Eternal Card Game Reviews

This game is well-thought out with engaging graphics, sound effects, and card animation. However, it has been on EternalCardGame Store for over a year now and unfortunately, if you aren’t willing to spend money and got in late, you are screwed. I played a 30 game sample size of multiplayer games and created a deck that seemed formidable to me for being a newcomer with limited selection. I went about 12-18 in multiplayer with many games ending with the opponent really only having to play about 5 cards to create/boost an offensive onslaught that wiped me out by turn #7-10. I fully understand the mechanics of this game and it still didn’t matter. One opponent was able to defeat me by playing two actual unit cards. He had a “relic weapon” that could deal 5 damage to me each turn and the opponent had to do practically nothing to activate it each turn. Another match involved an opponent that playing a card where he brought a unit back from the void that gained charge with a boost in attack power that then summoned 2 more 5/5 creatures after the attack. He pulled this off by turn 6. Cool game, but if you are too late to the party you will have to spend $$$ or an extreme amount of time in the single player game modes to assemble a formidable deck for multiplayer.

This game is basically all about win by random. Your decisions really don’t matter much. You could build a great deck with a good curve, draw no more than 2 power for the whole game, and just get pummeled. Conversely, draw nothing but power cards and have nothing to put in play. Plus most of the value is all in the shadow faction... life steal, void return, cheap target removal. It can be an enjoyable time waster, but don’t put money into it... if you’re just getting random results, the lottery has better returns on your investment.

Additionally, they have a lot of disconnect issues with the iOS client. You won’t know you have disconnected though, because it’s a tiny little red box on the left that you won’t see unless you are looking for it, and then you have to force close and restart... often losing the match. It’s been this way for over a year. You’d think if they weren’t going to fix it they would at least make the indicator big and centered, but whatever.

As often happens to cell phone apps this game has no balance. The devs decided how much mana each card should cost at what seems to be random. If you use the darkness element it seems that all cards are half the cost or less of what they should be so you are required to use this element to be competitive at all. At the bottom level are players who are playing to have fun but at the mid level or higher in the rankings are people who all use the same exact deck (the meta). Can you play justice? Yeah as the second most powerful element it still beats the other 3 but darkness will still always win. Time is all support and always viable in a support role for darkness or justice. The other two have no value at all because aegis is ineffective and the damage spells don’t do enough damage to kill a unit (it’s very easy to enhance a unit to over 30 hit points in a variety of ways). The solution is to double the cost of all darkness element cards and give some massive buff to primal and especially fire. Otherwise the game will remain extremely boring to play.

This game has a lot going for it—free to play, lovely graphics and card design, intriguing storyline in campaign mode, and even newcomers can compete. So why do I give the game a mere 2/5? Because there simply isn’t a good way to control the randomness inherent in a card game. The decks you build must have 75 cards at a minimum. That’s a BIG deck, and it increases the potential for a long string of bad draws, not to mention poor starting hands. It doesn’t matter how well you craft your deck if you draw nothing but power cards multiple turns in a row while your opponent continues to hit you with the units he or she draws. Or alternatively, if you have too little power and only draw your more expensive cards, you’re still doomed. You might think the solution is to build a deck with cheap units and few power cards, but no, power cards have to make up at least a third of your deck (so at least 25 even in a “small” deck). As a result, almost all my games seem to have results based on luck rather than strategy. It’s enjoyable for a while, but eventually it just gets frustrating when you realize that you only win or lose because one player has bad draws. That’s always a potential issue, but to me the rules in this game accentuate rather than ameliorate the problem, and that’s just awful design.

This game could be so great! Unfortunately, the developer is intent on watching end users be infuriated as they likely sit behind the scenes laughing at you. Power cards are either few and far between or completely non-existent; and even with a solid deck, the abundance (or lack thereof) power cards make it too difficult to survive once you have been able to establish your presence. Even the few times that you are able to achieve balance, your opponent is generally suffering from the same thing as you completely annihilate your foe. What is the true fun in that... Except for the slight satisfaction of the “It’s about time” syndrome. The likeliness of having an even fair match is probably 10:1, and those time the game lives up to what the developer writes in the description. Prepare to be disappointed and frustrated if you enjoy these types of games. What a waste.

