Magic ccg

[Ashe]

I would call MWS the best free method of playing friends that there is. If you play another friend that knows what they are doing and knows the rules and interactions, things are completely fine. I use it with Richard a lot when testing for new Standard deck ideas for brand new sets before buying all the cards for it. Its just that with no innate rules system, if you try to just play generically, you enter a game that says "type 2 plz" and someone immediately drops a hand of 4 black lotus (restricted in type 1, banned in all else), a Mox Saphire (same problem), an Island, use both to play echoing truth on the set of Lotus, replay then, sac them all and play Tendrils of Agony and go "storm count 10" (which would be a kill).

You go "Wtf? That deck is not even able to be built in Vintage. I said I was doing type 2 testing".

He immediately creates a 0/0 "Noob" token, gives you control of it, then disconnects.

Things like that situation are VERY common. Even if they follow those rules, you'll get people that think things like "creatures with exalted means they always give themselves +1/+1 when attacking for each creature with exalted" (ignoring what the tooltip actually says) or "you can't respond to a split second spell by unmorphing Willbender noob" and if you link them to the exact spot in the rules that explains it (or any information) they just respond "omfg i'm a level 7 judge noob u suck" (no such thing btw).

Apprentice is another and older way of doing it, but MWS is definitely the best for free versions.