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Board 8 » Post playable 'cards' from any game and I'll rate/tier how good or fun they are
willing to stretch the definition of 'card' and 'game' pretty far here - in addition to traditional TCG/CCG cards, pretty much anything else you could claim is a 'card' from a 'game' will probably count. uno cards, balatro jokers, slay the spire cards. If you're willing to argue that it counts as a 'card', I'm willing to rank it.

my background: knowledge of a medium number of board games, strong familiarity and years of experience with many digital card games (hearthstone, legends of runeterra, balatro, slay the spire), competitive one piece tcg player, and varying degrees of casual familiarity with Pokemon, Yugioh, and MTG as a child.

I'll basically just rate the card with whatever info is on it and any contextual info you wish to provide. 1 card per post, you can post again when I rate the first one.
The Artist Formerly Known as Hannyabal
uno reverse
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Khal Kirby , warlord of the Super Star Khalasar
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A of spades from crazy 8's
All posters and events depicted in this post are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or posters, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Thromok the Insatiable from MTG
**R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** (On mobile)
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I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
If you're gonna scream, scream with me
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Phantom Dust.
"I'll just wait for time to prove me right again." - Vlado
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raytan and Kana are on opposite ends of the Awesome Spectrum.
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Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig.
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https://slay-the-spire.fandom.com/wiki/Storm_of_Steel
God has heard my soul.
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Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest!
Yesmar
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It's tempting to linger in this moment, while every possibility still exists. But unless collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities.
Dominion (Neon White)
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can be used four times to shoot a rocket launcher which can be used for rocket jumps, quake/tf2-style, or discarded to fire a grappling hook
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Congrats to 2020 GotD Guru champ azuarc!
Pedro Martinez's 1999 Strat-O-Matic card
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Lurker extraordinaire
Former cyber monkey
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Remember Tetris? The way those cubes kept coming at you? That was tricky enough, but what if they were half a dozen different hats instead?
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I love how gamefaqs won't let me copy-paste a picture, but I can screenshot it and paste that np.
Only the exceptions can be exceptional.
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No problem!
This is a cute and pop genocide of love!
https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=456819
I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways.
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https://batenkaitos.fandom.com/wiki/Sevenstar_Dust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-f5b6mysGc (7 seconds in)
Legendary
Pot of Greed - I cast Pot of Greed and draw two additional cards. Pot of Greed is one of the few Yugioh cards that has managed to make its way into popular culture and there are good memes for it too. Plus in any game where the objective isn't to get rid of all your cards, drawing two cards for free is an auto-include in any deck!

Broken
Dominion (Neon White) - This was the most fun card/weapon in the game. Kind of let you do almost everything the other weapons could do, but also rocket jump . Extremely fun, especially with how the levels were designed to have you continuously chain them together. It doesn't exactly render the other weapons obsolete, but in terms of fun, it also kind of does. Definite top tier.

The Moops (Trivial Pursuit) - I'm sorry, the card says "Moops"! Ensured a moral victory in Trivial Pursuit against that snide Bubble Boy. You really couldn't ask for more from a Trivial Pursuit card.

Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon - Top tier just for the name itself, which sounds kind of like a 7 year old child came up with it. By the ridiculous standards of today's Yugioh game, this card is probably unplayably bad. In probably any other card game, this card sounds pretty broken, to bring out a decently strong monster (or possibly sacrifice material) for free when one of your other cards gets destroyed. I'd play it.

Great
Squall Leonhart - I regretfully have not played FFVIII nor finished the ARR quest in FFXIV, so my Triple Triad experience is pretty limited. From what I do know, A and 9 are two extremely high sides, so this could be an excellent card to play anywhere on the right side of the board, to hide the 4. If you can pair this with cards that shore up the left side of the board, it should be very strong for taking control of the right side (and the bottom right corner in particular)

Good
Storm of Steel - Been playing Slay the Spire again recently. This is a great finisher in a Shiv-oriented build, especially one that has ways to generate a large hand size. However - it's generally only good if you have the rest of the build set up - most of the time I wouldn't want to take it without other cards or relics that buff my shivs, because a hand of 5 cards that read 0 mana deal 4 damage is usually not a better finisher than other cards on its own. Good but ultimately situational.

Uno Reverse - As a casual Uno player, I feel like this is actually a pretty bad Uno card. It actually gives the player who just played a card a much bigger advantage than it gives you. Virtually the only use case where you actually want to use this is when the next player is on uno or dos cards and you want to stop them from winning the game. However, the memes and general pop culture usage are top tier, raising its rating a lot. Off the top of my head the one I'm thinking of is giving the waiter an uno reverse card to pay the bill, but I feel like there's been quite a few great ones.

