Hearthstone gets huge in 2015 — and it’ll only get bigger in 2016

As of November, Blizzard’s explosively successful card game has cleared 40 million players, who are collectively spending some $20 million dollars a month on the game — making Hearthstone the leader in the billion dollar digital collectible card game (CCG) space. Its popularity is unquestioned, as it has sat among the top four most-watched titles on Twitch.tv throughout all of 2015.

As we look forward to all of the exciting prospects that professional Hearthstone has in store for us in 2016, the twilight hour of 2015 is also a great opportunity to look back at all of the moments that made watching “Wizard Poker” so much fun this year. From big names and monumental successes to community hilarity and colossal misplays, this was a year worth remembering in Hearthstone.