I avoided WoW The Card Game for the longest time. I have been sucked into collectible card games before and spent a lot of cash on booster packs hoping for the right cards and getting stiffed only to return to the store later that same week and plop down another chunk of change for more. The last thing I wanted to do was get yet another shoebox full of plains, psyduck, brujah vampires, red talon allies, islands and mountains. (yes, I’ve got boxes of weak/common TCG cards)
I recently started playing Lord of the Rings the living card game after taking the better part of a year being convinced it was not yet another TCG. I really like the LCG format; no rare cards, no arms race for the best cards, no packing your deck with umpteen copies of the same killer card. The format is great. A new adventure deck shows up every so often and it has all the same cards. The game is infinitely repayable since you can craft different decks with different abilities.
Cryptozic seems to be taking WoW:TCG in the same direction with the class starter decks and the dungeon decks. This change was enough to convince me to give the WoW card game a try.
I started out with the standard player vs player duel and the game plays very similar to Magic. After that I tried out the dungeon deck. Scarlet Monastery is my second favorite instance in the game, Black Rock Depths is my favorite and would be a must buy if/when Cryptozoic makes it.
The dungeon deck is a fantastic game. Game play is very similar to the Lord of the Rings the card game with players cooperating to beat the dungeon rather than smacking each other around. I didn’t want to like this game, but I do.
I’m not going to get sucked into buying tons of boosters but I will probably buy a few more class starter decks and another dungeon or two. I hope Cryptozoic keeps moving toward the LCG format.
