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Card Design ChampionYou're right, I haven't played MtG in almost 10 years, not since I graduated high school. I mostly played because my friends did back then and I wanted to be socially involved. There was actually a period a few years ago where I picked it back up for a month or so, but only because the guy I was dating was into it. But you can't really blame me for not continuing to play something that caused me more frustration than enjoyment. I'm not going to check back on something every couple of years or so to make sure it's still as unfun for me as I remember.
Anyway, unless the basic rules of the game have drastically changed since then, you still statistically (and from what I understand, this is the figure admitted by the game's developers) get either mana screwed or mana clumped about a third of games. For the two thirds you don't, a third of those your opponent will. That leaves ~4/9 or 44% of games. And if it's not quite that high, boy does it still feel like it and it's definitely not too far off.
Right, and this is how the games are different and cater to different tastes. For me, the sort of "I need Crackle or Imp-Losion to do at least X damage or Knife Juggler or Ragnaros to hit Y target. Here I go!" RNG is acceptably dramatic in the moment and the sort of "Gee, I hope I draw a card that does nothing so I can start using the actual cards in my hand / I hope at some point during this game I draw a card that actually does something." RNG is nothing but frustrating. You clearly feel the reverse, and that's fine, and I hope you have a fun time playing Magic.
Poker is all about RNG yet somehow the same people win all the time. Tells me something...
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The thing is there's already so much chance in a card game - that's the point of a card game is that there will be an element of chance - I don't understand the rather *extreme* press by Blizzard to put more chance into a card game with increasingly "random" elements. If they want the game to remain super casual and low key - fine, but they seem like that's exactly the opposite of their current intention. They've always had prizes in the arena, they've started holding prize tournament events for "pro" players, and now they even offer prizes to people for ranked constructed achievement. Everything suggests they are looking for constructed HS to be taken as a more legitimate competitive game, but at the same time games feel more and more like they're being decided by things like "Oops, my turn 2 Unstable Portal gifted me with a turn 4 Archmage Antonidas I win."
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Yes certain amounts of RNG are apart of every card game and can even be fun. Piloted Shredder is an example of fun rng because it's specific to a 2 mana card. You might get millhouse or a doomsayer which most enjoy even if you end up on the worst end of it.
Unstable portal, add random spell cards, jousting, knife jugglers, MCT, Sylvanas are most of the time not fun because they have to much randomness. Yeah maybe getting a twisting nether is fun for you but not the other player. All they need to do to fix those cards is be more specific with the effects instead of 100% RNG. Make it so minion placements matters more and have effects target the left or right most minion and limit other cards to specific mana costs like piloted shredder.
The whole game is being dumbed down with overuse of bad RNG which isn't fun over time.
I would agree, but only up to TGT. Usually the "special moments" actually involve some kind of a dream scenario in conjunction with RNG, such as Rivendare+Sneed plays and such. TGT tho introduced a lot of RNG that doesnt make a game any special, and just ruins it. Ram Wrangler summons a King Krush, is it fun? Nope, it's frustrating. Same with Tuskarr Totemist, same, to some extent, with Spellweaver. Those cards can just win you the game by a coin flip, and even with Knife Juggler perfect RNG this didnt happen.
Why add absurd amounts of RNG to the point, where it decides most games? It's simple, Blizzard did this so the game seems easy to newcomers and they spend more money on packs/adventures. If they cared about it, it wouldn't have been infested with cards like Esportal, Skill shredder or Implosion. Seriously, if even Noxious says there is too much RNG in Hearthstone, something is wrong.
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^That's a good point. A lot of good games (StarCraft, VS System) die because there is not enough randomness and newer players feel hopeless against better ones and quit playing.