Deck Building Web Novels

Deck-building novels on Tellura give the world a card-based power system: abilities are drawn, combined, and discarded, and the lead wins by building a better deck rather than swinging harder. Pairs with litrpg, progression, and academy.

The form is a puzzle with a random element. Readers who enjoy optimisation get to see the lead's reasoning, and every bad opening hand is a chance to improvise. Pair with tower-climbing for a gauntlet of escalating opponents, and with comedy when the system is deeply unfair about what it deals.