It’s easy to understand how it plays out, but it’s hard to play perfectly, as you have a lot of micro decisions every game that will look like decisions to you only if you’re at a high level. ESL has that rare combination of simplicity when it has to be simple and complexity when it has to be complex-there’s a lot to think about, but you don’t struggle beneath a mountain of rules and technicalities. 2) Why should you play it?ġ) The game is excellent.

It’s more similar to Hearthstone than to Magic, but it’s still similar enough to Magic that if you’re a Magic player, you’ll have an advantage. It’s collectible card game but not a trading card game, and it’s based around the world of The Elder Scrolls (the one from Skyrim), but you don’t need to have played the game to understand anything (I’ve never played it). First: 1) What is The Elder Scrolls: Legends?ĮSL is an online card game that’s made by Direwolf, which is a company that employs a lot of great Magic players, and also Matt Nass. Lately, I’ve been playing quite a bit of Elder Scrolls: Legends (ESL for short), and I wanted to write an introductory article to it in terms that Magic players will understand, like I did with Hearthstone some years ago.

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