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What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 50 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Magic 1/5 · GB Fantastic game, but development has made it unplayable: The game is great, but what the development team are doing behind the scenes is affecting the game so much making it unplayable!! Such a shame. Wizards of the coast seriously need to sort this out. I’ve been playing a mainly unchanged deck for about a year, but now the shuffle is so bad it’s becoming unplayable! I either get 1 or no mana for
2. [R3] Magic 3/5 · GB Okay: Pretty much a P2W, match making is random, very buggy last update means I can’t get past the home page without it freezing.. some of the mechanics are outdated
3. [R6] Magic 3/5 · GB Game crashing: Since the latest update my game keeps crashing every time I start to load up main screen.
4. [R7] Magic 2/5 · GB It crashes so often.: Ignoring the fact that the formats are designed to make playing very difficult for newcomers as the draft modes require payment of in-game currency, the app crashes very often. Which is especially annoying when you have paid in-game currency to enter an event.
5. [R12] Magic 1/5 · GB Worst app ever: For a game this big to have an app full of bugs is unacceptable. A lot of sudden disconnect, buggy turns where you just can’t notice if you disconnected or the opponent is sandbagging, lots of losses because of the app and not the gameplay. Don’t recommend
6. [R33] Magic 4/5 · GB Amazing App, if your connection is great: Firstly, this is absolutely my favourite mobile game. The UI is great, the game itself is obviously great. The way you can get cards without micro-transactions is perfectly balanced, doesn’t feel like you’re being fleeced. My only gripe, is that it is TERRIBLE, if you have a slightly dodgy connection. If your 4G/ WiFi cuts out, you will be sat there for a
7. [R37] Magic 5/5 · GB best version of magic: been playing magic one & off since arabian nights.
8. [R38] Magic 1/5 · GB Waiting for the Server…: The game itself is a modern classic, but this application is bewilderingly poorly crafted. Calls to the server are mind numbingly slow, and it’s designed to call back to the server at seemingly every possible opportunity - I kid you not, it will make a call to the server between one static screen and the next - and it seems to lose connection to those servers enthusiastica
9. [R10] Magic 1/5 · GB MTGA is RIGGED: Avoid at all costs. The F2F game is fine, yes luck plays its part but the more you play and the better player you are the less influence luck has, just like backgammon for example. But MTGA you better spend a lot of money because if you don’t you will not do well regardless of skill level.
10. [R16] Magic 1/5 · GB Rigged Hands: The game is good, the only thing which is of major concern is that after you play for a while you get to understand that all hands are rigged to meet their 50% win-loss ratio. What is the point of playing a rigged card game.
11. [R20] Magic 1/5 · GB WTF: I had a lot of hopes for this game. They have been quickly eradicated. I am a novice player. I have little experience playing yet I am continually matched against players with superior decks and experience. I can’t play long enough to gain any experience and I’m not a masochist so I won’t be playing this game any longer. Some kind of power rating pertaining to deck configurations and “level
12. [R5] Magic 4/5 · GB Chain reaction: The only down side to this app is the chain reactions there is no way to skip them amd it uses your time outs if they are longer chains and you can win or lose from being timed out apart from that it’s good
13. [R11] Magic 5/5 · GB My favorite online game: I love MTG; but please a mutual skip option for your fix failures in repetition, repetition, repetition of faulty actions
14. [R23] Magic 4/5 · GB Amazing as expected, needs a skip function: As you’d expect the game translates lovely to the digital format but you can tell that it is old and clunky now. So many matches are won or lost based on time outs because card chain reactions can’t be skipped. A simple mutual skip button could be added so that if both players press it the sequence of reactions is skipped rather than having to sit throug
15. [R39] Magic 1/5 · GB Needs a skip button for combos.: You can lose a game you would have won because the mechanics doesn’t allow you to skip certain actions and effects for certain combos that would’ve won you the game
16. [R9] Magic 3/5 · GB Downloads: I dislike the constant content downloads that require you to keep the app open and be on the screen the whole time of the update that can take up to an hour of sitting there doing nothing
17. [R34] Magic 1/5 · GB Can’t even crate account: No matter how many times I try and try again. It wrong even let me make an account to start playing… tried different emails, names, passwords. Nope. So apparently everyone’s comments about it being buggy are very true
18. [R36] Magic 1/5 · GB Buggy app!: App states not enough storage despite 70+ gigs being available. Quite literally unplayable 🤣 disappointing
19. [R42] Magic 1/5 · GB Doesn’t start: Says it needs more 3.8gb storage, my device has 10gb free. Searched online and I’m not the only one with this issue. No fix and no update. Don’t download
20. [R47] Magic 1/5 · GB Bug stops the app from starting: Every time I try to open the app on my iPhone 16, I get the error message “Not enough disk space.” Despite having almost 100GB free. The only way to solve this is by deleting some other random app on my phone (it seems like some bug related to the phones storage).
21. [R26] Magic 1/5 · GB Very poor: Your accounts get suspended for no reason, when u try to ask support for help, you do not get any help whatsoever. I have personally lost money to this system.
22. [R49] Magic 1/5 · GB Scammers: I entered a win a box arena direct and won but they have not contacted me since the 13th of August. Any support request I cut they just close without replying even.
23. [R8] Magic 5/5 · GB Fun distraction: Fun distraction but lacks the cardboard of the addiction.
24. [R13] Magic 5/5 · GB My favourite game by far: Plenty of Cards, plenty of strategies. Looks great.
25. [R15] Magic 5/5 · GB Great for newbies or learning the game: The game is brilliant for new starters to MTG. I’m recently getting back into it, and a little slow on things. But this app makes it so easy to learn quick, and makes it so fun. It can even help you with potential decks and style!
26. [R17] Magic 5/5 · GB I play nothing else on my phone: Fantastically addictive fun on the surface, but the more you play you realise how much depth there is, to playing and constructing your own decks. Artwork is phenomenal. Anyone who enjoys Fantasy and Science Fiction will love MTG ARENA
27. [R22] Magic 1/5 · GB Pay to win: This game used to be fantastic but it has progressively gone down the toilet. Whatever they have done with match making has made it so you are set up to lose 9 times out of 10. Every deck I have tried in the last 4/5 months I will automatically be pared against someone that has the perfect counter setup to counter the deck. I notice I only get easier match ups when I spend money on the