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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.
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.
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 .
This is a list of known collectible card games.Unless otherwise noted, all dates listed are the North American release date. This contains games backed by physical cards; computer game equivalents are generally called digital collectible card games and are catalogued at List of digital collectible card games
Gameplay of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering is fueled by each player's deck of cards, which constitute the resources that player can call upon to battle their opponents in any given game. With more than 20,000 unique cards in the game, a considerable number of different decks can be constructed.
Magic Online 1v1 Commander is Wizards of the Coast's variant of Commander for Magic: The Gathering Online. [39] In 2023, Wizards of the Coast added Freeform Commander to the platform; this variant removed many deckbuilding restrictions. [40] In 2018, Wizards of the Coast launched Brawl as a Commander variant for its online platforms.
Finally, in February 2023, physical events returned, once again called Pro Tours, alongside an MTG Arena-only series called Arena Championships. The new Pro Tours, the name returning after a 4½ year absence, are currently held three times a year, twice in North America and once in Europe.
Throughout all of their iterations, though, the gods in Magic: The Gathering have all tried to capture the same kind of feeling: a powerful being, with abilities that outstrip other creatures (without, hopefully, being too strong in actual gameplay) that also feels integral to the world it is located within.