Ah yes, the art. Especially since some of it was borderline porn, and one of the official artists supposedly made Rule 34 of some of the characters on the side.
Magic and Hearthstone are both great games - I do think Magic has one advantage, however. That is that Magic cards can be sold and traded; and many of them tend to gain quite a bit of value over the years.
Interesting factoid: MTG is literally a $250m per year economy.
@PAK215: Agreed about the complexity and that's the main reason I can't get into Hearthstone. The fact that I can do nothing on my opponent's turn and can't choose my blockers removes too much of the strategy that actually makes Magic fun.
@Jo Pereira: go try Magic Duels. FTP online Magic a-la Hearthstone. It's only two sets old now, so the format is still wonky, but works as a magic fix all too well.
@PAK215: There's people who play for fun and people who just want to win non-stop. The tryhards can spend all their income however they want, and casuals can play it as slow and inefficiently as they want.
@AlmightySpoonman: I was introduced to Magic before Invasion, but I didn't seriously get into it until Mirrodin. My deck was infamous at my school, I used Memnarch and people dreaded me. I spent so much time and money perfecting that deck, but sadly someone stole all my cards about a year ago.
I never got into MtG, I think it was a combination of not knowing where to start and not having anyone to play with. I wouldn't mind an art book filled with all the art they've used over the years, though.
@Jo Pereira: You can. Very slowly and inefficiently. And if you want to make multiple decks with multiple legendaries, you either have to spend good money, get really lucky, or grind for months. And once you have the cards, you can't sell them. It is cheaper, but it's still spending money on nothing
@Kamasu Tra: I don't think the problem is intrinsic to Hearthstone, but rather the fact that you are playing on a global ladder. Though, the fact that Hearthstone is relatively inexpensive contributes to it as well.
@Aaron Chan: for every broken combo, there is an equally broken counter, usually one that is a lot easier to pull off. Whereas a Doctor Boom, or Bloodlust Shaman only have a few, very specific counters to them.
@Aaron Chan: The biggest problem I have with Hearthstone is that if you are not playing netdecks, then you are not competitive, in any format. MTG has a bunch of different ways to play that allow all sorts of decks and playstyles to be viable. Sure, some are annoying to deal with (Stasis Decks), but
As for crafting vs trading, there are advantages and disadvantages. On one hand, in a trading system you can trade a good legendary for another good legendary 1 for 1. On the other hand, you aren't going to be able to trade 4 junk legendary for a good one, like you can with crafting.
@PAK215: Honestly, I never understood that argument. Hearthstone's deck size is significantly smaller. That, and the fact that there's no land cards, drastically reduces the amount of randomness involved. It's almost like that the devs introduced other sources randomness to make up for this.
For a while, I thought about giving up Magic for Hearthstone, but I just can't deal with the amount of luck artificially inserted into the game, the lack of complexity, the need to pay money for cards that you can't ever trade for other cards, and being unable to easily get specific cards.
@The J Man
Yeah, slivers are powerhouses when you get enough of them out. Which is why I tend to keep a side deck with some of the artifact slivers, just in case... well save for when the opponent is using those new slivers that have "All slivers you control have ___" kills my ability to bum power.
I built this really cool black/green graveyard deck. The more creatures are in my graveyard, the stronger my creatures in play are.
Keradi01
about 10 years ago
Wow, an MTG joke. I always appreciate them, but know that so many people never will get them.
I agree though, I loved MTG a lot and spent a nearly half my life and an ungodly amount of money on it, but with Hearthstone I really cannot see myself going back to it at the moment.
@Rodrigo Emanuel
That is a Black Lotus from the very first set of the card game Magic the Gathering. Due to some truely broken combos it is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
I always loved my sliver deck. Especially with the creation of Gemhide Slivers it was a really neat deck! From either mass summoning Small slivers or beefing the hell out of my strong slivers it was a damn cool deck to boot!
What was your guys' favorite block from MTG? Mine is still the original Mirrodin (Mirrodin, Darksteel, Fifth Dawn)
I love all the artifact synergy! I even remember a deck I made that used Auriok Salvagers, Grinding Station, and Mishra's Bauble to mill the opponents deck. Good times!
