“2026 still pay to win... When they want you to buy cards, they'll put you up against the only counter to your deck over and over again until you get sick of it because everybody just copies someone else's cookie cutter meta deck. it gets…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 887 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.3 ★452,411 ratings
5M+Downloads
12+Age rating
273 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to the digital Multiverse! Magic: The Gathering is the original trading card game- and now you can download and start playing for free with your friends from anywhere!
Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Collect, build and master your unique deck that will become its own legend. Your battle is only the beginning; duel on stunning battlefields, and enjoy Arena’s game changing battle effects and immerse yourself in the game. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2026.63.10 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.63.10, updated 2026-09-29.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2026.63.0.7095 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.63.10.7164, updated 2026-09-25.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2026.63.0.7095, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 2026.63.10.7164 · 2026-09-25
No release notes were provided for this version.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 4.99 to USD 99.99 — a 20x spread across 10 items
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 17 distinct reviewers (2.2% of 787 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Save yourself the anger and do not download this garbage. The wannabe's of the coast have ruined MTG by removing the real life aspect of playing against anyone and instead algorithm match you into only losing matches making you think you…”
“absolutely trash. getting worse and worse. continuously banning cards that don't support the cards people are paying money for. strip mine? pathetic. I can't upload more than 4 cards from my real deck because they refuse to be fair with…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.63.10.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$4.99
Highest$99.99
3,400 Gems$19.99
1,600 Gems$9.99
750 Gems$4.99
9,200 Gems$49.99
20,000 Gems$99.99
Show 5 more purchases
Starter Bundle$4.99
Adventurer Bundle$14.99
Pre-order: Pack Bundle$49.99
4x Rare Wildcards$9.99
4x Mythic Wildcards$19.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.