Very balanced, with a good learning curve and nicely made tutorials to get you right into the game, alowing you to have some pve missions to get into the rythm of your deck. Nice duel matching system - never opposed someone far better or worse then me.Although it is free to play its not the common "pay to win" - skill and practice actually DO matter and you can make pretty strong deck even with small resourses. The servers are exelent - never had dced even once, fast loading... And the card drawing, they are awesome! The only think needs to be done imho is weakening a bit couple of blue cards, but still, i have to say i hate blue control decks:P.
Anyways, great game, keep the good work!

As a former professional card game player, Spellweaver is by far the best and most challenging CCG/TCG out there I've tried. I see it as an improved version of the world class MTG.
Gameplay is very good and strategically deep, with a large variety of mechanics to play around with. The hero cards add depth to deck-building and having 6 'colors/factions' opens many possibilities.
The learning curve is a bit high for complete beginners who have never played this kind of games before, but the Devs are improving the new player experience with better tutorials and aid for the beginning players.
Above all, I must sincerely congratulate the Spellweaver Team. They are active and responsive all the time, listen to the community, admit openly when they have failed or gone wrong, patch when needed, and very generous! Kudos! I have never seen such commitment from any other game, in over 20 years of gaming... With a larger player base, Spellweaver will become a long lasting gem in the world of card games.

Sorry for my English;)
The game is gorgeous. The gameplay is quiet similar to the MTG, aesthetics are nice and calm. The main advantage relatively to other digital TCG is a much more generous system of rewards. Here you get three daily quests, you can stack up to six, and do them simultaneously. In addition, every three days, game provides additional epic quest with higher awards. During the game against bots and against the people awarded gold and experience. Moreover, the defeat on Ladder and Friendly award only twice in less than a victory. This greatly helps to relax and not be tied to the outcome of the match, and just playing for pleasure.
As a result, the collection grows very quickly. If we talk about the prices, they are about six times lower than in HS and games with a similar pricing policy.

It feels pretty unbalanced.
Especially the Hero Characters, your starting Heroes are much weaker than the ones you can find in Boosters. Might&Magic Duels of Champions shows that this can be done better.

But my main Problem was that it gets boring pretty soon.
You dont get much cards to begin with and grinding new Cards is not fun because of the Price Tag.
You need 12500 Gold for 10 New random cards, for every Match played you get between 100 and 1000 Gold what depends on lose/win and how well you played.

I played 17 hours now and still dont have all the basic Starter Cards.
Sorry, but fun is something different.

I've been playing for about 4-6 months now, and I've got to say, this is a blast!

Not a clone, just a very well executed game with great mechanics and a variety of cards and strategies to choose from.

If I have any constructive criticism for the game, it would be that we're really missing more in the way of PVE content

i.e. Dungeon instances that you can enter/run once every 2-4 hours that give gold/card rewards - thinking of the old MTG / Shandalar where you could enter a dungeon area and to move around you had to play a card game against a monster in the way. Since you don't have a character to move around, just make it a PVE instance progression bar, make it pretty, and final boss has a chance to drop a card pack or some such.

Food for thought!

Question: is there any plan for an auction house and/or co-op play? I feel so alone in there! :P

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Started out as a great, somewhat innovative game. Over time, the expansions and nerfing of cards has caused it to fundamentally change to the point that much of the game is no longer recognizable.
Played for more than a month as a free-to-play so my rule is I buy some in-game currency...now, I'm wanting that money back because I'm out.

If you haven't played it before, you may enjoy it; if you're considering going back in, leave it alone...starting to feel like MTG, the bad parts of MTG...

Not as complex or rewarding as Magic.
Not as fun or exciting as Hearthstone.
Spellweaver excels at nothing, it just feels mediocere the whole way through. Everything about the game is middle of the road.

Pros

-Beautiful presentation and excellent card designs, the game has a relaxing atmosphere and is a pleasure to play because of this. Small improvements could still be made to the board and ui and display options, such as an improved sorting system for the graveyard.

-Multiple Heroes and Hero Powers, huge advantage in comparison to other card games that only have one hero power and the secondary heroes in this game come with different powers, unlike some card games that have secondary heroes of the same class but the same hero power, Spellweaver is head and shoulders above those other games.

-You can earn xp and progress in the game against the ai, so you aren't forced to play pvp like other card games to earn rewards and more cards for your collection, this gives the player so much more flexibility in how they enjoy the game, not being forced to do something is huge for someone like me, so if you like that freedom you will like this feature even if its benefit has deteriorated in last expansion.

-So much flexibility to your deck building with ability to mix class cards in decks, more deck possibilities than popular card games by far. Great for creative deck building and experimentation.

-Developers constantly working on balancing the game, sometimes good, sometimes bad, also expected expansions on the way with more cards is exciting although this has been a bit disappointing. It is still a positive thing and we are hopeful that the Dev can turn some mistakes around.

- Numerous Diverse quests with satisfying rewards from new card packs and in game currency (gold) to help you develop your card collection to pve quests that reward you for beating particular ai content adding to the gameplay diversity. Could have so much more, we hope to see a campaign and more options vs the ai in the future.

