Hearthstone is not pay2win and not pay2play. You can play it without money and you can win without money.
i reached rank 8 with an 7 days old free2play account. You guys are just bad and say its pay2win because you cant win enough. There are so many cheap decks out there. Pirate warrior is 2000-2500 dust.
If it would pay2win the player on rank 3 would win who spend more money and thats just wrong.
Hell...
uhmm the only one that's coming as stupid here is you, why? because your reading comprehension is completely flawed, you didn't even bother teading the thread, the only guy that even mentioned hearthstone here was the guy who posted above you, the other guys don't even mention hearthstone and btw... the question is about the most p2w tcg players have ever played..if someone here mentions hearthstone it CAN and probably will mean he's never played other tcg.. now do yourself a favor and go back to 4th grade.
yugioh is basically free to play though, you just download devpro an have unlimited online play with instant access to over 20k cards, no grinding or money required
Easily YuGiOh after Konami took over. The banlists quickly went from maintaining the health of the game to maintaining Konami's best interests for their future products.
They had the same old cycle: Create ridiculously OP cards and nerf your older cards, rendering your old cards obselete and nowhere close to being competitive.
Once everyone bought up the new OP cards, they skyrocketed in price thanks to the secondary market. I remember three copies of Tour Guide from the Underworld at their peak costing $500.
Once people got sick of them winning every tournament (formats would have three decks just dominate a meta), Konami would nerf the cards and just come out with more OP archetypes, starting the cycle all over again.
i know that feel... Blue eyes winning a world cup just to become a troll/rogue deck two months later with the release of ABC,
and Zodiac beasts seems like they might vanquish ABC plus the Eidolon fusion spell power creeping Brilliant fusion...it's like ewwww, what game is this now??, while things like stratos and gateway of the six are still banned
and things that make the classic wind-up Loop look like if it wasn't that bad.
altho didn't they make an emergency adjusted list for Pepe? they were banned two weeks after being released or something like that, when it had like almost 100% tournament presence in a particular tournament.
Alteil, it's a Korean oddball tcg with random mechanics that would leave people that whine about randomnes in hearthstone shitting all over their diapers, and it featured the most pay2 win model i've ever played in a tcg ,oddly enough it didnt make it to my top 3 most p2w games i've ever played, those 3 spots were actually taken by MMOS with really bad bad models.
edit: i wouldn't consider pokemon p2w, yes i know Shaymin EX costs $USD 50 a copy but before that, the only cards that were that expensive were the Ace specs and Junk arm, now i don't have a justification for Junk arm, but for the ace specs it's easy, you could only run one Ace spec per deck, making it not that expensive.
and wasn't Plasma Flareon dirt cheap and super competitive ??.
Try to buy a beatriice in yugioh or a black lotus in Mtg tho... $USD1200+ for a single copy.
yugioh is basically free to play though, you just download devpro an have unlimited online play with instant access to over 20k cards, no grinding or money required
Alteil, it's a Korean oddball tcg with random mechanics that would leave people that whine about randomnes in hearthstone shitting all over their diapers, and it featured the most pay2 win model i've ever played in a tcg ,oddly enough it didnt make it to my top 3 most p2w games i've ever played, those 3 spots were actually taken by MMOS with really bad bad models.
edit: i wouldn't consider pokemon p2w, yes i know Shaymin EX costs $USD 50 a copy but before that, the only cards that were that expensive were the Ace specs and Junk arm, now i don't have a justification for Junk arm, but for the ace specs it's easy, you could only run one Ace spec per deck, making it not that expensive.
and wasn't Plasma Flareon dirt cheap and super competitive ??.
Try to buy a beatriice in yugioh or a black lotus in Mtg tho... $USD1200+ for a single copy.