Is it too late to start playing Hearthstone?

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Until the 10th of August 2015, I had never played a game of Hearthstone. I'd made a point of never going anywhere near it, in fact - not because I wasn't interested, but because I feel like I can only commit to one card-based metagame at a time.
At present, I'm heavily invested in Doomtown: Reloaded, an Expandable Card Game that pits different factions of cowboys (with some supernatural elements thrown in) against one another as they vie to control the town of Gomorra, California. An Expandable Card Game, for any greenhorns reading, is one that works on a different business model to games like Hearthstone; doing away with card rarity, all players have access to the same card pool. If you buy a base set or expansion, you get multiple copies of every card available. No need for booster packs or trading. If you'd like to find out more about how Doomtown: Reloaded works, I've done my level best to explain the game with an illustrative video. If not, read on - I promise I won't deep dive on Doomtown specifics in this article.
My love of Doomtown means I play regularly against friends and (less frequently) attend official tournaments across London. I placed in the top five at the last tournament I attended, which is a more impressive-sounding way of saying I came fifth.
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