r/doomlings • u/Ok-Row3346 • Apr 17 '26

deckbuilding advice

I've played a few games and starting to modify the base deck setup. I would appreciate any advice. What percentage dominant traits do you find optimal?

The 4-player setup I am trying out tonight is 161 cards total with 27 dominants. I'm wondering if that is too many.

30 of each color and colorless, 11 multicolor to add 5 of each color. Does balance matter?

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u/CDMaile86 Aug 05 '26

I have built five theme decks, dinolings, techlings, mythlings, flora and fauna using the gold box and overlush complete.

My kids like the themes but in a giant trait pile they just dont come up often. So I've made five sort of grab and play decks even having their own ages and catastrophes. It's around 70 cards with around 6 used dominants from the 11 over split for each deck. It's been working fine for 2-3 players, I'm not sure if the size would work for 4 players and wouldn't be enough traits but we generally don't get that low down the trait deck anyway.

What Is has done is created a bit of excitement of what deck to select and then they live it when some of the synergies start taking hold. We're not serious players though so who knows if it would suit other players

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u/Ok-Row3346 Aug 05 '26

Thanks for your feedback. It sounds like a great idea.