As I said I have been playing Magic: The Gathering for 11 of my 27 yeats of life and I have no intention, plans, or inclination to quit playing high end, competative Modern MtG in paper, Ever. The digital experience is awesome but The Gathering has always been more real than Magic.

I want to see a return to Player Rewards in the form of currency that is earned by attending sanctioned events. These points could be treated a number of ways but what makes sense to me is centering the point structure around FNM, the most common, casual, new-player friendly event. An Undefeated run should be worth the most points while showing up and losing every match should come with a consolation prize, even 1 point per dollar spent would be something.

My idea is to set up an online store where players can order Customized Secret Lair Drops. If the points are distributed in a way that accounts for match results And real money spent then there would be a perfect incentive to keep coming back and giving WotC/Hasbro very real revenue AND you can sell the custom SLD(Secret Lair Drop) at a higher price for sure but why not sell them at cost. Give back to the community that honestly Loves your game. Look, ya'll get my money here and there for the rest of my life but what you need is a formula to create, honest, happy, life-long customers.

You can sell packs with lottery cards to chase gamblers, or $500-$1,000 boxes to chase whales.

But i wanna see you guys chase customers like me. The weirdos that just wanna gather around a table with like-minded people and share an engaging experience. This fantasy card game gave me so many real skills that have changed my life for the better. If you can find a way to package and sell a better life or even the chance at it, you'll get kids coming back every friday night even if it's just to share an intangible memory that can't be monetized.

I heard a statistic that the average player sticks around for 18 months or so. One standard season and then they're deck rotates, the value of their collection drops like a rock and they have no incentive to keep throwing money at a game they foresee themselves losing money and time to.

Companion needs a random target selection generator function which allows you to input the number of possible targets as well as number of random target results you need. Chef's Kiss is a really interesting new card with so many possibilities I believe it is intimidating and that is why I do not see people trying to play with it. However, if players had a built in function within companion that could handle this card and other random effect cards, i believe this would open increase play with these types of cards and reduce stress, game delay, and errors associated with them.

1. Change the goblin to a more recognizable MTG character or icon

2. merge join/host tabs into one, they are identical, no reason they can't be on the same tab.

3. Add a dice roll to the life counter, brighten the physical colors up and change the con flip animation to an actual heads/tails. or put "heads/tails" on the icon it lands on.

4. Make a rulebook/judge tab so players can have access to the rulebook via hyperlinks (similiar to MTG Rules app on android), on the bottom half, put access to judge points of contacts that players can get familiar with in recognizing their positions at events.

The local game store owner had us download this app for the Modern Horizons 2 release event. I thought it was a great idea that it would help with proper reporting. Ease of paring and standings updates. The app was a massive disappointment. It repeatedly asked me to join the event by having me enter the event code every time I tried to use the app at all. Whenever I would try submit the results it wouldn’t take the results and then kick me out and ask me for the event key again.

Most importantly, this one was a massive turn off for me. I pride myself on being kind. I see Magic as a stress reliever and that it gives me the ability to have some fun from my stressful Job at Cleveland Clinic and decompress. I’ve played this games since I was 15 and have been a dedicated and passionate member of the community for 17 years now. My point is I was using the companion app to track life totals for my second match. The round ended 1-1 causing a draw. Now I’ve played magic for a long time and i usually use paper to track the games. Or at the very least make sure one of us is. At the end of the game my opponent got frustrated and said that he won the match and that I was lying about the match results. I explained myself to the shop keep and so did my opponent and the store owner recorded it as a draw. I feel like your app definitely needs to have the ability to track life totals during the match for review later. I would think it would probably be best to even give the ability to submit those individual game results and life totals after each game to limit situations like this.

Honestly it’s the principal of the situation for me. My character was called into question and I pride myself on being a honest person and this really rubbed me the wrong way. I feel like if wizards is going to ask that we use this app for their events they need to provide us with a quality app worth using. I spend bunches of money with your company. I can’t stand how many times your company has let me down over the years. Customers like myself are the backbone of your community. I have literally turned a blind eye to countless times I’ve been let down by your team and just kept at it.

Not getting anything for the mystic edition when I preordered in the first few seconds. I literally set a timer on my phone and took my lunch at the exact time the order page opened. I blew it off and kept at it. When I bought the FTV realms and got two black markets and the most expensive card was missing. I called customer service and you wanted me to pay shipping in the same amount I did for the product so that you could send me a new one. Just kept at it loving the game acting like it’s not a big deal. It’s not like I’ve bought every FTV game excluding dragons over the years. It’s not like I’ve wasted countless sums of money to buy all the ancillary product you release every year. I hope you hear the deep sarcasm in these last two sentences.

These are just a few of the the terrible experiences I’ve had. Not to mention the countless times I’ve had you ban my deck. I’ve been on receiving end of almost every ban for the last decade. I understand that you want a balanced game. The problem is you aren’t listening to all of the people who aren’t complaining and are enjoying the game the way it is. You just auto ban it because a couple of people on Reddit get upset that they got beat. It’s almost like you’d rather pander to immature narcissist who have nothing better to do then play your game for six months and complain every time they lose. I take my losses like a grown up and for what it is a game.

I just can’t see my self continuing to pay money to a company for a game that I can’t get joy out off. This is really just the cherry on the top of the cake for me.

I had every intention of buying a case of MH2. At this point I want to sell all my cards uninstall MTGA and call it a day.