2026-10-01 · design-roundup
"Good Deckbuilders Follow the Rules. Great Ones Break Them." — How Thinky Games Reads Shroom and Gloom's Rule-Breaking
One piece today: a September 30, 2026 feature by Gwen C. Katz on Thinky Games. It lines up deckbuilders that deliberately invert the conventions Slay the Spire set, and asks why such rule-breaking holds together. The answer is unglamorous: tradeoffs.
