I've tried to get into it but there's something about it that just makes it difficult to get into. I think it's got a lot to do with the fact that you really lose a lot in the translation when you put card games into digital format. When the person has to actually OWN the card, it makes it special. Of course I'm a longtime MTG player, so YMMV.

I played it a ton when I got into the closed beta, but I haven't touched it in a while. It's really fun, and I love card games, I just haven't been making time for it lately. I probably won't get too into it for fear that I'll spend all my money on card packs, haha.

Docjoe, it's in open beta now, you should be able to get in!

Been playing for a while and I love it! The first game I've ever been able to beat my boyfriend at

yes and I love the crap out of it. I only play arena though.

I have played lots of MTG and I think hearthstone is much friendlier to a casual/entry level player although part of that is because its new and MTG has been aroudn so long that the number of mechanicsand the way some of them interact in the stack has made it a little complex.

My husband plays constructed and its a lot more convenient than having to own physical cards, without the obnoxious pricing of MTG online (pricing is very reasonable IMO - and if you can get good enough to win 6-7 games in arena, you can pretty much bankroll your entire constructed decks with arena games). But that's us, we don't like owning physical goods in general - if we can get it digital that's how we want it.

I can see where people who like the "collectible" aspect of MTG wouldn't like going digital but for us its nearly perfect. If only they'd fix that stupid position switching bug. I've lost games to that bug.

Do you guys find better success in ranked or casual? I heard of some people having better luck in beginner ranked because apparently a lot of people with op decks go into casual.

Well if you're relying on luck I suppose that the low end ranks are more consistently easy, but in general unranked players are playing with the basic decks so that's that. For us the rule is - if you don't have a lot of powerful non-basic cards, you play unranked, but once you do if you play unranked you're being a d*ck

so yeah, there are some d*cks in unranked, but its not THAT common because there's no reward for playing unranked with a powerful deck besides beating people who can't possibly compete with you. If Ijust want to knock out a quest or something I throw together a mostly basic deck and play unranked./

And for Docjoe the beta is now open, all ya have to do is go to battle.net and download

Im trying to. but im confused. Ive never played card games before so I don't get it. My daughter used to play card games a lot so she's much better at it than I am.

I spend most of my time just enjoying the voice overs and jokes LOL

there are a lot of you tube videos where people will play games and explain why they make certain choices or play certain cards. I learned to play Magic by having that done in real life (my husband and his friend would just talk me through what they were doing and why) and then when HS came out my husband and I would play every game together and talk through what we were thinking about various cards. It helped a lot

There's a lot of community sites, podcasts and even livestreams on twitch that can teach you a lot about how to play. I love listening to The Angry Chicken Podcast. There are websites with deck lists using only the basic free cards (Hearthpwn), and Trump does great livestreams where he talks about why he plays each card.

I enjoy it a lot but it runs really badly on my machine.