WarDeck

I switched to this game after becoming frustrated with the bloat and lack of control in Once Upon a Galaxy, another free-to-play, deck-building game. The advantage to this game is that you have complete control over which cards are in your deck, allowing you to craft synergies between them and watch your engine work or fail in short, addictive sessions. Personally, I'm not bothered by the AI elements as long as they are internally consistent and pleasant to look at, which in this case they are. I think that if players approach this as a casual gaming experience they'll enjoy it a lot more than if they expect to get a premium deckbuilder like Slay the Spire or Monster Train for free. For me, this game has been a nice way to take mental mini-breaks when I need them.

You will lose matches and continue to lose matches until you start opening card packs, because you get thrown into the deep end if you queue normally. [b]Play the Adventure Mode first.[/b] This is absolutely crucial to having a good experience. The tutorial only seems to guide you through making a deck, but they should definitely inform the player that they should start with Adventure Mode, [b][i]not[/i][/b] with the shiny blue [b]Play[/b] button. The card sort dropdowns in the Collection don't work, like at all, so no filtering except by name with the search bar. The card spacing in the Collection is also manually set to 5 cards per row, resulting in terrible wastes of space on an ultrawide. Card text effects like Divine Shield are not explained on mouseover for whatever reason. The main menu is soft-capped at 30 fps (rises whenever you trigger an animation, it's truly bizarre). There's no way to directly go to where you open packs from the menu where you go to buy packs, not even using the back button; that just takes you back to the main menu. Balance is an absolute joke. Basically all the viable builds as far as I can tell revolve around either weird interactions be…

First, obviously the art is AI. But all the card art looks clean and touched up. As far as I can tell, there is one person running this show and I'm not going to begrudge them using AI art for their free game. I tried out WarDeck because it was free to play and looked interesting. I was honestly surprised at how much I like it. There is no deck and no drawing cards. All of the strategy is in setup. You choose what cards you want and what order they activate in. Goal is to wipe out opponents cards before you lose all of yours. There's a good amount of choice in card abilities and synergies you can pick from. I've almost capped out on the number of decks I can have made at one time. The beginning is the hardest part. You get in game currency for winning games, so it takes a little while to be able to afford card packs. Once you start getting new cards though, everything gets smoother. There are a handful of PVE fights as well which will also get you some in game currency, but some of those can also be pretty challenging. It's worth the time to try it out.

This is a good game that actually has a little PvE mode to get you started with your deck. lots of simple little elements at play here that really come together to make a pretty good TCG imo. If you like these kinds of games then you should find some good enjoyment out of it.

Simple and time-saving game. If you complete all the adventures at the beginning you will have enough gold to buy packs. You will also have a lot of gold from the quests. So during the first hour of playing you will have enough cards to experiment with what to play. Don't be discouraged if you meet a strong deck that blows you away. It's only a matter of time before you have your best deck. At the same time, keep in mind that the game is new and in development.

no real strategy, just line up seven cards and hope they beat your opponents seven cards