Awesome game, but the balance on this game is way off. There are wayyyyy too many instant-kill cards and accelerators out there, without ready ways to counter them. I know going into pretty much every game that the moment I play most any creature, it will be torched or nullified with silence, or turned into a frog, or crippled, or any of a number of other maladies that only cost a couple of “power”, if not just one.

Late-game unit abilities are also off-the-charts awesome, in ways that make me enjoy the game less. Legendary units have a bevy of abilities that instantly shift momentum if the game manages to go past 5 or 6 turns.

The animations and overall presentation are top-notch, and I do play a lot. You get free cards and packs with regularity, and the crafting system gives you a great way to utilize duplicates. As an avid MTG player, I will tell you that I play this instead on my mobile devices. I just wish that the balance could be addressed and that the number of ways you can control the board through direct damage and kill-cards would be reduced. Great game, dire wolf.

I write few reviews, but this game has earned one. Having played many others (Magic, Hearthstone, Legendary, etc.), this game blows all the others away. The graphics, colors, animations, sound, gameplay, intuitive UI, lack of in-your-face ingame marketing- - all wonderfully done.

I play hours each day and wish I had time for more. This is a game that an old miser like me gratefully spent some cash ($13 so far) on just out of sheer appreciation! It is NOT ptw... the purchases are for premium graphical things, primarily. All the cards can be earned for free , and the game is very generous in this regard.

Unlike so many other games, this is not a clone, but is a next generation blend of the best ideas in game play. Innovation, Beauty, Elegance, Depth of Play... Eternal has it all. Thanks and Supreme Kudos to the Developers for this one. You nailed it!

I love this game. It’s about as close to Magic the Gathering as you can legally get. It has a complex and diverse range of strategies. The mechanics are not as deep as mtg, but definitely better than Hearthstone or Elder Scrolls. The price is also excellent. It’s actually FREE to play. The game has multiple methods to make card collecting easy and fun, including a grinder mode called gauntlet to play against the AI, practicing your builds at your time leisure. There are both sealed and draft formats. If you ball out with drafting you can quickly and freely mass your collection, because the winnings are more gold than you paid to enter, plus ~7 packs.

All in all, it’s excellent value. And if you like card strategy games you probably like value 😏

Dire Wolf digital does just about everything right with Eternal. I’m a huge fan of card games. I come from a background of M:TG, hearthstone, SolForge, Duelyst, Gwent, and more I’m not listing... Eternal beats them all. And it really isn’t even close. The gameplay mechanics feel rewarding and fair. The lore and flavor of the card and characters is abundant. The single player vs AI modes are entertaining and mostly story driven. Most importantly, the cards are very attainable with fair drop rates and the game will not puncture a hole in your wallet. This game deserves every single 5 star review it gets... and every single review SHOULD be 5 stars.

I would like to see in client tournaments in the future at some point but the communication is very active and sets up out of client tournaments for its player base should you like to join.

I'll be brief. I have over 24 years of experience with TCG/CCGs. I've played dozens and even took a shot at developing one. This one is the best I've played on a mobile platform. Period. Outstanding game! The best feature? You don't have to spend a dime to continually challenge your wit. I recommend that you do so anyway so you can access more combos sooner during your progress. Great art, great story, great mythology, awesome music and sound, and superb user interface. My only complaint is on how the decks are edited. I have big fingers so I wouldn't mind a prompt before a card is added or taken out to make sure I don't make a mistake and have to go through looking for the card I mistakenly moved. That's still not enough reason not to give it a perfect 5/5 star rating IMHO.

This game was designed by people who know how card games work. It is in essence very near a perfect electronic card game. Where hearthstone takes advantage of the frustrating mechanics of random number generation, eternal takes advantage of stat effects that normally people couldn’t always keep track of. Using the computer as a source to keep track of complex interactions, this game excels in keeping things easy for the players while still giving you a sense of how complicated the game can be given the right scenario. Many lines of play lead to victory, many lead to defeat.

