Hearthstone: What Is The Wild Format?
Hearthstone is a venerable game that has managed to hold onto its fan base through thick and thin. It made waves on release, and it has never really fallen out of favour. Blizzard, for all of their flaws, has kept an iron grip on Hearthstone’s development, and this has led to a near-decade worth of play.
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Not everything can last in its base form, however, and Hearthstone eventually fell victim to its own success early in its lifespan. This led to the introduction of Formats, which essentially split Hearthstone into two distinct games existing simultaneously. Of course, we are talking about Standard and Wild.
Formats are a method used by collectable/trading card companies to balance their game easier. Card games exist to sell cards, and if you are constantly having to comb over thousands of cards in a desperate attempt to maintain balance, you aren’t going to have a nice time updating your game.
Formats allow creators to limit the available card pool to only the most recent cards. This helps breed creativity as old cards simply don’t matter as much when designing new ones. Most card games use formats, with Magic: The Gathering being the most famous of the lot.
Wild Format is madness personified. Where Standard restricts players to only the most recent cards released, Wild allows players to craft decks from every single card ever put on paper - or in this case, screen. It doesn’t matter if you have cards from Naxramas or Voyage To The Sunken City, they are all usable. Heck, Wild even has its own Ranked mode.
Wild Format is for players who want to be supremely creative in their deck designs. No limits, no restrictions. Wild allows players to mix every card imaginable
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