Playing With Random Decks
Henrik got this idea one day: mix up all cards and make completely random decks to play with. I was a bit sceptic at first, throwing all your more or less carefully sorted in one big pile and mixing well sounded a bit dangerous. After getting over that fear of mixing them all up it turned out to be a really great idea. This is how we did it:
- Mix up all creatures and stronghold upgrades. Each player draws at random as many as he/she wants in the deck. We've played with 60 random cards in the decks so far, drawing 50 creatures and upgrades.
- Mix up spells and magic items and draw in the same way as above.
- Look through the cards you've got. You may discard up to three spells/magic items and draw new ones if you want to (no fun with St. Ballantine's Evocation if you've got no knights!).
- If you've got space left in your deck you may pick bribery cards now.
- Pick terrain, shields, stronghold and guardian.
- Shuffle a lot :-).
- Play!
Not only does this way of creating decks set you up with tons of shamelessly cool creatures in a nice mix, it also actually gives decks that work pretty well (at least against similarily constructed decks)! Guardians isn't as dependent on specific cards/combinations for good decks as some other games are, so it's hard (impossible?) to end up with a completely worthless deck. And once you've mixed up the cards for the first time there's no mental block against doing so again ...
