Excellent game but not truly FTP – War of Omens Review

Gameplay is great... Manages to walk an excellent line of being highly asymmetrical by any standard yet also very well balanced. Quite a few really interesting mechanics I've never seen before... Matchmaking has an annoying tendency of taking too long and pairing you over and over with the same person, but there's actually a pretty decent sized community so you aren't playing alone at least. But overall the play is very fun and quite fair. While not overly long, the campaign mode actually has a legitimately well written story too.. Interesting plot and the dialogue is actually extremely witty, I laughed heartily at multiple points. That said... Do NOT regard this as free to play... You cannot adequately play this without spending about 10 dollars. While you can grind a lot of free currency, the ability to spend it on anything but the weaker cards is locked behind a paywall... I'm not even sure how long it'd take to grind out the ability to participate in tournaments via common packs and Max 1 free gold pack a day. And while,I wouldn't say it's pay to win, if you don't buy in at all, spect to lose due to lack of card pools. If you look at this as a 10 dollar game with a free demo, I'd actually say it's top flight... Well worth it. But the monetization is really deceptive in an ugly way.
Review by Leeroy Gankins on War of Omens.