3 TCG Mechanics Someone Should STEAL!

They said zombie to many times !

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. ❤😊

Bro said Grave Robbing 💀💀💀

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

You should do a tier list on mechanics

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Over the Hedge?

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

Zombie game had cool art.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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）

What’s your thoughts on the battle spirits mechanic

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.

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.

Talk about the Gundam game, sanity be damned

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

dude this video is really well made

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

Appreciate this video!!

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 😅

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

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.

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

Yuguioh is got something like the zombis xd with cristal beast and pendulums that don't go to grave but go to spell zona and extradeck

I really love the monster ranchers battle card GUTs mechanic and how you dodged and blocked moves

Elestrals pretty elegantly solves both Mana drought/flood and life decking feelbad with a dedicated resource deck from which you can always pick which resource to pay with or burn as damage. As a bonus, you can adjust those options to whichever colors you draw

"You don't tap characters; You crank them."

Fantastic. Is there a hog card?

oh I'm making a game with both the zombies' resource mechanic and life decking.

Follow up video in 10 years after all the new games are developed and released based on these ideas?

Another dead ccg I think hgreacouple great ideas inside the VERY crusty cash grab is Hyborian Gates. I liked it enough that I rewrote/rebuilt the rulebook with a card oracle as well to make the game function and remove some very bad mechanics

If you want Gemini useful that's Edison format baby, also I think Elestrals sorts has it and it's useful

Just discovered this channel but... can I come into this TCG/CCG vault of yours and can we play everything you have consecutively ? I need to know about them all (seriously great stuff, love to see more obscure (card) games presented)

Love the video! What are a couple of your all time favorite TCGs?

lifedecking sucks

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