what if you're fascinated by these games but have never played them before, and want to learn to play them but you're autistic so it's difficult interacting with new people (or the people at the nearest game store aren't receptive to newcomers)?
Dune: Imperium Mystic Vale Tyrants of the Underdark Fort Dale of Merchants Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle Just some more deckbuilders I think deserve a mention
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle Is one of the best deck builders around, that game shocked me with how good it is. I was expecting a simple cash grab trying to capitalize off the IP. But no man, they put serious time and thought into game design and theme. Love it.
@@teraxe even with the lack of deck-pruning? I mean, on the campaign co-op side, it's amazing, but the deckbuilding felt even more cloggy that Star Realms...
Valley of the Kings and the rest of the deck-deconstruction subgenre(including Flamme Rouge) also deserve a mention. Especially Flaming Pyramids & Abandon All Artichokes, for being Uno-level accessible, and the latter I think is a better gateway deckbuilder than Dominion, probably even among top 10 gateways of the past & next decade
I'd recommend the harry potter deck builder Battle for Hogwarts. Its a really good beginner deck builder as it strips down the game to the core concepts of a deck builder to begin with. But as you play and win you unlock the next game box (comes with 7 in total and represents the 7 books) which has more cards, villains and mechanics so by the 7th game you're fighting off multiple villains while trying to destroy the horcruxes as well as building up a deck of powerful spells and allies using your favourite character from the book (who each have a unique ability) Bought it for my wife as she loves harry potter and couldn't believe how much fun we've had with it
Clank! is not only my favorite deck-building game, but my favorite board game of all-time! Side-note: JESUS CHRIST, ADAM, HOW OLD IS YOUR COPY OF DOMINION!? Man, those cards look rough!
Dale of Merchants is a great little deck builder, I love the push/pull of building the deck but simultaneously using up those cards permanently to progress, and the art is lovely too, definitely deserving of a mention!
It's the game that got me interested in the genre, so I really agree that Dale of Merchants is good. Also really fun to re-play since you get to select the cards you want to include beforehand.
I was like ouch, but to be fair, their cards are not the same dimensions as the standard cards and Japanese cards size. So finding sleeves can be pretty stupid
You really love to see how passionate Adam is with Board games. I can imagine it's a safe space for him, seeing as how shit covering the often infuriating world of Pro-Wrestling, especially WWE can be, and how it can drive you mad. Board games are almost always a great time with people you care about. Happy for Adam. :)
I just stumbled onto this channel with no interest in board games. Now in going through every video and wish I had mates into the same thing as not gonna lie so many games you've shown seem like a lot of fun!
Aeon's End and Legendary Encounters are still the two best co-op deck builders to date in my book. Not sure if anything will ever dethrone Aeon's End at this point.
Dominion is still the best deck builder on the market and it keeps getting better with each expansion. Also, how does Ascension miss the top 10 list? That game is so good!!!
I saw the clip of Mage Knight in your intro and got excited 😂 Great list! Star Realms is a firm favourite for me; I’ve been tempted by both Legendary Encounters and Aeons End for some time but they both seem super pricey for what they are... hopefully one day I’ll get to try
Mage Knight is a different kind of beast. 😅 Legendary is very good, but to me it feels like a campaign driven game, lower replayability. I've got the Firefly one, awesome game, horrible art! Imho i think you should go for Aeons End. Even the base game packs so much game for your money! Endless challenge combinations; different mages x different nemesis x different base cards (nemesis) x different market cards. There's even an expedition version or a legacy version, if that's your thing.
The DC deck building is my favorite and it’s so sad to see a pic of it used but it not making the list. The variations it allows with its expansions. Competitive or co-op, different characters put focus in different strategies, specific 1v1 versions, promos, a Multiverse box that puts everything together. It’s a true shame it wasn’t included. The Cryptozoic engine is just so good.
The 'no shuffling' rules of Aeon's end is super cool. For players with dexterity issues shuffling cards can be a really cumbersome affair and can take away from the game itself. It also (like you addressed) can take away some of the randomness and allow players big brain the pants off it!
Quest For El Dorado is a great shout... It has some of the best card drafting ideas around. Great Western Trail is great, and even though it doesn't feel like a deck builder, you better believe I am making the greatest deck of cows you've ever seen!
