Philologus;n10329372 said:
What is your opinion on MtG vs Gwent, in summary?
edited to add: I know they are very different, but still..
It's hard to tell, both are great games.
MTG is extremely different, no row system, you need to play lands in order to generate mana (which can be annoying, it brings a lot of interesting mechanics but nothing feels worst than being mana flooded/screwed) and you can attack your opponent and trade your creatures.
Overall you can feel the experience behind MTG, there is a lot of cards with a lot of different and interesting mechanics (even though they sometimes tend to be unnecessarily close to some they made before). This game is a lot more about combos and crazy things. For example you start each game with 2O life but there is no maximum to it so it's entirely possible to reach some incredible amount (including the ability to have "infinite" life). The game tend to be very poorly balanced though, some deck/strategy being insanely OP compared to some others (with a lot of match up being completely impossible).
Gwent is a lot "younger" with significantly less cards available but the quality of them is much higher imo.
You can see this with the arts, Gwent has literally no bad art on their cards (which isn't always true for MTG, even with the last blocks released, some cards are still much better finished than some others). Same thing with the actual effects of the different cards, in MTG each block contains very few playable cards in constructed (some of them being so bad they're not playable in any format) which isn't the case with Gwent, the general card quality being incredibly high in this game.
If I'm to recommend something it would be to play both (that's what I do), both game are so different it's not something you have to choose between one or another, you can totally play both games and never be bored.