Valve announces Artifact, finally jumps into virtual collectible card gaming

I’m interested in it but haven’t pulled the trigger yet. I’m a very casual CCG player and not willing to put in time or money to really excel, or I’m just not smart enough. I’ve never minded being under 50% win at Hearthstone (my only other CCG except for minor efforts at a couple others) and I don’t really care about ranking. I care about having fun, fair matches with cool plays.

There’s rumors that Valve could just eliminate the phantom draft? Plus it seems like this game could easily fall into a spiral of paying to win, losers unwilling to pay more losing interest, so even if I was willing to spend $10-20 over time I’d still end frustrated.

Thoughts? Maybe overthinking it and I should get a few months of enjoyment out of the base game…