Welcome to the fourth episode of Under the Lid, a biweekly HippoCampus Games podcast!

In today's episode, Adam and Gimo will begin discussing games from the BoardGameGeek top 100 all time! Starting with our favorites and least favorites from 91-100.

For today's main topic, we will be discussing the deck building mechanic as implemented in four hand-picked games: Dominion  by Donald X.Vaccarino (Rio Grande Games, 2008), Great Western Trail by Alexander Pfister (Stronghold Games, 2016), Star Realms by Robert Dougherty and Darwin Kastle (White Wizard Games, 2014), and Mystic Vale by John D. Clair (Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG), 2016).

Stay tuned to the end for our final thoughts and overall comparisons of these four games and the deck building mechanic in general.

BGG Top 100 (91-100):

02:30 (Adam) Charterstone by Jamey Stegmaier (Stonemaier Games, 2017, #94)

05:41 (Gimo) Suburbia by Ted Alspach (Bezier Games, 2012, #92)

09:25 (Both) Captain Sonar by Roberto Fraga and Yohan Lemonnier (Matagot, 2016, #99)

15:28 (Adam) Pandemic Iberia by Jesús Torres Castro and Matt Leacock(Z-Man Games, 2016, #93)

15:48 (Gimo) Railways of the World by Glenn Drover and Martin Wallace (Eagle Gryphon Games, 2005,#97)

Main Topic:

16:41 Deck Building Mechanic Overview

18:07 Dominion

21:52 Great Western Trail

27:21 Star Realms

31:41 Mystic Vale

37:37 Final Thoughts

Theme music composed by Kyle Billings.