Flauros the Demon (Wreck This Deck) with Audrey Stolze

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com

Don't you hate it when one card in a deck gets a little bent? You ever have someone spill their coffee on your cards while you're playing and wish death upon them? What if I told you there was a game that told you to do these things and worse... on purpose?

We're kicking off season 5 of Dice Exploder with two episodes on physicality in games. Today that's Wreck This Deck, and the transgressive feeling you get when the core mechanic of a game is to fuck up a bunch of playing cards. Specifically, we're talking about the revenge demon Flauros and what exactly he demands you do to your deck.

Further Reading:

Audrey’s podcast Alone At The Table podcast and the Wreck This Deck episodes specifically

Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings

Birds Love Dirt by Emily Jankowski

Under the Autumn Strangely by Graham Gentz

Balatro

This video about a particularly infamous Magic: the Gathering commander deck

Rookwood by Nerdy Pup Games

Shownotes

Sam on Bluesky and itch.

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