Surprised Arctic Scavengers isn't on this list. It takes combat and makes it fun with multiple friends! Also really enjoy Valley of the Kings which adds great set collection elements to a deckbuilding game too.
Great list. Surprised I didn't see Tyrants of the Underdark on it. It's my favorite deck builder currently. It's an area control deck builder. Plays great with 2 and will play up to 4. Highly recommend it.
My favorite deck-builder is Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle. It's a co-op game in which you're all put against the expected baddies from the books, and there's various effects that mess with your life total. You then play your turn buying cards, healing your teammates, attacking the baddies. If you ever lose your life points, you are stunned; discard half of your cards and add a death counter to the area you're in, but the next turn you get restored back to full health. Accumulate enough death counters and the baddies win. Oh, and each player assumes a character role, and each one has a unique effect. If you're REALLY into HP, you'll appreciate all of the nuances the makers put into it. So much fun, highly recommend.
Tyrant of the underdark is one of my go to game for when i want to introduce people that want to try something a bit more meatier than mainstream game, and even my board game club loved it when i intruduced them to this game. It also have good deck-builder introducing mechanics, like gaining points for banishing cards out of your deck teaching you the concept of deck thinning. I have some other game that are good bridge game like smash up and king of toky, but tyrant of the underdark is the one i have the most success with to catch new initiates for the non mainstream board game gods. The theme is mature enough and easy to teach, around 80% of the rules are on the last page of the manual.
Base Dominion is number 10 on this list. Dominion plus expansion is easily number 1. I came to Dominion late; it's one of the last big name deck-builders I've played. I loved how it's deck-building crystalized to its purest form. On another note, Ascension is excellent and I see Shards of Infinity as a better version of Star Realms. Great list!
I did start with Dominion, and also played Ascension quite early on. I tried Resident Evil and Star Realms once or twice. But many of the ones I've played since have been Cryptozoic (DC Deckbuilding, Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Street Fighter). My family also enjoys 7 Wonders. I just love the concept of deckbuilding games.
DC is my favorite deck builders. Street Fighter was my first, then realize how much better it could have been. When I started picking up DC and their expansions.
YES! Don't go through the trauma of thinking you look after your cars well enough, and they only get a bit grubby after a few years....only for one of your mates to scrape one across a table with some salt on it, or bend it, or spill their sodding drink on it.
And it’s always the guy that just reached for the Doritos that he himself brought to game night. Don’t get me wrong, I love my friends but they sure can be bastards
Heads up: the Clank Legacy is an entire game, not an expansion. The picture you showed is four characters with different starting decks, and adds no legacy elements
To people new to deckbuilding games, try out the digital version of Star Realms and Ascension for free. I downloaded Ascension on my iPad many years ago and I fell in love with the genre big time. Especially as a kid who couldn't afford MTG boxes.
Just a small rules add-on for Quacks of Quedlinburg: Your cauldron only explodes when the number of the cherry bombs EXCEEDS 7. If it’s 7, you’re still safe. Great video though, I love deckbuilders and own Star Realms, Clank, Quacks & Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle. I think the nice thing about them is the sense of progression you get over the course of the game as you get more and more powerful - even if you lose in the end.
One good thing about Quacks that you missed is that you are not waiting for others to take their turns. You all make your potions at the same time. The only waiting is if you are one of the first people to stop pushing your luck and even then it's only normally a minute or so.
Please please bring Aeon’s End to Board Game Club one day. I would love to see you guys play through legacy or one of the other stories. Or even just do some one off Nemesis fights. No matter what, I would watch the shit out of it.
I like Flying Frog's "Dark Gothic" based off of their "A Touch of Evil" board game. Players play as one of the game's heroes, each with different starting hands and abilities and try to defeat three of the supernatural menaces threatening the town of Shadowbrooke, with each threat being more dangerous than the previous one. It's cooperative, with the added incentive of the ultimate winner being the one with the most points from the various cards you acquire throughout the game
I love card games and I love rogue-like video games. A while ago I realized that they are basically both applications of the same concept of randomized encounters from a big but nevertheless limited pool of potential outcomes. Deckkbuilders make that even more obvious. I guess Slay the Spire is rather explicit about that, but unfortunately I haven't gotten around to it yet, as in the last while I haven't really been playing video games and before that I was stuck on the absolutely excellent Hades.
