Component Design

This section contains articles and pages about the theory and practice of deck, map, and figure design, as well as any other imaginable aspects of Epic Duels add-on materials. If you are looking for different ways to play, consider the House Rules section.

The resources below are broken into the following categories: Deck Design, which deals primiarly with tools and strategies for coming up with the cards themselves; Card Design, which deals with actually constructing the card images and turning them into physical cards; VASSAL Specific, which details resources exclusive to VASSAL extension development; and Other/Reference, which contains things like listings of Hasbro decks, analysis of terminolgy, and Sultan of Dorkistan's excellent Design This! series.

DECK DESIGN

• The ABC's of Decks, which contains general guidelines for both deck design and card design (offsite link) by Rich Pizor
• The Asterisk Anomoly by Sultan of Dorkistan and Scott Hagarty
• Basic Deck Design by OWJ: The ABCDs of decks.  New and old theories on the Basic decks and when to use them.
• Card Playability vs Intent by Scott Hagarty
• Character Trait Trends by Scott Hagarty
• Deck Designer by Corey Andalora
• Design This! by Sultan of Dorkistan. An ongoing blog about all things Epic.
• Hasbro Deck Ideas and Signature Cards by Scott Hagarty
• Precepts of Special Cards by Rich Pizor
• Resource Management in ED Deck Design by Rich Pizor
• Single Character Decks: Observations, Problems, and Solutions for a deck without minors by Scott Hagarty
• Special Card Analyzer with User Guide (offsite links) by Roman Farraday. An Excel spreadsheet an MSWord document that explains how to use it.

CARD DESIGN

• Deck Building Dos and Don'ts by Rich Pizor.
• Deck Design Kit - compiled by Rich Pizor, this collection of templates contains the graphical elements for laying out a custom ED deck.
  • Design Kit Read Me is a basic step-by-step on using the templates to create cards. A little specific, but has some information that can be applied across the board.
• Design This! by Sultan of Dorkistan. A sporadic blog about Epic Duels design.
  • Dorkistan Deck Design Templates

VASSAL SPECIFIC

• Extensions Registry - list of what VASSAL expansion slots are taken up by what decks.

OTHER/REFERENCE

• note: also see the Reference section of this wiki for more.
• Card Wordings Text conventions in Hasbro cards and editing mistakes
• Card Text Word for word transcription of the text on all cards in all decks
• ED Deck Analysis by Moonsylver. The original definitive work, this document doesn't so much advise on how to design decks as break down and analyze the Hasbro dozen. In the Files area of the main Epic Duels Yahoo group.
• ED Specials Breakdown is a spreadsheet that allows you to quickly sort the Hasbro talent cards by a variety of criteria. In the Files area of the main Epic Duels Yahoo group.
• File Hosts for storing files so you can link them to the Wiki.