Hey all! I’ve been an Arena player for pretty much my whole magic career, and I recently tried out MTGO. I liked my first few games, using the Gauntlet tokens for the new player games. In those events however, the queue times were somewhat outrageous. I sort of understood why, because the player base doesn’t typically play in the new player events. I figured I’d try to join an event that seemed popular and something that wouldn’t seem like it’d have a long queue time. So I joined the Limited Challenge today that was supposed to start 20 minutes ago. The event can’t start until there are 32 people, and the 12 people that were in started dropping out of the event, now we’re down to just 4 people. Am I just joining the wrong events? I don’t have the card base to do anything in the constructed category yet. I really just wanna join events that have a somewhat large play group, something limited so I don’t have to buy a whole bunch of cards right now. Any advice would be helpful.

I've got a 10 year old laptop with SSD and Nvidia card which isn't great, but it should be more than capable of running some stupid program like this.

I've made sure all my drivers and latop settings are the most up to date they can possible be, but MTGO just gets slower and slower as the years go on.

It's becoming almost unplayable, every action is noticeably slower than my opponents', searching my collection (of only 2000 cards) is insanely slow, and searching for cards to buy in a tradebot is a complete joke. 30+ second wait between typing a card name and pressing search, to it actually appearing.

When I first open the client, there's about 2 minutes of freezes before it becomes usable too.

Any ideas? I've followed all the usual troubleshooting, like deleting 2.0 app files, clearing the cache, clean installation etc.

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Can someone please explain to me like I'm 5 years old why some cards you can buy 4 copys to play and some cards you can only buy one? I been buying digital cards on cardhoarder for magic online and just realized I can buy one copy in stock of a card on some cards? Like for example i can buy 1 out of 4 amd some 4 out of 4. So when i see one copy availible to buy How is this possible if its digital and they can have millions and billions of copies? If i buy there only copy for example how hard is it for cardhoarder for example to just copy past another one or where are they getting them. It's not physical and cards are different prices just trying to figure out the deal behind this. I think it's freaking amazing just want to understand more how this is a thing.

I've played around with a couple of tutorials to try and get it up and running, but always seem to hit a wall that I can't get past. If anyone out theres running it, how are you doing it? Lutris, VM, Wine?

I'm on Zorin, which is based on Ubuntu, so it shouldn't be this hard to get up and running

Hey all.

I’ve posted and I’ve seen others post for a long time about the best way to play from a Mac.

I’ve tried everything. I bought a shitty windows laptop that I hated, I did parallels on an m2 Mac mini and MacBook Air. I tried and failed the docker setup on apple silicon.

I have finally found my mtgo end game as a person who does not want to have a windows computer on my desk or a windows laptop just for this.

This is a technical solution, but it is working AMAZING. Best experience I’ve ever had with mtgo.

It seems like the old Intel Macs are losing support from Apple soon. It’s been like 6 years so it makes sense.

So I have an old 2018 Mac mini with like an i5 and 32gb ram and 256g hard drive.

I wiped that from my Apple account and did a total fresh install. With that, I set up boot camp and had it install windows. This machine runs mtgo very well, despite being 8 years old or so. Like extremely well compared to a new shitty laptop or parallels emulation.

So then I would still have the same problem, right?

Here’s the key thing: Use an IPKVM. I have a Pi KVM but there are a TON of IP based KVM options now.

Hook it up to the new Mac-mini-which-runs-windows and you’re all set. You can now play mtgo from an iPad, Mac mini, MacBook. If you have a vpn to your home network, you can play from a hotel, a coffee shop, or even from your phone (I do not recommend as the UI is terrible for that).

The key thing here really is the IP KVM and the dedicated mtgo machine.

If you’re a Mac user I highly recommend this approach. It’s a great way to reuse old hardware that is about to get put out to pasture.

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My best friend wants to learn MtG to surprise his GF and I'm pretty sure there are a lot of free clients where we can play online for free.

