Deck Building Games

I found I prefer Ascension and PA: Gamers vs Evil on iOS simply for the ease in finding and playing a game, but if I can mix mediums I'd put my list like this:

Rune Age
Quarriors
Ascension
Core Worlds (Based on the one time I got to play it. I have a feeling it gets better with more plays.)
Dominion

Rune Age is fantastic, and with the expansion it's more fantastic.

Quarriors is a blast once you add in the buy 2 rule, and the expert culling rule (I prefer the score glory OR cull version) makes the game feel like I imagine it was supposed to originally.

Ascension plays fast, and is super easy to teach. It's not the deepest game around, but is fun for what it is and gives you just enough "draft" feels to be enjoyable if you like that sort of thing. I wasn't a fan of the Penny Arcade game (which felt fiddly) until the iOS version. Still fiddly, but iOS puts the effort level bar so low it is still on my phone.

I never really grokked Nightfall, and Dominion hasn't been played enough to burn out which appears to be one of the biggest knocks against it.

Here's our F:AT rankings of Deck Building Games:

#1. Ascension - 37
#2. Nightfall - 33
#3. Dominion - 31
#4. Puzzlestrike - 30
#5. Rune Age - 24
#6. Thunderstone - 20
#7. Core World - 18
#7. Quarriors - 18
#9. Marvel - 11
#10. Penny Arcade - 9
#11. Resident Evil - 8
#12. Shadowrift - 4
#13. Trains - 2
#13. DC - 2
#14. Eminent Domain - 2
#15. Artic Scavengers - 1

The top 4 will fight it out next week.

#1. Ascension
vs.
#4. Puzzlestrike

#2. Nightfall
vs.
#3. Dominion