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Finding the Right Mixture of Luck and Skill with Richard Garfield

The Board Game Design Lab

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Rules in Trading Card Games

This chapter explores the evolution of rules in the trading card game genre, focusing on the introduction of limits on the number of cards in a deck. It discusses how these limits were implemented to balance gameplay and provide boundaries for players. The chapter also briefly mentions an attempt to remove the card limit in a different game, but highlights the preference of players for set limits.

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