The “most” intellectually engaging part of the game, not “this is an intellectually engaging game”. You need to learn to read in full sentence.
See, this type of exchange is what the game doesn’t offer.
I might have been misunderstood. Let make clarify myself: for what concerns me, there is nothing intellectually engaging in the game AND the forum. And that means that “most” part of nothing is still nothing.
There’s loads of other things you could do other than the listed activities.
-Continue playing ranked
-Play meme decks in casual
-Wild format serious ranked
-Continue playing ranked
-Single player, there’s a ton of content there and a good mix of free and paid stuff
-Wild format meme decks
-Why stop playing ranked after hitting “a certain rank”?
Meme decks in wild casual isn’t fun because I’m a net deck player. Not strong at creating my own deck, and if I wanted meme decks from the net I would have continued with net deck to rank in wild.
So I continue to play ranked wild again, but stop because secret mage is boring after a while.
so I try adventure mode which is not rng, but just minimal content and quickly completed. And there’s no replayability.
So I try standard ranked and got bored of ladder at Low rank when I can do high rank ladder in wild with more variety. So repeat step 1.
The most intellectual part of the game is guessing thee
“wait for it!” moment.
And by that I mean - how am I going to lose this match? Although it doesn’t take much intellect to do.
Playing against a spell hunter using secrets and they drop Subject 9.
Ah okay, this is a Zuljin is OP deck. So I have to play this game out until he drops Zuljin which will make at least 2 wyverns, deal 4 damage cast 5 secrets etc etc etc.
Maybe it will be Embiggen Druid where the Druid cast Embiggen in the begging along with SideQuest cast 10 points of Minions. Then at turn 6 - 8 the Quest Completes and during that time the Druid plays Emerald Dragon. Summons either a 7/7 rush or two 5/5 rush and and the Winged Guardian. Oh? You can’t counter this? Guess I win on cue again.
Play against a Mage and you haven’t won by turn 7 and they drop a Mountain Giant.
Ah, this is where they cast Conjurers Calling or drop Khadgar and the cast Conjurers Calling and have full board of 8/8 giants and 7/8 taunts. Either way this is
what always happens. The intellectual part of Hearthstone. Knowing how the game is going to end by turn 3 already.