Episode 80: John D. Clair, Card Crafting & Deckbuilders
Update: 2025-10-24
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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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