Since this is a card game website u should know about Artifact bombing even before release.
Ive spent my day on reddit bewildered by how blind Valve devs are. Imagine packing a Fireball in HS packs which u cant even dust. Same is happening in Artifact plus a bunch of other stuff i aint explaining. The hype for Artifact is gonne. I never had a problem with it being 20$ upfront but holly shit isn't that a money sink.
I have an HS account which i only spent 25$ welcome bundle and Karazhan and i have lots 3 t1/t2 decks for standard and aviana mally deck for wild. Will be opening around 60 packs from just saved gold next exp. I thought Artifact would be similar with like 50$ you would be set for at least half a year.
Not the case so with 20$ lying around i was looking for a fun card game in which i can rotate sometimes. HS will still be my #1 game but what card game would u guys recommend with 20$ to boost my entry into the game?
Not MTGA, i already have that and no way im spending money with the 5th card issue
But, for card games, Eternal has the best F2P of all available card games right now. I have a pretty alright collection in it and I haven't spent money there yet. But... only if you tolerate the mana mechanics from Magic. Mana screw and mana flood sometimes force me to take breaks from the game by themselves.
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Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health. - Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
Did you also watch Kripp spend over $200 and not get any of the combo pieces for his theorycrafted decks, or did other streamers have the same problem?
I can recommend Faeria as well: it has a lot of similarities to HS but has a bit more depth because of the board and because you can save up mana. You pay once for each expansion to unlock it, then collect the cards by playing the game (no paid packs).
Slay the Spire is also nice, but it's a very different kind of card game than HS: a single player deck builder, a bit of a cross between Dominion and HS's Dungeon Run.
Did you also watch Kripp spend over $200 and not get any of the combo pieces for his theorycrafted decks, or did other streamers have the same problem?
I can recommend Faeria as well: it has a lot of similarities to HS but has a bit more depth because of the board and because you can save up mana. You pay once for each expansion to unlock it, then collect the cards by playing the game (no paid packs).
Slay the Spire is also nice, but it's a very different kind of card game than HS: a single player deck builder, a bit of a cross between Dominion and HS's Dungeon Run.
I did watch kripp get a bunch of Svens which made me almost cry. Ppl like kripp can afford such bs but the poor mortals like me would feel so robbed its sickening.
Apparently Valve is already fixing some of the stuff like getting a starter hero duplicate will net u a ticket. But still im not getting into Artifact no more. Seems to be way too shady.
I will try Faeria like many here suggested. The pay model is great. Pay for each set one time and u good to go seems very generous.
Faeria is my favorite card game, and I highly recommend the game like the other folks did here :)
Btw, Valve did change something about their setup today at least:
The Artifact public beta is starting later today. All attendees from this year's International and everyone who redeemed a beta key will find the game activated in their Steam account.
Since lifting the NDA on the private beta yesterday, there's been an overwhelming amount of feedback on all parts of the game. Much of that feedback has been a clear signal that we underestimated how much interest and excitement the community has around certain features that weren't available in the initial beta build.
We want to take a few minutes to talk about some of those missing features now: There was no way to do a draft event with friends. We didn't prioritize this play mode, and had planned to enable it sometime after release. We've heard your feedback: drafting with friends is a core part of what you want to spend your time doing in Artifact. In the next Artifact beta build, you can select Call To Arms Phantom Draft in any user-created tournament.
There was no way to practice the draft modes without spending an event ticket. Drafting is incredibly fun, but can also be very intimidating. We agree that it's important to have a way to practice before venturing into a more competitive mode. In the next Artifact beta build, everyone who has claimed their starting content will find a Casual Phantom Draft gauntlet available in the Casual Play section.
There was nothing to do with duplicate starter heroes. We're adding a system that allows extra, unwanted cards to be recycled into event tickets. This feature will ship before the end of the beta period. The first two changes will be live for everyone when the public beta activates later today. We'll ship the recycling system, as well as other improvements to the beta, over the next week and a half.
Please enjoy the beta, and keep sending us your feedback.
