I have been playing MTG Arena on my iPad with an Apple Pencil for YEARS. The pencil basically just acts as an extension of my fingers and it’s my preferred way to play. Starting with the update that came out yesterday, tapping my hand with my Apple Pencil causes whatever card I tapped to magnify for details and it won’t go away until I tap another card for detail and then that card won’t go away. It should be that the card is only magnified while I’m holding it and it pops back into my hand when I release it. But, this bug is causing it to stay up on the screen, blocking my view of the battlefield.

Notably, using my fingers, the game plays as usual, it’s only when using my pencil. It’s very annoying and disappointing that this kind of bug has found its way into my favorite game.

As an idea, it’s worth noting that MTG doesn’t support the features if the Apple Pencil Pro at all. Maybe it should! Maybe this is a good opportunity to investigate how MTG gameplay on an iPad can benefit from the new hover features of the Pencil. You could effectively give the iPad the same game experience as on a PC, where hovering with your mouse previews the card and actual contact with the Pencil triggers the same mouse response.

At the very least, can you give us back our previous experience using any Apple Pencil with the game? I know this sounds trite, but I’d really prefer not to play with my fingers. Using the Apple Pencil with MTG on the iPad is so much more elegant and ergonomic. I log a lot of hours into this game and I didn’t realize just how much I enjoyed using my Apple Pencil to play the game until I suddenly couldn’t anymore.

PLEASE FIX!!!