[2022] Any Helpful Tips to a New Player

As a designer who worked on Hearthstone and now works on LoR, I'd say LoR takes a bit of time to get past the initial confusion barrier and then makes a deep, intuitive sense. It's not as confusing forever.

One thing that will help: go to settings and turn off your Autopass. This will make it clearer why the game is moving forward, because you need to consciously pass the turn.

The main thing that confuses new players is the spell speeds, especially as they relate to the pass system. Once you understand when you can play cards and why, everything else clicks.

Oh, and for the challenger keyword you actually drag the OPPONENT'S card in front of your unit with challenger. This works great in practice but no one realizes that having unit with challenger lets them drag enemy cards at first. They tend to try to drag their own challenger card onto the enemy cards instead. :)

I once saw a tester replay the opening tutorial on blocking 23 times in a row… which is our fault because our tutorial shouldn’t make that possible. But wow did it hurt. Lol.