If I did a full break down of one of these games, which one would you like to see?

"Cranked" might be the best tapped-but-we-legally-can't-call-it-that replacement term I've heard yet.

A game of Zombies... was... dead on arrival... *puts sunglasses - YEEEAAAAAHH

Zatch Bell's little card booklet will always be the most bold dead card game mechanic.

Funny you should mention the "every anime has to have a card game" era, I actually have a funny story about that. In the early 2000s, I had just found out about Magic: The Gathering. I tried explaining it to someone at my school, but when I told him that it didn't have a TV show, he didn't believe me!

The card game I am currently designing has a grid system where you have 5 landmarks you play in a column format and the minions, items and spells must be played in a row of those cards. Each landmark has an extra effect for minions/tools/spells.

dude your production value is really good, it's better than some MTG KZfaqrs with a thousand times the subscribers

Great video. As an indie game designer, I spend so much time playing older and less popular games looking for these sorts of ideas, and these are three games I've never learned. Thanks for sharing!

As someone who is looking for card game design ideas, these are awesome and exactly what I was looking for. Ty so much!

The rotating card mechanisms in Lightseekers and Warhammer Champions I thought was really cool and had a lot of potential, especially if expanded upon to sort of create a network of interconnected cards. Another game I've been wanting to see other people attempt a similar game was Star Wars Destiny. I absolutely loved that game I think some small tweaks and different themes would work great for it.

Banding as a central mechanic to a game wouldn't be the worst thing.

Fire Emblem Cipher also uses the mechanic of flipping resources face down to pay for spell cards, though it doesn't do as much as Zombie World Order.

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2:18 That out of nowhere Soulja Boy reference was a hilarious stroke of genius! Subscribed. For life 😂😂😂👍!!!

Vs System actually hadsomething akin to both the row system (minus the ability to go to a third row) and the dead-characters-dont-die-they-just-change-state mechanic, although there you just recovered one per turn rather than pay to recover them. It really made for some complex boards and combat despite the game usually lasting just 5-7 total turns.

Earned a follow for this and your 7 games series. Love that you cover tons of indie and lesser known products with your personal opinion without making your likes and criticisms overtake the objective facts. Would love to hear more about your favorite games and such. Also life decking is fine, people just need to stop failing the pot of desires test.

Can't believe Fire Emblem Cipher, my favorite dead card game, uses it's own version of the first two mechanics. Also, as a Chilean, to this day we play a lot of Myths and Legends, and the life decking aspect of the game is the most fun. You get to do micro damage to the opponents resources whenever you attack, even with a 1 strenght card. Also, since "gaining life" is actually shuffling cards back into the deck, the less life you have, the more relevant the cards you shuffle are because most likely that's the ones you are gonna draw next turn.

LOTR's twilight resources are interesting. I would actually be surprised if no card or board game has reused it.

Another fun video with great quality. Thanks for the entertainment and please keep it up! :D

This post was machine translated from Japanese. Bandai has repeatedly used the "Twice Dead" mechanic like ZWO. For example, Zatch Bell, Naruto,　(japan only)Resist in "Rangers Strike" , kekkaishi（結界師）

This video was awesome! I’d love to see more like it that highlight unique mechanics in games

dude this video is really well made

Discarding is in itself a resource in certain decks, and it's that kind of strategy I like. When your discard pile fuels your other cards, or becomes a place you can obtain cards from, it cease to be a burdensome aspect. Mistfall uses a staggered health system. You have a discard pile, and a buried pile. Taking damage generally places cards from your hand or top of deck into the buried pile. Healing provdes restoration points. you can spend each restoration point to either put a buried card into your discard pile, or a card from a discard pile to the bottom of your deck. Pathfinder the adventure card game utilized a method where buried cards are usually out of play until the next session, and banished cards are perminantly removed from your deck for the campign. You can generally only heal by putting random discarded cards to the bottom of your deck. Effects that bury cards are generally more powerful than discard effects, and banish effects are even more powerful. Taking damage generally discards from the top of your deck, but if you are playing well, and RNJesus is on your side, it shouldn't be a problem. I get the topic is TCGs, but card games can have cross over rules.

This was awesome!!

The scrapile, commands, resources and construction sites of Battletech CCG and the way you can attack them is awesome.

That first mechanic you showed off my actually maybe the thing my homemade tcg needs! I am no thief but…….👀

Currently working on my own game that involves a grid system similar to On The Edge, main difference being that you can attack through anything but your attack is reduced by the power of whatever you pass through. Gonna find a pdf of the OTE rules today to see what they did right!

Love these videos every time they pop up! shame i dont know any mechanics to give you to steal

Life decking facedown is like such an obvious idea, yet no one else seems to have thought if it 🤔?

those first two are kind of awesome...

So nice to see On The Edge.

me and my friend recently sleeved up some MegaMan starter decks and learned to play. It's a Decent game with some solid mechanics but yeah having your Life also be your Deck is rough watching all your good Battlechips go to the discard pile.

zombie world order had a world of potential (no pun intended), new factions, a zombie theme game would be really cool and the art potential was great

My heart was destroyed when it started with Zatch Bell slander but not gunna lie, Zombie World Order looks kind of fun. Definitely going to check outbyour video on that

The life decking mechanic would be neat if it becomes another resource system. Like let me discard cards from it to do things, or search the pile for cards to add to my hand.

