It was under NDA for a long time now, i got a code few days ago, but still havent downloaded and started playing, so no opinion it, but it seems like NDA is out now. Kripparian just started playing it on stream right now, if anybody want to see it, its the time : But there are other playing it as well of course: I played Magic religiously from Unlimited to the end of the Urza block in standard play and limited to about 2001ish around Apocalypse i think. Started playing this today and it's absolutely going to take some time to get used to mechanics that weren't a thing when i played and the new card love that they added pre-made decks. Also, Merfolks are like actually viable? Vamp decks are back? Currently building a Pirate deck. There's no onboarding in the Beta, unfortunately, and I'm not certain what their plans are for full release something I assume. F2P is the best way to learn in a digital format and maybe even overall. That said, I recommend the Beta if you can get in. I think it's horrendously laggy right now and I haven't tried the latest update, yet, but I really enjoy the client. It's a great way to sling some spells and play the best CCG ever, even with the smaller but growing pool of cards. I submitted my email for a beta invite earlier today after noticing Kripp was playing it. Hope I get in, but they're probably backlogged to hell as of today. It already said it would take up to 3 days to receive a reply email. Like, you don't even get an immediate confirmation email to check that you put in the right email address. Hopefully it turns out good and improves quickly as it goes. Because while I like Hearthstone, the thing that holds it back for me the most is lack of format variety among other things like tournament-mode which is supposed to come later this year. You've basically just got standard and wild ranked, but I don't play wild, brawl, and arena. Brawl is cute, but not really engaging, and arena is still pretty good, but has gotten stale, even with the recent changes. I want things like sealed events, competitive PvP drafts, etc. Always nice to see access keys being given away on twitter. When I still haven't gotten in. When invites were supposed to go out chronologically. When i signed up the day you were able to do so. And technically qualified for priority access for owning duels but not knowing that was a thing until the window for it closed. Been playing the beta since rivals of ixalan launched. Very excited for amonkhet block today. That being said the economy is terrible and the new changes today are awful. It seems like obtaining mythic rares in game is going to be extremely extremely difficult. I wonder if open beta will come with Dominaria. They still have so much to add though. Draft needs to get added and they still have so many quality of life things to add. I submitted my email for a beta invite earlier today after noticing Kripp was playing it. Hope I get in, but they're probably backlogged to hell as of today. It already said it would take up to 3 days to receive a reply email. Like, you don't even get an immediate confirmation email to check that you put in the right email address. Hopefully it turns out good and improves quickly as it goes. Because while I like Hearthstone, the thing that holds it back for me the most is lack of format variety among other things like tournament-mode which is supposed to come later this year. You've basically just got standard and wild ranked, but I don't play wild, brawl, and arena. Brawl is cute, but not really engaging, and arena is still pretty good, but has gotten stale, even with the recent changes. I want things like sealed events, competitive PvP drafts, etc. Currently the only mode in the game is 1v1 constricted. Also you should absolutely play brawl in hearthstone at least for the first win each week. Currently the only mode in the game is 1v1 constricted. Also you should absolutely play brawl in hearthstone at least for the first win each week. Oh the wording on that sentence was weird. I meant to say mainly that I don't play wild. I do play brawl and arena though, and brawl at least for the win each week usually. But I don't like repeating brawls after that - there's not much point unless it's a situation like the heroic brawls or whatever. Oh the wording on that sentence was weird. I meant to say mainly that I don't play wild. I do play brawl and arena though, and brawl at least for the win each week usually. But I don't like repeating brawls after that - there's not much point unless it's a situation like the heroic brawls or whatever. I'm 70% excited to have a chance to play and 30% nervous this will wreck my appreciation for Magic. The UI is mostly there, and the collection mechanics look just fine assuming the progress to mythics is no worse than progress to legendaries for Hearthstone accounting for the necessity of getting 4 ofs. If it's way more than that, forget about it. Also a little nervous about matches no longer being best-of-3. I tried getting into the magic games, tried the online one, the 2014 one and duels, I just feel that they are not as engaging as the real thing. This looks like fun, but my only worry is the addition of new mechanics two times a year. That goes for the card game and the PC game though, it has been ages since I played : Click to expand... One of the things I notice is that the digital games lack a good UI, and I know its due to the ton of info in the game's mechanics. But cant they, for example, make a 2D hand? Im looking at gameplay and the curved 3D hand design seems like it is worse than the way Gwent and Hearthstone do it Click to expand... Out of these starter decks, the Dino red green is definitely my favorite. Once it gets going it can destroy all your opponents creatures each turn. It looks like they got rid of the Friday packs they used to give out. Previously everyone would get 2 ixalan packs and 2 rivals of ixalan packs every Friday. Unlike duels it has the full card set for each expansion and currently features the 4 most recent expansions. I signed up back in September and was priority access through duels. I contacted support and they gave me a key within a day. Then a week later I got my actual key, which is why I had the one to give away. I signed up back in September and was priority access through duels. I contacted support and they gave me a key within a day. Then a week later I got my actual key, which is why I had the one to give away. It's certainly arguable that all of these CCGs are unreasonable money sinks, but this one specifically has to be pointed out as the worst one by far. Like I never can tell if hearthstone or elder scrolls legends is more generous. Elder Scrolls give you more free stuff, but Hearthstone requires less stuff to make a good deck. MtG Arena both noticeably requires way more cards to make a good deck than either of them, and is way slower at giving you good free stuff than either of them. It's certainly arguable that all of these CCGs are unreasonable money sinks, but this one specifically has to be pointed out as the worst one by far. Like I never can tell if hearthstone or elder scrolls legends is more generous. Elder Scrolls give you more free stuff, but Hearthstone requires less stuff to make a good deck. MtG Arena both noticeably requires way more cards to make a good deck than either of them, and is way slower at giving you good free stuff than either of them. Hearthstone is extremely stingy. You're right that it requires fewer cards to make a tier 1 deck, but Magic is also a much better designed game than Hearthstone and you can actually play with reasonable success without a tier 1 deck. Eternal is the gold standard of F2P CCG games when it comes to free rewards. The economy in the game is also awful and made worse by the new update. I agree with everyone here about this system being terrible. However the deck size in magic is twice what hearthstone is and you need 4 of each card rather than 2 of each card like in hearthstone. Despite this, it has a system far stingier than hearthstone. It's certainly arguable that all of these CCGs are unreasonable money sinks, but this one specifically has to be pointed out as the worst one by far. Like I never can tell if hearthstone or elder scrolls legends is more generous. Elder Scrolls give you more free stuff, but Hearthstone requires less stuff to make a good deck. MtG Arena both noticeably requires way more cards to make a good deck than either of them, and is way slower at giving you good free stuff than either of them. Elder scrolls legends is far more generous. Especially when they first introduced twitch drops. Those were absolutely insane. If I wanted to, I can craft every single card in the new Morrowind expansion without buying a single pack. That being said I think Hearthstone gets way too much flack. The no duplicate legendary change has been a god send.
