Deck Building - a modern card mechanism (Topic Discussion)

Card games date back to the 1400s with Karniffel, or Thuringian Karnöffel, often listed as the oldest one, at least the oldest in Europe that we know of. As a popular trick-taking game in Germany for centuries, it clearly started a trend. Many trick-taking games are still popular in Germany today and I certainly grew up with a fair few. However, card games have come a long way since then. In this article, I want to look at deck-building games specifically and how this mechanism has been applied in many different ways since Dominion made it popular.

Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2023/05/23/deck-building-a-modern-card-mechanism-topic-discussion/

Useful Links

• Karniffel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karniffel


• Dominion: https://riograndegames.wpengine.com/games/dominion/


• Shards of Infinity: https://stoneblade.com/


• Mystic Vale review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2018/12/08/mystic-vale/


• Undaunted: Normandy review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/07/23/undaunted-normandy-saturday-review/


• Fort review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/04/03/fort-saturday-review/


• Imperium: Classics: https://ospreypublishing.com/uk/imperium-classics-9781472844743/

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