TLDR : Master Duel (Yu-Gi-Oh) is better. WAY ... WAY ... WAY better ! Matchmaking is better, starter decks are better, there's no shot.

When you start in Master Duel, you can have a chance to do fun things, it's not perfect, but better than this trash.

REVIEW :

Magic Arena ? More like feuck you new player ! How about you go eat ♥♥♥♥♥ instead of having fun ?

I started this morning (I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh player), and i wanted to try. I must say, i'm quite amazed at how BS the game is for new players, especially in the "Starter Deck Duel" category.

Played 10 duels with the dino deck (Well, because i though i could enjoy the game with creatures i like since people were saying that it was possible in Magic), and what the ♥♥♥♥ is this unplayable garbadge ? Every person i'm fighting litteraly has combos turn 2, while what i got ? Unplayable pieces of garbadge monsters that take so much mana to even spawn its not even useful to have them in the deck.

I wont even bother playing other decks since it looks to be as trashy ad Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel from what i've seen so far.

So yep. Magic the garbadge gathering it seems like.


I understand the mixed review. Just feuck you. Shove your game up your ass and die from it.

Play this game if you want to be rick rolled by the same deck combos over and over again. its 100% pay to win there is no trading and no you cant message people to tell them you hate them. all in all tho its a pretty decent game to learn to play magic with.

This game is absolute garbage. The pay to win. The absolutely rigged shuffler. This isn't magic. This is predatory garbage that looks polished but absolutely isn't. This is probably the worst digital adaptation of a card game that caters to people dropping thousands. If you want to play a good game that adapts to card games, play Master Duel or Hearthstone. This game is terrible. The matcmaking is rigged, the economy isn't supported. The game is constantly crashing. The packs are dollars more expensive for a digital only cards.

It's Magic you can play while pooping.

The npc that shuffles my deck is real good.

Believe the reviews that talk about how horrible this is for FTP players.

Recently got into magic through a friend and had so much fun wanted to play a bit, get a bit of practice and learn a bit for when we can play IRL so thought this would be a good choice. Read the reviews and was worried but remembered playing hearthstone FTP and it wasn't great but it was fine.

Not the case here. Played through the tutorials and had fun then saw there was a starter deck section. Perfect right? Nope, played about 10 games, lost every single one of them and every single one of them had multiple legendaries and cards that were clearly just better than mine. IDK how this all works but I should have assumed that a wizards game would be a disgusting cash grab and completely unplayable unless you get under the milking table.

Don't bother

Magic in itself is a real neat game with lots of interactions and ways to play. I still like playing with friends, but MTG arena doesn't have a good system for social games and instead prioritizes winning on the platform over everything else. Plus for those just getting into it, it's just impossible to keep up with the economy of the game except in very limited capacity even if you wanted to spend money. There's so much product already and if you wanted to try playing with all of it, that would cost 1000's of dollars which is crazy. I've played a bunch and have a substantial collection, but it takes time and luck with the events which if you're starting now you just won't have access too. They have gotten to the point where they will have to change something about how the games economy is structured or how to make playing just for fun a viable practice otherwise this just completely alienates those just joining now and will stagnate the growth of the game forever. Plus almost no new features aside from set releases ever come out!

Wizards of the Coast (WotC) creates cards just to ban them before they're even done with the first few months of play. I don't even use those cards, but it's obvious that MTG isn't what it was in the past. WotC doesn't play test enough because they're too busy coming up with new meta which forces players to buy from the store and not from the 2nd hand market. Cards used to be varied and fun, now they're broken to the point that WotC has to ban their own brand new cards.

WotC is robbing us players who bought those packs to get the cards that they then banned from play. If WotC can't see there's a serious problem with this then idk what to say. They should offer refunds on Arena and for paper card players. This is ridiculous. 4/10.

their ban's are ridiculous, no commander, very few cards as far as the magic card pool goes, overpriced microtransactions, awful method of card acquisition.

the steam version sucks it always freezes and screws you over