Claire Redfield - I know absolutely nothing of this game, and a quick google is really only raising more questions than answers. Most of the other character cards all seem much more complex than Claire, so I'm assuming she may be intended as sort of a 'starter character' or 'easy mode' to introduce the player to the game. Usually, these types of characters are good but not great so as to give the player a good chance of winning but not overcomplicate matters. It appears she gives free resources in terms of ammunition and gold. Unless those resources are totally meaningless, or the number of resources she gives is just way too low, she's probably pretty solid.

Decent
Jubilee - Now I did play Marvel Snap for quite a while. Jubilee was kind of a high risk, high reward card. The upside of drawing Infinaut or Doctor Doom was great, and you could generally construct your deck in such a way that it would generally pull good things from your deck. However, when so many cards and locations exist that put 0 power rocks in your deck, or shut down on play effects like cosmo, it pretty much feels like an automatic loss every time you play 1 power for 4 cost. Overall decent, but not enough consistent payoff to build a top tier deck around her.

Thromok the Insatiable - This card seems a little expensive for what it does to me. In the best case scenario, you're able to generate a bunch of tiny 1/1s and eat them all up to make one big creature, and then you need to wait another turn to use it unless you have some kind of combo card to let it attack immediately or use its power in some other way. Or I guess you can activate your own on-death effects by killing your own creatures. Either way, I feel like 5 mana is too much - there are surely more efficient ways to achieve those game plans that don't die to single target removal?

Ace of Spades (Crazy 8s) - I'll be honest, I kind of forgot the rules to Crazy 8s, though I think 8s are the only card that does anything special? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is just a very average card, just like any other card game.

Bad
Imakuni? - I mean, objectively this is a bad card. The only redeeming quality it could have would be a combo with some Pokemon which says 'If this pokemon is confused, do X". Of course, that would have to be a game-breaking effect for this card to ever be worth playing. With that being said, it seems to be an obvious joke card, but as someone who is fairly knowledgeable about Pokemon I've never seen it. So it doesn't really get points from me for being memeable either.
The Artist Formerly Known as Hannyabal
I was wondering why the Thromok reviews on the site you linked were so high and I read through them. I have now realized I misread the Devour mechanic. If it sacrifices 10 1/1s it doesn't become a 10/10 (which is what I thought when I rated it decent), it becomes a 100/100. That is significantly better - let's bump that up to great tier. Oops - reading comprehension is hard.
The Artist Formerly Known as Hannyabal
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Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig.
Started: July 6, 2005
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:)
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(Gimmick card from Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories)
It's tempting to linger in this moment, while every possibility still exists. But unless collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities.
The 4 card from Sorry!
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Queen of Spades, specifically in the game, Hearts.
"so is my word...It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." - Isaiah 55:11
Legendary
Pot of Greed
Shahrazad - This is one of the Magic cards I am aware of. Extremely cool and iconic mechanic - to start an entirely new game of Magic within your game of Magic to deal damage to your opponent (or to you). I'm pretty sure no one at your local game night wants to play against this without prior warning and multiple hours of time carved out. If both players play 4 copies, you could end up playing 8 total games of MTG to decide one, which is incredible! I could see a lot of people conceding when you cast this spell just to avoid the trouble it causes. Therefore, it's even better than broken, just getting people to concede on the spot.

Broken
The Caverns Below - fuck this card. This was one of the most un-fun cards to play against in Hearthstone (or at least while I was still playing). Though it was kind of fun to play yourself, admittedly. With shadowstep and prep, this card was so broken it made Stonetusk Boar and that 0 mana 0/2 mech taunt card good, and no competitive deck to that point had ever played either of those cards seriously before. Comically easy to achieve this effect, most of the time by turn 5 or 6 at the latest if you drew decently. I know they nerfed it later to require playing 5 minions to get 4/4s, but this card was an absolute TERROR in its original state.
Dominion (Neon White)
Pedro Martinez's 1999 Strat-O-Matic card - Legendary player, though he played for Boston, so that's going to be some points off. I looked up some very basic rules for strat-o-matic and this particular card seems to be extremely good (to reflect how good he was in real life). Huge portion of the outcomes on this card are strikeouts or ground balls, which would presumably be easily cleaned up by your fielders. Top tier pitcher, no doubt.
The Moops (Trivial Pursuit)
Remove Visor - Cyclops (OverPower) - Wow, the rules for this game are really confusing. From what I can gather though, an attack must be blocked by a defense card of equal or higher value, and most cards are values 1-6, so it's unlikely that this card can be blocked. The developers probably limited this to one per deck because it was such a (numerically) strong attack. I'm glad that card games have come a long way from this. Both the rules and the visual style of the card are clunky - it's hard to tell that the name of the card isn't just Cyclops!
Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon

