I’ve been very anxiously awaiting Alpha… Maybe it’s time to make a confession: I’ve got a college rule notebook filled nearly front to back with deck lists scribbled across nearly every page. Many of them start to blend together; on page 40 or so I came up with a list that I’d already written on page 7; somewhere around halfway I started abbreviating all the card names, in many cases I have to wait a second to remember what “4x harb” or “BB w/g1 b1″ stand for. Crazed is probably a good word to use. Having shared ideas with a number of folks already, turns out that I’m not the only crazed one out there.
However, there’s a flip side to that coin. My wife and I play a lot of board games and card games together, she’s shown a bit of interest in Hex (though I think she might just be humoring my obsession), but I know she just becomes petrified any time I try and get her to build her own deck in any of the games we’ve played before. There’s a ton of folks out there that are just intimidated by the process, they just wanna PLAY! I’m writing this one for those of you who might feel a bit timid when it comes to deck building. It’s a great mental exercise and can be quite a bit of fun, give it a shot! With that said, I’m going to describe one of the common processes which I use while deck building as well as include a step by step walk through so that hopefully it makes a bit more sense.