There have been several iterations of a Magic The Gathering computer game and each one has been completely unable to live up to the original card game.
I recently played the latest offering, Magic The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 (a year ahead but we'll allow it). This time I do have to say it was not the worst game I've played in the series. There were a few extra campaign matches that added some nice functionality to the game instead of the standard 'one v one' setup.
In the standard campaign there were Challenges with a predefined condition, hand and deck and you had to figure out how to succeed in the situation, which as the name suggests was challenging.
Archenemy is a 'three v one' layout where the solo player has a special deck of "schemes" that affects the gameplay in a certain way and makes the entire battle rather difficult.
Revenge is pretty much exactly the same as the campaign except it is a lot harder. The opponents' decks contain all the cards you can unlock throughout the campaign and the AI is a lot smarter.
All in all this is the best MTG computer game yet in my opinion but that is not to say it lives up to the card game in any way. You still cannot create a deck from scratch or alter the layouts in any major way. It is very difficult to search your deck for cards as they move really quickly onscreen and there is not really a huge amount of variety in the opponents you face.
If you are looking for a good computer based MTG game this would be your best bet but if you want an amazing next gen game then I'm afraid this is not it.
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