Magic: The Gathering Arena for ios download free

If you want to start putting together a deck for Standard, you’ll most likely end up chasing four copies of powerful cards to include in your deck. Unfortunately, there’s no way around this, and if anything, it shows between the cracks of why other digital card cards don’t include blockers like MTG. The same is true for choosing the targets of an ability or cards triggering multiple times.

When there are many creatures on the field, and you’re attempting to block them all, on my phone especially, it became a little confusing with zig-zagging lines designating who was blocking what creature of my opponents.

You’ll be doing a bit more of pressing and holding a card to bring up a larger version to read its details than you would on an iPad, but it’s a minor gripe.īoth versions suffer from one other slight annoyance that may make the game harder to get into for new players, and that’s organising blockers or multiple triggered abilities. The mobile version is let down slightly by the screen size. I’d put that version above the PC version as being able to place cards, or move them around in my virtual hand, with my actual hand, adds a more tactile feeling that adds a lot to a card game.

Unsurprisingly the iPad is the best way I’ve played the game.

Magic: The Gathering Arena for ios download free