Great
Thromok the Insatiable - updated, after realizing my mistake in reading comprehension above.
Squall Leonhart

Good
King of Hearts - no game was specified, but on the whole this is a pretty good card in most games I can think of: poker, blackjack, balatro, war. I can't think of any games where this is explicitly a bad card besides Hearts (and even then it could be situationally good), so it's going to pretty much always going to be above average.
Storm of Steel
Uno Reverse
Claire Redfield

Decent
Slippery Bogle - 1 mana 1/1 with hexproof. Seems fine. I assume the goal here is to juice this up with buffs that your opponent can't remove and then go crazy with it when it's like a 10/10 or something. As I understand it from other games, hexproof only means it can't be the target of your opponent's effects, but it would still take damage or die from general board wipes, which I presume are somewhat common. I think there's definitely a place for this card to be playable, but it's unlikely that hexproof moves the needle to make this a really good card.
Jubilee
Sevenstar Dust - I used to go over to this one kid's house when I was in middle school and he would sometimes play Baten Kaitos while I watched. I had no clue what was going on back then, and I don't have much more of a clue now. From a small amount of googling, it seems like the 4 indicates that this could be stronger by playing cards with 1-2-3 into this. The mana cost doesn't appear to be very high, and the damage in the video looked fine, but worse than some of the other options. If the description, which states that enemies are left numb from the power of the attack refers to some kind of paralysis-type effect, this could be much higher. If it's simply a combo string that does decent damage, I'm not particularly impressed.
Ace of Spades (Crazy 8s)

Funny but Not Good
Disco Inferno - This is another old TCG with somewhat confusing rules. My interpretation off of a 5 minute readthrough is that this card effectively allows you to negate the first attack from each player directed toward you (I didn't see anything that could do more than 10 damage). I assume that a round refers to a single player's full turn? However, I also see that the 3 in the lower left card means you start the game with 3 cards in hand, compared to some characters that allow you to start with 7 or 10 cards in hand, and negating one card each turn for free doesn't seem like it would be worth that card disadvantage, especially when other characters would have their own abilities too. I like that this card game brings in physical wrestling moves and poses though - that's very funny and I'm sure kids loved that.

Bad
Imakuni?

The Artist Formerly Known as Hannyabal
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from a scraped Kirby game I was making a couple years ago
Khal Kirby , warlord of the Super Star Khalasar
PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs
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Okay, I rolled a 14. What's that mean? Hsu
That you're a cheater. This is a 12-sided die. Chan
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Congrats to azuarc for winning the 2020 GotD Contest
"I like goldfish." Godric
https://overroid.com/index-en.html (the Overroid card, for context on what it does i figured i'd link the page with the rules and all the cards)
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It's like paying for bubble wrap. -transience on Final Fantasy: All the Bravest
Raigeki
God has heard my soul.
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wololo
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You bow to no one, azuarc
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What says dunnock, drush, or dove? "Love me tender, tender love."
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Lolo
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Congrats to azuarc who beat me by 1 point!
Close. Round is once per full play of the deck so it's worse than you think, but also kinda better than you think as the rules of the game are such that cards can be drawn rapidly (you get 3 action points a turn and you can use them to draw extra cards) and also that each set of games requires the guy with lower starting hand size to win less often to actually win (games are first to 3 but if a guy had a much lower hand size each of his wins counts as 2 or 3 wins)

I did think he was the best of the low starting hand size guys by a lot but no he's not good.

Here I'll do one you don't have to read game rules for

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No problem!
This is a cute and pop genocide of love!
You skipped Black Lotussssssssss
Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig.
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Varsword

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No mule can match wits with me. Oh yes, many have tried, and almost all have failed!
I forgot that MMBN is technically a card game
wololo
damn i should've picked a 100% orange juice character
Chapel
https://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Chapel
New name, new gender, same great Bolo flavor!
She is messy, but she's kind; she is lonely, most of the time
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From the board game Root.
Chilly McFreeze
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Only the exceptions can be exceptional.
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God has heard my soul.
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Hey man, LlamaGuy did encrypt the passwords.
With what? ROT-13? -CJayC
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