Card game? Krosmaga, it had an initial wonky release but it has gotten waaaay better overtime, some people complain about the hidden dofus "rng" of killing a dofus and then it turns out it was a fake dofus and they wasted resources on that line, but tbh someone would have to be a total dimwit to not notice that someone is not defending a particular line nor realiz that that line with really heavy defenses probablly maybe definitely has a dofus
honorable mentions:
Faeria: Has a board, leading to a more "complex" gameplay (just play yellow and build a straight line to the opponent ancient with a pile of rush creatures and go face) but almost never updates, still has solid gameplay and its devs actually participate in different card game forums like ehhçarthpwn to see what people like, it also has single player content
Shadowverse: Its gameplay is literally hearthstone with an evolution mechanic added in to make it more back and forth, they aren't afraid of powerful and sometimes complex effects, which hearthstone devs were afraid for so loooong, there's the anime art with cow tit girls which some people don't like and the fact that it's optimized for mobile makes playing the pc version feel clunky because you got to drag and drop the cards with the cursor, but it's got solid gameplay, solid single player campaign, and they're super generous with packs, you get so many free packs that you can actually get going in no time, and IMHO it has the FAIREST arena system of them all, if i ahd to compare prcentiles 3 wins in shadowverse's arena would equate to 6-7 wins in Hearthstone's Arena, while 5 wins in shadowverse's Arena actually yields more rewards than a 12 win arena in HS, also shadowverse has almost monthly balance patches
Duelyst: This one is a stretch, used to be super fun and had a lot of complex gameplay because it also has a board and you have to be tactical with positioning making it feel like fire emblem BUT they ruined it with battle pets, if they stopped printing battle pets then i'd recommend the game otherwise stay away.
Mtgarena tbh i don't recommend playing mtg online, the reason is that sice you can answer everything in mtg you get a prompt for every single thing the opponent does and it get goddamns annoying and cumbersome, it's here because if dont put it someone will rage at me.
Ygopro: i'll be dead honest here, this is illegal because it's completely free to play, you download it, it's fully automated and you have access to all the cards in the game without paying a dim that's over 10k cards for free, the one strenght of YGOpro is also its major weakness, you'd think that having access to all the cards for free more people would try gimmicks and fun combos, but this is the farthest possible from the truth in fact you find tripl the number of meta netdeckers in this one, also yugioh is unfamous for its way of balancing things, komoney is completely biased towards certain things and they don't even try being subtle about it, the reasn Komoney doesn't close ygopro is because funnily enough it gives a lot of publicity to the paper game.
Spellweaver: technically magic clone but it only lets you use instants during certain phases of the turn making it a loooooo more bearable in online play, honestly i find spellweaver to be rather underrated
also nt a card game but i recommend checking krosmaster in steam, it's a TFG (trading figures game), but the f2p model is amazing, you get multiple free arenas per day (the draft mode) which give you gold with which you buy figurine boxes, and the Meta is rather balanced, you ahve your weenie aggro teams, your aniripsa stall, and your archetypes
I am also recommend you Eternal. It is very F2P friendly, you can easily get solid collection very fast. Game has many modes (single and multiplayer): casual, ranked, draft, sealed etc.
Since this is a card game website u should know about Artifact bombing even before release.
Ive spent my day on reddit bewildered by how blind Valve devs are. Imagine packing a Fireball in HS packs which u cant even dust. Same is happening in Artifact plus a bunch of other stuff i aint explaining. The hype for Artifact is gonne. I never had a problem with it being 20$ upfront but holly shit isn't that a money sink.
I have an HS account which i only spent 25$ welcome bundle and Karazhan and i have lots 3 t1/t2 decks for standard and aviana mally deck for wild. Will be opening around 60 packs from just saved gold next exp. I thought Artifact would be similar with like 50$ you would be set for at least half a year.
Not the case so with 20$ lying around i was looking for a fun card game in which i can rotate sometimes. HS will still be my #1 game but what card game would u guys recommend with 20$ to boost my entry into the game?
Not MTGA, i already have that and no way im spending money with the 5th card issue
Faeria is pretty cool, ya know
2 more of those and you get RDR 2 :P
But, for card games, Eternal has the best F2P of all available card games right now. I have a pretty alright collection in it and I haven't spent money there yet. But... only if you tolerate the mana mechanics from Magic. Mana screw and mana flood sometimes force me to take breaks from the game by themselves.
Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health.
- Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
Aaaaaah a man of culture as well (at least I am not alone)
Did you also watch Kripp spend over $200 and not get any of the combo pieces for his theorycrafted decks, or did other streamers have the same problem?
I can recommend Faeria as well: it has a lot of similarities to HS but has a bit more depth because of the board and because you can save up mana. You pay once for each expansion to unlock it, then collect the cards by playing the game (no paid packs).
