In summary: 1. Scaling, esp. via synergy 2. Catch-up, ex. board resets 3. Cards below the power curve, but with other appeal 4. Efficient win conditions

good vid but the excessive camera movement was really tiring to watch and made it harder to follow

"anyone can make a game that is way too fast and anyone can make a game that is way too slow." It takes Konami to make the same game be both though.

As usual, highly inspirational! Thank you for another great video J!

excuse me sir but i hit the like button before our rabbit friend came into the picture soo he's like me hehehehe. thanks for the great content.

yo babe wake up, there's a new Shard TCG vid

I've off and on thought about making a card game for a while, just found your channel yesterday and I am loving it!

This is my intro to your channel. Great points made and I love the small editing touches -- Kronk's "It's all coming together" always good for a chuckle.

Love your vids man

@2:38 I do wish I could be like that little bunny, pressing the like button. Alas, if I did that, I would be *Un*liking the video, as I already pressed it. I guess this is just how my life is going to be from now on, forever doomed to not be like that adorable little rabbit.

Another extra role I think you can have for purposefully bad cards is "griefer" strategies. Things like stall, "tax" and "resource destruction" are often quite hated when they are dominating the metagame because they can lead to players feeling frustrated as they interrupt their ability of players to play. But there are also some players who quite enjoy playing those strategies, so I think it is a good idea to have those cards exist in some form, but never be quite cost-efficient.

But I still don't understand, whats engine building card

I love the tone change when you talked about trash cards 😂

Really helpful! I came up with a strategy for my own tcg concept that definitely needs some balancing, but I'm curious whether or not it would combat the snowball effect: Essentially, every time your hero/player character takes damage, you receive 1 extra point of card-playing currency. This allows players who are taking a lot of hits to recover by playing high-cost cards, while still providing a consequence for bad play in that too much damage will kill them. It also adds a sort of strategic risk-vs-reward mechanic where you might *want* to take a few small hits to get your currency up. Great video!

Tyrannomon playmat, where?!

I'm waiting for this channel to start reviewing indie card games

What was that fake yugioh game at the start 😂

Counterpoint to your first category: Flesh and Blood does the exact opposite

great content ! One advice, turn down the background music. It is a bit too loud and makes it harder to follow the content of the video.

I like the concept of showing how powerful cards are by Comparison, but that just makes gambling fodder, look at the big 3, they have so many that players are willing to rip up cards, don't believe me, see the school system, I've seen cards ripped to shreds just cause they're useless, still don't believe me, watch Yugioh videos on War Rocks, I like the old school concept, but seriously, compared to the meta, might aswell rip up all vanilla cards (no effect cards), cause it won't change either way, players will resort towards meta cards if they want to win, but what if every card is useful in a way, what If every card has a chance, and not be potential fodder for the fireplace. Collectors are different, but in gameplay games where it matters, will be mocked and ripped to shreds by those competitive players who does not care. If I am going to create fodder cards, I want them to be valuable to not be ripped, like specific effects that are powerful but are niche, and story driven cards that tell the story, but better. If all cards where on a frequency grid, I don't want cards that go very deep or very up, balanced out so that all cards are playable, so they can meld whatever they want while have the chance of winning either way, what matters left is player skill.

4:07 you’re referring to how in like Yu-Gi-Oh, you have trap cards and spell cards that some can destroy cards, and some can like the swords of light card can stop players from attacking for X amount of turns, right?

I think it's better to not focus on trash cards too much. They will happen even if you try not to do it, and after a while in the case of non-rotating formats like Yugioh, your initial pool's meta staples can eventually become trash cans too. Making them worse to make the others look better risks them hitting that mark of "it's so bad it's not even worth making a challenge over it in a way that'd make it fun". Or seeing how it stands when even the intended better cards fall a little short from hitting the mark of being good themselves. I love casual pack filler but even that needs a level of functionality. I'm not entirely sure on the formula since I'm a Yugioh player primarily and I measure it by thinking filler cards feel "good" and meta cards feel "unfair", and that in reality means filler cards are not good but bad, and the staple and meta relevant cards are "good". xD

the delivery makes this impossible to watch

I don't like the idea of including cards that are decidedly below power curve. And here's why: cards that don't see play at any level may as well not exist. If you have the option to play a skull red bird or an Uraby in Yu-Gi-Oh, you'll always play the bird. Factions permitting, you'll also always include the bird and only the bird in your deck.

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WTF? U Brazilian?