User blog comment:AmazingPST"Providence"/Anime Discussion: A skillful fight/@comment-6171008-20150701111522/@comment-13526439-20150701120021

On that note, MTG isn't necessarily more 'skillfull' than Buddyfight. But, due to the fact that MTG has way more keywords and is much more complex due to the mana system and Buddyfight is pretty linear, yes compared to MTG it seems cookie cutter. then again, you can argue that Buddyfight's Two-effect Chains creates more skill, rather than two players creating a Stack and whoever has more counterspells win the exchange and maybe the game.

TL;DR Yes, MtG is generally more 'skillful' due to its complexity to BDF's simplicity but the two-card chains present in Buddyfight is quite unique ((Inb4 I'm wrong, point kinda stands)) and promotes a slightly different skill.