When comparing Combat Monsters vs Shadowverse, the Slant community recommends Shadowverse for most people. In the question“What are the best card battle games on Android similar to Hearthstone?” Shadowverse is ranked 3rd while Combat Monsters is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Shadowverse is:
Playing the solo stories, completing missions, and login events reward you with lots of tickets that can be exchanged one-for-one for booster packs.
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Pros
Pro Over 2000 different cards
The card collection is huge. As of August 2015, the game has more than 2000 cards. Of them 1152 are monster cards. The rest are runes, spells, shields, armor types and weapons. There are 16 different races of monsters and 24 special abilities. The variety offers a great bit of deck building options.
Pro Looks good
For an Android game, Combat Monsters has beautiful 3D graphics and animations.
Pro Good single player campaign
Pro Lots of different modes
There is 5 deck mode: standard, horde (monsters only), tribal (one race only), single 50 (no duplicated cards) and pauper (only common and uncommoncards). There is a single player campaign for each deck mode. You can also play online real time or asynchronous games versus other players. You can also play versus the AI, up to 5 of them! And there is adaily challenge that reward you some cards upon victory
Pro Highly strategic
Playing on an actual board game, positioning the monsters and combining their special abilities is key to a victory. You summon cards using mojo that your hero provide each turn, but that you can get as well through a bunch of other means (abilities, special board tile, runes, spells, ...)
Pro Generous with free packs
Playing the solo stories, completing missions, and login events reward you with lots of tickets that can be exchanged one-for-one for booster packs.
Pro Great Hearthstone alternative
Want something like Hearthstone but not Hearthstone?
Pro Deeper strategy than Hearthstone
After playing both franchises for months, one could see the depth of strategy Shadowverse offers that Hearthstone lacks.