Magic: The Gathering Arena VS Cockatrice

Would recommend you try MTG Arena with a friend. Source: 8 months ago

If you need to learn the game, Arena has a decent tutorial. It's also available on Steam (though it may require Epic Games to launch), Google Play, and the App Store. Source: 11 months ago

Get the official premiere online client, MTG Arena. You can start playing there for free and grind up a collection, and then decide from there where you want to go - more IRL casual stuff like Commander, more competitive play, limited play with sealed product, whatever. That's hard to decide unless you've played for a while, and Arena should let you get a good idea about what you like in the game. Source: 11 months ago

Good point, I missed that. Https://magic.wizards.com/en/mtgarena. Source: 11 months ago

Have you downloaded MTG Arena? Its tutorial will answer most questions about the basics. Source: 11 months ago

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