Magic

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 100 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] 5/5 · US MTG revised addition: like the title says, I’ve played since the revised edition yes, I was one of the idiots that bought the revised set I did get a really nice Mok's I believe out of one of the earlier sets. Fourth edition, Ice Age ,Icy, Manipulators Tender Walls, Man. They need to bring all that back. A
2. [R3] 5/5 · US Fun as Hell: No need to go to FNM!!
3. [R17] 5/5 · US Taking me back in time: So much fun. I’m enjoying playing like I was back in high school!
4. [R66] 5/5 · GB My favourite game by far: Plenty of Cards, plenty of strategies. Looks great.
5. [R15] 5/5 · US Good: Gives you a good idea on how to play
6. [R36] 4/5 · US It’s magic, it’s great…: As someone deep into the tabletop, this is a great way for anyone just looking to play more when you can’t make it to an lgs. It’s also a fantastic way to learn magic. All I can say is I wish they included all the cards from sets and cut the alchemy side of it (the cards are cool, but I wanna play with cards I can play on table top)
7. [R68] 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!
8. [R90] 5/5 · GB Like the real thing: I like ke this because it also teaches you the game and makes it easy to collect and learn the rules
9. [R49] 5/5 · US Great App for a Great Game: Fun and convenient way to play Magic! The app looks and runs beautifully. Can’t to see a VisionOS native version with some immersive content.
10. [R74] 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
11. [R78] 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
12. [R12] 3/5 · US Game play is great, technical issues.: I love the game play. It’s possible to enjoy with the base decks but are able to build up a decent collection over time. The three stars are related to incessant connection issues when trying to continue play after locking the phone. More often than not, I have to kill the app to restart. If that can be resolved I’d upgrade to a 5 star review
13. [R84] 5/5 · GB Awesome game: Never played magic in person but it appears all app glitches people are complaining about have been fixed, and problems people have about magic in general are present in every tcg. Good game and lots of fun especially if you have no money to buy real cards
14. [R91] 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
15. [R5] 1/5 · US Fix the game: Last update screwed the game up I can’t search for rare cards anymore game freezes
16. [R10] 1/5 · US Normally a Great Game, But the Bugs Make It Infuriating: What good is it to play a game that you have to build a deck if their deck building function is seriously flawed. You would think the developers would want to get that part right. I’ve gone as far as deleting the game and reinstalling, submitting bug fix tickets, and still I can’t build a deck because the devs are too busy trying to scam peo
17. [R13] 1/5 · US Can’t get into the game: It says no disc space available when I have 10 gb or storage
18. [R24] 1/5 · US Magic: Whoever designed this app is an idiot bugs everywhere
19. [R9] 3/5 · US Server disconnects are a pain: Fun enough when it’s working, but if you ever need to stop and do anything or look anything up, the server disconnects and it becomes basically unplayable.
20. [R19] 4/5 · US Good but: When I am in the middle of a game my WiFi Starts to go crazy even when I Am on a hot spot with very good signal. 4 stars please fix wizards
21. [R27] 1/5 · US Many problems with the app and Magic as a whole: Problems with the app: doesn’t have all of the cards, doesn’t have all of the formats. People maliciously run out the timer on you and there is no reporting or punishment system. If you switch from WiFi to cellular data or vice versa, the game crashes. Problems with MTG: power creep in eternal formats means that your thousand dollar deck might be
22. [R8] 1/5 · US Can’t keep playing: Until who you play against and your deck shuffling is ACTUALLY random and not “padded” I refuse to play this game.
23. [R11] 3/5 · US Fun until the algorithm: Most manipulative matchmaking system I’ve ever seen. Sincerely diabolical.
24. [R18] 4/5 · US It’s a really good game: The game is very fun and enjoyable, but it needs to have more even matches because you can go multiple rounds on end without winning a single battle and it gets very frustrating
25. [R20] 2/5 · US Hand smoother terrible, matchmaking even worse: Love the game, love the cards love the art, probably spent $2-3k on cards and skins, but had to delete the app. The hand smoother is disgustingly bad, brawl is a great example of this, you have a 1/100 chance of drawing a card each game in your starting hands themselves mathematically, 1%. You can draw the same 5-6 cards in your starting hand 5-6 ga
26. [R2] 3/5 · US Fix the timing.: This game would be great except for all the players that intentionally run the timers down hoping you will quit. It seems more games than not the opponent intentionally waits for the timer to almost expire before acting. Turning what should be a 10 minute game into a 25 minute game, 15 of those minutes is just waiting for the other player to act. Really ruining this game. Somethin
27. [R26] 4/5 · US Fun game,Timer to long: Fun card game l, only issue is the inactivity timer is waaaayyy to long
28. [R32] 2/5 · US Great game, bad turn timers: This game is so fun until you get matches that last 20-30 minutes because the turn timers take so long. Ended up uninstalling for faster play times. If you’re looking for something competitive that plays fast, look elsewhere.
