Three Moves Ahead 535: Deck Builders

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Rob is joined by Nicole Clark and Cameron Kunzelman to discuss two recent deck builders: Klei's Griftlands and Abrakam's Roguebook. What do we like and what brings us dismay about each? How do they stack up against other recent paragons of the genre? Where do these types of games fit into the strategy ecosystem? Is boxed macaroni and cheese really that much better if you drop some unsalted butter in there? That's not relevant to the episode. It's just me, Len, asking a cooking question.

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0:00.0	Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead and I'm your host, Rob Zakene.
0:03.5	Today I'm joined once again by our friend freelance writer Nicole Clark.
0:07.1	Hi, happy to be here.
0:10.3	And we also welcome Range Touch as Cameron Cunzelman.
0:15.0	Yep, it's me!
0:17.8	I'm trying to bring a new energy to three moves ahead.
0:21.9	Beautiful.
0:23.3	Thanks.
0:23.8	I hate it.
0:25.6	Good.
0:26.3	Sometimes I think you need oppositional energy, Rob.
0:29.0	I think you need like, you need a joker to your Batman.
0:32.8	Or maybe a joker in the deck, the deck that we're building.
0:35.7	And speaking of oppositional energy, we have three very different modern deck builders
0:41.0	that we're discussing today.
0:43.5	I suppose we'll be touching a lot on Slay the Spire, Megacritgames, Slay the Spire.
0:51.2	We discussed this game before, but I think it's going to come up a lot in relation
0:55.5	to two more recent deck builders that we're going to be talking about a little more specifically.
1:01.8	First, Clay's Gryftlands, which is a rogue-like deck builder that is a mix of combat and negotiation is heavily like character
1:13.9	driven and story-driven. And then Abercombe Entertainment's Roguebook designed by Richard Garfield,
1:22.7	which is a very different sort of deck builder from a lot of the modern crop.
1:30.4	Uh, if you like to see, uh,
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