I am 100% down to play this game. I'm trying to get back into Magic, but can't really get out much. So let me know. We can even voice chat while playing.
That's cool - I've been playing Arena for about 3 years now, as a kid I played the demo disk of MTG card game you used to get on PD Gamer magazines back in the 90's and enjoyed it so on a whim went looking and found it's a MMO with multiple battle formats etc.
I've never been in a position to go out and play with physical decks but had one in the 8th Core Edition, I'll always remember you Intrepid Hero what an absolute gem that thing was.
You can get into MTGA without putting a dime down, play the tutoral and it gives you like 5x whole decks to make stuff with, and there are taster mixed-colour decks you have to use some introduction tokens to try out, that pit you against other players which you then get to keep too so no need to splash any currency to start out - there are daily rewards which give you game currency to buy more decks too so give it a go and see how you like it, if you can throw nothing but time at it you don't need to pay a penny unless you want some nice asthetics :)
I get roughly a 50/50 win/loose ratio which I suppose is to be expected as there are thousands of players and only so many deck combos/strategies and whatever you've built someone else will have built something to counter it, but recently I went through a phase of only loosing and it made me look in the mirror and ask myself was I really enjoying playing anymore