I used to play a little bit of kitchen MtG and got into MtG:Arena a couple years ago, but got frustrated with playing the same four decks after several months. That game isn't very welcoming to us free-to-play plebs.
A couple of weeks ago I've found out you can play Arena on an Android phone and decided to give a try. My phone is too old to run it though, so I had to download it from a shady site and sideload. It freezes for like five minutes before it starts, these fps drops, the UI is too clunky for the phone, but it's playable.
The people on reddit who were discussing sideloading Arena where also hyping up Legends of Runeterra. Supposedly the game is very generous to free-to-play players, so I downloaded it too.
LoR is a much better mobile experience for sure, but I've played through the whole prologue, won a bunch of games against the bots, tried all the seven newbie decks several times and I don't think I'm having fun yet. Like I boot up Arena, play a couple of my old "historic" decks against Arena's shitty AI, get my combos and it's still fun. LoR leaves me cold. I don't get it.
Should I dive dipper into it and learn the minutia mechanic and strategies? Maybe it becomes fun when you get you cool big boy decks? Am I ruined my MtG and forever unable to enjoy other collectable card games?
I think I'd be interested in galaxybrain "all according to keikaku" bullshit it vain of blue in MtG. As far as I understand I have to chose a "region" when I grind daily quest, each of them representing a sort of strategy archetype. Which one is blue?
Hmm, Ionia has the most cards that stop your opponents from playing the game (stuns, counterspells, bouncing back to hand etc). It is also quite strong right now and has several high-tier meta decks, including some midrange and aggro decks so you really can't go wrong with it right now.
Perhaps you'd enjoy Lee Sin/Zoe, it's a combo-deck involving Ionia and Targon. It revolves around leveling up Lee Sin and giving him Overwhelm so that he effectively hits the enemy Nexus twice when he attacks. It involves a lot of denial-bullshit and is quite aggravating to play against. https://lor.mobalytics.gg/decks/bu0idhca30q1d5sa5l70
Other decks here: https://www.swimstrim.com/runeterra/decks-and-meta If you wanna know how things work feel free to ask