With Artifact’s release almost upon us, and pre-orders going live on Steam, Valve decided to hype up the game by broadcasting a pre-release invitational event on their own streaming platform. Its draft-based nature didn’t help us grasp what the eventual constructed meta may look like, but the Artifact Preview Tournament, hosted by Beyond The Summit, was by far our most comprehensive look at the game to date. Here’s a list of observations we took away from the broadcasts! It’s geared toward high-level competition This was just an appetizer for things to come. But even this small snippet clarified that Artifact is intended as “the Dota 2 of card games.” It … Continue reading What We Learned From the Artifact Preview Tournament