when your opponent thinks he's won but you've assembled all the pieces

Mobile gaming.

Honestly I will argue until i'm blue in the face that the change to Hearthstone in terms of deck types were the transition to having Hearthstone on a mobile platform.

Old decks (Control Warrior, Freeze Mage, Control Priest, Zoolock, Token Shaman/Paladin) still had to fight for board control, even if this wasn't their game plan. Many of the decks would well exceed turn 10, and often you could have games where you got through 66-100% of your deck and the game would have lasted over 10 minutes.

With Mobile Platform it encourages the developers to make games quick, because people on mobile are restricted by things such as signal strength, battery and free-time (I.e. If you're on a desktop, you're probably not going to have to leave suddenly so much).

We've seen the game increasingly speed up in terms of blow-out from aggressive decks (even the old face hunter would look slow in comparrison). Whilst combo decks have become increasingly fast and more consistent (compared to old combo decks aside from miracle rouge w/auctioneer draw).

I left Hearthstone because its moving increasingly away from "going blow to blow" and having those microswings turn on turn.

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