1) You are forced to play mono red or mono blue (smorc) when you start as you are noob and your collection sucks which the same thing applies to hs.
2) You have to manage your resources efficiently which feels terrible at the beginning but you are punished by not doing so. When you start, you have to hoard your wildcards until you learn the game and the first wildcards (rare and mythics) must be spent on lands and some core spells which in time will unlock you a plethora of decks. As you can undestand though, crafting lands and spells and not a big shiny biffy legendary creature or planeswalker is not fun. Once you pass that hurdle though, your collection will snowball.
Ignore the people that say that hs is friendlier. They are talking out of their ass. They propably logged in for a couple of days and expected to have the same collection they built in hs in years. The claim about mythics (legendaries) is trash too. In reality, the only rarety that you will always lack are the rare wildcards (epics in hs), as lands and must have spells are in this category. At the moment my wildcards count is : 124 common, 153 uncommon, 0 rare and 24 mythic and i have only bought the welcome bundle and the war of the spark offer.
Moreover, If you are a good player you can easily go infinite in one of many modes.
You can "cheat" if you are able to load Hearthstone 3 times and play against yourself. Note, this will take 3 computers (like a tablet, phone and PC) and 3 accounts.
It's difficult to evaluate for me; I've never been F2P in Hearthstone, but haven't spent any money on MtG:A.
What I will say is I think constantly trying to keep up with the latest meta decks - especially if you're trying to make them optimal - is unachievable. I still don't have all the Shock Lands or Check Lands, never mind the new Scry Lands, but you can still play a less optimal list of most decks without them.
Similarly, I rarely have a full set of Mythics (unless the Mythic can be used in multiple decks) but I can approximate many good decks with what I have.
At its core, I think if you enjoy MtG this is a fantastic way to be able to play it very cheaply, and a pretty good way to play it for free. I want to say it's probably better than HS F2P just based on trying to compare the daily rewards, but as I said I don't know for sure.
This is my favorite card back, because it includes all of them. I don't recall ever getting the actual random card back shown here, but there is a chance for it.
There's an event coming up we're going to be rewarding people a special title and achievement, and it's going to be a bit of fun imo.
Good to hear. Btw I just completed some hidden achievements, but I noticed that their requirement is still hidden. I assume, that this is only temporary and in the future people would be able to read the text of obtained mistery achievements, right?
Yeah, there's a few things not being displayed on achievements atm that will be in the future.
There's an event coming up we're going to be rewarding people a special title and achievement, and it's going to be a bit of fun imo.
Good to hear. Btw I just completed some hidden achievements, but I noticed that their requirement is still hidden. I assume, that this is only temporary and in the future people would be able to read the text of obtained mistery achievements, right?
How is F2P in MtG:A at the moment, compared to Hearthstone?
How much cards and stuff can you get without paying, playing from time to time?
And do you think, when times go by, and there will be more expansions... will it be possible to keep up as a new player?
I quit because I could not make any progress. Any quest that requires winning games is impossible at start. The amount of Mythic cards you need for decks is killing.
At the end of the day a F2P Player has only two choices
1. Either invest into competitive meta decks for multiple classes which will hinder your deck experimentation, trying multiple formats in the long term.
or
2. Invest into a single class where you can taste almost everything this game has to offer to some extent. A huge problem is that the class you have selected can face a slump & then you will be in slump too & it can happen quite often.
But no matter how much you try you will be a few step behind to able to access everything this game has to offer without spending anything. It's not impossible but quite a daunting task. So pick your poison.
There are two other options:
1. Invest in decks you find fun that aren't that competitive. Of those this means that you don't have a meta deck. It's basically the fliped coin of the #1 option and still translates to not being able to taste everything.
2. The hedge. The key to remember that to compete you really only need at most 2 decks. For example, anyone who has crafted a Conjure's Calling Mage is pretty much done as far as reaching Legend.
Thus a F2P player CAN just craft said deck then just spend the rest of the dust on crafting whatever they find interesting. A F2Per woh enjoys Muck Shaman, Conjure's Mage, Bomb Warrior, and Mech Hunter can craft all four decks effectively*. At that point you not only have THREE meta relevant decks but a third tier meme deck on top of it. If you dislike Bomb or Hunter you have room for another meme deck like res priest or Tess Rogue.
