Greetings, Internet! These past couple of weeks have been sparse as far as Magic: The Gathering mobile apps are concerned. I haven’t seen any new releases, and only a couple of apps have actually released updates. With that in mind, I thought I would share with you a gem I came across recently while scouring [...]

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Since I’ve been writing these articles, I’ve become much more aware of people using smartphones at my local game store. People use them to keep track of life totals, check Oracle rulings on cards, and, quite often, to check prices on certain cards during a trade. Smartphones and apps have come to Magic, and if [...]

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Greetings, Internet! Today, we’re going to cover a really nice app I came across a couple of weeks ago by the name of Decked Drafter (App Store Link). Many of the applications that I have reviewed are merely variations on the same theme, mostly because life counters and card databases dominate the Magic-app market. These [...]

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One of the great things about digital distribution solutions like Steam and the App Store is the ability for developers to notify their customers automatically about available updates to their products. These updates can be pushed out automatically to end users and keep bugs and security holes in check without too much work (or thought) [...]

Tags: Apps, iPhone, mobile, phone, Round-up

It was the summer of 1994, and I was attending a summer camp somewhere in the mountains of Georgia. I was sitting at a picnic table by the camp lake, enjoying the sunny weather and waiting for my canoeing class to start, when I was approached by one of my friends. We had recently started [...]

As I’ve been writing these articles, I’ve actually been surprised by the limited number of Magic: The Gathering applications on the Android Market. The platform is far more open than the iPhone when it comes to development, and the entry cost is far lower. Still, when I went searching for card databases and deck-builders, I [...]

I know, I know. I promised that I would cover deck-building apps for the Android Platform this week. So what happened? Well, on May 27, Star City Games released their first iPhone app, called SCG Mobile (App Store Link). While there have been many similar apps released by independent developers, this is the first to [...]