Magic vs Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

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. [R5] Magic 5/5 · US More value on tap.: I stopped buying and collecting cardboard because I connect with more people and I have way more cards to choose from compared to if I had to buy them. Just better.
2. [R18] Magic 3/5 · US Missing cards: The game is good and I love how they added commander with the brawl mode, but many cards are still missing and it makes it not fun to try and build or recreate decks, when many staples are missing, no atraxa for example, yet others (krenko) are alive and well.
3. [R26] Magic 4/5 · US Great but: Really fun - a little confusing to get into for first timers as far as different formats and actually building decks etc. would be really cool to have a pve mode where you can play against your own decks piloted by an ai. Would make it a 5/5
4. [R32] Magic 5/5 · US Mtg all day: I love this game! An excellent way to play and test out new game mechanics!
5. [R1] Magic 2/5 · US Bad: Even the tutorials are hard! it’s so dumb!
6. [R40] Magic 1/5 · US Meh: Terrible client. Not intuitive & crashes frequently
7. [R6] Magic 3/5 · US Constant Updates and Data Required but Fun Otherwise: The game play and graphics are really cool, but everytime they want to send out a weekly update that some Exec probably insisted was necessary for engagement (it 1000% isn’t), it requires you to update the app and that doesn’t work on wi-fi. So, you have to use data for no reason.
8. [R9] Magic 3/5 · US Love Magic, App Needs Work: My biggest problem is I never know if my opponent is thinking, quit, disconnected, or if I disconnected. If I knew I was still connected in the game, I would play arena way more. Hopefully the workers’ strike goes well, and hopefully WOTC gives the app the investment it Desperately needs.
9. [R10] Magic 1/5 · US Frame rate is garbage: It’s so slow. Ruins the experience. I love magic I wanna put money into this game. But to play it hurts my eyes with how blurry the animations are.
10. [R12] Magic 3/5 · US Good but can’t finish some games: Fun game but it must lose connection or something easily because I end up waiting on cpu enemies for 5 minutes to make a move and they just sit there so I’m forced to quit and restart the battle, hoping it does t happen a second time
11. [R3] Magic 3/5 · US Where is matchmaking?!?!: I’ve played better matchmaking games designed for small children than this…why am I being matched against players with decks that far out-class what I have a s a newer player? It makes the game far less enjoyable than it is to play in person. I shouldn’t be constantly matched up against players way stronger than me.
12. [R7] Magic 1/5 · US Timers: Shorten the timers, I should never spend over a hr on 1 single game because of POS players!
13. [R16] Magic 1/5 · US Waiting game: This game would be great if you didn’t wind up waiting for the other player to run out their timers whenever you started winning.
14. [R19] Magic 1/5 · US Rigged: They make you lose more than any game I’ve ever played. It doesn’t matter the format their formula sets you up for failure. Play tabletop if you want a fair game. Proxy your cards so they can’t profit too.
15. [R4] Magic 1/5 · US Too Expensive: I love Magic and I love arena. However, hasbro is one of the greediest companies in history and it shows in the way they monetize this game. There is a 25$ "starter pack" in the store that is literally just 8 guaranteed cards of your choice. Digital "assets" are not worth this much and youll get this same experience with every progression option in the game. Events entry are too
16. [R8] Magic 5/5 · US Best card game ever: Definitely not a pay to win and you can have tons of fun’s free of charge.
17. [R20] Magic 5/5 · US Charge money for glitchy game: Lost 100 USD to glitches. The great developers employed use chatGPT to write their code. Latest update riddled with errors - literally just won a game and it counted as a loss for my 6000 gem game. Nice. Another 100 USD stolen by this company. EDIT: JUN 28 - lost 50 USD when opponent went negative hp and they won. Obviously it’s AI not real people and they bend t
18. [R27] Magic 1/5 · US Don’t bother…: If you think this will be like playing Magic on your phone/tablet, then it’s not worth your time. Sure it’s using the same cards, but the game is poorly programmed and doesn’t play like MTG at all… You will almost always need to make in-app purchases for cards if you actually want to do well vs other players. (Not surprising for a TCG app, to be fair.)
19. [R13] Magic 1/5 · US Brain dead community: The community is full of sped ed kids who are to slow to build their own decks and most of them get their deck off mtg goldfish,buy a prebuilt, or google meta decks game is over run with sped kids to trash to make their own
20. [R21] Magic 1/5 · US Worthless company: My MTG Online account was hacked and they refuse to replace the stolen cards
21. [R28] Magic 5/5 · US Great game, better people and support: Good job on the union, you deserve it!
22. [R33] Magic 1/5 · US Still a long road ahead: Arena is the ugly stepchild of Magic. Paper magic will always be superior in terms of fairness and fun. Arena’s rng is terrible, with mana being feast or famine and card draws always seeming to benefit the opponent more often than you, that’s how it feels to me anyway. This game 100% rewards the players that spend money on it with better card draw and always having the exa
23. [R34] Magic 5/5 · US Really fun, but still janky.: This game really is fun. Better than paper magic, you can just grind away at your daily games to earn gold and build the deck you really want. Obviously some people just pay the pay wall and try and win. Which is fine. It’s still the same game I’ve loved as a kid, and expensive deck can just outright lose to cheap aggro. Anyway, it’s fun. If you got kids and a family
24. [R15] Magic 3/5 · US Too many updates: Too many updates and the server quits me out
25. [R48] Magic 1/5 · US Horrible RNG: Horrible App. You spend more time “waiting for server” rather than playing. Constantly kicked from games mid turn. Game might just stop registering your play then kick you out but when you come back you’ve lost 1-3 turns. The “randomness” on card draw is atrocious. There is nothing fun about this app
26. [R23] Magic 1/5 · US Rigged matches: I can’t there are so many problems with deck shuffles from getting zero to nothing but lands. I can’t talk so much trash about this game but I’m done and give up. I’m going to play Runeterra or hearth stone.
27. [R31] Magic 1/5 · US Algorithm for land: Trash .. the fact I have to have 25 to 26 lambs and the 16th minimum deck to try to start out with at least three land or get a land by every third turn so that the game doesn’t hinder your deck and yet because there’s different land types. You have to have it so that the algorithm changes them as different cards not land types and that’s what your algorithm for land is trash i
28. [R42] Magic 1/5 · US 5 gig asset download 1 star: 5 gig asset download 1 star
29. [R50] Magic 1/5 · US Storage message error: As a longtime fan of Magic the Gathering I was looking forward to this. However after opening the app on my iPad I received an error message saying I’d need 4,185 mb if disc space or a bit more than 4 gigs. I checked my storage and I currently have 76 gigs of storage available. So why won’t it open?