The one thing the game may need improvement on is the weird touch screen interactions that make it awkward to block against attacking creatures. Other than that, this game deserves all the credit I give to it. Thanks to LSV and the team of magic pros who built it, this game is a refreshing change from hearthstone.

I never written reviews. So many bots and Chinese probably ruining ratings anyway. But I’m writing this cause Eternal is a really good game. I’ve played them all: Magic, Hearthstone, shadowverse, Duelyst, even Slay the Spire.

Of all these games Eternal is the DEEPEST and FAIREST. There’s not just campaigns and ranked/casual. There’s organized pvp events. There’s pve Arena from Hearthstone and pve 7 boss gauntlet. You can earn tons of cards and gold just from pve. The game does not push you to play pvp so you can lose and buy packs.

Economy: Gold is really easy to get. The limiting factor is dust. But you get so many packs and each pack contains 8 cards and 100 dust. Same as Hearthstone: 25, 100, 800, 3200 crafting costs.

This game is like magic in that it has Land cards and 4 copies per deck. You can even have 4 legendaries. So for that reason it takes longer to grind.

The game is incredibly fair and I am very well versed in micro transactions. I have a massive and full collection and I’ve never spent a penny on card packs. Only on campaigns, which give you like 25 cards.

You can even buy premade decks which contain decent cards with gold.

Cons: due to low playerbase even Bronze 3 has meta decks and veteran players. Lots of people forfeit to stay in bronze too so they can farm gold. And it’s annoying.

As the title says, I believe this is the best online collectible card game out there. The main reason for this is the sheer amount of free stuff you can get just for playing. Every day you get a free pack for just winning a game. There’s a free-to-enter game mode against the AI that gives you a bunch of free gold. There are 2 separate draft modes, and unlike many of the draft modes in other games, you get to keep all of the cards. You get free gold and cards for just winning ranked games, and assuming you get to master at the end of the season (which is SO much easier than other games due to the ranking system), you get a free foil legendary every month. I’ve been playing for 2 or 3 months and I’ve already amassed all of the commons and uncommons as well as 150+rares and 40 legendaries. In addition, it has very good gameplay, with unique mechanics and many similar to that of Magic: the Gathering. (Considering multiple professional Magic players helped design it, that makes sense). Overall, I would definitely recommend this game to anyone who is looking for a new CCG to get into.

I doubt the devs will ever see this, but i only have two problems to this game. The first is that your deck must have a minimum of 25 power cards no matter how aggro you want your deck to be. I’m sure that is to prevent people from playing 2 power cards and mulligan every time to draw both, but I feel that anyone with a deck of 73 2-drops won’t win many games. The second problem had two parts. Legendaries are too expensive and influential. I’m sure everyone here was destroying in a game, then the opponent played one Sandstorm Titan, and then they lost. The power level of legendaries is hard to balance because you want them to be powerful and change the way the game is played, but I have noticed, the deck that summoned more legends won a great deal more. Just something to think about. Sorry for making this post so long. This is really an amazing game, so please give it a fair shake!

This game is by far my favorite online CCG. The gameplay is a lot of fun (MTG style combat) and the polish is really good too. (voice acting, animations, sounds, art, etc) and the best part? You don't really need to spend any money to have fun.
As long as you aren't playing in the super high and competitive ranks, the meta isn't all that influential. Unlike Legends of Runeterra, you can do stupid stuff in this game and make it work. I’ve built several decks that are a lot of fun and are mostly pretty decent, (some are just memes) and I didn't need to spend a dime to do that.
Now, if you play super competitively, you’ll need to make a meta deck and maybe spend some money, but I haven't run into any of that yet.

My only major complaint is that the shuffling algorithm sometimes doesn't work all that great. I used to get screwed 2/5 times and flooded another 2/5. That doesn't happen as much now and I can't tell if it’s because of the addition of the plunder mechanic, I got better at building decks, or because they fixed it.

