For a long time the phenomenon of the Deck-buidingor deck-builders in Spanish, have been a hit with card game players. Beginning with collectible cards, such as baseball cards, and slowly morphing into playable formats into collectible card games and rapidly diversifying, the deck-building format is replete with different themes and styles.
In recent years, this diversity has further expanded to include everything from intricate narratives to complex blockchain-based technologies.
So if you’re a fan of collectible card games and never stop looking for a winning deck, join us for a look at. six great deck builders who are worth their salt.
1. Hearthstone
Perhaps the flagship modern deck builder and best known around the world, Hearthstone is everything you’d expect from a Blizzard game: incredibly polished, incredibly fun, and undeniably addictive.
With millions of active monthly players, across all available platforms (including PC, consoles and mobile devices), Hearthstone is perhaps. the most played modern deck builder.
Hearthstone is known for being incredibly well-balanced and fast-paced, as it pits players against each other in tense one-on-one cross-platform confrontations. Unlike other deck builders that can take forever, Hearthstone prioritizes fast-paced play thanks to a strict turn timer.
Another of its virtues is its freemium game model, so it will always make it easy for us to try it out and enjoy it.
2. Slay the Spire
Slay the Spireone of the most impressive indie games of recent times, almost single-handedly revived the single-player deck builder. And this is for a good reason: it is truly addictive.
Choosing one of four characters, each with their own unique version of the same general mechanic, you find yourself ascending a multi-story procedurally generated tower, battling monsters and fantasy bosses. And, as a roguelike, if you’re defeated, you’ll go back to the beginning!
Unlike the deck-builders of old, your deck is built as you play: each victory grants you a new card.
Nominated for a variety of awards throughout 2019 and 2020, Slay the Spire certainly left its impact on the industry.. Something we will look at in our next entry.
3. Inscryption
Borrowing the general game model from Slay the Spire, Inscryption adds a number of satisfying twists. to the formula.
First, instead of following the usual formula of filling the table with cards through mana (or energy), you will have to sacrifice your own creatures to place stronger ones. Resulting in a very satisfying tug-of-war.
Even more interestingly, Inscryption flips the generally endless deck-builder format on its head, instead providing a finite story that guides each and every game. This narrative will see you exploring a small cabin where your games are conducted to get some rare cards, while also slowly developing into a good narrative of meta-fiction Who can stay with those who enjoy deconstructing the very nature of games.
Named Game of the Year by Game Developer’s Choice Awards and winner of the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival, Inscryption proves that putting a serious spin on an existing formula can result in an amazing game.
4. Gods Unchained
Imagine Hearthstone, but on blockchain. Well basically that’s Gods Unchained.
An optimized 1v1 PvP 1v1 deck builder that reflects to the likes of Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone, Gods Unchained’s biggest draw will be the fact that its cards are minted as NFT on the Ethereum blockchain, allowing you to keep them as they accumulate value over time, which adds the element of generating value to a card that happens with physical formats, something we can see in the new Pokemon card craze.
While Gods Unchained runs on Ethereum, it uses layer 2 of Immutable X, which means that no transaction fees need to be paid when exchanging cards..
Undoubtedly the blockchain world promises to change the way we relate to technology, and we are sure that this will be reflected in the world of deck builders in a progressive way.
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5. Fights in Tight Spaces
Released in 2021, Fights in Tight Spaces is an elegant combination of turn-based tactics of deck building.complemented by exciting animated fight sequences drenched in a minimalist, chromatic aesthetic.
A unique take on the genre, the game can be conceived as a cross between Slay the Spire and Into the Breach, in which you eliminate multiple enemies in a tiled play area using your deck’s abilities.
With many challenges, game modes, and plenty of leaderboards to fight over, Fights in Tight Spaces is a unique take on the modern deck builder and, we believe, an underrated gem in the genre.
6. Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
Gwent was always a big part of The Witcher 3, with many players spending too much time in taverns betting coins when they really should have been saving their surrogate daughter… CD Projekt saw this and decided to develop the fan-favorite mini-game into a standalone one. So, Gwent became its own game, and using a successful franchise like The Witcher as a base.
This free deck creator is much bigger than the minigame found in The Witcher 3.allowing you to take on friends or opponents online in best-of-three rounds.
Since Gwent is on the simpler side of deck builders, especially compared to Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering, it makes it much more accessible to newcomers to the genre. This makes it to this day the perfect casual deck builder for those looking to play cards online.
What about you guys, are you fans of the genre, is there a deck builder you think should be on the list, we’ll read you in the comments!