What other card games are players moving to?

[Zee-1630]

@Player-136478

Is there a game that has less RNG and luck?

I am constantly on the lookout for a satisfactory replacement for Hearthstone, but I have yet to find one.

For me, Marvel Snap, Legends of Runeterra, Eternal, Shadowverse, Faeria, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and Gwent all fell very short, which is why I am still here playing Hearthstone, despite Hearthstone’s issues of powercreep, broken cards, bad RNG, and a plethora of non-interactive decks.

Marvel Snap held my attention longer than most the other card games, but this was my conclusion about the game:

@Zee-1116

Just wanted to sum up my take on Marvel Snap for anyone that was curious about the game, now that I have played MS enough to form some opinions.

1). The game can be played with a very casual approach by just focusing on completing missions and spending gold to renew missions, and still reach past Rank 50 each month before the ranks get reset.

2). MS is too simple of a game to be an adequate replacement for Hearthstone for most HS players.

3). 12 card decks (with no kind of mulligan) and 6 turns really limits the amount of strategy that can be employed during a match.

4). Too many matches are determined by RNG, and this problem is likely only going to get worse as MS develops, because it’s designed by the same devs that advocated for so much RNG in Hearthstone’s development.

5). With decks being so small and games being so short, the featured card that comes with purchasing the Season Pass often gives P2P players a very significant advantage over F2P players.

For these reasons, I decided to discontinue playing MS after trying the game for 3+ months.

MTG Arena is likely the best quality alternative card game to HS, but I am not willing to invest the kind of money it would take to be competitive into a digital card game with no chance of selling off my cards should I lose interest, like what could be done with a physical CCG.

I have never liked Yu-Gi-Oh as a a physical CCG, so I have never tried Yu-Gi-Oh: Master Duel. Another card game that I have not tried is Card City Nights 2—so I cannot review the game.

Here is an article listing the most popular alternatives to Hearthstone:

https://www.gamesradar.com/games-like-hearthstone/

I checked out Warcraft Rumble to get the card back, and for me the game had even less appeal than Hearthstone’s Mercenaries mode.

Considering that there does not seem to be any good card game alternatives to Hearthstone, it’s in Blizzard’s interest to revamp and fix HS while rebuilding its player base.