Magic: The Gathering Arena Wiki

I really love this app and it is vastly superior to the old Magic Duels app, but there are a couple things I wish this app had. First, I wish there was an easier way to get card packs instead of buying gems with real money and grinding for several hours to earn enough coins for just one pack. Also, I wish there was an option/mode where one could put together whatever kind of deck they wanted to with the cards in the game’s database without having to buy them first. However, as a trade off, you wouldn’t be able to play against other people due to the possibility of using cards not in the standard rotation. I also think playing against the AI would be required if one was to make a deck with cards from all sorts of different sets. It’s just that I’ve always enjoyed deckbuilding and experimentation with all manner of creature types and mana colors, and it really stinks when you’re forced to only use cards that you’ve bought/earned along with the decks you start with. If they added these features, I would find myself having even more fun than before. App is still great, though!

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

Arena is an amazing game, the game does an amazing job at explaining how magic works, game strategies, and is easy to understand in general. Many people are complaining about lag with large board states, but it is as mentioned, with large board states only. That is to be expected as the game has to keep track of both the opponent’s board state and your board state. This involves so many various mechanics that it would be expected to have lag. The only other complaint that I could possibly think of is acquirement of cards. The wildcard system makes sense, but it is highly slanted towards players who make in game purchases. I think that it should be a bit more friendly towards free to play users but I still think that is an amazing piece of software. But that most recent complaint is of course very minor and is outweighed by the fact that Arena is free, so they have to make money in some way or form to keep it going. So in short, it does have its flaws, but what app doesn’t. I think that the developers have done an amazing job at bringing arena to mobile and don’t get enough credit.

Been playing Magic since ‘94 and think the gameplay on Arena is really cool. I wish my internet didn’t forfeit games so often but what can you do? Love the video game, arcade game feel. Maybe you can run subtournaments that level you up through mythic faster if you do well. Miss IRL Magic but this is scratching two itches with the competitive gameplay and video game feel. As someone who used to play a lot of video games, I don’t feel the need to look around. I just play Arena. Okay time to draft. Barely any waiting time for drafts to fire! Very nice and convenient. Final random thought - could be cool to somehow play group games. Like 2-headed giant where the teams can easily talk to themselves (Discord, etc) without opponents hearing. Okay thanks for developing. Keep up the good work. Also would love to be able to trade my uncommon and mythic wildcards for rares. Even if the trade is bad for me. Rares will never catch up to uncommons or mythics so every uncommon and mythic I get from here out is basically useless. Alright that’s it. Rock on

This card game has popped up in my life multiple times and each one of those times I get SO excited! From being a little kid hanging with my uncles and their friends playing to being a pre teen and finding my cousins cards and starting a club in highschool. I’m now in my mid 20s and have since put my cards in the back of the closet (I tried teaching my wife to no luck.) Finding this game after not knowing it has been on PC for sometime is just amazing! I love the graphics, the overall play and really just the fact that I have this in my pocket!!! The only downfall is the errors. I read in another review that it was just put on in late March so hopefully in the future I can be mid game and not have to worry about being booted out. I just played a match and was kicked out 4 times, reloaded the game and luckily it put me back in the match until finally it read error and I was kicked. I just hope this gets resolved because you really do have a treasure of an app here!

I’ve played Magic card game for years, and now that it’s finally available for Apple users I love this app. It’s so much cheaper than buying cards, and you never have to wait to play with a real person because they’re always available. Building a deck is easy and the wildcards make getting specific cards that you want simple. Having several different styles of playing keeps the game fresh. I love the little pet mascots, card sleeves, and avatars that you can have, they make the game that much more fun to play. I’ve told all of my friends and family to play it. I like that there’s no option to type out what you want to other players, because it keeps people from being rude. Keeping simple answer buttons like “good game” and “nice!” makes it easy to communicate without the chance of someone being a jerk to you. The daily deals in the shop in the daily achievement goals keep me coming back every single day without fail. This app has reignited my love for Magic the Gathering!

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

There was a person who already added the fact that they’d like to be able to insert codes in mobile. I HIGHLY AGREE. Not only that but I also agree with them that once you buy a mastery pass, you should be able to complete it at your own leisure. I feel like I have to get my 15 wins every single day while the current pass is out, or else I miss out on a few levels, and then and only then can you BUY MORE GEMS to jump to a higher level. We’re already giving you plenty of money, why does everything have to be timed? LASTLY, ADD HISTORIC BRAWL AS AN OPTION. Y’all have plenty of amazing historic cards but the only option to play with them is regular historic. I used to have another profile, had plenty of cards from Ixalan and up, forgot about the account, and made a new one for kaldheim and up. I bought a few gems and got some wildcards to make a historic brawl deck for an event you had for a few days, but man that few days isn’t enough. I don’t want to have to put money in my old acct after I already invested plenty in my new one. That is pretty much it...otherwise mobile is pretty legit.