@@ForeverFever49 I’ve got probably a majority of the sets. I love this game but nobody I know has ever seen or heard of it lol and I very rarely see people talking about it
I'm surprised the 2nd deckbuilder isn't on this list. Arctic scavengers. Its brilliant because cards you dont use go to fight other players and man the bluffing is so tense.
Deck building games I like that you didn't mention Cthulhu the deck building game - It's co -op deck building and your currency for cards is also what you're using to deal damage to the creatures and gods. Rules can be a bit unclear for newcomers but once you get them down it's fun. I liked it more than Legendary Encounters Ausonia - you use gems to both buy cards and activate abilities on cards you have. The Veil - basically Star Realms but everyone gets their own starting deck and their own separate market, with cards and sometimes whole card types your opponent will never have access to.
honestly. really happy that slay the spire was mentioned cause holy FUCK that game is good. hope it gets a physical board game incarnation someday which i dont know how it would work but i ALREADY WANT IT
I don’t know if it fits this list but boss monster is a hell of a good time with my friends. I bought pretty much everything so it has infinite replay value.
Quarriors is only of my favorite pool building games, surprised it didn't make the cut. Another lesser known gem is the Star Trek deck builder by Bandai. The Original Series version fixes some of the balance issues from the TNG version.
Adam, have you played "Shadowrun Crossfire"? It's a crazy fun (and also crazy hard) co-op deck builder that's also legacy with you making your own character and buying skills for them using karma you earn from completing missions! I love it and I'd highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys the Shadowrun universe!
Personal List Domination - classic/simpler/many expansions Star Realms - Cheap/faster only around 30 mins or less/ some expansions/ only 2 player unless buying more decks ($59.99) For Glory - Seems awesome/ longer times between fights/ alot of build up throughout the whole game. Undaunted - Military Game/ Unforgiving/ Seems really fun though/ A little simpler, despite many steps/ a little tedious sounding Legendary Encounters (or other themes) - Looks insanely fun/ seems COMPLECATED/ so many themes, I think that's awesome/ Probably a very long game. Quacks Of Quedlinberg - Seems fun, I think it isn't the coolest one but I wouldn't mind playing it.
I do like all 3 of the Realms games. Star Realms I play a lot and Hero Realms is a lot of fun as well. Cthulhu Realms I would urge others who have tried the other Realms games but not tried that one to give it a go as it is very good indeed and requires a slightly different strategy to win.
Valley of the Kings and the rest of the deck-deconstruction subgenre(including Flamme Rouge) also deserve a mention. Especially Flaming Pyramids & Abandon All Artichokes, for being Uno-level accessible, and the latter I think is a better gateway deckbuilder than Dominion(it teaches otherwise unintuitive concepts like deck-pruning), probably even among top 10 gateways of the past & next decade
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Man aeons end is sold out everywhere :(
what if you're fascinated by these games but have never played them before, and want to learn to play them but you're autistic so it's difficult interacting with new people (or the people at the nearest game store aren't receptive to newcomers)?
My man Adam eats dinner on those Dominion cards.
Aeons end? You got yourself a like. My wife and i have EVERYTHING there is of Aeons end. Its our #game in general.
Dune: Imperium
Mystic Vale
Tyrants of the Underdark
Fort
Dale of Merchants
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
Just some more deckbuilders I think deserve a mention
Mystic Vale is a good call... Very underrated. Lost Ruins of Arnak is another game that plays similar to Dune Imperium (and I enjoyed more).
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle Is one of the best deck builders around, that game shocked me with how good it is. I was expecting a simple cash grab trying to capitalize off the IP. But no man, they put serious time and thought into game design and theme. Love it.
Tyrants of the Underdark is a great blend of deckbuilding and area control/war game. And love the d&d theme as well
@@teraxe even with the lack of deck-pruning?
I mean, on the campaign co-op side, it's amazing, but the deckbuilding felt even more cloggy that Star Realms...
Valley of the Kings and the rest of the deck-deconstruction subgenre(including Flamme Rouge) also deserve a mention. Especially Flaming Pyramids & Abandon All Artichokes, for being Uno-level accessible, and the latter I think is a better gateway deckbuilder than Dominion, probably even among top 10 gateways of the past & next decade
Slay the spire is fantastic. Hell Fn yeah for the honorable mention.
