Magic: The Gathering Arena

Magic: The Gathering - Arena is a free to play digital, collectible card game by Wizards of the Coast that places the players in the shoes of a powerful magic-user that can cast spells, summon creatures, and…

85 26 September 2019 Free to play

Card & Board Game Strategy Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy

Magic: The Gathering Arena is a card & board game developed by Magic Digital Studio, released 26 September 2019 on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play. The main story takes about 653 hrs to finish.

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What Magic: The Gathering Arena is

Magic: The Gathering Arena is a card & board game game developed by Magic Digital Studio and released in 2019. It was published by Wizards of the Coast. It is available on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Magic: The Gathering Arena or MTG Arena is a free-to-play digital collectible card game developed and published by Wizards of the Coast (WotC). The game is a digital adaptation based on the Magic: The Gathering (MTG) card game, allowing players to gain cards through booster packs, in-game achievements or microtransaction purchases, and build their own decks to challenge other players. The game was released in a beta state in November 2017, and was fully released for Microsoft Windows users in September 2019, and a macOS version on June 25, 2020. Mobile device versions were released in March 2021.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy.

Where it sits in the Magic: The Gathering series

Magic: The Gathering Arena is the 15th of 18 entries we hold in the Magic: The Gathering series. It arrived 4 years after Magic: Puzzle Quest. The next entry was Magic: ManaStrike in 2020. Its critic score of 85 is 10 points above the series average of 75. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Magic: The Gathering Arena holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 653 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ or Equivalent, 2 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 8800 or Equivalent. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Magic: The Gathering Arena launched on 26 September 2019, within three weeks of Disco Elysium, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Disco Elysium, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).

Cheats and codes

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