-Ability to play friends and get xp from those matches, other card games don't allow rewards for matches between friends, and this gives Spellweaver the upper hand, as people like to play their friends for fun and not feel like they shouldn't because they wouldn't be rewarded for it.

- three different levels of difficulty vs the ai so you can play at your level, this is huge. Hoping for more in the future here.

-because of the ai flexibility and reward, you aren't forced into pvp against people who may have bigger card collections than you. This takes out the huge issue of matchmaking problems of other card games and is a huge upside in Spellweaver, when you are ready to compete with people then you can, but you aren't forced to as the only way to progress in the game. This is getting harder and harder to do though as the gap widens between active players and casual or new players.

-the game does not punish you for not doing daily quests, because you can simply play the ai at your own pace and level and when you have time to play.

-No restricting limit on how many pre made decks you want to have in your Library, this is massive complaint in other card games, where their developers refuse to increase the deck slots, that is simply not an issue in Spellweaver, you have plenty of deck slots and never worry about it. Absolute pleasure.

-There are tournaments and events for the more competitive spirited, but the casual scene is just so good and relaxing, you just don't have any pressure to play every day, you can enjoy Spellweaver in your own time, this is massive for people with busy lives. But if you want to compete at a high level that is there for you too, with rewards for people who take it to the next level. But you may have to play regularly to stay competitive and even invest a decent amount of money.

-Spectate feature, so you can watch your friends or your favorite tournament matches if you enjoy that.

- The card collecting is fun and when you get a card you don't have with a fun mechanic you get very excited to create a new deck around it to feature that new mechanic and play with it. Such as Dreyla, what an amazing card before they nerf killed it, now it is a very boring card with same powers as other cards, very repetitive and unoriginal like it was pre nerf. Hopefully they fix it.



Cons:

- The cashless transaction ratios in game used to be friendly, now they increased the cost of Heroes and the rarity so it is much harder for new players to get these crucial cards as they open up more fun and deck diversity in the game, not sure why they thought it would be a good idea to make this harder for new players. They also introduced a new rarity that costs 400 Shrines compared to 150 Shrine cost of Epics which were already expensive to acquire. This move really hurts existing casual players and new players.

- Forums are not welcoming of constructive comments to add to their community, unless it is from one of the trusted insider members, they will attack you instead of taking your comments in an intelligent and constructive manner. I have seen this ruin other games and i am concerned over this culture in this game. They block and smash people’s opinions who do not conform to their own line of thinking and the developers happily encourage this.

- Some of the changes made to cards are completely over the top and it splits the community, most times the changes are warranted for balance such as stat balances which are ok, but at times the changes are simply to satisfy their buddies in the community who happen to hate a card that is not over powered at all and does not dominate or ruin the game, the designers will bend at the will of players who are entrenched at the highest level of the community and common sense is thrown out the window. An example of this is breaking a card mechanic simply to satisfy these members. No attempt is made to make the card balanced they simply kill it, even though it was admittedly not over powered in the first place, but simply it was a nuisance (obnoxious) to some players and they hated the card. Which is crazy because many members like the card, and the card is not a dominant card in high level of play or at any level since it is too slow.

- Aggro and Rush decks dominate Spellweaver

- Do not get too attached to a really cool card with a really cool mechanic, chances are they will break the card so it is unrecognizable and completely break their own policy of not banning cards, by simply nerfing them into oblivion. They could adjust stats for balance but they will instead destroy some amazing fun card mechanics for no good reason.

- The forum and community is very close minded about many things and this has a negative impact on the community and the way it interacts with people outside their comfort group.

- Starting Aspect/Faction used to be a choice, now you are forced into one with no choice. That faction might be your least favourite, but it doesn’t matter, they decided that everyone should start with that. Terrible idea. If I was a new player now, I would hate this very much.

- Used to be a generous game for new players and free to play players who could keep up and hope to catch up with top players. Now that is gone, they have changed things to really push you into paying money to progress or be smashed by the others or grind ai for eternity. This was terrible move by developers in recent Expansion.

Bottom Line:

SpellWeaver is still the best Online Collectible Card Game out there, however its showing serious signs that it is heading in a negative direction which will hurt it in the long run and will be harder for newer players to enter unless they are willing to throw large sums of money at the game. Bad but willing to change if devs change the recent negatives.

Nice, fun and in-depth mechanic, and if you like MTG you will definitely love this game.

Worth mentioning too, the game has a quite generous reward system, and it's truly free to play. I even start wondering why these recent reviews say it's pay to win, it's not!

Maybe that's because they are facing and getting stomped by players with a lot of rare cards? I can imagine that being an issue at the moment, but you can also build some pretty effective inexpensive decks.

The art is stunningly beautiful, well done!

Defiintely recommended!

Generous FTP card game, where the game offers you plenty of crumbs/cookies to keep the grind interesting and feeling worthwile. All cards are obtainable as an unpaying player and the PTW effect is limited -very limited if compared to some other FTP games actually-

Game offers a different approach by allowing direct creature to creature attacks. Which is made possible due to a front- and support line differenciation + a unique speed level mechanic. It is a system where creatures can not target faster creatures nor attack creatures in the opponents support line.

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