Tools For MTG vs Loop Hero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tools For MTG
This app provides essential tools for Magic: The Gathering players, including life and poison counters, match timers, a terminology glossary, and direct links to official news and video content.
- Life and poison counter tracking
- Match timer
- MTG terminology glossary
- Wizards of the Coast news feed
- Wizards of the Coast YouTube videos
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A suit of tools to assist the MTG player of any skill level. • Encounters allows you to keep track of the necessities of doing battle. Track life with conveniently incremented life modifiers as well as a poison counter. There is also a timer to track how long matches have played out. • A glossary allows for quick look-up for obscure terminology or for a quick reference. • A direct link to Wizards of the Coast’s news feed ensures you're always up to date with the latest from their news department and tournament results. • A listing of the latest videos from Wizards of the Coast YouTube channel
Loop Hero
Embark on a roguelike RPG adventure where you strategically place cards to create enemy encounters, buildings, and terrain. Equip your hero with powerful loot, expand your camp, and unlock new classes and cards to break an endless cycle of despair and save a forgotten world.
- Randomly generated expedition loops
- Strategic card placement for trials
- Loot collection for hero progression
- Camp expansion and reconstruction
- Unlockable classes and cards
- Retro pixel art dark fantasy story
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*Try Loop Hero for free and unlock the full game for the whole adventure!* The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. In this roguelike RPG, wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero. Recover and equip powerful loot for each class of hero for their battles and expand the survivors' camp to reinforce each adventure through the loop. Unlock new classes, new cards, and devious guardians on your quest to shatter the endless cycle of despair. FEATURES - Explore an endless number of paths: bring your hero on randomly generated loops and never experience the same run twice. - Shape your expeditions into darkness: build your deck and place your cards to script your hero’s trials and tribulations. - Loot as you loop to rebuild the world: recover your memories as you collect equipment and resources to become stronger, reconstruct your camp and get your reality back. - Plunge into a gloomy universe: discover a melancholic dark fantasy story told through a retro pixel art direction and recollect the memories of this world. - Break the cycle: triumph over mighty bosses to free the world from the Lich’s neverending time loop. CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE - Revamped interface – exclusive mobile UI with complete touch control - Game Center achievements - Cloud Save – Share your progress between iOS devices - Compatible with MFi controllers - iPhone 15 Optimization (including Pro Max)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tools For MTG at none against Loop Hero's 1. Tools For MTG also leads on iOS requirement (9.1 vs 15.0). Loop Hero's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (3.9K vs 16). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Loop Hero sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tools For MTG asks for nothing beyond the download.
Loop Hero holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loop Hero has 3.9K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Tools For MTG's written reviews are positive against 75% of Loop Hero's.
Tools For MTG ships an update every 3 months, Loop Hero every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tools For MTG | Loop Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (16 ratings) | 4.9 (3.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | 74.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 3.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Michael Dresser | Playdigious |
Customer experience
Tools For MTG
Loop Hero
Bugs and requests
Tools For MTG
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Loop Hero
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes after defeating first boss
- Unplayable after initial progress
- Inability to progress past trial version
Requested features
4 requests- Portrait mode
- More classes/build diversity
- Improved UI/overlay customization
- Chinese language support
In-app purchases
Tools For MTG
No in-app purchases
Loop Hero
- Unlock Full Game$6.99
