Hearthstone is a great game.

[nvaelz]

I just wanted to remind everyone that Hearthstone is great, and I have nothing bad to say about it at all.
It's got quick and easy matchmaking, it's got perfectly balanced p2w to f2p ratios, it's got exciting cosmetics/portraits shop rotations.

Go try the new Twist mode, it's a fun time with the anomalies gives a bit more complexity with the mulligan and stuff, highly recommend 10/10.

[RosemWarren]

I used to play it and share the link for everyone to play

[sam86]

not since they canceled adventures and now all year just pure exp for more cash
not to forget how they pumped up legendary cards way too much
it was way better during adventure era, now? maybe in top 5, maybe not

[Mysterymask]

I mean yes its a pretty good online TCG and it helped pave the way for others (Master Duel, Runetarra, Pokemon, MTG Arena, Marvel Snap) so thanks for stating the obvious?

[Zardas]

In other news : water is wet.

[Viikkis]

I have fond memories of Hearthstone but these days I much prefer MTGA

[Khaza-R]

Nah, recent quest changes are trash.

Card design is not Stormwind levels of terrible, but not that far behind.

No more solo adventures or duels. No more "just for fun content". Everything has to be monetized.

Its an okay game. But the direction its heading is bad so I wouldn't suggest anyone invest into it.

[XDurionX]

Way too convoluted and the power creep is insane.

[Mysterymask]

Way too convoluted and the power creep is insane.

I mean *Gestures wildly at Yugioh*

[Elderion]

Too frequent updates and the standard mode killed my desire to play this game. But at the beginning, the game was very engaging and fun.

[Dilbon]

I enjoyed watching HS streamers during the early years. And the tournaments they played were exciting.

[Ielenia]

Hearthstone loses connections mid-match way too often for me. And it's the only game where that happens: WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, even playing MtG with a friend online, none have the same issues as Hearthstone.

I can't go two full games of Battlegrounds without losing connection mid-match, sometimes forcing me to force-close the game and start it up again, and hope I still have time to buy more cards by the time I reconnect (when I manage to reconnect to the game and it doesn't consider me a quitter).

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I mean *Gestures wildly at Yugioh*

I haven't played YGO in like, ever, but playing Battlegrounds and your opponent has a board full of 1/2 cards that have been buffed to the high hundreds if not thousands of damage/health is a little bit of a power creep here....

[Mysterymask]

I haven't played YGO in like, ever, but playing Battlegrounds and your opponent has a board full of 1/2 cards that have been buffed to the high hundreds if not thousands of damage/health is a little bit of a power creep here....

Well to sort of summarize Yugioh's power creep

Turn 1: unleash a giant combo and create a giant board utilizing the fact your opponent has nothing on the field and can do nothing. Yugioh has no mana system so a simple card that just says "Draw 2 cards" is one of the most powerful things in the game. Pray you have a hand trap to stop them.
Turn 2: Ok Respond...hope you can break the board a good chunk of your opponent's stuff might have "Cant be destroyed or whatever" There's no mulligan in yugioh either so pray you can do something
Turn 3: either you won or they won

Here this is a fun example

Most iconic card in the game. Been in since the beginning can call it the War Golem of Yugioh big expensive creature (requires you to sacrifice 2 creatures on the field) that hits really hard
THE NEXT YEAR we got this

Summoned from removing 2 very easy to put in a graveyard cards from the game which is basically free, has the exact same stats as the above, has an ability that is a full board and hand wipe AND deals a shit ton of burn damage, usually combined with one other card to give yourself an effective win. Literally the entire reason Yugioh HAS a ban list in the first place. Now that card is considered totally fine and is in fact pretty shit and you can run 3 in a deck if you so please.



Yugioh has gotten so fast that one of the most iconic things FROM that game (Trap cards) are now considered too slow. Tribute summoning is too slow don't bother you can play a creature that can search up and summon another of which then you can link off to summon a third thing that can link off and summon 2 more things which can then XYZ together to something GIANT
where back in 2005 games lasted a little bit and the best you can do is summon something one at a time and punch them from 8000 to 0