Hearthstone

Ooh, this game is fun and annoying at the same time. Blizzard finally made an update to the game to allow it to be played on the iPad, soon it'll be available for the iPhone later on this year. This is a card game for those who don't know about it.


You play as the heroes of Warcraft: Malfurion Stormrage (The Druid), Rexxar (The Hunter), Jaina Proudmoore (The Mage), Uther the Lightbringer (The Paladin), Anduin Wrynn (The Priest), Valeera Sanguinar (The Rogue), Thrall (The Shaman), Gul'Dan (The Warlock), and Garrosh Hellscream (The Warrior). Each having their own specific class cards with a combination of neutral cards to throw out to your opponent. I feel that both the Hunter and the Priest are the strongest characters to play as because of the specials they get.

So the objective of the game is to get your opponent's health down to zero. You're both at Thirty. Each player has a number of "gems" you gain one per round. Each card you play has a number of gems you can use. So let's say, you have three gems available to use, but the card you want to play is at five. So you have to wait two more rounds  to play that card. Or one, depending on if you have a card that grants you a gem for that round.

Your cards do different things, whether your card allows you to pull off a spell, gives you a minion, gives your minions abilities, heals you, gives you a weapon, etc. Your minions have health as well, and an attack power. So let's say you have a Murloc minion, he has like two health and one attack power. So you can use that minion to either attack the hero of your opponent, or a minion for one health since its attack power is one. You can give your minions more attack power or more health with a spell card that grants your minions this abilities for more power and more intimidation for your opponent. The only case where you can't attack the hero is if they have a minion that grants taunt. You HAVE to attack them, you can't attack anything else unless you go after the minion(s) who have taunt. It's a bit of an annoyance when they continue healing it or gives it more health or it has more attack power and you don't have anything in your artillery to get rid of it for one round.

You also have Legendaries. This is where the game gets more annoying. I have in my possession a golden Elite Tauren Chieftan card (because I watched Blizzcon) most of the time, I can tell this shocks the other player because you can see that they have their mouse scrolled over the card or they allow their hero to say, "Well Played." Yeah, I forgot to mention that you can have your heroes say stuff to your opponent. So anyways, I have this card (and one other Legendary called the Beast). This card gives not only me another card to play with, but it also gives my opponent a card as well. Sometimes they get a card that's better than the card I got. E.T.C. gives out either "Rogues Do It," in which it allows me to deal four damage to anyone I want, "I Am Murloc" where it allows you to have three, four or five 1/1 Murlocs to be summoned for you, or "Power of the Horde," where it gives you a random Horde hero to fight by your side. Most of the time, I get "Rogues Do It," and most of the time, it's a very useless card in my opinion, while the other side gets a better card (Mostly "I Am Murloc"). The other Legendary I mentioned is called "The Beast." It's a 9 attack, seven health legendary that summons a 3/3 Finkle Einhorn when it's defeated for the opponent. So you see, Legendaries can also backfire.

But note, I have E.T.C. golden version...

Glorious.

There's a heck of a lot more stuff that goes with Hearthstone, and I feel like if I continue, it'll take away the fun for you to learn on your own. It's not that hard to play, it's really simple. If you like card battling games as well as Warcraft, this game is definitely for you. If you're not into it, then don't get it. But it's highly addicting, even though at times it's frustrating. So yeah.

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