Before diving into Golem Gates' gameplay and mechanics, I'm going to take a quick detour. I'm a fan of deck-building games since about middle school when my friends and I all got into Magic: The Gathering. When I think of those types of games and what that experience is like, the main idea is selecting your cards around a core combo, or set of combos, and some additional cards that help you respond to specific weaknesses and threats (this is setting aside everything having to deal with metas and pro play, just playing for fun). There's a methodical and, at times, slow deliberateness to the pacing.

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