Will Minecraft pi only run on Raspian

Hi all! My pi 2 model b came in the mail today and i was just wondering do i have to have raspbian installed to play minecraft pi edition. I want to install ubuntu mate but dont want to not be able to play mc. If it dosent run on ubuntu mate but on a different one please let me know. if it only runs on raspbian please tell me if and how i can dualboot.

Thanks

-Liam