hello.
I didn’t write a blog post in ages, and I’m sorry for that
today, we’re gonna compare 2 different, cool in their own ways games.
- hearthstone
- MTG (arena)
so, let’s get started.
does the board matter?
mtg: yes, but with an asterisk, there’s a lot of board clears though but matches are still decided by who has the most creatures (known as minions in hearthstone for my hs friends out there)
hearthstone: though, has negligible amount of board clears, and when you set a full board up, expect to win.
in MTGA you have to time your removal or risk getting outplayed.
mana systems, base of the game
hearthstone’s mana system is grossly simple compared to MTG’s
you start at 1 mana, and it goes up to 10.
in MTG you play lands, which tap for mana. you draw the power from the land.
there’s no upper limit,
it’s not all roses and sunshine, though, as if you put too many lands? you are gonna draw only lands.
too little? you won’t have enough to play your big stuff.
I had both happen to me.
let’s talk about blocking, which is cool
an other cool feature of MTG is blocking.
the best way to explain is, your creature can block, if it didn’t attack this turn, and the creatures fight, if your opponent’s creature has trample, you get remainder of it’s atk as damage, if not, it’s fully blocked.
free to play friendliness
let’s be honest, hearthstone beats MTG here.
in MTG you get 200/100 gold per win, you need 1000 to buy a pack. duplicate protection exists, but you can’t disenchant cards anyway.
wildcards exist but I still didn’t figured out how to get them.
they are just rarity of the cards, rare, common, mythic, obviously not categorized by rarity here but you know.
wildcards let you craft a card of the rarity of the wirldcard.
let’s continue further, hearthstone’s dust system is good.
you disenchant a card, you get 30% of it’s dust value back.
legendary cards cost 1600
epics 400
rares I forgot how much but commons 40
let’s wrap it up!
both games have advantages, and disadvantages
I like them both, and I recommend everyone try both.