Life counter
Standard and Commander, up to 4 players, each with their own board. Just practising? Casual mode that never touches your ranking.
Magic: The Gathering app · Android & iOS
MagicNexus
Your Magic table, in your pocket.
Do you play Magic: The Gathering with your group of friends? MagicNexus keeps track of everything that happens at the table: life, decks, games, rankings and tournaments. And when the game is over, the community keeps going in the feed.
Free on Android and iOS
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- The full review · Feature by feature, with what the store says
- See the world ranking · Who rules Standard and Commander
Your photo, your background. On the life counter, every player picks their own photo. A real game, exactly as it looks in the app.
Every deck gets a companion
Pick a creature for each deck. Win games with it and watch it grow, from hatchling to final form.
All your Magic in one place
Decks that live
Save decks with built-in Scryfall search, your commander’s art and a custom background for each one. And every deck has a companion that levels up as you win.
Log every game
Record players, decks and result. The app works out the scores and keeps your full history.
Groups, rankings and tournaments
Create private groups, climb the ranking and run Cups, Leagues or Swiss with a Top Cut. Without losing sight of your worldwide spot.
Trade cards
A board for physical cards: sell, trade or hunt for what you’re missing. Find cards and players near you by GPS.
Feed and community
Share game moments, comment, mention with @ and chat by direct or group message.
Away from the table
Spoilers
Set news
Revealed cards, release dates and what changes in Standard, as it gets announced.
- Marvel: Darkhold Destiny, Magic's next Marvel set: release date and first cards Wizards revealed the second Marvel set at New York Comic Con: Darkhold Destiny releases 9 April 2027, with its own original story, Hela, Magik and the Darkhold itself. Here are the first seven cards and the mechanics showing so far.
- Magic boosters change in 2027: God Packs and no more foil commons Starting with Nauctis: The Sunken Realm (5 February 2027), Play Boosters are renamed Booster Packs, lose foil commons and uncommons, and gain God Packs: one in every 1,000 packs holds 14 rares or mythics. Same price.
- Reality Fracture: all 285 cards, out now All 285 cards of the set released on 2 October 2026, plus the 87 new cards in Reality Fracture Commander: two new mechanics — Prepare and Empower Jace — Exhaust returning, Emrakul and Tarmogoyf returning, and planeswalkers in colours that aren't theirs.
- Star Trek in Magic: the revealed cards and the shocklands The 91 cards already revealed from the 13 November 2026 set, plus the 38 from Star Trek Commander: all ten shocklands return to Standard, the Federation against the Borg, Spacecraft with Station, and the Face a dilemma keyword.
- When does Standard rotate in 2026? Short answer: there is no rotation in 2026. Wizards is moving it to the first set of the calendar year, so the next one is in 2027 and six sets leave at once.
- Standard legal sets: what's in, what rotates and when The full list of Standard legal sets with their release dates, the six leaving with the first set of 2027, and the ones joining over the next few months.
Competitive
Tournaments and winning decks
Who wins the big tournaments and with what deck, full decklist included.
- Ottawa Regional Championship: Kaya Gregg's winning decklist Kaya Gregg won the F2F Tour Ottawa Regional Championship (2-4 October 2026) in Modern with Azorius Control and the Isochron Scepter plus Orim's Chant lock. Full decklist, maindeck and sideboard.
- Baltimore Regional Championship: Pete Ingram's winning decklist Pete Ingram won the SCG CON Baltimore Regional Championship (13 September 2026) in Modern with Mono-Green Broodscale. Full decklist, maindeck and sideboard.
- Pro Tour Marvel Super Heroes: Yuuki Ichikawa's winning decklist Yuuki Ichikawa won Pro Tour Marvel Super Heroes (19 July 2026, MagicCon Amsterdam) in Modern with Simic Neoform. Full decklist, maindeck and sideboard.
Learn
Magic: The Gathering guides
Formats, rules and tips to get more out of your games.
Magic guides →- Fun 2-card combos for Commander and Casual Eight pairs of cards that win the game with no help from anyone: which ones really win on their own, which only build the loop, and which need a third piece no matter what the internet tells you.
- Commander Brackets: what they are and how to calculate yours Wizards put a number on the age-old question: is your deck a precon or a tournament build? The five Commander brackets, the four things that actually separate them, and how to calculate which one your deck falls into.
- MagicNexus in depth: the app that logs everything at your table Life counter, decks with levelling companions, worldwide ranking, tournaments and trades. We go through MagicNexus feature by feature: what it does, how it does it, and which playgroup it suits.
- Commander decks: how many cards and how to build one Short answer: exactly 100 cards, all different, and one of them is your commander. Here is everything else that changes compared to a normal game of Magic.
- Magic keywords: every keyword ability explained Flying, trample, hexproof, prowess, ward… What each Magic: The Gathering keyword does and when it actually works. Sorted so you can find one mid-game.
- Magic: The Gathering formats, explained The basic rules for Constructed and Commander (life, mulligan, poison, commander damage…) and each format with its rules and a beginner-friendly version.
- Card types in Magic: The Gathering Creatures, instants, sorceries, artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers and lands: what each type does, when you can play it and examples with real cards.
- Abilities in Magic: activated, triggered and keywords The four ability types (activated, triggered, static and keywords) explained with examples and real cards: what they do and when they work.
Leaderboard
World ranking
The top MagicNexus players right now. It updates on its own with every game logged in the app.
Standard
| # | Player | Rating | W–L |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hikarin | 1011 | 3–1 |
| 2 | Zuza | 1006 | 5–7 |
| 3 | The_punisher | 1001 | 3–9 |
| 4 | 442d5kd85j | 1000 | 0–0 |
| 5 | addancontreras10 | 1000 | 0–0 |
Commander
| # | Player | Rating | W–L |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 442d5kd85j | 1000 | 0–0 |
| 2 | addancontreras10 | 1000 | 0–0 |
| 3 | akashiyamoka2020 | 1000 | 0–0 |
| 4 | alegp1983 | 1000 | 0–0 |
| 5 | ar_user642 | 1000 | 0–0 |
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