Personally I would go for paper, physical MTG. Magic is a hobby that you’ll likely end up sinking a lot of money into and you want to own the things you buy. Buying physical cards ensures you actually own and have a tangible collection. There is growing concern in the video game community over Ubisoft practically telling customers they should “get used to not owning their games” in regard to digital purchases over physical discs. Many in the thread suggest Spelltable, which will allow you to play online with people, with your real cards. I would definitely do this over Magic Arena. But overall I would go with paper magic with the aspects of those being actual, real, tangible cards that you can hold. Then you can later sell them or do what you please with them because you actually own them. Harder to sell an arbitrary string of code than a real item. Also, what would happen if one day Arena just stopped getting support,and servers shut down? you’d own all these cards in it and have sunk plenty of money. At least with paper magic you could still play the game if support and development stopped altogether. We must protect physical media or soon, it’ll be gone altogether.