izards of the Coast is entering the mobile space with Magic: The Gathering Toolbox, available now in the App Store on iPhone, and soon for iPad and Android. In my role on the Magic Digital R&D team, I led the design for this app and I'm here today to give you a much more comprehensive rundown of how awesome it can make your Magic experiences, both in-game and out.
The overarching design philosophy we used in the creation of this app was "onion layers"—provide simple, straightforward interfaces up front, but allow users more complex features as they needed them. Many players have need of a quick life tracker or card searching utility on their devices, and we don't want those players to jump through a lot of hoops to get what they need. On the flip side, some players want to be able to track complex game states or perform different kinds of analysis on their decks, and we want to let them do that too.
Magic: The Gathering Toolbox will be localized into Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Korean to provide players around the world a chance to find the right tool for their games of Magic.
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