

I didn't actually win until I started adding back in some of the cards that gave my deck a bit more dimension." In my quest to win Dream Quest I narrowed my strategy as I typically have to do and found I always eventually ran into something that just demolished me. This is one reason I am a second tier deck builder - I usually want to add a bit of variance to my deck.


Most deck building games reward you for picking a strategy and following it to the absolute exclusion of anything else. "I became completely hooked when I realized that you really had to build a well rounded deck. "It has been ages since I couldn't put down a game" he comments in a Facebook post. People aren't kidding about Dream Quest's graphics.ĭream Quest caught the attention of none other than Richard Garfield, designer of Magic: The Gathering. The cards you buy include money cards and victory point cards of various values, and kingdom cards which can be played for various effects which are described on the card. When a player doesn't have enough cards to draw from they shuffle all discarded cards, including any cards bought in preceding rounds, in order to create a fresh draw deck. Then the hand is discarded, so that a new hand of five cards may be drawn on the next turn. Each turn a player draws five cards from that deck and may buy a card using money cards from their hand, and play a card. In Dominion, each player starts with a deck of 10 cards containing money cards and victory point cards. The first deck builder I played was Dominion, a card/board game released back in 2008. In deck building games the game revolves around building the deck as part of the gameplay. When you hear "deck building" the first thing you might think of is Magic: The Gathering or Hearthstone, but these are games for which you build decks, not "deck building games".
