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Originally Posted by Maridu
ty much for replies. I love card games but nobody can explain what this one is about, or what magic is about for that matter lol!
If you're not familiar with Magic or Pokemon, it's kind of hard to explain. But I'll try.
There are 9 different heroes in the game, each with a different ability.
You and your opponent each start with a hero with 30 life and a deck of 30 cards. Each turn, you can play one or more cards. The basic card types are spells, minions, and weapons. The minions get placed on a central board. Each minion has an attack value and a health value. Your minions can attack your opponents minions or can attack your opponent's hero. A minion deals the amount of attack listed on the card and survives as long as it's health is greater than zero. In general, you aren't required to attack your opponent's minions (though there are exceptions), but you may wish to do so to prevent your opponent from having minions on the board. The goal of the game is to bring the enemy hero down to zero life.
Spells are more complicated. They can deal damage to minions or to the enemy hero, draw cards, buff your minions and the like.
Weapons get attached to the hero and allow the hero to attack.
It's a "collectible card game." You are given a basic set of cards and earn more cards as you level each of the 9 heroes up. Eventually, you'll unlock all 133 "basic" cards. As you play, you earn gold by winning and completing quests. With the gold, you can "pay" for expansion packs, which are additional cards that you can add to your collection. There have been several expansions that have increased the total number of unique cards to 698, so you can create a lot of different 30 card decks from the 698 available cards. You can also pay for packs with real money.
That's the gist of it, but it gets a lot more complex than that, as there are many different effects that interact with each other and with your opponent.
As for why to play it, the variety of cards and heroes can make this game very diverse. You can play super aggressive, super conservative, or anywhere in between. The 9 different heroes each play very differently, It makes you think, solve puzzles, and plan ahead.
The best advice I have is to download the Hearthstone client and try it. It's free to play. You'll be pitted against the computer's AI first and it will run you through a tutorial of how to play the game. As the tutorial proceeds, it teaches you more and more card types.
If you like the game, then proceed to learn how to play each class and how to build a deck for each class via this basic guide:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...cbVjzHsnH9PjDX