I feel like I must speak out because, even though I've never played hearthstone and honestly probably never will, I must speak out for my favorite game of all time because I feel like it was unjustly judged in this tier list

The fact that magic wasn't even picked frustrates me even more the fact that they chose hearthstone and not Magic the gathering when they were deciding on a strategic card game to decide to put in the list somewhere frustrates me to a certain degree.

Magic is the original card game it came out before everything else it started the idea of strategic card games. And I heard them mentioned several times that hearthstone is so dear to people due to its lore and I feel like I must put out there that magic the gathering has books about its lore every single card has a little quote on it and it has lore that are around the individual characters and the scenes that are depicted in the cards as well as the land that is used to cast spells in that game. Their entire mechanics that appear in the different sets of that game that are fully created from the story that is going on in the background of that game.

Magics story is something that has been ever growing since the beginning of its creation. . . And once again I know nothing about hearthstone so I'm not entirely sure how you obtain more cards in hearthstone but from what Mark said I assume that the only way to obtain new cards is to buy them which sounds ridiculous to me. . . They also didn't even mention magic Arena which is basically the hearthstone version of magic. . . And it's something I play 24/7 because it's so fun. . . you don't have to spend money to gain cards or items or anything in that game you just have to win matches in other words if you want to obtain the cosmetics or obtain new cards you kind of have to win meaning you get rewarded for getting better at the game basically

Also as long as you're winning it will constantly reward you with cards and cosmetics. However I feel like the biggest point I want to make is that the criteria on how they judged it is kind of flawed. They put it low because it loses what makes it good by being a digital version which I don't agree with, the deck building is still there, the collecting of cards is still there, and the strategic aspect is still there the only thing missing is owning the physical cards which is something that you can also do if you want. It's just owning the physical cards is a really expensive endeavor I personally have a ridiculous amount of them but at some point I realized that that was such a costly endeavor to keep buying cards every time new sets came out new cards came out new mechanics and everything I'd have to build new decks to participate in standards and other things it became a massive money pit. It also became a struggle to keep playing physically mostly because the only place I can play is tournaments and there's not really any in my town so I'm just collecting cards for the purpose of collecting cards.

The digital version of magic changed that, I can now collect cards deck build and fight against opponents and I don't even have to leave my home or spend any more money. I feel like you have to judge the card trading games not by the criteria that they judge them by but by the criteria of how free those games are because their strategic games of their core meaning how many strategies can you truly come up with how complicated are the games themselves how easy it is to understand those complications how ridiculous can you make those games and I feel like magic checks all of those boxes the things you're capable of doing in Magic the gathering is mind-blowing.

you can play the surface of that game and it's super fun but you can also go super deep into the mechanics of the game and find out how to treat the game like your own strategic war board and completely outplay your opponent at every step it's like a more advanced version of Chess and it's ridiculously fun to outplay your opponent and it's ridiculously fun to be out played to after a match analyze what just happened and realize how completely you were defeated and understand how much more your opponent was ahead of you than it seemed at the time. Magic and games like it strategy card games in general are a whole nother League of just intrigue and you have to be into that type of complicated and strategic interaction to really understand how good of a game that is I feel like magic the gathering is S tier in its category of strategic card games and I feel like hearthstone doesn't deserve to be put above it. Once again I've never played it, actually I may have played it a while ago I feel like I played it on the PlayStation because I couldn't play Magic digitally and I wanted to play a strategic card game and I hated hearthstone and I don't remember why but I do know that I never played more than three matches of that game before deciding that I didn't like it and I don't remember why I didn't like it but I didn't play very much of it so I don't really know much about hearthstone. So that game could just be bad, regardless of how many people like it. It's also possible that the reason I disliked hearthstone was because it was more constricted than magic magic is extremely complicated and extremely simple at the same time it is a game of infinite possibility though not every strategy you come up with will be viable you can do practically anything in that game. . . Hell there's someone on YouTube who built an entire computer in the game. Magic deserves S tier 100% as there's really no other game that comes close to how good that game is at what it does. And I feel like that was how we were judging games in the tier list is how good they are in their respective category or what they are trying to do and Magic is peerless in accomplishing its goal in doing what it wants to do as the game.

In other words. . . Magic the Gathering should have been on this list instead of hearthstone and it should have been S tier