service is almost do not exist. You send them mails that you have issues or something and they won't give a damn at those. They do not even listen to the Criticisms

    5. They ban cards like there is absolutely no tomorrow. This is one of the problems in their Game Designers I hope they get a new one.

    6. I don't know but this happens to me. If you spend money for gems in the game you will be given a fantastic win rate but if you don't prepare for so many frustrations while playing the game. I started in April and I understand that I am just new in the game and lose a lot then comes May I spend money and wow I got Mythic Easily then June come I spent again money climb to Mythic so easily currently not spending any money in the game (with the exception of passes) and I really don't know why this game is not skill base anymore.

    I would recommend you guys play MTG Online instead.    … Expand
  86. LevRav
    Oct 29, 2020
    1
    As someone who's played the actual card game, this as a video game is terrible.

    The pacing is slowed by the render times and your network, yeah you need to connect to a network to play the single-player campaign mode. Also, the campaign mode is structured so poorly that it's more of a puzzle game than a card game. Let's not forget the godawful tutorial segment that YOU CAN'T OPT OUT OF.    As someone who's played the actual card game, this as a video game is terrible.

    The pacing is slowed by the render times and your network, yeah you need to connect to a network to play the single-player campaign mode.
    Also, the campaign mode is structured so poorly that it's more of a puzzle game than a card game.

    Let's not forget the godawful tutorial segment that YOU CAN'T OPT OUT OF. Seriously, I couldn't care less about a lore-based tutorial segment. I just want to learn the general mechanics of how the game plays without all the interruptions from stupid and shallow banter by an npc designed to lose.

    I have no idea what the online games/matches are like because I can't unlock enough cards through the campaign mode to even stand a chance against real players.
    Not to mention how obviously the devs want you to pay for DIGITAL cards just so you can have a possible chance of having fun in an online match.

    I will actively discourage anyone from playing this horrendous excuse for a card game. Go get TableTop Simulator! It's actually fun for a poorly optimized game and you don't have to pay money to find good games for it!    … Expand
  87. Wyv
    Oct 16, 2020
    1
    Pay to win with very bad matchmaking. Good effects, good music and stuff but this is it, nothing more.
    Completely broken combos make matches boring. Just shop the right cards and you win.
    Poor game.
  88. Drusek
    Oct 1, 2020
    0
    Either pay hundreds of dollars or play same boring decks because you don't have cards for new ones. Also everyone is playing same meta decks.
  89. Brilpoetsdoekje
    Sep 28, 2020
    0
    MTGA is a perfect example of greed killing a once great product.

    You might as well put all your money in a slot machine, because MTGA takes “collecting cards” to a whole new scummy level. Gone are the days of paying to get something of value. On arena, you put money in, and the only “value” you get is being forced to play against meta decks piloted by the unemployed and whales. This is    MTGA is a perfect example of greed killing a once great product.

    You might as well put all your money in a slot machine, because MTGA takes “collecting cards” to a whole new scummy level. Gone are the days of paying to get something of value. On arena, you put money in, and the only “value” you get is being forced to play against meta decks piloted by the unemployed and whales. This is not magic, this is a casino. F wotc and F their greedy business plan. Done with this absolute garbage    … Expand
  90. timmerino
    Sep 20, 2020
    0
    There's no reason to play this game. It's not fun at all. Every player uses one of three decks that they copied from an e-sports player. No other decks are viable. The promise of this game is that there are so many cards and all of them have unique abilities and wouldn't it be interesting if it were possible to discover unique synergies? Nope. There's no other way to win except by usingThere's no reason to play this game. It's not fun at all. Every player uses one of three decks that they copied from an e-sports player. No other decks are viable. The promise of this game is that there are so many cards and all of them have unique abilities and wouldn't it be interesting if it were possible to discover unique synergies? Nope. There's no other way to win except by using one of the three most powerful decks. So that's what everyone does. This is a game that pretends to allow you the ability to be creative, but ends up enforcing conformity. I've never played a game as dull as this one. Don't waste your money.… Expand
  91. SoBadIMadeanAcc
    Sep 18, 2020
    2
    I made an account on metacritic just to criticize this - i've never done anything like that before but its a testament to how annoying i found this game. I won't touch the Freemium P2W/Land Algororihm aspects - others have dealt with those and its a problem. This game even comes with the highly realistic but somehow more improbable than real life situations where you mulligan 7 times andI made an account on metacritic just to criticize this - i've never done anything like that before but its a testament to how annoying i found this game. I won't touch the Freemium P2W/Land Algororihm aspects - others have dealt with those and its a problem. This game even comes with the highly realistic but somehow more improbable than real life situations where you mulligan 7 times and only get one mana or straight draw close to 7 mana after accepting a mulligan with a good curve in an aggro deck. You will find this very frustrating to play if you are new to MTG or from paper magic.