(I have Much and Hunter, I'm one legendary away from Bomb and I have enough dust that I can literally dust every single mage card in the Conjure's mage deck I already own, spend it making a Murloc Druid and handcraft every single card, including legendaries to fully form it and not miss a beat on preparing for the next set. Note that I literally only play an average of 3 games a day, average 3 wins in arena, and havn't hit above rank 10 in about 2 years. I'm the poster child for casual. Point is, making those four decks is NOT a hard thing for an established F2P player)
The PROBLEM is that you can probably make about 3-4 decks per set that require a hefty investment (as in, at least one legendary's worth of cards) so you have to make SURE you hit paydirt. Make a bomb Warrior and find you hate it.. such a shame. Made Pogo Rogue because you swore it was going to be The #$)#(.. ikk.
So what you sacrifice is basically that first month of a new set. You sit playing Wonderful decks and spamming arena to gather dust/packs. You ignore the hype and experimental phase. You wait until Tournaments and pro players perfect their meta decks and folks like Kibler sort out the fun meme decks from the boring ones.
So it's a way to both play competitively AND play fun decks, but you don't get to experiment and try and fail. You CAN'T fail.
So you can Play compeititively, Play memeish, Wait a long time then netdeck for both, or go single class. That's the price of going free.
Which i don't mind. F2P should NOT be the same as paid. Otherwise it might as well just be a Free Game. The point isn't whether paying means more fun: it should be. The point is whether F2P is enough fun. If I were to eliminate all of the paid content does it feel like a full game you can enjoy? If so then that's fine.
As far as Hearthstone, I don't know whether it's easier or harder than the distant past as I didn't get established till around Old Gods. I DO know that once established the game became much easier to keep up with and one of the better games I've played in this mode. Getting TO established though was NOT an easy feat and was getting harder and harder up to Old Gods. I have no clue how anyone could survive the Old Gods meta if they literally started playing at that point. By how it sounds it's somewhat easier now but still can go a long way to making it easier for new players to get into the game.
My favorite card from the expansion so far is probably Psychopomp because it seems to go well with a moderately strong Resurrect Priest style. I think that card paired with Muerte will be nuts.
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Reno the relicologist. Because i love reno!
Is MtG:A F2P?
MTGA >>HS. The bad thing with mtga is that:
1) You are forced to play mono red or mono blue (smorc) when you start as you are noob and your collection sucks which the same thing applies to hs.
2) You have to manage your resources efficiently which feels terrible at the beginning but you are punished by not doing so. When you start, you have to hoard your wildcards until you learn the game and the first wildcards (rare and mythics) must be spent on lands and some core spells which in time will unlock you a plethora of decks. As you can undestand though, crafting lands and spells and not a big shiny biffy legendary creature or planeswalker is not fun. Once you pass that hurdle though, your collection will snowball.
Ignore the people that say that hs is friendlier. They are talking out of their ass. They propably logged in for a couple of days and expected to have the same collection they built in hs in years. The claim about mythics (legendaries) is trash too. In reality, the only rarety that you will always lack are the rare wildcards (epics in hs), as lands and must have spells are in this category. At the moment my wildcards count is : 124 common, 153 uncommon, 0 rare and 24 mythic and i have only bought the welcome bundle and the war of the spark offer.
Moreover, If you are a good player you can easily go infinite in one of many modes.
Mark of Hakkar
I wish there were some stats on how fast this card back spread. I recall it took two days for it to reach me.
Fireside
You can "cheat" if you are able to load Hearthstone 3 times and play against yourself. Note, this will take 3 computers (like a tablet, phone and PC) and 3 accounts.
Samsung Galaxy
I know the Galaxy S8 will work. So you could borrow a S8 and load your hearthstone account on it. Not sure about later Galaxy phones.
Pandaria
This is a rare card back, since some players from April 2014 may not be around anymore.
Is MtG:A F2P?
It's difficult to evaluate for me; I've never been F2P in Hearthstone, but haven't spent any money on MtG:A.
What I will say is I think constantly trying to keep up with the latest meta decks - especially if you're trying to make them optimal - is unachievable. I still don't have all the Shock Lands or Check Lands, never mind the new Scry Lands, but you can still play a less optimal list of most decks without them.
Similarly, I rarely have a full set of Mythics (unless the Mythic can be used in multiple decks) but I can approximate many good decks with what I have.
At its core, I think if you enjoy MtG this is a fantastic way to be able to play it very cheaply, and a pretty good way to play it for free. I want to say it's probably better than HS F2P just based on trying to compare the daily rewards, but as I said I don't know for sure.
Random
This is my favorite card back, because it includes all of them. I don't recall ever getting the actual random card back shown here, but there is a chance for it.
Site Achievements
Yeah, there's a few things not being displayed on achievements atm that will be in the future.
