Do you love solitaire-style mobile games" If the answer is yes you're in luck because Miracle Merchant [$1.99] released today and is one of the best card games in the App Store. Miracle Merchant is the latest title from TinyTouchTales, indie developer and master of modern solitaire variants. 2015's Card Crawl [$2.99] is on my Mount Olympus of mobile games and has been the source of countless hours (seriously, I couldn't begin to count them) of entertainment. Card Thief [$1.99] was released earlier this year and is also eminently replayable.
Miracle Merchant has you don the apron of a alchemist and shop keep in a vaguely medieval setting. A steady stream of customers await you, each seeking a potion brewed to order. You brew potions using cards in four different colors?blue, green, yellow, and red?each representing a different ingredient. The ingredients stacked in four different decks of 13 cards each. Each customer has an ingredient that must be in their potion, and an ingredient they prefer to be included, but won't write a nasty review on ye old Yelp if it's not there.
A potion consists of four ingredient cards which you drag and drop into a beaker. You earn gold based on the quality of your potion and the extent to which it satisfies the customer. Customers dig recipes, which are combos like rainbows (using one of every color), twins (two of a kind), triplets (three of a kind), and duplexes (two pair). You get bonus gold for sneaking in the customer's preference...