2023’s looking like another banger year for deckbuilders

There’s just something deliciously moreish about drawing a fresh hand and rolling with the punches as long as you can. From solitaire to Slay The Spire, single-player games of chance-laced strategy have always been popular, but never so varied. Deckbuilding games are a genre I’ll never get good at—not for want of trying, but because you need to dedicate hours to learning each game’s laws and loopholes. And yet I cannot resist trying every new one that catches my eye.

My curse is that there’s too many deckbuilders to pick from, and too few hours to get good at any of them. Just look at this list of some of the notable deckbuilders from the past couple years alone: