deck builder
-
LATEST POSTS
 

After Us Review

by Mike Bon September 9, 2023
Mike reviews the game of post-apocalyptic monkey tribe engine-building

Lewis & Clark

by Mike Bon January 15, 2019
WDR Silver
  Let’s go paddling downriver in our canoes, fortunately, this involves very little duelling banjos and thankfully no pig squealing. We’re going way back to the expedition of 1804 that saw Meriwether Lewis and William Clark exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Lewis and Clark is a frothy milkshake of deck builder, worker placement and […]

Legendary Encounters

by Mike Bon October 11, 2014
WDR Essential
Ever since Upper Deck announced their plans to release an Alien themed version of Legendary I’ve been staying frosty in anticipation. The film series is something I’ve adored since I first encountered everyone’s favorite Xenomorph back in 79,  whilst not quite of age to see Alien on the big screen I devoured issues of Fantastic […]

Artic Scavengers

by Mike Bon July 3, 2014
WDR Silver
  In some funky alternative timeline Arctic Scavengers upon release became a roaring hit, ushering in a new age of deck builders and spawned a series of brilliant expansions. So it sucks that we’re stuck here in this poopy timeline where none of that amazingly cool stuff occurred. There’s a depressing history to what occurred […]

Quarriors

by Mike Bon July 3, 2014
  If you love dice games and have a penchant for deck builders then this may very well be one of your favorite things, because Quarriors is both of these. Designed by Mike Elliot & Eric Lang and released by Wizkids back in 2011 the base set comes with a brain boggling 130 custom dice, […]

Hearthstone

by Mike Bon July 3, 2014
OK so yes this is a game on a computer. Don’t panic this isn’t a sudden departure for the site into video game reviews, but I have been playing this a lot and its at heart a CCG similar to Magic. If you are unaware Hearthstone is Blizzards grab for the online CCG market, pretty […]

Dominion

by Mike Bon July 3, 2014
Friends we are travelling back to the golden hued times of bygone gaming, well five years anyway. Released in 2008 Dominion ushered the hugely popular Deck Building mechanic onto the face of modern board gaming, and has since spawned numerous imitators some brilliant and others not so. Its easy to forget now quite what a […]