The Most HATED TCG Mechanic Designs| TCG R&D 

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the "trigger" cards mentioned might refer to the "trigger units" used in cardfight vanguard, EX burst cards in Final Fantasy TCG, and weiss schwarz's "climax cards" in addition to the "shield triggers" used in duel master and the likes. These types of "trigger cards" do in fact add more luck based aspects to the game, for better or worse.

I like how 2 of the problems mentioned was solved by SW Unlimited by just simply saying "Eh, screw having turns."

4:10 DONT DO THIS any card as resource isn't a fix, it's an option. Mana doesn't need to be fixed, but you can take another route like yigioh and vanguard

I think combos (infinite, big finite, or non-deterministic) are good for the game since it gives a cool win condition to Johnny's. You just need to make sure the deck the combo goes into isn't too powerful and has meaningful counter play.

The person talking about Triggers is talking about Shield Triggers in particular. The mechanic of attacking the opponent, they add a card to their hand, and if the card attacked has a trigger, it can be played for free.

1. Any TCG with no resource cards in your deck, or ones where any card could be made into a resource might as well let players choose their ideal opening hands. If you don't like variance, play a different game. 2. I will never understand why people saying they don't like combos is taken any more seriously than if someone were to say they don't like aggro.

My game I’ve been making and tweaking for 7 years helps with a lot of issues. 1: floodgates. -most of the floodgates are only affecting one side of what can be played. However they are specific to card types and are removed after the battle. The battle is a “both players play at the same time” part while everything before is just the turn player. 2: first turn advantage: - both players cannot attack their first turn. The second player gets a +1 to their field called the hospital. (This gives them 1 extra “recovery” card resource.) ontop of that creatures that have battled become tapped. Tapped creatures cannot be targeted by the opponents creatures for attacks.

I've made a tactical card game played on a 9x9 grid with some of my friends (approx. 500 unique cards). To address really powerful cards that would give one player a superior advantage over another, I have put a lot of those abilities onto Terrain cards - cards that don't do anything unless there is a soldier occupying that tile on the map, and then whichever player controls that soldier gets the benefit of that powerful Terrain. Essentially, this allows powerful cards to be controlled by any player and gives players an incentive to fight for the ability to control that tile.

15:00 Deck stacking......why else would I shuffle?

16:13 “Duel Purpose Cards” Them’s fightin’ words! 🤺

I think there are a few bad takes here from commenters tbh but I think calling infinites a mechanic is just inherently dumb. It’s not a mechanic it’s a situation that can arise from cards just working. And it’s only like really a problem if like they’re popping up when the game still has a small card pool (indicative of sloppy design) or is like conquering major tournaments.

Keyforge is a great example of a game that does not have 1 card draw. You always draw up to a full hand, which means discarding is effectively equal to drawing into a better card. Then again, Keyforge is balanced by the fact that your cards are split across 3 houses and you can only play from a single house at a time, so the game doesn't just become you shotgunning (or pendulum summoning *cough cough*) everything from your hand out

3:20 The problem can be fixed depending on the core design of your tcg. One way would be to make it so a player going first simply won't matter to the game. Making it so it wouldn't provide any advantage to the player. A digital ccg like marvel snap fixes this problem by simply removing the cause of the problem. The game ends after a fixed amount of turns and cannot end before that unless somone concedes. The winner is the player who manages to get more points in 2 out of 3 location thus winning them. The turns are also simultaneous. So no player goes first.

Seeing some of the comments about trigger cards kinda has me wondering your thoughts on prize cards as used in Pokémon TCG and shield/life cards as used in Duel Masters, One Piece, Digimon, and any other such games.

Coming from this as a Magic player perspective, the mana system does get ragged on a lot, and while it does make feel bads I do think it makes for interesting strategic gameplay and deckbuilding. Moving to a Hearthstone-like system where mana is automatically generated doesn't really feel right as I feel it takes away from a turbo-ramp strategy where a deck seeks to use its early turns to get as many resources out as possible at the detriment of its early to mid game board state. A Lorcana-like ink system is a little bit closer, and Magic has delved into this a little recently with dual-faced cards with a spell on one side and a land on the other. But, making mana generic ruins the whole color system and risk-reward for running more colors. If you just go the MDFC approach on everything, then it also homologizes the mechanics. Now you're kind of stuck with a select few ramp methods without much creative room to expand on, plus also making other dual-face card concepts impossible. An Inscryption-like concept of a second deck with guaranteed resources is another concept, but that feels like it generalizes strategies and lowers variance too far. It can also feel slower when you're forced to draw resources to outright refuse to draw cards that actually do things. It's certainly not perfect, but I couldn't really think of Magic without its mana system. For infinite combos, it would be nice to stop easy ones to set up under 4 cards or so, but beyond that it's more of a Rube Goldberg machine that is just fun to set up. Not only that, but Magic benefits from smaller numbers of stuff and things being capable of making much larger numbers, often not deterministically infinite. It just is possible with its current design space, and that makes it fun. Doing cool stuff and making many 5 power things eventually allowing you to deal over 100 damage in a turn is fun. There can be weaknesses that can be exploited in these strategies as well, which is also fun.

