Luckily, Wizards of the Coast, the company behind the 20-year old hobby recently released Magic the Gathering Arena (Arena) to digitally ease the physical burdens of the card game.Īrena drops you right into the magic. Perhaps you even did some research until you realized the rules, deck strategy, start-up costs, and requirement that you often to need to hang out a game store to play it were all too much to start. Even if you’ve never played the card game, you likely ran across someone in life who feverishly explained Magic the Gathering as the greatest activity since breathing.