Deck Construction

Deck Construction is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: android-netrunner, arkham-horror-the-card-game, arkham-horror-the-card-game-revised-core-set.

Compile: Main 1 is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, card-play-conflict-resolution, deck-construction. Playtime is around 20–30 for 2 players with card-game, science-fiction elements.

Compile: Main 1

Star Wars: Unlimited is a trading card game published by Fantasy Flight Games. Its first set, Spark of Rebellion, was released on March 8, 2024. It includes a wide variety of unique art on the cards instead of using film stills. Like many other TCGs, it borrows design elements fr

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Star Wars: Unlimited

Earthborne Rangers is a board game featuring card-play-conflict-resolution, cooperative-game, deck-construction. Playtime is around 60–240 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Earthborne Rangers

Challengers! is a board game featuring deck-construction, deck-bag-and-pool-building, finale-ending. Playtime is around 45 for 1–8 players with animals, card-game elements.

Challengers!

Gloomhaven is a cooperative board game for one to four players designed by Isaac Childres and published by Cephalofair Games in 2017. It is a campaign-based dungeon crawl game including a narrative campaign, 95 unique playable scenarios, and 17 playable classes. Since its introdu

Frosthaven

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, deck-construction. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2 players with adventure, bluffing elements.

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Revised Core Set is a board game featuring automatic-resource-growth, cooperative-game, deck-construction. Playtime is around 30–120 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Revised Core Set

Arkham Horror: The Card Game – Revised Core Set is a board game featuring action-points, area-movement, communication-limits. Playtime is around 45–180 for 1–4 players with adventure, card-game elements.

Arkham Horror: The Card Game – Revised Core Set

Summoner Wars (Second Edition) is a tactical card game designed by Colby Dauch and Plaid Hat Games which iterates on the 2009 title of the same name. In Summoner Wars, players aim to eliminate the opponent's summoner using factions by moving units and deck building. It was physic

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Summoner Wars (Second Edition)

Marvel Champions: The Card Game is a cooperative, living card game published by Fantasy Flight Games since 2019. Players control decks representing heroes from the Marvel Universe, and work together to defeat a villain that is attempting to complete a "Scheme". Players can custom

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Marvel Champions: The Card Game

Cerebria: The Inside World is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, cooperative-game. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with fantasy elements.

Cerebria: The Inside World

Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a cooperative living card game produced by Fantasy Flight Games since 2016. It is set in the universe of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu role-playing game which is itself based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft and other cosmic horror writers. Th

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Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn is a board game featuring closed-drafting, deck-construction, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 30–120 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn

Android: Netrunner is an expandable card game (ECG) produced by Null Signal Games, previously by Fantasy Flight Games. It is a two-player game set in the dystopian future of the Android universe. Each game is played as a battle between a megacorporation and a hacker ("runner") in

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Android: Netrunner

Mage Wars Arena is a customizable strategy card game by Arcane Wonders, and is the first game in the Mage Wars series. In Mage Wars Arena players take the role of powerful and experienced mages fighting in a gladiator style arena duel. Despite being a card game, Mage Wars Arena h

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Mage Wars Arena

Summoner Wars: Master Set is a board game featuring deck-construction, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 30–60 for 2–4 players with card-game, fantasy elements.

Summoner Wars: Master Set

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a card game produced by Fantasy Flight Games since 2011. As part of the Living Card Game (LCG) genre, it is a cooperative and strategic card game set in Middle-earth, a fantasy world featured in literary works by J. R. R. Tolkien, including

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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

Magic: The Gathering is a collectible, tabletop, and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, Magic was the first trading card game and had approximately fifty million players as of February 2023. From 2008 to 2016, over

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