Magic: The Gathering Arena

Corporate woke gambling machine with pay to win as the base game mechanic. This is not a game, this is a program designed to chase whales and annoy them into buying more packs and cards. Genuinely disgusting app.

Genuinely, the worst MTG platform to play on. If anyone wants a recommendation, just find a few people on discord and hop on tabletop simulator. This isn't even worth anything. WotC is just the most greediest company. Even greedier than Ubisoft and that says something. After almost 500 hours, I'm leaving this god awful game. Also if you wanna check whether you are able to play the game, let's do some imaginative scenarios. If you like playing against the sweatiest thing known to mankind existence and LOVE bracket 5. Then you found your place. If you find it fun to play against EVERY deck that has interaction and getting your first 2-3 turns interrupted by god knows what monstrosity and no, it's not the keyword monstrosity. If you wanna get trampled by 1000 horses IN REAL LIFE and then have an even worse experience, then you should get it. IF YOU SAID ANY OF THESE WERE FUN OPTIONS! THEN I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE GAME! BECAUSE IT'S ALL BUT SUFFERING!

this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Forced daily chore game because they hate the players. You aren't capable of acquiring new cards or making meaningful progress without checking in every day. Pathetic. There's no reason to ever play this game for more than 30 minutes a day, ever. It's just so annoying because I just want to unlock four cards, but it can actually take weeks to get enough wildcards. Trash design that's intentionally built to boost retention numbers, not player enjoyment. Lifelong Fan Of MTG but this sucks

You only ever manage to have fun after spending hours learning about every card and their synergies and how to make a deck that doesn't get instantly destroyed by some bs deck the opponent found off of the internet. There are some games that aren't that friendly to newer players. This game happens to have an irrational fear of anyone who wants to just play casually and have some fun without knowing much. Not to mention how difficult it is to even play a game because of all the matchmaking and network errors the game has.

This is the number one way to learn table top Magic. Having to build a separate collection in Arena is a little annoying but the game showing you and automatically doing the nuances of Magic for you makes it so much easier to learn how to play and transition to table top.

the things that are legal in this game make it unplayable

this game is honestly ass, the only way to have fun is to spend hundreds of dollars on cards because to unlock card it takes way to long. and there are so many cheaters. its obv when they get the perfect set up at the start and you lose within first 3 rounds. and yes i know this is just like real life where you should spend money to buy cards, but its not a good idea bc all the cards you bouse in person does not matter they dont transfer. they need to make a way to report hackers and get cards easier, i played for 12 hours in a day and maybe i get a pack or two to open. not even my choice and to buy packs its expensive for no reason. and within the 12 hours i maybe bought two packs.