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Screenshots show the main features of the Toolbox app. The release of Magic: the Gathering Companion comes over seven years after Wizards of the Coast released their first official mobile app, Magic: the Gathering Toolbox. According to Stark, “we’re focusing primarily on…tabletop players because it’s an area whose needs aren’t being served as well as they could be.”

“I’m not ready to go in too much detail on those just yet, but our current trajectory would have us start delivering some of those later this year.”īut those features will be focused on tabletop players, not those on MTG Arena or Magic Online.

“After we get the tournament experience really dialed in for Magic: The Gathering Companion, we’re going to shift to something I call the ‘daily engagement features,’” Stark said. Launching with just the home tournament organizer doesn’t mean MTG Companion will stay a single-feature app. Instead, he wants Companion to allow players to find that information themselves on their mobile device. “ big part of the drive for early features in Companion is re-imagining the organized play landscape to get us out of what our UX team calls ‘paper and yelling’ for finding information like pairings, standings, and reporting results,” Stark said. “My goal for Magic: The Gathering Companion is for a new player to run into a Magic player that finds out they don’t have Companion installed and immediately be told, ‘Holy cow, you’ve GOT to get the companion app!’”īuilding that “must have” sense for Magic players requires creating value by solving issues that they actually face. Read our full interview with Bill Stark about Companion’s vision, development process, and feature set.īy limiting themselves to a single feature, the Companion team can focus on delivering on Stark’s vision for the product.

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