This is more of a nitpick, but I wish there was a little more variety in the animations and that some (especially kill cards) were a bit more dramatic. Wouldn't it be cool if units dropped onto the board instead of warping in? (that said, some of the newer spells do have unique animations)

This game is very generous in giving you cards. They talk about you should be winning on your skills not paying for the cards, and they weren't kidding!This game is the least amount of "Pay to Win" I've ever seen! Your first win of the day is a booster pack! Compare that to Hearthstone where you need to win 3 games to get 10 coins and a pack is 100 coins. Additionally each pack comes with craft stones as well. Sure you can easily accelerate the collection process by buying all the cards, but being able to draft and keep your cards or play Forge (Arena in Hearthstone but with only AI opponents and you keep the cards you pick) makes the "grind" feel less of a grind and more fun. Hell most times I value draft, and just look for mythics and cards I want for my deck. Even the pre constructed decks they give you can get you to at least Silver in ranked matches. So no this game is super gracious in giving you cards and I love it!

This card game is is absolutely fantastic. It has loads of content from campaigns, to new and old card packs, new boards you can play on, card backs, avatars and of course the large card pool. The developers have made this game very generous with the rewarding you constantly. Whether you are just playing against a.i or real players. You’re getting rewarded. It plays similar to magic with some hearthstone but it’s risen above both those games. I’m a multi year hearthstone player, but I’ve taken a long break from it and during this break I stumbled across eternal. I’ll tell ya after playing this game, I won’t be going back to hearthstone. This is without a doubt a free game worth spending some money on to help the developers, this is f2p done right! There is so much more to write about(like amazing card art, mechanics, cross-play/cross-save between every other platform(this feature alone deserves parenthesis inside parenthesis), etc), but I kinda just wanna keep playing some matches and building decks. Again, great game :)

I have been playing Eternal since February and I still go back and play it every day. It’s an intuitive card game, similar in some ways to Magic the Gathering but with its own take on the genre. Games are snappy and exciting and you never know what you’re going to see on ranked ladder play. It is generous with handing out rewards and cards - you get a free pack of the latest set each day and the other game modes make it easy to accumulate cards from all sets. You can play vs the AI for free and use the rewards to play other modes that give out cards, packs, and more gold to keep playing. Draft mode is amazing any my favorite by far - you make limited sized decks that encourage creative deck building and play and you keep all the cards you pick! I have spent money on this game to support the amazing developers, who are quick to fix bugs and also interact with players on the Discord channel but I’ve mostly used it for cosmetics and have accumulated almost the entire first 2 sets. Definitely try it you like CCGs!

Eternal is an enjoyable CCG that combines the best card playing elements of Magic: The Gathering with the online automation of Hearthstone. It has just enough differences to be refreshing in its own right. The artwork assets are very good, but not quite up to Blizzard levels. However, most of the artwork, animation and sound is very cool and effective. There are more single player activities than in Hearthstone. The makers of the game supply a generous amount of card packs and coins for playing parts of the game like daily quests, puzzles and tutorials. At the moment, you get a free pre-made deck to keep every 3 days, with a daily quest to accompany it. Multiplayer is standard fare, mostly comparable to Hearthstone. Crafting cards is comparable to Hearthstone also. The game mat is updated with totems on the sides relating mostly to the color of the power sigils used. The micro-transactions are not really necessary if you play the game a lot. Your gameplay activity is synced between your PC/Mac, iPad, iPhone or other tablet or smartphone. This is a very fun game that will appeal to online CCG fans.

The game has amazing design and I consistently rank in the highest levels without needing to spend any money to get there. There’s variance sure but also opportunity to be rewarded for consistent tight play.

The only frustrating bit is that whenever there is an update, the game says I need to reopen EternalCardGame to install updates. I click okay and I’m taken to EternalCardGame Store page where the only option is to click Open. This opens EternalCardGame which tells me I need to reopen EternalCardGame to install updates.... The only way I can install updates is to uninstall EternalCardGame , find WiFi, and then reinstall. And they update the game pretty regularly which is great but also frustrating. I’m on an iPhone 7 Plus.