A new player here wondering what's the relation between Magic: The Gathering Arena and Magic: The Gathering Online?
Both seem to be official digital MTG implementations 🤷🏻♀️
A new player here wondering what's the relation between Magic: The Gathering Arena and Magic: The Gathering Online?
Both seem to be official digital MTG implementations 🤷🏻♀️
4 Comments
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 184d
Online is built on decades of spaghetti. You can buy sell and trade digital cards from every era of the game and play any format. It's not pretty.
Arena only has cards from the past 10 years or so. It's pretty but there is no card economy. You grind to earn currency or use real money buy packs of trading cards that you can't actually trade with people. It's pretty and has animations.
Tiuku@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 184d
Still both are getting all the new cards and such?
Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 184d
based purely on the launch page for mtgo, yes. They're both up to date.
MysticKetchup@mtgzone.com · 2 pts · 183d
Arena gets all Standard legal cards but supplementary decks and sets only sometimes. For instance, the Edge of Eternities Commanders are on Arena but none of the other cards from the commander decks were added. Arena did get Lord of the Rings and Modern Horizons 3 but never received any other supplemental sets (though they haven't really printed any new ones lately so that hasn't mattered).