That said, I started out quite skeptical as I didn't follow Hex much. Luckily, as someone whose played in Magic: The Gathering tourneys and has played the last few installments of MTG video games, I am luckily one of those people. You can just visualize core gamers shrugging their shoulders with the word “meh” hanging over their heads.Įven the game's head creator Cory Jones, founder of Cryptozoic Games, finds it tough to find a member of the press who knows enough about the genre to understand what it's trying to do. That's two niche genres seemingly coming together to form a genre that's even more niche. After all, Hex: Shards of Fate is a self-described MMOTCG (what the hell is that?), a combination of traditional paper-based trading card games and the digital world of multiplayer MMOs.

So by the end of that first paragraph, I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't still reading this. Either that, or you haven't heard anything at all about Hex, a digital trading card game that may look like Magic: The Gathering and talk like Magic: The Gathering, but proudly walks its own path of success. You may have heard of the free-to-play Hex: Shards of Fate in one of two ways: first as an extremely successful Kickstarter-funded project that amassed over $2.2 million in contributions, or second as the defendant in a lawsuit by Wizards of the Coast who believes the game is infringing on the ancient pillar that is Magic: The Gathering.

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