We're proud to be on the list. Thanks guys.
I'd recommend the harry potter deck builder Battle for Hogwarts. Its a really good beginner deck builder as it strips down the game to the core concepts of a deck builder to begin with. But as you play and win you unlock the next game box (comes with 7 in total and represents the 7 books) which has more cards, villains and mechanics so by the 7th game you're fighting off multiple villains while trying to destroy the horcruxes as well as building up a deck of powerful spells and allies using your favourite character from the book (who each have a unique ability)
Bought it for my wife as she loves harry potter and couldn't believe how much fun we've had with it
I agree. It’s also a great game for Harry Potter fans. The cards do a go job bringing out the Harry Potter theme.
But a caveat for anyone reading this. The card art is movie stills. If you have a bias towards the book art keep that in mind.
It's an amazing gateway campaign co-op indeed, but doesn't its deckbuilding side lack deck-pruning and market-unclogging?
@@angrytheclown801 I wish they used artwork instead. Couldn't stand the movies so no to the game :/
@@NiesLife Fair enough
Clank! is not only my favorite deck-building game, but my favorite board game of all-time!
Side-note: JESUS CHRIST, ADAM, HOW OLD IS YOUR COPY OF DOMINION!? Man, those cards look rough!
means he played it a bit
Dale of Merchants is a great little deck builder, I love the push/pull of building the deck but simultaneously using up those cards permanently to progress, and the art is lovely too, definitely deserving of a mention!
It's the game that got me interested in the genre, so I really agree that Dale of Merchants is good. Also really fun to re-play since you get to select the cards you want to include beforehand.
Looks like your Dominion set is... well loved.
I've never seen such well worn cards. You can tell which piles are the most common on the table overview shot for sure.
and i thought my catan resource cards were beat
I was like ouch, but to be fair, their cards are not the same dimensions as the standard cards and Japanese cards size. So finding sleeves can be pretty stupid
You really love to see how passionate Adam is with Board games. I can imagine it's a safe space for him, seeing as how shit covering the often infuriating world of Pro-Wrestling, especially WWE can be, and how it can drive you mad. Board games are almost always a great time with people you care about. Happy for Adam. :)
I don’t understand anything about board games but it’s fun listening to Adam talking about board games
Join us!!!!!
I just stumbled onto this channel with no interest in board games. Now in going through every video and wish I had mates into the same thing as not gonna lie so many games you've shown seem like a lot of fun!
Buy clank. That is all.
0:04 - The real irony of this is that there's actually a deck building board game all about deck building. I'm serious.
Arctic Scavengers. Awesome game with lots of little modules for tweaks!
True! But the best way to win is to ignore the battles and just buy people every turn -_-
Aeon's End and Legendary Encounters are still the two best co-op deck builders to date in my book. Not sure if anything will ever dethrone Aeon's End at this point.
Dominion is still the best deck builder on the market and it keeps getting better with each expansion. Also, how does Ascension miss the top 10 list? That game is so good!!!
I saw the clip of Mage Knight in your intro and got excited 😂
Great list! Star Realms is a firm favourite for me; I’ve been tempted by both Legendary Encounters and Aeons End for some time but they both seem super pricey for what they are... hopefully one day I’ll get to try
Mage Knight is a different kind of beast. 😅
Legendary is very good, but to me it feels like a campaign driven game, lower replayability. I've got the Firefly one, awesome game, horrible art!
Imho i think you should go for Aeons End. Even the base game packs so much game for your money! Endless challenge combinations; different mages x different nemesis x different base cards (nemesis) x different market cards. There's even an expedition version or a legacy version, if that's your thing.
"Aeon's End, not for newcomers." This was actually the first deckbuilder I ever learned.
I love, love, LOVE Aeon's End. The Legacy version is brilliant, too.
The DC deck building is my favorite and it’s so sad to see a pic of it used but it not making the list. The variations it allows with its expansions. Competitive or co-op, different characters put focus in different strategies, specific 1v1 versions, promos, a Multiverse box that puts everything together. It’s a true shame it wasn’t included. The Cryptozoic engine is just so good.
I came here thinking hell yeah Adam's finally gets to talk about dc deck building and now I'm sad
This is exactly what I was going to say...it is hands down my favorite deck-building game. I love a bunch of them...but this one is special.
