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Games like Magic Duels

If Magic Duels is your kind of game, the closest matches are Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers, Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 and Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and competitive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Magic Duels: MORE CARDS. MORE STRATEGY. BIGGER STORY. Collect 1,300+ earnable cards, battle in 60+ single-player campaign missions, and emerge victorious in epic online duels.

2015StrategyFree To PlayWindowsby Stainless Games Ltd.
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Atmospheric campaigns introduce new setsCurated card pool teaches mtg fundamentalsDeck building constraints prevent pay to win dominanceAtmosphericChallengingCompetitive

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Steam players who put hours into Magic Duels also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers

    WHY THIS

    Shares campaign progression, deck building and a competitive mood with Magic Duels.

    Top pick for Magic Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    Ignite your spark with Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers! With over 12 million fans, discover what makes Magic: The Gathering the world’s premier trading card game.Become a Planeswalker and travel the planes of existence unleashing a torrent of spells and creatures to devastate your opponents.

    2013StrategyDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Magic Duels.

    Second-strongest match for Magic Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!

    2012StrategySteam ↗
  3. Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012

    WHY THIS

    Shares campaign progression and a competitive mood with Magic Duels.

    Third-strongest match for Magic Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    Deck Pack 2 Now Available!

    2011StrategySteam ↗
  4. Faeria

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Magic Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    With its unique living board, Faeria is also the only card game where you can gain all 300 cards in less than 50 hours.

    2017StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Magic: The Gathering Arena

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Magic Duels.

    Ranked #5 for Magic Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!

    2023StrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Rento Fortune: Online Dice Board Game (大富翁)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Magic Duels.

    Ranked #6 for Magic Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    Rento is multiplayer business dice game. It is board game for 2 to 8 players.Trade lands, build houses, win auctions, roll wheel of fortune, risk in Russian Roulette and have fun.Play with your friends and acquire a monopoly over the game board :)

    2017StrategyIndieMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Chaos Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Magic Duels.

    Ranked #7 for Magic Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.

    2015StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DICETINY: The Lord of the Dice

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Magic Duels.

    Ranked #8 for Magic Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    DICETINY is a turn-based card and board game mash-up set in a fantasy world that offers strategic card and board game experience with its unique game mechanic. An adventure full of parodies and humor awaits you! Use spells and minions to help Heroes save Middle Board from a Dark Lord!

    2016StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Magic Duels

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Magic: The Gathering Arena

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Magic Duels.

    Reviewers of Magic Duels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!

    2023StrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Magic Duels.

    Reviewers of Magic Duels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!

    2012StrategySteam ↗
  3. Star Crusade CCG

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Magic Duels.

    Reviewers of Magic Duels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play, online, digital collectible card game (CCG) based in a richly styled sci-fi universe, where each player takes command of one of the six factions vying for supremacy in an unclaimed exotic sector of space.

    2016StrategyMassively MultiplayerFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Magic Realm: Online

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Magic Duels cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Magic Realm: Online is a co-op multiplayer objective defense game developed exclusively for VR, featuring unique playable characters and beautiful maps. Play on your own or online with up to 4 people and defend the Source Crystal from power-hungry invaders of another world!

    2019ActionIndie12.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Magic Duels.

    Reviewers of Magic Duels cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Build your Deck from over 10,000 cards and take on the most iconic Duelists from the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe. Relive the stories from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! animated series through Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS!

    2020Simulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Shadowverse CCG

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Magic Duels.

    Reviewers of Magic Duels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Four million battles every day. One Shadowverse. Japan's #1 strategic card game. Made by card gamers for card gamers. 

    2016StrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers

    WHY THIS

    Shares campaign progression, deck building and a competitive mood with Magic Duels.

    Reviewers of Magic Duels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Magic Duels.

    Ignite your spark with Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers! With over 12 million fans, discover what makes Magic: The Gathering the world’s premier trading card game.Become a Planeswalker and travel the planes of existence unleashing a torrent of spells and creatures to devastate your opponents.

    2013StrategyDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with Magic Duels.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Magic Duels

Does Magic Duels work on Steam Deck?
Magic Duels is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
Does Magic Duels have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Magic Duels supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Magic Duels?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Magic Duels are Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers, Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013, Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012.
Who developed Magic Duels?
Magic Duels was developed by Stainless Games Ltd. and published by Wizards of the Coast LLC.

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