![]() I’d gotten to know the storeowner Steve very well, and we used to chat regularly - usually about video games. I was a regular at a particularly awesome local comic book store that also stocked a huge variety of games. The process of getting into the game took me back to when I first saw Magic the Gathering in early ’94. I’ve been hooked on Hearthstone since late last year. Needless to say, the person who runs out of health first doesn’t emerge the victor. And that's because it's an absolute masterpiece of strategy, bluffing, timing, gamesmanship, and luck that you can sometimes manipulate.īoth Hearthstone and MTG play the same way: two players duke it out by summoning creatures and casting spells to beat the snot out of one another, while craftily deploying disruptive magic to thwart their opponent's strategy while advancing their own. ![]() Them might be fightin' words, but I’ve spent the last two decades playing the game, and have never become tired of it. It’s inspired by the physical collectible card game Magic the Gathering, which I consider to be one of the greatest games ever conceived. ![]() Hearthstone, if you’ve been living under one for the last year, is Blizzard’s finely crafted digital collectible card game. Oh crap! I'll be wanting to play my favorite game all the time, everywhere. Great! I can now play my favorite game any time, anywhere. It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve had quite the mixture of utter delight and abject horror as I did this morning when I found out that Hearthstone is now available to play on iPad. ![]() Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. ![]() This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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