I have every single thing for the DC deck building game except for Crisis #1. I love it and play basically every week.
The 'no shuffling' rules of Aeon's end is super cool. For players with dexterity issues shuffling cards can be a really cumbersome affair and can take away from the game itself. It also (like you addressed) can take away some of the randomness and allow players big brain the pants off it!
Quest For El Dorado is a great shout... It has some of the best card drafting ideas around. Great Western Trail is great, and even though it doesn't feel like a deck builder, you better believe I am making the greatest deck of cows you've ever seen!
In Quacks you don’t explode until 8 cherry bombs. You are still ok at 7 😀 also no Ascension 😜
ADAM: Well I've been making Quacks a lot harder for myself for NO REASON THEN
Surprised Arctic Scavengers isn't on this list. It takes combat and makes it fun with multiple friends! Also really enjoy Valley of the Kings which adds great set collection elements to a deckbuilding game too.
Great list. Surprised I didn't see Tyrants of the Underdark on it. It's my favorite deck builder currently. It's an area control deck builder. Plays great with 2 and will play up to 4. Highly recommend it.
Same. I was very convinced I didn't like deck-builders until Tyrants of the Underdark. It's just so good.
No mention of ascension, that's a great a deck builder
Good video. Also recommended: ascension, hero realms, thunder stone quest, Friday, cubitos!
My favorite deck-builder is Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle. It's a co-op game in which you're all put against the expected baddies from the books, and there's various effects that mess with your life total. You then play your turn buying cards, healing your teammates, attacking the baddies. If you ever lose your life points, you are stunned; discard half of your cards and add a death counter to the area you're in, but the next turn you get restored back to full health. Accumulate enough death counters and the baddies win. Oh, and each player assumes a character role, and each one has a unique effect. If you're REALLY into HP, you'll appreciate all of the nuances the makers put into it. So much fun, highly recommend.
Tyrant of the underdark is one of my go to game for when i want to introduce people that want to try something a bit more meatier than mainstream game, and even my board game club loved it when i intruduced them to this game. It also have good deck-builder introducing mechanics, like gaining points for banishing cards out of your deck teaching you the concept of deck thinning.
I have some other game that are good bridge game like smash up and king of toky, but tyrant of the underdark is the one i have the most success with to catch new initiates for the non mainstream board game gods. The theme is mature enough and easy to teach, around 80% of the rules are on the last page of the manual.
Kickstarted For Glory and it is fantastic. Also Kickstarted the Nova Collection of Star Realms, which now supports up to 6 players.
Clank and star realms are really fun deck builders but my favorite deck builder is mystic vale and the expansions for it.
DC Deck Builder is my fav & i'm not a huge DC fan...anyway, i'm definitely gonna try a few of these, thanx
I just played the DC Deck Building Game for the first time and now I'm obsessed.
the coolest art is a good sign of a good game!
Wow. Those Dominion cards have been USED.
My favourite deck building game is the DC deck building its so much fun to play especially the forever evil expansion playing hero vs villains
Base Dominion is number 10 on this list. Dominion plus expansion is easily number 1. I came to Dominion late; it's one of the last big name deck-builders I've played. I loved how it's deck-building crystalized to its purest form. On another note, Ascension is excellent and I see Shards of Infinity as a better version of Star Realms. Great list!
I was looking for someone who mentioned shards! Easily not just my favorite deck builder, but my favorite table top game.
@@theautisticguitarist7560 I have to try Shards of Infinity. Isn't it more like Ascension than Star Realms though?
I did start with Dominion, and also played Ascension quite early on. I tried Resident Evil and Star Realms once or twice. But many of the ones I've played since have been Cryptozoic (DC Deckbuilding, Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Street Fighter). My family also enjoys 7 Wonders. I just love the concept of deckbuilding games.
DC is my favorite deck builders. Street Fighter was my first, then realize how much better it could have been. When I started picking up DC and their expansions.
Just a quick PSA: Sleeve your cards, guys. Especially when you have to shuffle them a gazillion times during a game.
YES! Don't go through the trauma of thinking you look after your cars well enough, and they only get a bit grubby after a few years....only for one of your mates to scrape one across a table with some salt on it, or bend it, or spill their sodding drink on it.
And it’s always the guy that just reached for the Doritos that he himself brought to game night. Don’t get me wrong, I love my friends but they sure can be bastards
Paranoia in action.