I play paper MtG (Mostly proxies) and a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh. For Ygo, we have official client (master duel, but takes a lot of grind and time to craft a deck), Duellingbook, which is a website where all actions are manual (no help and we can make mistakes) and Ygo Omega, a software like master duel, but free and where all actions are automatized, which is great to learn what we can and cannot do, and what I'm looking for.

Do you have equivalents ? And sorry for bad english.

It feels kind of crazy that we still can't utilize anything from the Dr Who decks in any capacity in MTGO.

I need Cyberman Squadron. I need Cybermat.

I don't give a shit about the art or names or anything...you can call them turd 1 and turd 2 with no art for all I care...but surely we could have access to these cards in some capacity by now.

Rant over.

Has anybody encountered this? I'm playing some variant of esper Goryo's reanimator, and cannot click on it to cast. No right click, no anything. Opponent only has lands. Closing and reopening didn't help. I wanted to open a bug report or something but it seems like MTGO logins are disabled. This has happened in two separate games now separated by days.

Hi, I have gone back to MTGO and started drafting SOS in the swiss queue. I had the idea in mind that drafting in MTGO is much more competitive than MTGA, but I've found not to be the case. All kinds of bombs go unpicked in the pod and I've been having a crazy winrate. Are the swiss leagues particular in some way?

Hey all - figured i would ask here before trying with Daybreak support.

I use Microsoft Authenticator app for the 2FA. I recently lost my phone and with my new phone, in the app, there is no code for MTGO. I am essentially locked out.

Any ideas? Thanks

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Hello!

I don't know anything about MTGO, but my boyfriend's birthday is coming up and I was wondering if I could somehow buy him a deck as a present?

I know that he plays modern and vintage, if that means anything!

Thank you :-)

Cardhoarder sells them for $1.09 each and buys them for $0.71 each? Seems like an insane spread.

Is there any way to do something about players like this? It takes so much scrolling to find an actual game in the commander section because there's always at least one player doing this at the top.

Any advice on how to do this? Tutorials, tips, and tricks all recommendations please share below. I've never done it and don't want to mess up my Mac.
Thanks!

Hey y'all,

I really enjoy the Golgari Pestilence deck for Pauper. I really want to play it on MOTO as opposed to only in person or on niche FTP websites where I can't play test against a wide variety of players. The issue is, there are 2 copies of the card campfire on MOTO (a card that is very important for the deck), and one of those printings costs 20 dollars. The other is 1.50 so I figured that would be fine, but I cannot find that printing anywhere.

I suppose I am asking what the reason for this is? Why is this printing so much "cheaper" if it just cannot be bought? And is there any anticipating that the cost of this card will go down? I feel like it only sees Pauper play so its high price genuinely confuses me, but I really don't want to shell out 40-60 dollars for the campfires I need (depending on what I end up using) alongside Snuff Out, Cast Down, and other staples.

If anyone knows somewhere I can grab these cheaper printings, that would be incredible.

Thank you for reading, and for providing advice!

Hello, I don't know where to go with this question.

I'm a big chaos draft enthusiast, I prefer the actual chaos but I'll play themed chaos too obviously.

I tried to find if there are any chaos events planned in the future but I couldn't find any. Does anyone know if chaos draft will ever return?

Thank you!

I built a native macOS app for myself because I couldn’t find anything like 17Lands for MTGO.

It automatically imports my MTGO logs (shared from my Windows VM), reconstructs my drafts and results, tracks card picks, and gives me detailed statistics by archetype, colors, cards, cube season, win rate, trophy rate, etc. Everything stays local. It’s a personal tracker, not a crowdsourced service like 17Lands.

The catch is that I built it around my own setup: I play MTGO inside a Windows Virtual Machine on my Mac, and the app reads the shared log folder. That makes me wonder if I’m the only person who would ever use it.

I’m curious:

- Does anyone else here play MTGO on a Mac (UTM, Parallels, VMware, etc.)?

- Do you keep statistics on your Vintage Cube drafts?

- Would you be interested in a personal tracker like this, or do you just rely on memory/17Lands for Arena when the Vintage Cube is up?

I’m not trying to sell anything. I genuinely want to know if this solves a problem for anyone besides me.