Slay the Spire is also nice, but it's a very different kind of card game than HS: a single player deck builder, a bit of a cross between Dominion and HS's Dungeon Run.
I did watch kripp get a bunch of Svens which made me almost cry. Ppl like kripp can afford such bs but the poor mortals like me would feel so robbed its sickening.
Apparently Valve is already fixing some of the stuff like getting a starter hero duplicate will net u a ticket. But still im not getting into Artifact no more. Seems to be way too shady.
I will try Faeria like many here suggested. The pay model is great. Pay for each set one time and u good to go seems very generous.
Thanks for the replies here. Cheers
Artifact constructed is so expensive that even streamers are playing draft. lol.
And you have to play for playing Ranked game there as well loz.
The only thing free there is Casual match. Lolz
Faeria is my favorite card game, and I highly recommend the game like the other folks did here :)
Btw, Valve did change something about their setup today at least:
Not true anymore. There will be Casual drafts being added to the game, and ways to use extra cards for event tickets.
Yeah what ever. It still Casual lolz. Who are
Pizza and beers with good friends or a for a date.
Free to try and find a game, dealing cards for sorrow, cards for pain.
Card game? Krosmaga, it had an initial wonky release but it has gotten waaaay better overtime, some people complain about the hidden dofus "rng" of killing a dofus and then it turns out it was a fake dofus and they wasted resources on that line, but tbh someone would have to be a total dimwit to not notice that someone is not defending a particular line nor realiz that that line with really heavy defenses probablly maybe definitely has a dofus
honorable mentions:
Faeria: Has a board, leading to a more "complex" gameplay (just play yellow and build a straight line to the opponent ancient with a pile of rush creatures and go face) but almost never updates, still has solid gameplay and its devs actually participate in different card game forums like ehhçarthpwn to see what people like, it also has single player content
Shadowverse: Its gameplay is literally hearthstone with an evolution mechanic added in to make it more back and forth, they aren't afraid of powerful and sometimes complex effects, which hearthstone devs were afraid for so loooong, there's the anime art with cow tit girls which some people don't like and the fact that it's optimized for mobile makes playing the pc version feel clunky because you got to drag and drop the cards with the cursor, but it's got solid gameplay, solid single player campaign, and they're super generous with packs, you get so many free packs that you can actually get going in no time, and IMHO it has the FAIREST arena system of them all, if i ahd to compare prcentiles 3 wins in shadowverse's arena would equate to 6-7 wins in Hearthstone's Arena, while 5 wins in shadowverse's Arena actually yields more rewards than a 12 win arena in HS, also shadowverse has almost monthly balance patches
Duelyst: This one is a stretch, used to be super fun and had a lot of complex gameplay because it also has a board and you have to be tactical with positioning making it feel like fire emblem BUT they ruined it with battle pets, if they stopped printing battle pets then i'd recommend the game otherwise stay away.
Mtgarena tbh i don't recommend playing mtg online, the reason is that sice you can answer everything in mtg you get a prompt for every single thing the opponent does and it get goddamns annoying and cumbersome, it's here because if dont put it someone will rage at me.
Ygopro: i'll be dead honest here, this is illegal because it's completely free to play, you download it, it's fully automated and you have access to all the cards in the game without paying a dim that's over 10k cards for free, the one strenght of YGOpro is also its major weakness, you'd think that having access to all the cards for free more people would try gimmicks and fun combos, but this is the farthest possible from the truth in fact you find tripl the number of meta netdeckers in this one, also yugioh is unfamous for its way of balancing things, komoney is completely biased towards certain things and they don't even try being subtle about it, the reasn Komoney doesn't close ygopro is because funnily enough it gives a lot of publicity to the paper game.
Spellweaver: technically magic clone but it only lets you use instants during certain phases of the turn making it a loooooo more bearable in online play, honestly i find spellweaver to be rather underrated
also nt a card game but i recommend checking krosmaster in steam, it's a TFG (trading figures game), but the f2p model is amazing, you get multiple free arenas per day (the draft mode) which give you gold with which you buy figurine boxes, and the Meta is rather balanced, you ahve your weenie aggro teams, your aniripsa stall, and your archetypes
$20 can get you the digital collector's edition for Traveller!
I am also recommend you Eternal.
It is very F2P friendly, you can easily get solid collection very fast. Game has many modes (single and multiplayer): casual, ranked, draft, sealed etc.