More advanced than solitaire, not as in depth as Magic

So up front, yes this is a great game, well worth the price and if you are thinking about getting it, just do it!

The basics:
Your character has 13 hp, a left hand, a right hand and a back pack. The dealer places 4 cards and you must do something with at least 3 of them for the dealer to restock the cards in play. The idea is to survive long enough to go through the entire deck (54 cards in normal mode) and collect coins along the way. There are 6 types of cards: monsters, weapons, shields, potions, coins and abilities. Each card (except for ability cards) has a point value assigned to it. A monster card is going to deal the amount of damage on the card, the weapon deals that damage to a monster, a shield will absorb that much damage before breaking, a potion heals that amount of damage and coins give you that amount of money. Abilities do various things and you use the money earned at the end of the round to buy more ability cards.

All in all this game has quite a bit to offer and is very well worth the price!

Goobergoobs about Card Crawl, v2.2.2