Magic Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience34.1% of reviews
Neutral9.2% of reviews
Negative experience56.7% of reviews

~ Based on 4,115 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Magic

Is Magic Safe?

Magic: The Gathering Arena appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Magic is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 156,374 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 156,257 App Store ratings for Magic.

Is Magic Legit?

Magic: The Gathering Arena appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Magic is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Presque parfait

Pouvez vous nous proposer une sélection multiple pour les styles de carte du pass de maîtrise ? Egalement, serait il possible de mettre en place un mode troll à 2 têtes ? S’il faut payer pour y accéder, nous le ferons avec plaisir !
Malgré ces remarques, vous êtes, selon moi, le meilleur jeu du monde depuis 24 ans maintenant.
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Rigged game

The game is rigged (demonstrably, mathematically). It is statistically implausible that specific days of the month the game decides that a player needs to be continuously mana screwed or mana flooded. Wizards of the Coast do it for their on nefarious purposes.

A mythic pack should always give you a mythic, right?

A mythic pack leads you to believe that you will always open a mythic in that pack. so wizards please explain to me why it’s not a guaranteed mythic

Add 120Fps

"With the development of the internet, people's devices have been upgrading incredibly fast — so why are client-side applications still stuck at 30 frames per second?"

Rigged afff

Don’t waste your time this game is wayyy to rigged and DO NOT WASTE MONEY IN IT! The matches are rigged including the paid ones like draft, booster events etc. ran over a simulator and it’s sooo should be sued rigged. Anyways play in real life but don’t bet on beating rigged bot matches if you spend money
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A Manipulative, Algorithmic Theme Park — Not Real Magic

Don’t waste your time or money on MTG Arena. What masquerades as a competitive card game is actually a highly manipulated digital ecosystem designed to exploit player psychology.
The matchmaking backend is actively hostile to players. The Best-of-One casual queue uses a hidden "deck-weighting" system that punishes creative deck-building. Instead of facing diverse strategies, the game traps you in repetitive mirror matches or forces hard-counter archetypes against you the moment you win a single game. You will find yourself trapped in exhausting loops where you win one match only to be thrown into a four-game meat grinder against hyper-optimized, Tier-1 meta decks just so the algorithm can artificially depress your win rate back to a forced 50% equilibrium.
On top of the rigged pairing system, the hidden Matchmaking Rating (MMR) is incredibly sticky on the way down. The game remembers your account data forever, meaning physical breaks don't reset the queue; you log back in just to face the same brutal, algorithmic punishment. Combine this with the artificial opening-hand smoothing algorithm that heavily distorts raw card variance to favor brainless, hyper-aggressive decks, and the authentic tabletop experience of Magic is completely dead here.
This game doesn't respect your time, your skill, or your wallet. It is built from the ground up on Engagement-Optimized Matchmaking (EOMM)—engineering deliberate frustration to trick you into spending real money on wildcards to fix your deck. Avoid this digital trap. Play paper Magic with real humans, or find a card game whose developers actually care about fair play.
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New update is broken

Constant disconnections during the game. Someone must’ve vibecoded the latest update.

Not like the real thing

I played this game real life version and we usually get the option to play as many card down we want but since I tried it, it won’t let me do that and I have to wait that’s so dumb I really thought it was gonna be like the real life version of it but I was wrong

Super Bugged Last Match

Even though I have 200 up, 200 down internet speed right now on my phone, the game kept thinking both me and my opponent were failing to act in time once we got half way through the match. The game wouldn’t register any of my attempts to cast any cards on my turn (despite having 7 untapped lands), threatened to force me to concede for not acting, and then somehow allowed my opponent to take their turn while I was still taking mine. I took a screenshot of them attacking while the UI clearly stated it was still my turn. Waited five minutes as it again bugged out even more and just froze after another countdown. Closed the app after that mess.
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Absolute and total trash

I have been playing for years and this app makes me sick. Every try hard piece of trash plays in here and solitaires into turns that make me want to burn my own magic cards. I hate this app I loathe it!

Never play this if you plan to switch from PC to the IPad or IPhone

Whenever I’m playing on PC or on the iPad and make changes to one of my decks that may take hours and then switch to the other platform later because I’m either at home on my PC playing or mobile with the iPad or iPhone it never syncs the changes I’ve made to my decks. Sometimes these changes take hours. I am tired of making upgrades then having to redo everything. This is a fun game when it works, but the model is set up to be extremely predatory towards players. You almost have to spend money if you want to build competitive decks unless you can just play an endless amount. If you want to play Magic online there are better alternatives.
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Buggy, crashes

I remain glad this game exists. Many of the mechanics are great BUT any card that let’s me search my deck crashes the game about 80% of the time. There is then a delay going back in, that often robs me of whatever I was searching for, skips my turn, and negatively affects my chances to win a match. Can’t you fix this problem?
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Cardboard crack

Mainline magic all the time. Your wife I’ll hate you!

Can’t even play

Game is actually really fun play it on steam tried getting on my phone but am soft locked at the download portion despite having more than enough space

No point

You’ll be forced to face opponents who know the game inside-out as a newcomer, learn nothing, and have no fun at all.

Don’t update

I updated and now the app is totally broken. I’ve entered my birthday and country 17 times and it’s still will not accept it either on the website or the app. Why am I filling it out on three different things?

RNG for me is bad but good for everyone else

No matter how many games I play I don’t get the cards I need EVER, I’m losing in three/four turns because I get handed cards I don’t need constantly where as every single on of my opponents are getting the exact cards they need to ball out of control immediately, I like magic I really do but the RNG on this app is horrendous but it seems like only for me. Do I have to spend money on this game to get better card luck or something ???
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I hate it paw

I’m not even re written it the game suck takes 20 battles to get 1 win people stall on purpose and they expect the players to do the work of their staff making reports to stop it how about not making it the players problem.

Long Standing Bug

For a while now the game will completely bug out and I will be completely unable to action anything, my timer burns, my patience burns, my experience ruined, won't the team please look into fixing this weird glitch

Alchemy

If the devs remove Alchemy from the game, I’m going to stop playing. I don’t have time to put together crazy decks. It’s fun to research different play styles and themes, but sometimes I like just throwing together a deck with whatever recent sets Alchemy is limited to. Less thinking, more playing. Casual fun. If I have to spend more time now to put together a more competitive deck, I’m probably just going to spend my time doing something else. I don’t understand why Alchemy has to go.
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