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4 Things About Deck-building Games
4 Things About Deck-building Games
Author
Rattlebox Games- Network Feed
Published
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Episode Link
https://rattleboxgames.com/2024/06/17/pick-up-deliver-629-4-things-about-deck-building-games/
Brendan shares his thoughts about what makes deck-building games fun or interesting. Join us, won’t you?
Previous episodes:
Pick Up & Deliver 015: Deck Construction
Pick Up & Deliver 239: Duel – Valley of the Kings vs Arctic Scavengers
Pick Up & Deliver 246: My top games for the 10 additional mechanisms Kris Hickman suggested (part 3)
Pick Up & Deliver 267: Gentle Conflict Mechanisms, part 2
Pick Up & Deliver 407: Combos
Deck construction
vs
deck building
1. Variety in setup or variety in player choice
Static market setup
Dominion
Arctic Scavengers
Aeon’s End
River market setup
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
Ascension
Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game
2. Gimmicks / Innovations
Brawl:
Arctic Scavengers
Shared reserve:
The Big Book of Madness
Deck de-construction:
Valley of the Kings
,
Dale of Merchants
Board manipulation:
A Few Acres of Snow
,
Clank!
with Worker Placement:
Lost Ruins of Arnak
,
Dune: Imperium
Don’t shuffle:
Aeon’s End
Evolving...
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