Magic: The Gathering Arena +12

Growing up I was no stranger to different TCGs and have spent a lot of time building decks, playing, and rebuilding. Magic is an amazing game for a mind like mine which likes to try out new combos and find goofy things the game lets me do. With that said I spend a LOT of time playing bot matches. Now I get that bot decks are all very basic and easy to beat with even a slightly well thought out deck. I feel that players should be rewarded even slightly for doing this. What I feel would be fair would be to include a weekly/ daily mission to beat the bot matches 10-15 times. When I started playing the biggest issue I faced was lack of capital to purchase packs, and since I wasn’t 100% sold on the game yet I was not going to put real money into it. A change like this would help to push player retention rates and honestly probably drive up gem sales since player will get into higher quality decks faster. You wouldn’t need to make it a mission every single day but at least once a week would help new players who are intimidated to play online get a little further one step at a time. A alternative thought I had would be to include a small amount of coins with each bot win. Nothing crazy just 5-10 per win. After a few games people would understand that bot matches, while able to provide a little bit of money, get boring fast. Also please add more of the historic cards because that’s where the real fun of the game is!

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.

Have played magic from the mid 90s off and on till today and have loved it magic arena is a decent version of magic but it’s missing a massive part of what makes magic so versatile and that’s the big game modes for many players and that’s multi player game types every thing from 4 way free for alls too two headed giant/dragon and game types like commander and emperor and I ever so much enjoy playing stuff like plane chasers I’ve played magic on so many different game systems and as of late I’ve played every thing from magic 2012 to magic duels on Xbox with an insanely amount of my friends for hours on end against non other then AI computers in 2 headed giant just to kill hours of time and see what kinda crazy stuff we can come up with an I feel like arena missed that mark completely plus with the insanity behind the new cards every like 2 months it fees like now keeping up with the card base and strategy behind decks is getting ridiculous and impossible too keep up with think you guys need to take a step back and reevaluate what magic was in the last 20 years and refocus your efforts too bring back the basics of magic which was too bring players from all aspects together and enjoy the creativity of building decks from what’s available in a game type such as everything from legacy to standard and everything in between we don’t need 100 new play sets a year when we are missing out on the foundation of team based game styles and the casual game experience