Magic: The Gathering Arena

Not a replacement for tabletop, but an excellent practice mat for Standard decks. PM if interested in some matches!

the game has been in a strange place the last few years. horrible card balance, way too many bannings, lots of unstable metas, a huge increase in overpriced premium products, just a whole mess

I love Magic, and I have played for more than a decade at this point, but this shit sucks. The lack of polish, optimization, UX, and f2p viability they're allowed to get away with with this shit just because it's Magic is frankly insane. This fact that this game has no dusting system to speak of, when Magic literally invented the concept (known as selling or trading your fucking irl cards), is just baffling. If you don't have any attachment to Magic specifically and are just generally in the market for a digital CCG, from an economic standpoint this is the worst choice you can make by a country mile and it's sad. You can't do anything with cards you don't want and once your cards rotate out of standard you can't escape the Arena-exclusive cards and balance changes because there's no version of Historic without them. Total ass.

I get that the economy sucks, but like, no matter what it'll still be cheaper than paper

The best way to play some formats of Magic: The Gathering.
But holy fucking shit, is this client garbage. Like really, REALLY, bad.

There is no excuse for this, considering how much money MtG:A brings in from microtransactions. None. 0. Zilch. It's just an unfortunate side-effect of how a product can be hot as shit, but the means of distributing it and presenting it can be fucking atrocious.

Don't get me even started on how fucking greedy WotC has been with this game, either.

Going back and leaving a comment on all my previously rated games. Mid-tier game. It could be so much more, but you know, random gem and coin economy make Hasbro happy. Alchemy is what finally made me abandon this game. Potential lost too, I mean just imagine being able to draft old legendary sets like Odyssey. Ah well, that's why proxies exist to play with friends irl.

Shitty client I just love the game too much. Sad is drafts aren't the same as tabletop