Nausicaa deck
| Nausicaa deck | |
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| Designer | Anthony Sun |
| Date | 25/10/2010 |
| Players | solo, vs or multiplayer |
| This deck has not been categorised. | |
| To play Dvorak: Draw five cards each and leave the rest as a draw pile. On your turn, draw a card from the draw pile and play one Thing and/or one Action. (See the full rules.) | |
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This game is themed on "Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind" graphic novels infused with the basic mechanics of Magic: The Gathering (MTG). It is the fruition of my desire to compress some of the most enjoyable aspects of MTG for the casual gamer. I wanted to get closer to the theatrical 'heart-of-the-cards' scenario as seen in Yugi-Oh (also based on MTG) to this end there is only 30 cards.
I wanted a game that gets away from the power gamer mindset and into a more creative and collaborative event. The single deck meets this need. Players need not construct their own deck to play. This eliminates playing against incompatible decks. Being a single deck means it could not be a narrow deck aimed at winning mercilessly the same way again and again, instead I wanted to see interesting interactions where each game is different.
The game ends when one player is eliminated (highest life total at this point wins), this fits my goal of encouraging inclusiveness rather than exclusivity. The game is extremely quick playing as all Things have Haste. The speed of play balanced by the decision making aspect where players must choose which card to discard in order to be able to play another. More powerful cards can be played for the same 'cost' as any other cards, but they cannot dominate play due to the small card pool in which there are ways to deal with these threats, be it countering, cloning, or controlling etc.