Heads up: the Clank Legacy is an entire game, not an expansion. The picture you showed is four characters with different starting decks, and adds no legacy elements
Clank sounds great, especially the Acquisitions Incorporated legacy expansion
I love Dominion and i never knew there are so many more of these. Thanks Adam.
Spat my coffee out at the end of El Dorado 🤣🤣🤣
To people new to deckbuilding games, try out the digital version of Star Realms and Ascension for free. I downloaded Ascension on my iPad many years ago and I fell in love with the genre big time. Especially as a kid who couldn't afford MTG boxes.
I'd also recommend Abandon All Artichokes on Boardgame Arena, and the digital version ot Cthulhu Realms on Steam
if there's one takeaway from his video is that : You Need to Sleeve your Deck-Builders.
i wanted to sleeve up star realms but honestly sleevening it up would cost me twice what i paid for everything
I bought the Star Realms themed box, with all the Star Realms sleeves
And then I never play it, because I always play the digital app version of Star Realms.
No, you do not need to sleeve cards.
@@FreeRangeDice Get out of here!
Just a small rules add-on for Quacks of Quedlinburg:
Your cauldron only explodes when the number of the cherry bombs EXCEEDS 7. If it’s 7, you’re still safe.
Great video though, I love deckbuilders and own Star Realms, Clank, Quacks & Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle. I think the nice thing about them is the sense of progression you get over the course of the game as you get more and more powerful - even if you lose in the end.
I bought the Alien: Legendary Encounters based off of your recommendation. Solo, I love it, and I can't wait to test drive it with friends soon.
One good thing about Quacks that you missed is that you are not waiting for others to take their turns. You all make your potions at the same time. The only waiting is if you are one of the first people to stop pushing your luck and even then it's only normally a minute or so.
Please please bring Aeon’s End to Board Game Club one day. I would love to see you guys play through legacy or one of the other stories. Or even just do some one off Nemesis fights. No matter what, I would watch the shit out of it.
I like Flying Frog's "Dark Gothic" based off of their "A Touch of Evil" board game. Players play as one of the game's heroes, each with different starting hands and abilities and try to defeat three of the supernatural menaces threatening the town of Shadowbrooke, with each threat being more dangerous than the previous one. It's cooperative, with the added incentive of the ultimate winner being the one with the most points from the various cards you acquire throughout the game
Adam.. youre amazing. Inspired me to pick up a few games. Youre also hilarious. keep it up!
Clank Legacy! Roaring deckbuilder & legacy game. Amazing experience.
My favorite deckbuilder is Valley of the Kings but it never makes it on to these kinds of lists. :(
Star Realms overshadowed its release I guess :(
Can't forget Cowboy Bebop: Space Serenade!
Games focused on combat... Scrabble. Yes!
I love card games and I love rogue-like video games. A while ago I realized that they are basically both applications of the same concept of randomized encounters from a big but nevertheless limited pool of potential outcomes. Deckkbuilders make that even more obvious. I guess Slay the Spire is rather explicit about that, but unfortunately I haven't gotten around to it yet, as in the last while I haven't really been playing video games and before that I was stuck on the absolutely excellent Hades.
Sorry I had a stroke watching the state of your dominion cards
No love for mah boi Ascension 😢 why am I the only one that plays it?
I bought the year two set and played it all throughout college. Probably my favorite deck builder
@@ForeverFever49 I’ve got probably a majority of the sets. I love this game but nobody I know has ever seen or heard of it lol and I very rarely see people talking about it
Shards of infinity is pretty sweet
I'm surprised the 2nd deckbuilder isn't on this list. Arctic scavengers. Its brilliant because cards you dont use go to fight other players and man the bluffing is so tense.
I second this one.
Dominion is bae
Deck building games I like that you didn't mention
Cthulhu the deck building game - It's co -op deck building and your currency for cards is also what you're using to deal damage to the creatures and gods. Rules can be a bit unclear for newcomers but once you get them down it's fun. I liked it more than Legendary Encounters
Ausonia - you use gems to both buy cards and activate abilities on cards you have.
The Veil - basically Star Realms but everyone gets their own starting deck and their own separate market, with cards and sometimes whole card types your opponent will never have access to.
