Legends of Runeterra: Digital strategy card game spinoff from League of Legends

Riot's own take on a digital strategy card game enters a fairly saturated market on the heels of Blizzard's Hearthstone and other games that have tried to recreate its success. Like its counterparts, Legends of Runeterra draws on characters from an established primary game (League of Legends), which is helpful for starting off with a large enough player base to ensure fast match times and a thriving community. Its gameplay mechanics access however, are refreshing and innovative, and will likely add to the projected $2 billion 2020 digital card game market (https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/...). Reducing RNG and making access to competitive play fairly paywall-less seem to be good strategies to attract and retain players who have already started to leave Hearthstone and other players for games with such traits such as Auto Chess and its derivatives. I'm also personally excited to see Riot start to develop its side-game ecosystem as I simply do not have the time and capacity to play League of Legends anymore, but Legends of Runeterra proves to be a sufficiently casual way to feed the nostalgia and still have some fun.