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Episode 80: John D. Clair, Card Crafting & Deckbuilders


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Amanda Panda is excited to host John D. Clair, who shares insights about his upcoming game, Mystic Lands, launching soon on Kickstarter. Together, they also highlight their favorite deck-building games. Check it out! 

  • Introduction
    • Amanda welcomes John D. Clair to the podcast
    • John talks about card crafting and and how he came to develop it
    • Inspiration for card crafting and being inspired by game components 
    • Kinetic design and how he uses it to solve ideas in his games
    • How he works on multiple game designs and the same time
    • They talk about Mystic Lands a stand alone sequel to Mystic Vale
    • Mystic Lands comes to Kickstarter in November 2025
    • Challenges for Mystic Lands art direction with card crafting
    • Ramping up the customization of your deck with an additional layer
    • Challenges of foreground and background art in card crafting
    • Changes to the game that differentiate it from Mystic Vale
    • Expansions and when John develops them
  • Deckbuilding
    • John - Hexarchy a Digital 4X Civilization Deckbuilder from Main Tank Software
    • Amanda - Star Realms from Wize Wizard Games
    • John & Amanda - Shards of Infinty from Stone Blade Entertainment
    • John - Dominion from Rio Grande Games
    • Amanda - Mystic Vale from AEG
    • John - Dune Imperium from Dire Wolf
    • Amanda - Clank (In Space) from Dire Wolf
    • John - War Chest from AEG
    • John - Eminent Domain from Tasty Minstrel Games
    • Amanda - Lost Ruins of Arnak from Czech Games Edition
    • Amanda - Orléans from Capstone Games
  •  Where can you find us next?
  •  Sign off

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