Card games date back to the 1400s with Karniffel, or Thuringian Karnöffel, often listed as the oldest one, at least the oldest in Europe that we know of. As a popular trick-taking game in Germany for centuries, it clearly started a trend. Many trick-taking games are still popular in Germany today and I certainly grew up with a fair few. However, card games have come a long way since then. In this article, I want to look at deck-building games specifically and how this mechanism has been applied in many different ways since Dominion made it popular.

Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2023/05/23/deck-building-a-modern-card-mechanism-topic-discussion/

Useful Links

• Karniffel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karniffel
• Dominion: https://riograndegames.wpengine.com/games/dominion/
• Shards of Infinity: https://stoneblade.com/
• Mystic Vale review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2018/12/08/mystic-vale/
• Undaunted: Normandy review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/07/23/undaunted-normandy-saturday-review/
• Fort review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/04/03/fort-saturday-review/
• Imperium: Classics: https://ospreypublishing.com/uk/imperium-classics-9781472844743/

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