You always make every video, fun, entertaining, and informative all at the same time. Such a force for positivity.

I quite liked Netrunners 3 action per turn that could be generating expendable resources, drawing cards or playing cards, or attacking as a way of dealing with resources.

Yeah, I hate main deck mana. Makes the game unplayable on a coin flip. Too much luck. Not enough freedom.

Seeing the TCG R&D videos on my feed makes me wanna delve back into making my own game. OF course I always struggle to find a resource system I like. >v>;

I think, a good idea for a video, would be about common & or Universal terms, VS quirky terms. For example in almost Every card game out there the pile of cards you draw from is called a (Deck), however there are card games where they've renamed the deck something like elese such as MTG calls is your (library). Is using a universally term like deck better than creating your own?

On the topic of duel purpose cards, if I understand it correctly, one could look at the VS system TCG as a way around it. You use cards as both resources and as characters/effects, but some cards (Plot Twists, Locations, and Reservist heroes) can be played from the resourse row, to get the best of both worlds. However if you do go that way, I would recommend not using their Threshold mechanic for playing them (instead of a resource cost, you only need a given number of resources in play), as it makes those cards a bit too free (doesn't cost a card, because the card is still a resource, and doesn't cost resources) meaning the effects had to be quite limited.

Oh hey I am in the background this time! We should get a video on Errata vs Ban Lists

17:24 It also promotes good deckbuilding. Starter decks or Casual players decks often have only one or two copies of the best most impactful cards that the deck revolves around. If you didn't figure out that you should build your deck consistently yourself, having to ressource your only copy of your best card I guess is sure to teach you that you had better put the Maximum amount of them in your deck. Sure it isn't a nice way to learn but if you learn from it your future games, of any TCG, will be more enjoyable either way.

I think first turn advantage was handled well in the L5R LCG with simultaneous turns and alternating game actions.

Hello! Ive been a longtime fan for a while and just made a new account and also looking to share my TCG’s 🙂❤️ I appreciate your inspiration

Interesting video, i would add power creep can become a massive turn off for new players. I don't think anyone can make a (homemade) TCG with out a little power creep especially if it's been worked on for years! You do need to add something interesting for your game to different than the many many others out there, not to mention the BIG ONES. I've been working on my own TCG (title work in progress, "Sudia", a terrestrial planet the size of Jupiter with the mysteryious energy commonly called Psy-Energy. Yep this planet will have some history to it whether it makes into the game or not.LOL) for about a year or so off and on and it went through ALOT of changes, like card design/layout card types, resources used and common mechanics for my game to function. I'm using my very very many drawings i did through out the years as the bases for the artwork, so i figured i'll get through that part first while tweaking the rules and adding some new cards along the way. This has worked really well for me so far. I did decide to use MTG method of using keywords, looks alot cleaner on the card than a tome of text. HAHAHA Also, no computer graphics, just good O' hand drawn and colored in using markers instead of colored pencils and their fancy brotheren. I'm using normal white poster board, it's not too expensive and it's decently study, a single large type of PB an have about 50 maybe more cards on it. I have the various card types layout also on poster board outlined in permanent marker so i can trace the layout easily. I will make a RU-vid channel about my card game from it's origins to what it has become now once i feel i have the rules and interactions more polished and more cards to show off at least a decent idea of what the game is about. But that's been put on hold for a while due to IRL stuff . I do plan on using the game crafter maybe to professionally print my cards. The only digital bit I'll do will be for the text because my hand writing isn't the greatest which is why i won't be writing on the final version of the cards.

No Stone Rain in your game!

That's a neat accent. New Jersey?

Think you’re missing the point on shuffling, I hate it because tutors and constant searching makes the game take forever.

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is this video bait?