Magic: The Gathering Arena is a free* digital/online PC version of the collectible card game. Wizards of the Coast has several online offerings over the years:
- the Magic 2015 app, available for mobile devices
- Magic: The Gathering Online, which is a decidedly not free online version of the card game, where you buy digital packs, have a digital collection, can trade with players and do everything you could with the physical version
- Duels of the Planeswalkers, two releases (2009 and 2012) for PC/Playstation/Xbox that simplified several facets of the game
So what makes Arena different?
- there's no simplification of the rules
- it's free to play
- it has cards only from Ixalan set forward (MTGO has all or most expansions)
- you have different daily quests (like "cast 20 creatures" or "win 5 games") to unlock points, which you can use to open packs and grow your collection
- no player card trading and, at present, no choice of opponent (future releases will allow you to play with friends)
a game in progress; image from here (which also has a good review of the game) |
screenshot from one of my games in progress |
Interested? Check it out the trailer here and official site here.
*there are optional in-game purchases
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