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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 adaption 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.
Magic: The Gathering formats are various ways in which the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game can be played. Each format provides rules for deck construction and gameplay, with many confining the pool of permitted cards to those released in a specified group of Magic card sets .
The trading card game Magic: The Gathering has released a large number of sets since it was first published by Wizards of the Coast. After the 1993 release of Limited Edition, also known as Alpha and Beta, roughly 3-4 major sets have been released per year, in addition to various spin-off products.
In addition to the same losing conditions that exist in a normal game of Magic, each player starts the game with 40 life points instead of 20, and a player may lose if they are dealt 21 or more total points of combat damage from a single Commander throughout the game. [30] [3] The format "supports two to six players, sometimes more". [3]
Magic: The Gathering Arena is a free-to-play version of MtG [citation needed], streamlined for quick online play and to be easily used for live streaming. It initially supported Constructed Deck play (using cards earned from boosters by winning games or through microtransactions) and Draft play.
Players have also invented alternative formats for playing the game, some of which Wizards of the Coast has accepted. [9] Some of these formats use rules or sets of cards that differ from those used in sanctioned tournament play. [10] One of the most popular formats of Magic is Commander, which is a casual sanctioned format. [11] [12] [13]
The game's designers often explicitly create cards which are intended to fuel one or more of these given archetypes, in order to create competitive balance and diversity. [1] [2] While the deck types listed below are specific to Magic: The Gathering, these concepts also extend to other collectible card games.
The game was released on 26 June 2013 on PC , [1] Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade), PlayStation 3 (PlayStation Network), iPad , and Android devices (Google Play and the Amazon Appstore). It is the fourth game in the Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers series. The gameplay follows that of the original card game, however within a more ...