    This game somehow manages to be clunky BUT NOT clunky enough where it needs it. There is not enough information on when you are still allowed to cast instants, tap creatures, etc. It does not even properly display(Either bugged or incredibly poor visualizations) on whether something IS a declared blocker. You'll end up casting stuff AFTER you want to because of how poor the indicators of what is going on are. Some of the cards get hidden underneath their spell effects and its difficult to just READ the card that's been put into play. Steer clear and avoid the huge amount of frustration for what otherwise should be an enjoyable experience.    … Expand
  92. MkyRvs
    Mar 5, 2020
    0
    377/5000
    I would only recommend this game if you want to get frustrated by:
    - That the lands never touch you - You don't know why there are days where you never start and others where you start all the time - While in free, if at any time you invest money with the rotation you lose everything - There is no tournament mode between players - They don't take the time to review criticisms and    377/5000
    I would only recommend this game if you want to get frustrated by:
    - That the lands never touch you
    - You don't know why there are days where you never start and others where you start all the time
    - While in free, if at any time you invest money with the rotation you lose everything
    - There is no tournament mode between players
    - They don't take the time to review criticisms and improve the game    … Expand
  93. Davinonimus
    Sep 11, 2020
    3
    Es magic, así que por supuesto que es pay to win, ese no es el mayor problema entre los muchos que tiene, como por ejemplo el algoritmo propio para las manos iniciales en lugar de simplemente un robo aleatorio y mas justo, si empiezas a subir a platino y a diamante solo jugaras contra la misma baraja una y otra y otra vez, las cartas que no deberían ni existir de lo rotas que están lasEs magic, así que por supuesto que es pay to win, ese no es el mayor problema entre los muchos que tiene, como por ejemplo el algoritmo propio para las manos iniciales en lugar de simplemente un robo aleatorio y mas justo, si empiezas a subir a platino y a diamante solo jugaras contra la misma baraja una y otra y otra vez, las cartas que no deberían ni existir de lo rotas que están las aguantan 4 meses para vender sobres antes de banearlas provocando que esos meses tengas que aguantar a la misma baraja en tooooodas las partidas... en general el mayor problema que tiene es que magic tiene un power creep tan grande y este juego tiene formatos tan limitados que no hay variedad para que resulte minimamente divertido pese a que el juego esta relativamente bien optimizado y tiene pocos bugs que se agradece.… Expand
  94. MechaManekiNeko
    Aug 28, 2020
    6
    The gameplay itself can be a little slow, especially if your playing against someone who's not familiar with magic. Other than that the game is fun to play if you enjoy MTG. It needs to be said though, that the game is highly monetized (at fairly high prices too). You will need to invest cash if you want to make a deck with cards of your choosing that can compete in ranked matches (if yourThe gameplay itself can be a little slow, especially if your playing against someone who's not familiar with magic. Other than that the game is fun to play if you enjoy MTG. It needs to be said though, that the game is highly monetized (at fairly high prices too). You will need to invest cash if you want to make a deck with cards of your choosing that can compete in ranked matches (if your new to the game). They also have a draft mode which can be fun but boasts around a 10 dollar entry fee. Basically this game is the reason I wont ever spend money on WotC products again.… Expand
  95. Petrakis
    Aug 25, 2020
    0
    Unfair, uninteresting, imbalanced piece of sh***t :(
    Not only MTG Arena or standard format, but Magic The Gathering at all (if be honest, each TCG is a piece of sh***t, but MTG is the worst, 'cause Wizards of the Coast is company of greedy and untalented
    sl***ts)
  96. FelisMortis
    Aug 19, 2020
    0
    Uses a "hand smoothing algorithm" which results in unrealistic draws, basically invalidating the entire game.
  97. Terpreynolds
    Aug 16, 2020
    0
    Another rigged **** Tencent china game. Don't believe me just check there mtg arena forums literally as post with 12,000 reply on how this game is rigged **** But its a china tencent game and they don't care about anything but your money till the well runs dry then its off to another scam.
  98. LuisGuerrero
    Aug 12, 2020
    0
    Unfortunately the game barely works... almost all the time will get bugs or will never connect to server a total waste of time of a very good game...
  99. rojcyk
    Jul 26, 2020
    2
    It is fun when you are doing the tutorial missions and there is a bit of PvE. But the moment you enter classic playing against other people who spent a fortune, this is where the fun ends.
  100. BestNoob
    May 31, 2020
    1
    Hughe inbalance caused of overpowered cards. Indirect pay2win.
    Waste of time to play.
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#28 Best PC Game of 2018
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#27 Most Discussed PC Game of 2018

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Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    100
    An excellent and faithful conversion of the iconic card game into a very welcoming computer free-to-play form. This is a hit. [Issue#300]
  2. Vandal
    Dec 18, 2019
    90
    This is the definitive Magic experience on PC. It’s free-to-play, but it’s incredibly well balanced and lets us enjoy it without hassle. If you enjoy card-based games, give it a try.
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  3. GameSpace
    Dec 6, 2019
    80
    Magic: The Gathering Arena is an excellent entry point into the twenty-six-year-old franchise for new players and lovable for veteran players as well. While it’s generally a very fun experience, it’s not without technical issues.
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