#m2c

And I'll have to explain myself before I go on. I play the TCG world like a hobbyist and a theorist. I by no means am an expert but I'm also trying to get into the world of card games so I can explain myself better in this sense that what I'm seeing in the gaming world might be a twist but also a punch to traditional card game acquirement. I'll explain this part of how the two are different.

Though one quick note. As of the making of this M2C (Date: 02/14/20), it's in Beta Mode so this can be altered. Please look into this before commenting.

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In the game of Hearthstone (Hearthstone, Heroes of Warcraft) got three ways to gain card packs. The shop, Though Packs, and from crafting.

In Card Packs, you by boosters of five cards per that have a range of common, uncommon, rare, and legendary. Each of these rarities of cards is selected at random. To obtain them you'll need gold or your own money to gain them.

You can only get one pack if you got one-hundred Gold by the way. For two and more you'll need your real-life cash to obtain them.

In the shop you can get the following: Card Packs (mentioned earlier.); Bundles so you can get Packs, Hero skins, card backs, and a legendary(require real cash only.); Adventures (If you want multiple wings of an adventure you'll need real money while one wing at a time can be gained from real money or gold.), and Wilds, (Wild Packs: Money or Gold, Wild Adventures: Money only)

This might as well be a good time to explain gold before going into crafting. You gain it from battles (every trio of wins in Play mode, Tavern Brawls, and Battlegrounds), Quests (Dailies that reward fifty gold and more or it can vary on the quest that isn't as often.), Arena (Price is one-hundred and fifty gold. It's the gauntlet where it's three strikes and your out but the max wins is twelve, meaning fourteen games max. Though you can still win gold and packs so it can work.), and Heroic Tavern Brawls (It's like Arena but its entrance is a thousand gold and while you gain gold, it's not as viable.)

Crafting has it's own system which is mostly... Arcane Dust. Dust for short. If you decide to not get the card then you can decide to turn cards into dust...though it'll be pricey to get the card in the first place. (Eight times for Common, five times for Uncommon, and four times for Rare and Legendary) though you can snag a bit of dust within Arena and Ranked Chests (the end of season gift).

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With Runeterra (Legends of Runeterra), you have various ways to get cards for free *Hears gasps in the background.* PROVIDED that you know what to do. The ways you earn them are like this: Weekly, Adventure, Draft, and Craft.

Each week [Starting from a Tuesday] you gain EXP to level up the Vault which levels up based on how much you've done over the week. You can get a variety of cards in groups of ten (so far seen. Also Boosters like normal!), shards, and Drafting Coins (expedition Tokens). If you got the max of certain cards they can become Shards.

Next so far is the Tracks which is many going from the Prologue to regional (There's one per region so it is so far six) which it will take time to get through since the EXP trap is in them and while you can earn Regional specific Cards you obtain Wild Cards and Shards.

An expedition is the Draft Mode where there's a select number of cards you can pick from and you pick your poison before going into battle. More wins, More rewards. (Though you can only do this three times before you gain nothing afterward.) It cost three hundred coins, three thousand Shards or a Draft Token.

Shards and Wildcards are, in a sense, the Crafting system of this game. With Wildcards, you can get certain cards of a certain rarity. Shards are kind of your basic cash: higher price will equal higher rarity cards.

You can pay directly through to the game but here's what you'll be paying for here: Starter Bundle (11 per region housing 6Common,4Uncommon, and a rare.) and Wild Cards (6 per week for Common & Uncommon plus 3 per week for Rare & Champion)

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The reason why I'm mixed is that I come from a line of physical and digital card games. I'll roll how I consider some of this: In the past I consider Card Packs to not lie about their rarity and I know that a rare card was a rare card and it wasn't given a fancy name so in a sense, one can tell I whiffed the names of the rarity of cards in the games mentioned. But in seriousness, I wish that they were honest about their card rarity and while I will take an L when it comes to physical cards when getting certain cards, with digital I hope that there's a better way to take an L when getting boosters or the like.

For the record in Hearthstone has Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary while in Runeterra has Common, Rare, Epic and Champion. I played card games for quite a time and will say that it feels like it's kind of sad card games of current time are scared to say Uncommon and that I will also say that I like knowing that I can get random cards per pack like in a real card game but wish that games won't be ashamed to admit that they got cards between rare and common and not promise that you'll get a so-called rare since to me at least it means you'll always get uncommon in those games...which shouldn't be the case.

I'll end this with a bit of a wish with the newest game to arrive. With Runeterra's beta, I hope that they do allow you to get cards desired if you got enough for a deck's max limit (usually 3.) to allow you to turn extra cards into currency. Though also try to give an honest gameplay boost by battling. I'd recommend something but that's for another time.

Thus I'll let you speak up. What is on your mind with this card game trend?