I have to say there is so much content here, it’s tough to take it all in. This is not going to be a game you pick up and figure out in an hour or two…or even a week. But saying all that, there are a ton of tutorials and practice games and stuff to introduce you to it. And also, you don’t need to spend a cent to get a lot of content. I have just started to scratch the surface of the game and I already have a lot of gold and wildcards and such. I plan to save it until I have a better handle on what I want to do. There are just so many options it’s a bit overwhelming. Find an online guide, ideally one that will give you some codes for free stuff, and ease into it through that. Without a guide or a friend who can tell you what to do, you’re probably going to bail. And that’s a shame, as this is probably one of the most played and well crafted games in existence. When a card or series of cards breaks the game, they fix it. The documentation is so detailed that it kind of has its own language - you’ll pick it up eventually. I give it 4 stars because you are going to have to devote a lot of time to get to where you can feel competitive…and I haven’t gotten there yet. I hope that will happen eventually. But I also have a life that I enjoy and I refuse to get pulled into an obsession. That might be a challenge, but I’m willing to risk it.

I’ve been playing for a few years now, and it’s a blast. I’ve never had too much difficulty winning although I’ve never purchased anything. On the downside, it still freezes frequently. I am usually able to close the app, relaunch, and resume playing the match that froze. However, I often lose my turn or a chance to attack/block. I usually end up have to concede the match. To those who believe this game is pay-to-play. Maybe you just aren’t good at playing and/or deck building? My recommendation is to start with mono red aggro. This allows you to play a simple strat, get some wins and earn some coins without needing extravagant rares/mythics. Another benefit is: you generally know by turn 5 or 6 if you’re going to win or lose. If things aren’t shaping up, concede and try again. You can easily churn out 20-30 games an hour this way with a little less than a 50% win rate. Once you’ve done this and earned some cards, just start building decks that correlate with the colors/goals of the daily challenges. You don’t need to win to cast 30 creatures or 20 blue or white spells. May I suggest mono blue control (counter spells) for any challenges that require the use of blue? Anyway, hope they fix the crashes and hope this helps some newcomers. I don’t on quitting anytime soon. See you all in the Arena.

Let me start by saying I love magic the gathering m, it is by far the best game ever made it is an incredible game of skill and one of the most fun things ive ever found period. But arena is such an incredibly broken app it simply doesnt function most of the time. about 50% of the time it just crashes for no reason, I always only get half of the gold from my rewards actually put into my account, there are always issues with sending direct challenges (if you cancel a challenge it just greys out the challenge button) and sometimes you can’t send challenges in certain formats for no discernable reason. The game freezes constantly requiring a restart which loses games all the time. And if you leave the app for more than ten seconds it says “connecting to the server” until you restart the app. Overall this is one of the worst made apps of all time, just compare it to league on mobile which is a much much more graphically complex game which runs perfectly every time. also the fact that the cards in gane are rendered in 3d was a horrible decision, as it leads to a lot of the issues i described above. Lastly there needs to be a penalty for leaving the game without conceding, almost half my games end with someone simply leaving the game and you have to wait for like three minutes for their time to run out. This app is Garbage!!!