tcgs in the new digital age: hearthstone, infinity wars, hex shards of fate, faeria, more

i don't think it's as good as infinity wars but it has some interesting complexity imho

i love how in infinity wars if you can go 4 wins before reaching 3 losses you're guaranteed to recoup your draft investment. it makes draft so much fun since 4 wins is not that hard to get to (my highest number of wins before 3 losses was 13) - the more times you win the more IP (that's the in game currency you use to play draft and buy booster packs) you get. also you get a chance at winning better cards (if you get to 9 wins you are guaranteed one rare). you also get the chance to buy your draft deck for keeps after finishing the draft. Normally this is prohibitively expensive but apparently if you get to 29 or 30 wins in a draft it becomes free. so something to work towards.

hey Mordy, did you stick w/any of those?

Been playing a bit of the beta of Duelyst, which combines yr TCG stuff with a Final Fantasy Tactics/Ogre Battle style board. Gauntlet/draft is p.fun, as are the puzzles.

https://duelyst.com/

not so much anymore tho i played infinity wars until i was occasionally winning my entire draft deck. i tried hearthstone but found it too simple and boring. still interested in trying shards of fate

i started playing mtg with new set of friends who i met thru my gf (going against stereotypes these people are all younger and hipper than i, who would have scoffed at magic in the past) and have also gotten addicted to hearthstone in the last few days. i played about 5 hours yesterday

i don't find hearthstone too simple, there's def a steep learning curve when you start playing against better players. I'm playing a priest control deck, but i don't have a lot of the better cards that i really need to pull that off yet.

i also like that you just accrue mana each round, have lost a few mtg games from drawing too much, or too little land, which is annoyingly luck-based

still addicted to this game, i kind of suck. i had a control priest going for a while and was doing very well but then i feel like i won so many games my rank went up a bunch and then i just got owned repeatedly.

https://kotaku.com/blizzard-suspends-hearthstone-player-for-hong-kong-supp-1838864961

i was getting kind of bored of this game anyway

wish mtg would put their app out for the mac

or maybe i don't wish that since as long as they don't i don't have to spend money on it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

agree

seems like a huge pr disaster for blizzard i see tons and tons of ppl cancelling their accounts + preorders etc