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.
