Arena only has cards from the past 10 years or so. It's pretty but there is no card economy. You grind to earn currency or use real money buy packs of trading cards that you can't actually trade with people. It's pretty and has animations.

[–] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Still both are getting all the new cards and such?

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

based purely on the launch page for mtgo, yes. They're both up to date.

[–] MysticKetchup@mtgzone.com 2 points 1 week ago

Arena gets all Standard legal cards but supplementary decks and sets only sometimes. For instance, the Edge of Eternities Commanders are on Arena but none of the other cards from the commander decks were added. Arena did get Lord of the Rings and Modern Horizons 3 but never received any other supplemental sets (though they haven't really printed any new ones lately so that hasn't mattered).