Comparison

Deep IQ vs Tripling Season

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Deep IQ

This app simulates a Magic: The Gathering opponent for solo play with physical cards. It uses dice rolls and lookup tables to determine opponent actions, allowing you to test your decks without a live player.

Highlights
  • Virtual opponent for solo play
  • Simulates opponent actions with dice and tables
  • Deck testing tool for physical cards
  • Supports multiple rule versions
Features
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Play Magic: The Gathering solo. Deep IQ is the second player. You bring the deck and the table. Deep IQ brings the opponent — a virtual adversary that rolls a d10 each turn against its current action table and resolves whatever it lands on: summoning creatures, casting setbacks, growing its board, attacking, and graduating to harder tables as the game goes on. There is no decision-making AI to second-guess; outcomes come straight from the dice and the tables, exactly like the pen-and-paper Deep IQ system that players have hand-rolled since 1996. The app just does the bookkeeping — faithfully, instantly, and without a single missed trigger. REBUILT FOR 2026 This year Deep IQ was rewritten from the ground up: • A clear two-phase turn cycle — watch Deep IQ take its turn, then take yours. The board locks while it's thinking and hands control back when it's your move. • A living board — tokens fly in as Deep IQ summons them and out as they leave, with life totals, counters, and a running turn log you can follow at a glance. • A responsive layout that reshapes itself for phone, tablet, and desktop, with the turn log docked beside the board on larger screens. • Six brand-new color rule sets — mono White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green plus a colorless build — each with its own flavor of opponent. • Multiverse Trial: a tougher, modern rule set with layered mechanics. • A built-in help and reference section that explains every screen and rule set. 14 BUILT-IN RULE SETS Every published Deep IQ variant, faithfully implemented: Rick Moscatello (1996), Bruce Richard (2013), Andy Tuque (2016), Nevan Vermillion (2016), Phill Webb (2017), John Taylor (2022), Wrath of Zorr (2021), the 2026 color suite, and Multiverse Trial. PLAYS YOUR WAY • Pick a rule set, choose Deep IQ's colors, and start a game in seconds. • Adjust life, apply setbacks, and manage the board with a tap. • Settings persist instantly — locale, theme, log position, and more. • Available in 11 languages. DEEP IQ PRO Everything above is free. Deep IQ Pro is a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks the custom rule set editor — build your own action tables from scratch, tune the mechanics, and import or export them as JSON to share with other players. If you have ever wanted to design your own solo opponent, this is the workshop. Bring a deck. Deep IQ brings the fight. Deep IQ is an unofficial fan tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. Magic: The Gathering is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast LLC.

About

Tripling Season

Manage complex token-based game boards with ease. Organize tapped and untapped tokens, search for existing ones, or create custom entries. Save deck presets for quick setup.

Highlights
  • Organize tapped and untapped tokens
  • Consolidate crucial game information
  • Search for existing tokens/emblems
  • Create custom tokens
  • Save deck presets
Features
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Tripling Season is a solution to the complex board state problem that almost every token player has encountered. You get too many types of tokens, with too many variations, can't keep your tapped separate from untapped, and your opponent's keep asking "what do you have?" Now you can keep all of your tokens in one easy to read place where you can consolidate crucial game information while keeping the rest of your board open for the other great cards in your deck. Search up any existing token or emblem, or create your own custom tokens. Save deck presets so you have a stack of tokens ready for you at the start of a new game.

Screenshots

Deep IQ4 screens
Tripling Season4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tripling Season at every 2 months against Deep IQ's every 27 months. Deep IQ's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Deep IQ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tripling Season sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Deep IQ against 4.8 for Tripling Season. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 10 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Deep IQ's written reviews are positive against 80% of Tripling Season's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deep IQ ships an update every 27 months, Tripling Season every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Deep IQ versus Tripling Season: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeep IQTripling Season
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings)4.8 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings510 — better
Update frequencyEvery 27 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn TaylorAndrew Benson

Customer experience

Deep IQ

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tripling Season

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Deep IQ

One-time1
  • Deep IQ Pro$2.99
3 purchases

Tripling Season

One-time3
  • Say Thanks$1.99
  • Say Thanks - Booster Pack$5.99
  • Thank you - Collector$26.99

Questions

Is Deep IQ free?
Deep IQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tripling Season free?
Tripling Season is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Deep IQ or Tripling Season?
Deep IQ and Tripling Season are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 10 ratings respectively.
Do Deep IQ or Tripling Season have ads?
Neither Deep IQ nor Tripling Season shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deep IQ or Tripling Season?
Deep IQ ships an update every 27 months, and Tripling Season every 2 months. Most recently, Deep IQ was updated on October 3, 2026 and Tripling Season on October 9, 2026.

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