Magic: The Gathering Arena has fully launched on smartphones after a short beta period, bringing the free-to-play digital version of the collectible card game to mobile on iOS and Android.
The good news: it’s exactly the same game as the PC version of MTG: Arena, just adapted for much smaller phone screens. Your collection ports back and forth, meaning you can pick it up on your phone and play with the same cards on the desktop version, just like with other digital card games like Hearthstone.
Blizzard’s Warcraft-themed game may have beaten MTG to the mobile space years ago, but it’s also digital-only and has far simpler rules. Magic: The Gathering debuted with physical card sets in 1993 with dozens of new sets since, and though it’s had several digital adaptations (including the very aged but very faithful Magic: The Gathering Online), MTG Arena has successfully streamlined…
