Learn to Play Magic with a Friend

Dive straight into your first game of Magic: The Gathering with two ready-to-play decks.

This kit contains everything you need to start playing. The included play guide and free online tutorial also make it easy to learn.

Challenge a family member, play something fun on date night, or battle a friend—these decks are the perfect go-to for a two-player experience that’s never the same twice.

D&D Monsters, Vikings & More

Get a taste of the flavorful game mechanics, thematic worlds, and striking art that make Magic: The Gathering so exciting.

Make a pact with Dungeons & Dragons’ infamous archfiend, Asmodeus. Bring one of your creatures back from the grave with a flying Valkyrie. Or cast sorcery spells to improve your wizardry.

Both decks feature cards from Magic’s Dungeons & Dragons, Viking, and wizard school-themed sets—Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, Kaldheim, and Strixhaven: School of Mages.

It also contains cards from Zendikar Rising, a set that explores a land of perilous adventure.

Choose a Side. Let the Battle Begin.

Choose the Blue-Red deck to do massive damage and play puppeteer with your opponent’s creatures.

When Mind Flayer enters the battlefield, you can use its Dominate Monster ability to take control of any creature you choose. Once you’re done toying with them, you can call on your Giant Wizard—Cyclone Summoner—to sweep them all away and clear your path to victory.

Or choose the Black-Green deck to suck life from your opponent—then sacrifice it to become even more powerful.

Watch your creatures grow with an elite mage and an ooze by your side and you’ll soon become unstoppable.

Play at Home and Online

You can play with your decks online too! Each Arena Starter Kit comes with a code to unlock both decks on MTG Arena. And it can be used twice—just challenge a friend, share your code, and battle it out from near or far.

Magic: The Gathering Arena is a free-to-play online way to play Magic. Learn the ropes from the tutorial, then join the fray from either your computer or your phone.

About Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering fuses playing cards and trading cards: players face off with decks they’ve built by selecting cards from a larger pool.

That customization means every game plays out a little differently, and makes Magic the deepest strategy card game there is. At every step, players must draw on their critical thinking skills to calculate the perfect strategy, predict the oncoming attack, and outwit the opponent.

And it's more than cards. It’s stories. It’s art. It’s a community twenty-five years in the making, with players, fans, and artists from all around the world united by a love of the game.