Site Achievements
Good to hear. Btw I just completed some hidden achievements, but I noticed that their requirement is still hidden. I assume, that this is only temporary and in the future people would be able to read the text of obtained mistery achievements, right?
Is MtG:A F2P?
I quit because I could not make any progress. Any quest that requires winning games is impossible at start. The amount of Mythic cards you need for decks is killing.
Encyclopedia of Hearthstone Terms
I had no idea some of these terms existed, they’ve provided a hearty giggle
Hearthstone Hero Lore
Hamuul for sure, been hoping for him to be a hero for some time.
Would love to see high inquisitor Whitemane for priest.
And of course Warrior is in need of a Hero!
But who?
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Hack the System
Because I love playing Warrior and I am excited for the shenanigans this could bring.
[Theorycraft] King Krush 24 damage Hunter
ah ok thanks :) idk why i didnt take that into consideration
Pizza Stone
Tasty.
According to gen concious, Hearthstone has become pricer to play? is it true( A F2P player's perspective) Dust wise breakdown.
There are two other options:
1. Invest in decks you find fun that aren't that competitive. Of those this means that you don't have a meta deck. It's basically the fliped coin of the #1 option and still translates to not being able to taste everything.
2. The hedge. The key to remember that to compete you really only need at most 2 decks. For example, anyone who has crafted a Conjure's Calling Mage is pretty much done as far as reaching Legend.
Thus a F2P player CAN just craft said deck then just spend the rest of the dust on crafting whatever they find interesting. A F2Per woh enjoys Muck Shaman, Conjure's Mage, Bomb Warrior, and Mech Hunter can craft all four decks effectively*. At that point you not only have THREE meta relevant decks but a third tier meme deck on top of it. If you dislike Bomb or Hunter you have room for another meme deck like res priest or Tess Rogue.
(I have Much and Hunter, I'm one legendary away from Bomb and I have enough dust that I can literally dust every single mage card in the Conjure's mage deck I already own, spend it making a Murloc Druid and handcraft every single card, including legendaries to fully form it and not miss a beat on preparing for the next set. Note that I literally only play an average of 3 games a day, average 3 wins in arena, and havn't hit above rank 10 in about 2 years. I'm the poster child for casual. Point is, making those four decks is NOT a hard thing for an established F2P player)
The PROBLEM is that you can probably make about 3-4 decks per set that require a hefty investment (as in, at least one legendary's worth of cards) so you have to make SURE you hit paydirt. Make a bomb Warrior and find you hate it.. such a shame. Made Pogo Rogue because you swore it was going to be The #$)#(.. ikk.
So what you sacrifice is basically that first month of a new set. You sit playing Wonderful decks and spamming arena to gather dust/packs. You ignore the hype and experimental phase. You wait until Tournaments and pro players perfect their meta decks and folks like Kibler sort out the fun meme decks from the boring ones.
So it's a way to both play competitively AND play fun decks, but you don't get to experiment and try and fail. You CAN'T fail.
So you can Play compeititively, Play memeish, Wait a long time then netdeck for both, or go single class. That's the price of going free.
Which i don't mind. F2P should NOT be the same as paid. Otherwise it might as well just be a Free Game. The point isn't whether paying means more fun: it should be. The point is whether F2P is enough fun. If I were to eliminate all of the paid content does it feel like a full game you can enjoy? If so then that's fine.
As far as Hearthstone, I don't know whether it's easier or harder than the distant past as I didn't get established till around Old Gods. I DO know that once established the game became much easier to keep up with and one of the better games I've played in this mode. Getting TO established though was NOT an easy feat and was getting harder and harder up to Old Gods. I have no clue how anyone could survive the Old Gods meta if they literally started playing at that point. By how it sounds it's somewhat easier now but still can go a long way to making it easier for new players to get into the game.
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My favorite card from the expansion so far is probably Psychopomp because it seems to go well with a moderately strong Resurrect Priest style. I think that card paired with Muerte will be nuts.
New Player's Guide to Hearthstone
Curious as to why all the heroes have their basic heroes portraits apart from Hunter?
CUSTOM CARD: EVIL Scavenger
The whole composition of this card is very satisfying; from the stats even to the art choice.
Love the dynamic, hats off to you if they do implement a card like this.
would very much like to see more of your creations!
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Corrupt the Waters its my favourite! Very strong late game card with a lot of versatility. And i love Shaman :P
Plague of Flames
Wicked Skeleton finally viable.
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Mogu Cultist ---opens up a whole lot of new combos and ideas to try
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BEEEES!!! ... because bees are fucking awesome!
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My favorite card is Frightened Flunky because I really liked Taunt Warrior and I think this card might bring it back to the meta