29. [R37] 2/5 · US Great game: Great game. The interface is well built out. If you play games in your house this is probably fine, but there’s an update every week and Im not trying to download 400mb on data every time I want to play this game. Makes it somewhat unusable as an app.
30. [R76] 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
31. [R16] 2/5 · US UI is awful: please fix how cards like ponder resolves. show if opponent shuffled. allow undo mana on mobile. etc. ez 5 stars here if addressed!
32. [R45] 1/5 · US Trash: This game sucks, you can’t read the other players cards, the second they draw the card, it shows you what it says for a second or 2 then disappears and you can’t ever see their cards again, then it highlights which cards you should play, I can’t even see what my cards say because there is a huge life wheel in the way. There is no thinking in this game, it just does everything for you
33. [R53] 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
34. [R59] 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
35. [R7] 1/5 · US Don’t waste your time or money: Wizards & Hasbro have absolutely destroyed the legacy of what was arguably the pinnacle of TCGs. What an absolute joke this game has become. Trash system fueled by unparalleled corporate greed and a complete lack of care for the consumer experience. Don’t waste your time or your money on these awful companies.
36. [R22] 2/5 · US Bots and algorithms: Game is always trying to make you spend money no matter what you want to do. Draft, events all game modes except ranked 1v1 will ask for a significant amount of coin( free currency) or gems(real money currency). I noticed first two months I win 60% of time when I bought monthly pass($5) third month I didn’t by and tracked win loss percentage and reason for loss 9/10 losses ca
37. [R57] 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.
38. [R23] 4/5 · US MTG: Finally as cool as it was meant to be…. Props on getting a deal with all the famous fantasy things such as Lord of the Rings, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Final Fantasy. The ring from Lord of the Rings is overpowered as well as Plainswalker cards which I feel should not be present at all.
39. [R35] 2/5 · US Not Bad App, Horrible (for me) Creative Marketing Direction: little bugs here and there, but ultimately pretty disappointed with a pop culture block every other release. I was excited to get back into this game after years with the release of Strixhaven, but then Marvel Superheroes? They literally have their own TCG. Apparently this is a marketing strategy but not for people like me. I think it’ll
40. [R38] 2/5 · US For fans of IP: The app has become more and more an advertisement for other IPs than the game itself, and product placement is getting out of hand. For some this may be great, but many might do well to avoid it.
41. [R39] 1/5 · US Universes Beyond sucks, Matchmaking and shuffle algorithm sucks.: Marvel and TMNT are ruining the game for me. Also, the matchmaking algorithm and shuffle algorithm are not truly random, which also kind of ruins the game. Sucks because magic is such a fun game when it’s not rigged
42. [R14] 5/5 · US Great game: Always did love this game but bring the ally decks in to the game haven’t seen them and the 2012 crosswinds deck oh how I made so many ragequit with that deck and I didn’t need infinite TW to do it people thought too small with panoptic
43. [R25] 4/5 · US One issue: I downloaded mtg arena to learn the basics of magic about 3 years ago. I personally only played commander at that point and didn’t really wanna play anything else and though brawl format is similar I’d much rather an actual commander or oath breaker game mod.
44. [R92] 2/5 · GB 80/20 P2W Mythic Legendary Gold Visa Card trumps!: TLDR drawing out your Mythical, Legendary Gold VISA card from your “deck” every month is what this “competitive” game is all about, or maybe, consider the possibility of just making your own paper proxy deck and play at your local paper card proxy deck clan. Calling it 100% p2w is wrong and I stand corrected as the tutorial is 100% f2p friendly
45. [R30] 3/5 · US POD Play: I’ve been playing mtg arena for quite some time. My biggest issue with the game is the lack of pod play. I have a lot of friends who I play mtg with in real life, but it would be nice to have the option to play in pods on the app when we are apart. The ability to play in 5 man pods down to the traditional 1v1 would be such a nice quality of life feature. Otherwise the game is fun and in
46. [R43] 1/5 · US “Hand smoothing algorithm” sucks: You can put 50 lands in a deck and still some how pull one land hands their matchmaking is entirely unfair and always made for a one sided match don’t matter how good your opening hand is your opponent has a better one can we get real COMMANDER brawl sucks
47. [R41] 1/5 · US Russian language: It's stated that Russian is available, so why isn't it in the game? · translated
48. [R55] 1/5 · GB Bring back Russian: Bring back the Russian language! · translated