magic : the gathering arena

Disapointed, waited a long time and was very happy to finally be able to play the game on mobile (S8+). Download is very long and doesn't let you leave the app, even to answer a text. I don't get why they didn't make it able to run in background like most apps with a download size that huge. Big deception on UI, I thought they would make a mobile game, but they didnt adapt anything to mobile, it's an exact copy paste of computer version, just on a tiny screen since they didn't adapt it...

Unplayable on mobile data. Upon making an account it just says connecting to server until eventually it says retry, log out or go to the forums. Then if you leave the app it just black screens. You have to be on wifi to play. If you can get the game started, it's not bad. The UI is pretty smooth. Every now and then black screens happen and the app shuts down but, as for the game. Its magic. If you don't know what magic is it will teach you but it pretty much seems just like magic.

A great start to making a mobile version of arena, however clearly needs more work before it is playable. The app crashes constantly for me, which is especially frustrating when rounds restart every time the app is closed. I would also like to be able to listen to my music in the background but even with app audio turned off it will silence any bg apps. I would like to have a stripped down version for it to run smoother.

There are a few bugs with the controls. Mainly unresponsive or a lag in between presses. But mainly it works well. Also the games slows a bit when there's too much going on, or when there's too many cards on the battlefield at once. But other than that, it's great to play MTG Arena on mobile. I gave it 5 stars because I think overall the devs have done an excellent job to bring this to mobile!

The UI needs to be improved. Clicking and dragging cards to put them in play doesnt always work requiring you to try multiple times. When selecting a card to attack or block, it isnt responsive and wont always work on the first try. The game stutters a lot. It will freeze for a second when dragging placing a card down or when you move on to the damage step. Fix those things and this game would be a great alternative to playing MTG on the go.

TOO MUCH RAGE QUITTING! Although the game is really well designed and is super fun, they have no mechanic to stop every single gosh darned opponent from quitting mid-match if you get the upper hand. Literally every game has figured this out, if there's no consequence for constantly leaving without finishing the game, everyone will do that. So basically if you aren't super lucky you will never play a game all the way through unless you're losing. It gets really frustrating.

Good game but they have to do something about the time limit per turn/move. Players when they're about to lose take the longest to complete their turn and purposely stall. It's a waste of unnecessary time. If possible, there should be an auto-win function to complete the match if no more possible cards can be played before a winning turn.

Getting better but trying to assign attackers with pw on board is hard or impossible. I haven't been able to successfully do it yet. It's laggy too. I don't care about animations, i would rather it run smoother. Review change, just lagged out of a paid draft match. Pretty upsetting, won't be spending anything else until something is done about the abysmal performance. Brand new device claimed to be supported.

Please make a mobile version that differ from the computer. Here are some suggestion: 1 - Either drag or click, both mechanics at the same time makes it very confusing. 2 - Option to disable visual effects from cards. 4 - Outside of a match allow some features to be vertical, like I really wanted do see a card full screen vertical. 5 - You need to understand that phone screens are small and you need to make the most out of it. I don't need to see land cards there, make them icons or somethin

I love magic. I play this on my PC. But on mobile it is almost unplayable. It is super laggy when you get into later game with bigger boards. The controls are clunky and mistakes are guaranteed when its laggy. And the timer is unforgiving when the game isn't wanting to cooperate. Gameplay is 5 stars but you can't play on mobile without having a rough time.

From what I can see, there are no significant UI changes that make the game more usable on mobile. Literally just desktop app on mobile screen. I'd for give it from lesser known games, but its really inexcusable for MTGA. If you really want to play MTGA on your phone, go ahead, but if you want a good card game experience on mobile there are many better options available.

Wow...had such high hopes for this game...the controls are spotty at best, the game play is chunky, and the matches are as you could expect (expect to face some money dumpers right out the gate) the inability to gain gems is ridiculous versus other games and the scale to participate in advanced matches is likewise ridiculously scaled (be prepared to spend extra money beyond the tutorial to keep up). This game does not live up to any expectation of open draft or even casual beyond tutorials.

I was happy to finally download this game. But it seems like others, my Galaxy S8+ cant make the cut as it's very buggy. The pass turn/attack all button lagged out and won't let me push it unless I click auto pass then I don't get to attack/play my spell. I'll just stick to pc, as this was a more convenient way to play! I recomend users of cell phones older then the S8+ to reconsider downloading it. No wonder it was not compatible in beta for me.

I'm obsessed with this game. Literally. My only complaint is that it doesn't run very well on my Samsung A12. On my (also cheap) laptop I could turn down the graphics to make it perform better. Hopefully something like that can be included into the mobile version. Thanks for making this mobile, I'm not going to put it down for a long long time.

Honestly a great rendition of the card game, very satisfying to play but holy cow is it buggy. Like it gets stuck in random phases and you click the button to progress and it just locks up. Not to mention how much loading and no memory no ability to pause a match like you must play through the entire match and hope nothing freezes or you have to play it from the beginning. It'll get better though I'm sure so anxiously awaiting some updates

It's bland. The plot and story is completely non-existent, the gui is an unintuitive travesty, and the game play is less than enchanting. The entire experience is an uninspiring let-down to the God-only-knows-how-many expansions of art and story we've cone to know and deserve. It's digital garbage. All of it. Revised - 1994+

This game is fun when it works. Unfortunately, it rarely works. The most frustrating problem is the action button randomly deciding not to work. When this happens, you cannot attack, block, resolve, or pass the turn - meaning you have to wait for your turn timer to burn all the way down before the game can continue. In the best case, this is a mild inconvenience. In the worst, it can literally cost you a game. In my experience, this functionality breakdown occurs temporarily in about 30% of games, and for the duration of the entire game in about 10% of games. With a bug this major occurring in nearly 50% of games, it approaches unplayable. The other major issue with this game is that it is incredibly resource intensive. Even playing on a Galaxy Note 20 Ultra in performance mode, every single match turns into an extremely slow mess after a few turns. It seems like the developers simply ported the desktop version of this game over to mobile without any optimizations.

I love magic, but I hate this game for its match making system. When you make a new deck, the game doesn't know what beats it but it quickly learns and either deprives you of the cards your deck needs to do what its supposed to do (lands, creatures artifcats ect) or it matches you against a deck that is guaranteed to beat you. For example, my rune forge champion deck is always matched against agressive aggro decks that it can't set up on. And even though I use hexproof I am always matched against players with only board wipes or literally the only "target player sacrifices a creature" card in the game. Meanwhile, my Golgari deck that uses the graveyard is constantly matched against control decks that always have a counterspell when I try to use the graveyard. Literally, the two decks always play against different players and its extremely frustrating because i own both decks in paper and they both do very well in real life. I wish whatever match making mechanics are working in the background would get scrapped in favor of a truely random experience.

Love Arena, but the mobile version has some kinks to work out. It's really irritating to be winning a game and then lose because the timer gets stuck or the resolve button won't work. There can still be fun in losing a game, but losing as often as I have because of bugs has me considering uninstalling rather than throwing my phone across the room. Fix the bugs and you've got a good 4-5 star game. I'm thinking 4 stars due to the expensive cost for entering events.

Played this game a ton when I was younger, so was excited to try it. Was going alright for a few days (early game play is long and tedious for previous players). Suddenly today, just a black mirror and unable to load. I was wary when I saw the low rating, but it isn't low enough. The game is clunky and struggles to stay online, AND NOW APPARENTLY IS COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE. Don't waste your time.