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Do you play tabletop Magic at your local game store (LGS)? Perhaps you prefer the convenience of Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) or Magic: The Gathering Arena on your computer. Or maybe you like playing on your phone or tablet with the Android version. Let me know how you play and what your preferred platform is!

I used to play MTGO on Linux through Wine, but it stopped working. Trying it in a VM was too laggy. So I finally bought a cheap Windows machine primarily to run MTGA and MTGO smoothly. Personally, the convenience of digital clients has won me over, but I have fond memories of Friday Night Magic at my LGS, specially a $1 entry format we played with crappy decks and store credit prizes because I liked the nostalgia of it being similar to when I started playing instead of the competitiveness of the typical standard format, where it seems like all the decks are similar netdeck copies.

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[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm playing Arena most days. Haven't spent any actual money on it and don't plan to. I'm using Lutris on Linux; I can't say that setup or maintenance have been painless, but it's working for me for now. I used to play MTGO years ago and would eventually like to get back to that because it's the best platform for Pauper.

Pre-pandemic I used to do both FNM drafts and kitchen table Magic with friends, and I would love to resume both of those, but I really don't think it's prudent yet, from a public health perspective.

[–] CrayCray@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Magic Arena is nowadays on Steam and it works quite painless via Proton

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip, I installed it that way yesterday and it's working well so far.