Hearthstone

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Anyone else play hearthstone the new card game from Blizzard? I find it pretty easy to get into quite a bit simpler then the traditional card games.

Its free to play at the moment and I am having some fun going up against friends while we try to build our decks up. I might just go with doing the daily quests in it and slowly getting gold to get decks instead of rushing it and buying them.

Yeah, I play it myself. Always been a fan of TCGs like Magic and whatnot.

I'll warn you though, it'll take you an amazingly long time to build up a card collection by only using the currency gotten in-game. Like any free-2-play game you CAN get everything without paying a dime.... but that doesnt mean it's gonna be a good way to do it. Particularly in this game.... each card pack has only 5 cards in it. And there's no trading, only the funky crafting system. And if you dont have epics/legendaries or gold cards to feed it, the crafting takes quite alot of disenchanting to get enough dust to make one card.

The nice thing though is that you dont have to like, blow $200 on it to get a good card base going; I've used about $20 so far myself. Might throw some more at it later today for the heck of it. And the other good thing is that you DONT need a deck fulla rares/epics/legendaries to win.... just because the other player has such a deck doesnt make them stronger than you. Some players getting into this game seem to have the idea that "Oh, well, if you just BUY more cards and have more rare ones, you'll win, there's no strategy" which is damn silly. Same as in Magic, which also gets that complaint. Many of the common cards are extremely good, and the game starts you off with quite a selection of them. So far, I've found that there's no such thing as a useless card in this game. Some seemingly-weak cards can turn out to be absolutely excellent once you fully grasp their use. Except maybe the Angry Chicken.... I dunno what they were thinking with that one.

That all being said, I'm finding the game more than worth throwing money at. While Magic still ranks as my favorite TCG, this one is.... pretty damn amazing. Really, really good. They did a very good job of making it easy to learn, too, while keeping the high level tactics being very deep and complicated. Which is of course the most important part, that depth.

I agree even some of the basic low magic cards have their uses. Early on I went up against someone who though the match used 2 legendary cards I managed to kill them both and nearly win. I think the class cards do a good job at letting the player skill bridge the gap between a good and back deck.

Yep.

Even a deck that's STUFFED with legendaries/epics/rares isnt automatically stronger than a deck that has only a few.

I went up against this Warlock player the other day.... my deck at the time had hardly ANY of those sorts, I had exactly one legendary (which accomplished little) and a small number of rares, whereas my opponent had tons of them. Kept throwing out one gigantic monster of Godzilla-ish doom after another. So many epics, and many legendaries as well.... hell, he had one ultra-annoying legendary out on turn TWO (and it stuck around for AWHILE). While I kept fielding small, low-cost minions most of the time, mostly of common rarity, or cards that are in the "starter" set that you have from the beginning. Heck, I had very few high-cost cards at all. Didnt matter though.... sheer strategy, planning, and carefully thought out moves and combos won the day.

It aint the strength of an individual card that wins these.... it's the strength of strategy and planning. And some of the best cards really are the little guys. I'm really loving that about this game. Even when you're in the late-game, 1, or 2 cost cards can still have a major effect on things. Magic is very good at this aspect as well.