Cockatrice VS OCTGN

I'd suggest going to any deck browsing site (like https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/pioneer/full#paper) and glancing at the top decks and seeing which one interests you. It's okay to post and ask questions about decks if you're not sure how one works (I personally struggled understanding how legacy control decks can seem to run 0 win conditions but also have no issues winning games for instance). When you find... Source: about 1 year ago

Props for your resourcefulness, but you could just use Cockatrice, or XMage. Source: about 1 year ago

Go to https://cockatrice.github.io/ and download the software, installing it afterwards;. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://cockatrice.github.io/ - haven't used this too much myself but this one does have built in servers and decent controls. Source: about 1 year ago

My favorite is Cockatrice even though you sound like a mostly in person seeking fellow. It is a web application that is like a card game simulator, it plays magic and can auto update to show you card images, doesn't cost a dime and theoretically could play other games like Android Netrunner if you really wanted to, downside is it sometimes changes domains if the authorities try and shut it down, but the last one... Source: about 1 year ago

There are also various CCG engines out there, where people create plugins to support game rules, although I'm not sure which ones currently run on modern platforms. CCP originally released the digital cards for use with OCTGN which still exists but is Windows-only; and even if we found a copy of the old plugin to use, I don't think it'd be compatible with the current version. There's also LackeyCCG but I don't... Source: almost 2 years ago

Back in the days I used to know octgn.net but I really didn't feel like downloading it and I preferred going for untap.in. Source: almost 3 years ago