Do you play tabletop Magic at your local game store (LGS)? Perhaps you prefer the convenience of Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) or Magic: The Gathering Arena on your computer. Or maybe you like playing on your phone or tablet with the Android version. Let me know how you play and what your preferred platform is!
I used to play MTGO on Linux through Wine, but it stopped working. Trying it in a VM was too laggy. So I finally bought a cheap Windows machine primarily to run MTGA and MTGO smoothly. Personally, the convenience of digital clients has won me over, but I have fond memories of Friday Night Magic at my LGS, specially a $1 entry format we played with crappy decks and store credit prizes because I liked the nostalgia of it being similar to when I started playing instead of the competitiveness of the typical standard format, where it seems like all the decks are similar netdeck copies.
For me I play MTGA. Honestly, I’m not into competitive play and just like the social aspect and having fun. Arena isn’t the best for the social aspect as its more just speed matches, but maybe they’ll release a chat system with that at some point. There is a large number of players, so finding matches is easy enough, and although the cards are completely worthless in Arena (you can’t trade them) they also don’t have a real world cost to them. I’m terrible at pricing, but I would figure I have around $500-$600 worth of cards in Arena. Again, they are totally worhtless and non-transferrable (which would be an issue if they decided to discontinue the platform), but I haven’t spent any money on them either.