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Friday Fun Thread for January 16, 2026

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Mindbug! It's a Magic-style game co-created by Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic. He never liked the pay-to-win incentives of Magic, and wanted a game where you had less control over the deck and had to just roll with what luck gave you (you could see him trying to correct this with Keyforge). In Mindbug, you and your opponent draw 10 cards (that's it) each from a big shared deck and play them to attack and block and manipulate powers like in every other game. There are no resources. The twist is that each player has two Mindbugs, which they can spend to take any card you try to play and add it to their board as though they had played it. This adds a mind-game that other card games lack, where you try to bait each other into wasting Mindbugs while not wasting yours, but if you don't use them you'll almost certainly lose. One match takes 10-15 minutes.

You can get the app for phone or computer and play PvP or against a progressively more difficult AI. They have released 4 or 5 sets and each one has some unique mechanics, and they rotate these through the app for competitive play. The base set is free.

It's a really good game if you can deal with the goofy art; it just needs a bigger player base. Check it out! Right now!