Magic Duels is the latest digital iteration of the Magic the Gathering franchise. It offers the same traditional MtG gameplay and mechanics as well as classic cards from the Origins deck. In the game players can collect cards, build decks, concoct strategies, play against the AI and in ranked games against real world players for pride and prizes.

With a shaky launch with a lot of issues it has been a big up-hill struggle for developers Stainless Games; so in its current form here’s the good and the bad (and in some cases the ugly…)

The Good

• Classic MTG Mechanics - The game utilizes the traditional Magic the Gathering mechanics with different phases and chances to interrupt or enhance spells between different players turns


• Facilitates New Players - The PVE Campaign mode and the in game tutorials helps introduce players to what can otherwise be a fairly complicated card game


• Deck Builder - The Deck Builder Wizard allows players to choose particular cards and the wizards will build a deck around your preferred strategy and makes a deck with cards that go well with each other


• Intuitive GUI - The GUI is sleek and compliments both the PC platform but also iOS devices for touch screen controls making the game easy to play


• Return of 2HG - Removed from the previous game, players can now play in 2v2 matchups playing the co-op Two Headed Giant mode


• Free to Play - At this stage The Bad outweighs the Good by a long shot, but hey, at least you didn't have to spend anything to play it, right?

The Bad

• Solo Campaign Difficulty - The PVE solo campaign is made at a set difficulty that you can't change, using pre-made decks that you can't edit or even check to see which cards are in there against enemies where making one wrong play usually results in a loss


• It Ain't Over Until It's Over - In a match that is pretty clear you are going to win then even if the opponent concedes and forfeits the game you still have to carry on playing against the AI who takes over until you win..


• No Questing With Customized Decks - To complete quests and earn Coins players have to use a deck made by the AI Deck Building Wizard, which is pretty bad at building decks...


• Player Basic Cards Suck - The available basic cards are pretty bad and don't give players many strategic options, meanwhile playing against the AI on EASY mode still sees them with some of the most powerful cards in the game


• Technically Inferior - Constantly locks up, crashes, doesn't work on newer operating systems and there is no cross compatibility between PC , Xbox One and iOS


• 2HG Has No Communication - Whilst it is a co-op mode, players have no way of chatting to each other in the game to organize any type of plans or strategy...

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