My wallet quivers everytime I click on these videos. 🥺
Funny, I watch them for the smug validation of already owning the game he mentions.
honestly. really happy that slay the spire was mentioned cause holy FUCK that game is good. hope it gets a physical board game incarnation someday which i dont know how it would work but i ALREADY WANT IT
Surprised that dc deck building wasn’t on the list. It has a ton of expansion and is a great time
Shadowrift is a great co-op deckbuilder. I also wanted to mention Arctic Scavengers, as a few other commenters have also done.
I also really love Orleans as a "deck" builder, as well as Coin Quest
@ 6:38 Reminds me of "Dont wake Daddy."
Good list but my faves are Ascension, Star Realms, Shards of Infinity and Quest for El Dorado.
loved this!
When are we going to get an in-depth look into the masterpiece known as Kerplunk?
No love for Ascension?
Ascension is top tier and it's snub is unforgivable.
For video game deck builders Gordian Quest, Griftlands, and Nowhere Prophet are also great games.
I'm kinda burnt out on Deck Builders, but I think I'd still play Automobiles.
I don’t know if it fits this list but boss monster is a hell of a good time with my friends. I bought pretty much everything so it has infinite replay value.
Quarriors is only of my favorite pool building games, surprised it didn't make the cut. Another lesser known gem is the Star Trek deck builder by Bandai. The Original Series version fixes some of the balance issues from the TNG version.
Slay the spire board game is coming out this year.its my most anticipated board game because i liked the pc version a lot
Adam, have you played "Shadowrun Crossfire"? It's a crazy fun (and also crazy hard) co-op deck builder that's also legacy with you making your own character and buying skills for them using karma you earn from completing missions!
I love it and I'd highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys the Shadowrun universe!
Can't call it a "deck" builder, but Dice Forge is a bunch of fun. Quarriors is also another good one if you like collecting a bunch of dice.
Did looking at those Dominion Coppers give anyone else pain in their chest? 🙋🏾♂
Star Wars the card game has a stunning design!
You should do a list of board games where you play the Villian. Boss Monster is what come to mind.
I would also HM "Vikings gone wild" 😁
Yall should try Moonrakers by IV Studios, its a deck builder with negotiation.
along with what has been listed, i also like apex Theropod (which it is a dinosaur deck builder and dune imperium.
Personal List
Domination - classic/simpler/many expansions
Star Realms - Cheap/faster only around 30 mins or less/ some expansions/ only 2 player unless buying more decks
($59.99) For Glory - Seems awesome/ longer times between fights/ alot of build up throughout the whole game.
Undaunted - Military Game/ Unforgiving/ Seems really fun though/ A little simpler, despite many steps/ a little tedious sounding
Legendary Encounters (or other themes) - Looks insanely fun/ seems COMPLECATED/ so many themes, I think that's awesome/ Probably a very long game.
Quacks Of Quedlinberg - Seems fun, I think it isn't the coolest one but I wouldn't mind playing it.
I really want to try Paperback. Hopefully I'll find it at my FLGS some day
Another honorable mention should have been the Hand of Fate video games. It's a deck building dungeon crawler that comes to life during combat
If you like Legendary Encounters, possibly check out the Arkham Horror/Lord of the rings LCG. Best mechanic storytelling I've experienced.
I do like all 3 of the Realms games. Star Realms I play a lot and Hero Realms is a lot of fun as well. Cthulhu Realms I would urge others who have tried the other Realms games but not tried that one to give it a go as it is very good indeed and requires a slightly different strategy to win.
Apart from deck building the deck building game
Would love to see a video on the best games to get people into games.
Valley of the Kings and the rest of the deck-deconstruction subgenre(including Flamme Rouge) also deserve a mention. Especially Flaming Pyramids & Abandon All Artichokes, for being Uno-level accessible, and the latter I think is a better gateway deckbuilder than Dominion(it teaches otherwise unintuitive concepts like deck-pruning), probably even among top 10 gateways of the past & next decade
Star Realms over Diminion ANY day. I'm glad For Glory is getting the love it deserves.
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Have you played the Lord of the Rings deck builder? It's pretty fun and easy to pick up for newer players
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So it's a violent sandwich with excellent bread?
Have you ever considerd Harry Potter the battle of hogwarts i belive its a better deck bilder then stare relms
is there any chance that the NRB crew play a game of D&D?