Remember those bad years when every other board game was a deck-builder? Solar Titans reminds me of that.

It’s not that Solar Titans is bad. Just that it’s perfunctory. This is a deck-builder the same way everything back then was a deck-builder. Its identity as a deck-builder makes zero sense. Its deck-builder systems run contrary to its fiction. It even commits the capital sin of deck-builders by letting each hand’s composition matter so much that everything else becomes secondary.

But let’s back up. Solar Titans. What’s it about, eh?

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