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Claim, a trick taking card game. Easy to learn, but difficult to master the tactics. Has many extensions.

Jekyll vs Hide, another trick taking card game. Twist is the players have different goals. Jekyll wants balance meaning both sides win equally, while Hide wants to win either none or all of them.

Otherwise I second Azul, Hanamikoji and 7 Wonders Duel that were mentioned already

I enjoyed it definetely and seems I learned a bit about the action order, when to upgrade which card etc, getting some bonus "chain reactions" etc. Probably still far away from playing optimal. I do see it a brighter light now

I also played another game of Ark Nova, after I got over last week. I was sure about my start hand and winning condition this time, could focus on learning to optimize the action economy.

We also brought out Indian Summer after a longer abscence, adding up on the autumn mood outside. A nice polyomino Rosenberg, but has a mean stealing interaction.

Watch out the monster cards have different directions. So not only interaction to one side.

To be fair I did some stupid mistakes, so not blaming the game here. Finding optimal strategy for various situations is usually something I enjoy

Played our 3rd game of Ark Nova, this time it took us "only" 3.5h with 2 players, omg.

Got difficult winning condition cards and starting hand. After the first 2 games had been pretty clear in terms of what to do, I struggled to find my way here. Lost with -7 to 26 or so.

Not sure if I would want to buy it (had it rented from the library), seems too luck based in terms of cards.

Plus there's lot of 3rd party supplement stuff for CoS which aids in DMing

As a Player I didn't like it as much as CoS but that might be personal taste. Our DM said there's not much detail given sometimes and less external stuff to cover that fact.

Yes cool game! So much depth in just a standard card deck game. I don't know any strategies, I was only ever trying to not run out of diamonds.

The first 3 are designed by Clemens Franz, A Feast for Odin was designed by Dennis Lohhausen. Dunno if that applies to the box design though, but clearly a different visual style.