In other words, you put up with a billion click throughs or you give away a ton of info to your opponent. Like, you can select 'full control' which means every possible stop always triggers, or you can click 'auto' which means it will automatically skip every phase you don't have a spell to cast in. The phases are more clunky than MTGO, and they're not very customizable yet. They are also slightly desaturated which helps a little, but not enough. Taps are at a 30 degree angle, instead of 90 like MTGO, again, I think to simulate paper, but it does make it slightly harder to tell what's tapped and what's not. Cards are all 'half cards' only showing artwork and power/toughness on the battlefield. This has been brought up frequently and hopefully it gets fixed. There's currently a stupid giant avatar head in the middle of your play area that makes it hard to click on your cards instead of the stupid giant head. Which is good for making things similar, and bad for letting you see all the cards super clearly. The UI of playing is definitely designed to more closely resemble a physical game than MTGO does. Several of us mathed it out and came up with it being approximately 13x LESS generous than Hearthstones when you factored in the differences between the two games and card pools.įortunately they scrapped that nonsense. I'll just say that it was bad enough that literally 95% of the posts on the closed beta forums were about how much the progression system sucked.

The old progression system was complete garbage, but it's gone now, so there's not much point in focusing on it. There was supposed to be an account wipe and a switch over to the new progression system today, but that hasn't happened yet. So I've been in the closed Beta for awhile now and they just dropped the NDA today.

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