02-17-2014, 12:34 AM
(02-16-2014, 07:20 PM)Frag Wrote: I must disagree about instants, I simply don't think they game is set up for them at all. Here is to hoping I'm wrong.
I don't believe you will ever see active interactions between players on turns in Hearthstone. The closest you will come to Instants (as they exist in MTG) is if they expand further on the Secret class of cards. Which I am sure they will do.
For me that is where a lot of the present limitation with Hearthstone lies. 90% of the lifting duty is tied to creatures and that means for a creature to be viable it has to have the possibility to give card advantage. It's generally not good enough to just be mana efficient. Then you look at the ways in which a card can offer card advantage in Hearthstone and you are so slim in viable options.
I guess it all comes down to how hard they are willing to break open the conventions of the game. How many types of combos are they willing to allow? Would they be willing to create Secret cards that would be the equivalent of say a Draining Whelk?