Blizzard's free-to-play card game is a simple yet satisfyingly deep aping of Magic: The Gathering. The gameplay is the pretty standard creatures/spells/resource management type of collectible card game, and Hearthstone's implementation does very little to bring many new ideas to the (card) table, but what is here is a solid and approachable game. Each of the 9 characters and their unique card sets are interestingly different from one another, and the game seems well-balanced. The content is delivered at a fair pace for anyone who doesn't want to pay for new cards etc., but the prices are also quite reasonable for those who do. The game is very pretty to look at, the matchmaking is fast and generally reliable and everything fits surprisingly nicely onto the screen of the iPhone 6 Plus that I play the game on. Hearthstone is the kind of well-polished genre piece that one can expect of a Blizzard game, and should remain fun and easy to come back to for a long time.
