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I like that you can't be mana screwed! It's a pretty fun game that I've been in since pretty early in the beta. I do regret selling my beta key for 300 dollars though. I also enjoy that I can play it for free as an MTG alternative sometimes.

 AlexHolker wrote:
Hearthstone is not a good game. It has a few nice features like the addition of hero powers and the removal of mana screw and mana flood, but it is not fun. It is a game much more about drawing your bs combo than it is about the gameplay in between. And since almost all rewards are entirely dependant on winning a game (there's twenty-six quests that cannot progress without winning a PvP game and five that can), it makes those bs combos all the more frustrating to play against.

Even when you win, it's more "Choke on your Unleash The Hounds and die, you bastard" than "That was fun".

There is an element to that, and I felt the same way about priest decks for a week or so in there. It is a moment in the cycle, and one that will get better- the trick is finding which hero you enjoy the most, that allows you to bypass or short circuit the plans of your enemy once you anticipate them. I've found I feel much more in control of the game as a rogue or mage, than as a warrior or paladin. I end up feeling like I'm taking it in the face when I cannot use my hero to remove annoying minions.

Arena is also great for that because you don't end up with Stealthed Tigers, that have been power word shielded, doubled health and health/attack swapped one-shotting you before you can touch them.

Of course, I've done the same thing to my opponents- I felt a sick horror as my Murloc deck clicked, and I scored a win by turn 4 with the slimy suckers. If you get the right ones it is just wrong how quickly that deck picks apart your life.

Someone ignored one of my minions that I promptly Blessing of
Kings and Blessed Championed. That was sweet.

 AlexHolker wrote:
Hearthstone is not a good game. It has a few nice features like the addition of hero powers and the removal of mana screw and mana flood, but it is not fun. It is a game much more about drawing your bs combo than it is about the gameplay in between. And since almost all rewards are entirely dependant on winning a game (there's twenty-six quests that cannot progress without winning a PvP game and five that can), it makes those bs combos all the more frustrating to play against.

Even when you win, it's more "Choke on your Unleash The Hounds and die, you bastard" than "That was fun".

I enjoy it a lot. I can understand you not liking it but not sure why you say its a bad game.

I tried it out, it's good for what it is but not for me. It's too much like MTG, in that there's just too many cards that I never heard of and likely never will, and people pull out these crazy uber combos with them that I just have no hope of ever defending against, and it makes me ragequit.

 Necros wrote:
I tried it out, it's good for what it is but not for me. It's too much like MTG, in that there's just too many cards that I never heard of and likely never will, and people pull out these crazy uber combos with them that I just have no hope of ever defending against, and it makes me ragequit.

Brother from another mother.

Got a double health, inner fire combo today that made me smile, nice to throw a 16/16 Troll at the enemy any day of the week.

I do like the mess with the mind cards in a Priest deck though, playing monsters from their deck is great, especially with its class specific ones.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Got a double health, inner fire combo today that made me smile, nice to throw a 16/16 Troll at the enemy any day of the week.

I do like the mess with the mind cards in a Priest deck though, playing monsters from their deck is great, especially with its class specific ones.

I always end up with an Elven Archer or something.

 malfred wrote:
... nothing your opponent does can mess with your card draws...

Never seen a Bounce Deck I gather?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 malfred wrote:
... nothing your opponent does can mess with your card draws...

Never seen a Bounce Deck I gather?

Bounce decks still don't mess with your card draws.

You get to draw cards and play them.

They can be sent back to your hand, but you will still
get the initial benefit of their battlecry and turn ending
effects.

Worst situation is too many cards where the bounces
screw with your ability to draw more and you
waste them, but still. My point is that you always
have mana, you can always play your cards.


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Probably secrets are the closest thing the game
gets to hate cards.

Yes, I was talking more about the overdrawn aspect of it, where you get your cards bounced and can't draw any more, resulting in card burn. But I see what you mean - even with that you can still play the cards you have.