


They’re easy to explain, and fast to play - your turn comes around in a flash - and it is rare that you complete a game without wanting to play one more. As new cards are purchased, they go into your deck, and each new hand provides new opportunities for combos and synergies that let you better manipulate the game and box out your opponents.ĭid I lose you? It’s more fun than I’ve made it seem, honest! Simply put, in a deck-builder, players start with a small and inefficient deck of cards, and score points by playing those cards to buy progressively more complex and expensive cards from a face-up display. The form exploded on the gaming market with Donald X.

Namely, what the heck is a deck-building game? … but first, for those of you who aren’t game geeks, I should address the elephant in the room. Upper Deck’s Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game and Cryptozoic’s on-the-nose named DC Comics Deck-Building Game are both … eh … deck-building games, both released in 2012, and both casting players in the role of superheroes fighting super villains for glory and high scores! That’s right, it’s DC vs. Last time, I lauded a game that’s harder to find than Bigfoot riding a unicorn - but this time I offer up not one but two games that you can find right now! Once every hundred issues or so I like to run a superhero-related game review here at Longbox Graveyard.
