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Magic: The Gathering Arena

Wizards of the Coast · 2023-05-23

SteamEpic Games Store

StrategyFree To Play

Franchise: Magic: The Gathering · Modes: Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 25, 2021 (Android), Sep 26, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 25, 2021 (iOS), Jun 25, 2020 (Mac)

Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!

11,236
playing now
61%
positive of 31k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
85/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (74 ratings)
653h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

11,236 players in-game as of 2026-08-21 01:00 UTC (census sample)

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 adaptation 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 game was released in a beta state in November 2017, and was fully released for Microsoft Windows users in September 2019, and a macOS version on June 25, 2020. Mobile device versions were released in March 2021.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 11,236 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6,630 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~829/week).
  • · Review velocity down 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 3% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20232026Week of 2023-05-01: 833 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 371 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 695 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 370 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 513 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 299 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 472 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 252 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 515 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 256 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 457 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 244 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,085 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 352 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 414 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 296 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 386 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 259 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 382 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 262 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 415 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 252 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 232 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 402 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 278 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 383 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 313 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 461 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 313 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 630 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 395 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 595 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 318 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 438 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 309 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 447 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 421 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 269 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 393 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 277 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 404 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 242 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 418 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 266 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 293 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 438 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 294 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 473 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 427 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 509 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 357 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 447 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 357 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 312 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 484 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 358 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 419 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 349 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 569 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 414 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 526 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 354 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 483 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 359 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 442 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 342 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 449 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 377 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 461 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 318 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 331 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 243 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

13k6.0k2026-08-19 01:00 — 12,059 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 10,809 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 8,002 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 6,414 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 6,952 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 8,133 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 9,504 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 10,941 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 11,792 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 12,406 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 12,333 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 11,744 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 11,620 players2026-08-20 03:00 — 10,179 players2026-08-20 05:00 — 7,499 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 6,158 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 6,631 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 7,726 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 8,911 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 10,403 players2026-08-20 17:00 — 11,442 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 12,098 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 11,999 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 11,272 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 11,236 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#99#992026-08-192026-08-212026-08-19 — #992026-08-20 — #992026-08-21 — #99
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
42422026-08-202026-08-302026-08-20: 21 new positive2026-08-20: 14 new negative2026-08-21: 25 new positive2026-08-21: 23 new negative2026-08-22: 15 new positive2026-08-22: 11 new negative2026-08-23: 10 new positive2026-08-23: 12 new negative2026-08-24: 16 new positive2026-08-24: 12 new negative2026-08-25: 13 new positive2026-08-25: 13 new negative2026-08-26: 42 new positive2026-08-26: 8 new negative2026-08-27: 24 new positive2026-08-27: 13 new negative2026-08-28: 18 new positive2026-08-28: 19 new negative2026-08-29: 13 new positive2026-08-29: 5 new negative2026-08-30: 24 new positive2026-08-30: 18 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

117502026-05-28 — 69 pageviews2026-05-31 — 86 pageviews2026-06-03 — 62 pageviews2026-06-06 — 77 pageviews2026-06-09 — 50 pageviews2026-06-12 — 64 pageviews2026-06-15 — 83 pageviews2026-06-18 — 65 pageviews2026-06-21 — 71 pageviews2026-06-24 — 93 pageviews2026-06-27 — 72 pageviews2026-06-30 — 92 pageviews2026-07-03 — 52 pageviews2026-07-06 — 70 pageviews2026-07-09 — 68 pageviews2026-07-12 — 73 pageviews2026-07-15 — 60 pageviews2026-07-18 — 72 pageviews2026-07-21 — 90 pageviews2026-07-24 — 79 pageviews2026-07-27 — 80 pageviews2026-07-30 — 60 pageviews2026-08-02 — 78 pageviews2026-08-05 — 87 pageviews2026-08-08 — 74 pageviews2026-08-11 — 85 pageviews2026-08-14 — 83 pageviews2026-08-17 — 117 pageviews2026-08-20 — 79 pageviews2026-08-23 — 70 pageviews2026-08-25 — 85 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerIn-App PurchasesFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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