I got my own unique idea for a card game. It uses a lot of D6 dice and plays like a puzzle game like Toon Blast.

And I thought I knew about card games. You seem to really know your stuff! Subbed

I still have my Rage double deck pack ...and that StarWars tcg ...and X-Files too. X-Files have a interesting resource system. In your turn, Agents generate a fix amout Resources per turn, to play Blue or neutral costs. Oponente discard cards to gain Cospiracy, to play Red or neutral costs.

Talk about the Gundam game, sanity be damned

I like that Gundum solution to life decking. Pretty kool!

I would love to see more of these “mechanics you should steal” videos, I love the idea of grabbing good mechanics from dead games but I definitely don’t have the time or ability to track down and play all of these defunct games.

I've always thought the Naruto squad and damage system was such a unique idea...... I say without knowing I'd it was stolen or used again by a other game

I love Zombie World Order, I wish they would bring it back. I would be ok if they abandoned the "flesh" texture tho.

Great video!

That Gore Gwar card gives me kind of a shark vibe which is probably why I thought it said Gore Gawr which weirdly made a lot of sense to me but should really be renamed to Gore Gura, and then I went back and paused the video at which point I realized that Gore Gwar is NOT supposed to be a zombified Gawr Gura.

U did it ! You mention a card thingy (😊=card game) that i hsvent heard of ! ❤

Great Video! We actually use Life Decking in our game but we have a cool mechanic called Savior that make it not feel so bad. Instead of focusing on what you lose you're looking for cards with Savior.

Oh they did resource flip kinda like F. Emblem Cipher, it did the same thing to where colors become colorless resource.

Zombie game had cool art.

I want to see all the card games in your collection! 🤣

yes I would like to see geminis but good

Bro said Grave Robbing 💀💀💀

Appreciate this video!!

It's been mentioned in the comments (by you and others) but Redemption CCG used banding as a central mechanic in battle. The game is still alive today with a new set coming out and National tournament yearly. Banding is still popular and shapes the meta with decks making it a point to stop Banding as their main strategy. Lmk if you want some more information im happy to share as an active player.

Thank you for the video

I think Duel Masters-style shields have replaced the need for life decking. It's great as a comeback mechanic AND it keeps the game immaculate (no counters etc). But it might be interesting to see a game let you use lifedecked cards as a secondary hand in the spirit of shields/prizes/etc A mechanic I wanna see a game steal is Digimon's memory gauge. It's kinda in-keeping with the theme since it was lifted from a dead game Chrono Clash. Personally, I am SICK of MtG lands/Hearthstone mana, and I love how it joins cost and tempo in a way that's less scripted. Another mechanic I wanna see stolen is the size mechanic in Buddyfight. It's sorta like Vanguard where there are only so many spaces on the field (3), but size is a secondary limitation (usually 4). It means you can't just flood the board with bosses, but you don't have to have a dedicated space for them like in Vanguard.

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Banding is actually really simple, and I kinda hate that they stopped messing around with it. The game of Magic is pretty much entirely just trying to confuse your opponent's ability to do math, and that's all banding does.

I think Gundam may be the best for life decking, and potentially tweak it where now you could have the choice of either drawing from the main or the damage deck. Maybe a card that strictly only makes you draw from one pile as well.

I would love to see you take a look at Wixoss TCG, I have been having lots of fun with it. I would like to see how it compares mechanically with other TCGs I may not know about!

You should do a tier list on mechanics

Do you have any recommendations for any of these card games that would be ripe for a digital version?

Gundam War is a pretty solid game, tbh. And the double discard piles thing is def a unique approach to lifedecking

Have you seen a card game where instead of decking out, the discard pile is shuffled and becomes the deck again?

Zombie world order was cool, too bad it just disappeared

Lol. Life decking. I remeber when i finally tuned my winters orb/counter galore/millstone. Horrible control. Its like getting killed in the most agonizing slow. Hope dwindling...kinda...yes i do like cuthulu why do you ask. ❤😊

Just curious are you still working on your ccg game jam game from a couple months back? If not I would like to borrow some mechnics from that game and try to work on my own take of the 3 lane battlefied system.

Can you do a video about Life decking? I feel like things like Digimon and Final Fantasy do it and whileneither is huge, digimon isn't super small anymore from what ive seen. I also just love life decking and want more analysis 😅

What’s your thoughts on the battle spirits mechanic

Is it possible that a lawsuit could happen if a game mechanic is too similar to an existing game? Is it ok to take these ideas as long as it’s not the exact mechanics? I’ve always worried about this when making up ideas and come to find out that it’s already been taken by other game companies.

Over the Hedge?

Life decking is essentially built as a win condition in almost every game anyway so that alone is lame

How much does collecting dead card games cost or is most of them just dead stock to people? At least in the English market.

Drink from another well.

Bro I was legitimately already coming up with a system like On The Edge

They said zombie to many times !

Speed racer have a card game?????

I will use them when I make a new tcg I am working my first.

i am designing TCG ATM, Thanks for a great video.