Cursed Draw [Deck Building LITRPG]-Stubbing 27/02/26

Information

Status

Ongoing

Year

2024

Author

Lonjanis

• Chapter Two: Deck Building
  Oct 1, 2024
• Chapter One: Go Fish!
  Oct 1, 2024

Reviews

Community Reviews(5)

• Rowan_A_BoatRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I believe you should read this story.
  The simple fact of your reading reviews like mine means that you are interested enough to check said reviews. If you have already read the author's description, let me assure you that the promises therein are well kept, and the story is better than it would seem.
  Among the matters of taste and bias, I feel compelled to admit that card based magic systems are to me as cocaine to a crackhead... and this story was a hit I sorely needed. That being as it may, my takes are hardly spicy enough to require salt... which is to say, please take me at my word, despite my obvious bias.
  Next I will note that this review is being written in the early days of the story... No, the thing saying this review was written at chapter 45 isn't lying, & no, this story isn't a slow-burn either (at least not imo)... It's just that deep. This story just has so very much to offer, that thirty well-paced chapters in, new hooks continue to catch me, the points of charm continue to blossom, and the depth & breadth of this world are still being explored by the characters, unfolding before our eyes.
  Which brings me to the characters... They're great. I'm no expert in characterization, so I can't really say more than that... can I? I like the characters, and they feel real to me. The evil ones are detestable in realistic ways, and the protagonists are relatable & easy to root for. I think you'll like them too... Hopefully that doesn't make you hate my review?
  The writing style is unobtrusive. No flowers or pomp. It puts the focus on the subject matter in ways I appreciate, common as they are. The grammar has never been bad enough that I noticed issues, so again, I can have no complaints.
  Overall, I'd say my favorite thing about the story is the magic system, & how the world feels like what would realistically happen if people built society around magical card games. I won't pretend that I can wholly encompass this story's virtues here in these scant few paragrap
• Brenton LipfordRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  Hope with just a three and a half star rating but I am enjoying this book and if it continues to get any better I will definitely up my rating only thing I'm not liking so far is the fact that we've got a freaking Necromancer and a world didn't according to you that should be impossible but still a great book
• SaiffRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  The author literally promises acquiring cards by fighting epic monsters, but after a very strong start with the MC fighting monsters, the MC permanently looses his ability to use his deck against monsters… So it ends up being his friend killing everything so he can get cards to use in challenges against humans. That plus the giant plot hole caused by the deus ex machina that results in him becoming cursed and driving his revenge story really turned me off.
• TourfaintRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  I keep repeating to myself that cliches aren't automatically bad
  The premise of a card-game based magic is fun, the first battle against a random monster is well written, the system is nothing original, but the moments where the rigid rules of a card game collide with the real world are fun (for example, a real monster won't wait for his turn, etc)and i really thought it would be the main focus of the story
  Then the story starts feeling a little more generic after the second chapter
  I feel like the story peaked during the first chapter, the random dragon he hunted was far, far more interesting than anything that happened after.
  And it doesn't seem like we'll get more fights like this because the special deck the mc got after his tragic origin story only lets him use his cards in normal by-the-rules turn based duels against other people with magical cards, so no fun monster hunting
  There are no grammar issues but most of the chapters could use a second readthrough. About once a chapter there are some sentences that are missing words or are mashed together, stuff that looks like leftovers from editing that got left out. Nothing really grating, mostly you can tell what was supposed to be written, but once or twice i had to reread a sentence a few times to make sure im not having a stroke.
  Overall, i guess following a hundred genre cliches at once does not automatically make a book bad, but it's nothing good by itself either.
• SylvaRoyal Road

  ★★ 2.0

  It's not terrible but I'd much rather be reading the story the first few chapters were setting up instead
  If the mc could actually still be using his original deck and working out how to improve it instead of being stuck with a deck he doesn't understand (and can really only work out on the fly because of the rules of the system) it'd be a muh more enjoyable story
  Also I don't super jive with the way he's progressing
  instead of steadily working through to the next rank after his second duel with this cursed deck he suddenly gets a super charge of undead energy that just forces him through to it giving even less time to figure what any of this deck does