I’m searching for card-based boardgames with great artworks! Thanks for sharing you experience.
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A new find for me, Sea Salt & Paper, has a beautiful set of cards depicting various sea creatures, boats, and shells as origami.
Really nice style, nicely done - and the box is very efficient!
I really like the Ascension art, especially the earliest sets
I don’t know about most beautiful but Dale of Merchants and Ascension have some of my favorite card art. I also like Mottainai for it’s aesthetic simplicity.
And Wyrmspan’s cards are very nice, if you prefer dragons!
Toobad wrymspan lore is not on the card :(
There’s a big book included containing information about all the dragons!
I own this and I have to admit that, even if I find the game slightly overrated, the cards are well made and above all I find the quality of Ghenos Games components very good.
I agree that the cards are great! Have you heard of the Fan Art Pack? It has variants of a bunch of the cards in a different style, which I also quite like.
Parks has very pretty cards (they are by different artists so vary a fair bit)
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I picked up Faraway recently and like the art on those cards - slightly surreal fantasy theme.
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Not the cards but the money is the Firefly (yes the TV show) board game was very detailed and beautiful.
I really like Everdell’s card art. There are a lot more components than just cards, though: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/199792/everdell
I’m sharing my current favorites here:
- Arkham Horror: Beautiful illustration, as well as a beautiful game in my opinion.
- MtG: Magic cards remain among the most polished and beautiful ever created, even if I hate the direction it has taken, and in general I appreciate competitive games less and less in favor of more collaborative ones; in fact my favorite way to play Magic is with the Archenemy format (there is also an excellent boxed product).
- Marvel Champions: I don’t actually have this in my collection but it looks pretty cool, I have to admit I’m quite a fan of Fantasy Flight Games at the moment!