Played Magic in high school. Decided to give Arena a try. Overall enjoying, I now understand all the game modes and card restrictions, rotation, etc. take some time to familiarize yourself with the basic terminology. Overall I’ve been enjoying my time. I like draft cause it’s more balanced and not these cheese Mill decks and other garbage copy cat decks. The mobile version can be a but frustrating at times. The biggest issue is when the game seems to get hung up, that is I am unable to interact with the game and have to randomly click on the screen until I can suddenly interact with cards again. This needs to be resolved NOW by WotC and developers, who I imagine are taking in millions. I’ve also declared blockers but clicking the “block” button doesn’t nothing, forcing a timer wait. One time I went to examine one of my cards, and the game forced me To play it, costing me the game. So in conclusion I enjoy Arena but there are a lot of obvious issues that needs to be fixed on the mobile version, and never play high stakes games (draft), etc. Also, improve some of the rewards, 5 packs for mythic Rank is just lame, to name one.

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

I love TCGs. The collecting aspect of the game and challenging other players to see who built the best deck is one of my favorite hobbies. This app however is a clear Pay2Win. You can’t easily progress through gameplay unless you drop $300+ on digital product. Standard is fun, as is Historic and Brawl. But to “collect” cards for standard, you have to open 400+ packs to build a competitive deck. You can’t disenchant like Hearthstone to update decks or build new ones. Only option is to buy more packs. Historic locks you behind a gate to use your wild cards to unlock them or pay ridiculous prices to unlock a few at a time with a FOMO element to it. Mythic wild cards are available once very 18 packs opened (18 days of gameplay/1-pack a day from dailies) and 1 rare wild card every 6 packs (6 days). At the average rate to collect cards for a competitive deck, you would have to farm dailies, every day, for over a year. There is a new set every 3-month. It’s impossible to collect any sets in time for the new set without dropping a lot of $$ on this product. All-in-all, if you don’t mind $300+ every 3-months (new set schedule) and you like a paper magic, this is the app for you. Otherwise, don’t bother wasting your time or money playing this game.

I really like this game but it has a lot of flaws. In starting off the game they have the player do the color challenge before they can access other game modes. I like this it allows the player to learn the game, unfortunately in my experience it is not completable because we the player tries to do the last challenge of each color the waiting for server sign pops up and freezes the game so you have to exit and reload just for it to freeze again because there is nothing else you can do. Because the challenges cannot be completed the player can’t use any other game mode. I was however able to find that the player can turn that block of but only after thoroughly exploring the settings and whatnot. This would have been a nice thing for the makers of the app to include on the home screen so players actually know about it. Another this is that recently the app has not allowed me a player to open the app. It goes to a black screen and then says disconnected please reconnect to continue and goes to a black screen. In going through the trouble shooting steps was not helpful. And trying to contact support has proven tedious and inconvenient. I hope that the company can address these issues so that players like me can start to enjoy the game again.

The campaign gets way too difficult too early on. Especially for players who have not played any or very much magic before, it gets really frustrating. There are several matches towards the beginning of the campaign where if you mess up one play, it’s over and you have to start the entire thing over. That is realistic towards the card game, but it is not appealing to new players who are unfamiliar with all the many different mechanics. The game waits for you to lose to give tips that are absolutely necessary to win in the campaign situation, and even with those tips, you still have to follow an exact pattern of moves to even have a chance. To make they game better and keep new or newer player interested, while also not frustrating experienced players, there should be tips/ more tutorial options that someone can turn on or off. When playing against a bot in the campaign, it would also be much more enjoyable if you could save your progress in a match so if you leave the app for two seconds or make a mistake, you can go back without having to go through the same annoying long set up of the match again. This game does too much trial by fire in the beginning teaching you very specific mechanics in a way that is not enjoyable at all to newcomers

Look at the forums first and all the reviews. All I can say is I have loved playing mtg for years and this game has made me hate mtg all together. I’m a causal player so I don’t really care about wins and losses but I do care about psysically being able to play the game. You cannot in arena. It looks like you can at first but you will soon realize after going 30 games in a row, and each one you get mana screwed or flooded, so you can possibly play or have fun. You will also have the occasional break in mana screw games to get flooded instead. The shuffler in this game is as unrealistic as possible and I’m not exaggerating. Look it up and about what people have said it’s insane. They won’t let you even have one game in between those where ur not screwed over. Like I just wanted to play magic because of quarantine but I see now that that is impossible with this app. Please for your own sake do NOT DOWNLOAD. Also wizards of the coast has known about this problem for 2 years in arena and still haven’t fixed it so they don’t plan on it either. Their responses were basically no you and the hundreds of other players are just wrong. 🤷‍♂️. This is not just one or two players. It’s literally everyone.