Thunderstone!

I remember when I was, oh, about 11 or 12, my dad bought me a huge binder of Magic: the Gathering cards.  I held it with a strange reverence, this giant block of unspeakably rare and valuable pieces of a brilliant game.  What made Magic so brilliant, apart from it's elegant, crisp rules, was that playing the game was only really half of the game; the other half was DECK BUILDING.  Assembling my 60-card machine, from which I would draw my cards and make a giant mess of it.  Seriously, I was trash at playing Magic; I couldn't even manage when I made a card-for-card remake of a champion deck.  But the deck building, that's what enthralled me.

Flash forward to the futuristic gaming-paradise of 2011 and deck building has become a genre in it's own right. What happens when Magic's meta game gets its "meta" appendix removed, the fantasy gets more grimdark, and all of a sudden it's a race to see who can stop the end of the world?  Thunderstone!