So you wanna be better at collectable card games?

Play Hearthstone......

What you want more? Seriously the game hearthstone teaches every basic strategy in the game that can easily apply to other games, has an awesome way of bringing more games out of you and you don't have to spend any money, you can but I haven't....yet. Simply playing the game can make you play any CCG/TCG better, it's worked for me. Anyone can easily pick up the game and learn allot, even experienced players can learn a thing or two from it.

If you can't be bothered though, here are a few quick tips (note, this is basic stuff and advanced players will know this stuff):

• Card Advantage: Above anything this is important. This is above all a must needed strategy and even more so in buddyfight with it's lack of card draw. Card advantage is simply having more cards than your opponent, and this can be done with card draw, double attack, soul guard, ect. What you want to do is use as little cards as possible to get rid of as many of the opponents cards as possible. Allot of new players in any game tend to end up with a low number of cards in their hand. This is because new players don't pay attention to how many cards both players have and simply just throw down their most powerful cards. Size 3 are (in my opinion) good in this aspect because they can be a clear example of how to gain advantage, as they can rid of everything you opponent has and waste opponent's cards to get rid of it. If you want a quick guide watch this (and yes it's a hearthstone video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxN7i1sh29I
• Resource management: I'm going to have a full blog post on this and card advantage but basically its the gauge version of card advantage. You have to manage your resources (gauge and life) to get the most effective use out of your resources. This is the big reason to hate size 3 cards as they are eater of resources, they are hungry for them, and they don't necessarily give back in card advantage.
• Learn the Cards: If you know all the cards you know what to expect, simple as that.
• Learn the Meta: learn what people are using and make a deck that can counter such deck. Don't follow the crowd and think for yourself. One that net decks is predictable.
• Practice: any game, any activity in general, you can only get better by repeating the activity over and over. learn from your mistakes and don't complain, keep calm and look over what you did wrong, what really did come up to luck and what was truly the opposing player being better than you.

So yea, hope this helps and seriously, hearthstone will make you a better player in any TCG/CCG. It's so simple it simply just makes you better. It's a crash course in card games.