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They have a huge problem with the '5th card'. Nobody understands it and those that say they do have fooled themselves. I can tell you the problems with Arena which will help you choose.Eternal. I'm currently giving Arena a try since I've got all the cards x 4 here.

You are okay with things that MTGA sucks at (wildcard economy, no single player, etc).

You do trust Wizards of the Coast's card design team (aka R&D).You want a game that you can play however much you want (Hint: After your dailies, play the gaunlet mode for as much as you want!).You want to destroy your cards to create new ones.You want to find your way to the highest-level tournament (MTGA only has plans, nothing is actually done).There's no such things are 'DWD shills' there. DWD is always a small indie company that you can trust more than those 'Nazis of the Coast' (ELI5: This is Wizards of the Coast's nickname on r/magicthecirclejerking, a MTG-themed meme subreddit.).I'm not sure how MTG-A compares to Eternal in that regards (I know it has a similar daily quest system), but I can at least say that Eternal's system feels great in general to me. I always feel like I am playing Eternal just for fun and because I want to, never because I feel compelled to grind out my daily rewards in order to stay competitive. Even when I miss days I don't feel too bad at all, because the currency for crafting new cards and joining events comes so quickly. Between the relatively fast games and simple daily reward system, I can get about an effective 1.5 packs a day from Eternal just by playing for like 20-30 minutes during lunch or whatever.

Eternal arena for windows free#

Some days when I have some free time and have an Eternal itch, sure, but certainly not every day. I am not a player that wants to play this game for hours everyday, or even every day at all. I don't mean that from a skill level standpoint, rather a time investment standpoint. One thing I really appreciate about Eternal is that it is quite friendly to the very casual player. Sure, there are many top-tier constructed decks in Eternal with 12+ Legendary cards, but Eternal offers game modes that let you improve your collection without getting curb-stomped every game and it is far easier to craft cards/decks you want. It was very frustrating to play against far superior decks just to make a little bit of currency, and then be scared to spend wildcards to improve my deck a little - not to mention the whole '5th card' issue ontop of that. In Eternal, crafting commons/uncommons is incredibly affordable, and even rares are doable (I have yet to pull the trigger on a Legendary playset yet, to be fair). I was consistently doing all of my daily quests and I was still short on common/uncommon wildcards. That is compounded by the fact that you can't 'dust'/'recycle' cards in MTGA to build a deck you want - you have to use your few wildcards very wisely. Whereas in MTGA, you are forced into only doing daily quests or hopping into constructed queues with no cards.

'Gauntlet' is a free AI gamemode that you can grind currency on endlessly. Pretty quickly that switched the other way and now I barely even open up MTGA.ДЇor me, the biggest draw of Eternal over MTGA is how F2P friendly it is. I was in the last iteration of the 'closed' beta for MTG-A and picked up Eternal right around the same time that MTG-A went into open beta.ДЄt first, my 'priority' was making sure I got my MTGA quests done before my Eternal ones and I spent much more time 'grinding' events in MTGA than I did in Eternal. While Eternal is fine for the near future, it's going to take more to convince me that it isn't eventually going to be bleed out a slow death as it grows older and ever more competitors enter the market, though I would like to be proven wrong. Whether that's ultimately enough though remains to be seen. To DWD's credit, they've established a very friendly F2P framework and seem to have a clear idea of their target market for success, the casual player that wants a Magic-like experience without the barriers to entry. Without a critical mass of player base, casuals will usually end up drifting towards shiny new releases eventually, while hardcores demand a certain level of competitive structure and reward. This gets right to the concern I have for Eternal it is extremely hard, if not outright unprecedented, for a card game to comfortably stabilize for long-term viability if it's not built off a pre-existing IP and/or backed by major money and marketing.