Dota 2 is an incredibly complicated game among incredibly complicated games. It stands to reason that a trading card game based on the popular MOBA would be just as complex. For my part, though, I wish Valve would have learned from its past mistakes. If you don’t know, Artifact is a digital card game from Valve, makers of Half-Life and Portal, set in the company’s vague Dota 2 universe. It actually does some interesting things with the setting—not the least of which is giving it a real story. Each card has its own flavor text that references various relationships between characters that are barely hinted at in the main game. It … Continue reading The Artifact Tutorial is Kind of Terrible