Arcane Arena

An excellent deck building/skirmish experience in a surprisingly compact package, highly recommended

I have played Arcane Arena numerous times and can't wait for the opportunity to buy a copy from its upcoming kickstarter.

Arcane Arena expertly melds deckbuilding and interactive combat. My central problem with games like Dominion has always been the limitations on player to player interaction - I love dominion, and while my choices are influenced strongly in those sorts of games by what other players are doing, at times it can feel like I am simply playing an optimization game against a computer because there simply is not much that you do directly to the other players. Arcane Arena solves this problem by splitting the game into two distinct phases with completely different playstyles - a deck building buy phase where you craft your deck, and a combat phase where you fight with your deck against the other players.

The combat and deck building support a variety of playstyles so that each game can feel unique, and the games incorporation of player movement across the board really allows it to stand out from other games with deck based combat.