Play Magic: The Gathering with your friends

Manabrew was born out of a group of friends’ desire to play Magic: The gathering online together without any hassle. The team researched around for the various open source options but they quickly realised that none of them met their needs. They wanted a more modern and sleek interface, where everything was clear and intuitive. Hence they decided to build it themselves, with a community driven approach where everyone can contribute for greater good.

You can try it now at play.manabrew.app.

What you can do

Play against an AI, to learn the client or test a deck on your own.
Play with friends in a hosted room, in the browser. If you want more control, one of you can host the room from the desktop app or your own server, and everyone else still joins from any platform.
Build decks, or import a list from your usual deckbuilder.
Track a paper game with the built-in life tracker. It keeps life totals and counters for a game with real cards, from your phone.
Add it to your home screen. Manabrew is a web app (a “PWA”), which means you can save it to your phone or iPad and open it full-screen no app store needed. That makes it easy to keep at the table as a life tracker.

Multiple engines supported

Before each game, solo or multiplayer, you can pick which engine runs it:

The Forge engine, with its complete card pool, AI support, and more than 15 years of development. It’s the most stable choice for accurate games, and it backs both solo and multiplayer. Play it right in the browser through a hosted room, or run it yourself with the desktop app or a selfhosted room.
Manabrew’s own engine, a Rust port of Forge that runs in the browser. It’s lighter and fully client-side, and its card support is still growing. Although you can expect some bugs here and there, this is still in early development.

It’s public alpha

Manabrew is in public alpha. There are some rough edges, things change between versions, and an update can occasionally affect your saved decks and settings. The most useful thing you can do is play and tell us what broke. If something goes wrong, our Discord is the place to reach out.

Free and open source

Manabrew is free and open source, under the AGPL. No tracking, no paywall; your decks and settings stay on your device. If you’d rather run it yourself, the whole stack is self-hostable. Check out Manabrew docs here.

How to start

Open play.manabrew.app and start your magical journey!

Feedback from real games is what’s most useful right now, so if you play, let us know on Discord.