Anyway, if working in retail was like running the shop inKardboard Kings, then everyone would love it.

Everyone loves card games, but Kardboard Kings isn’t a deckbuilder.

It’s very cute.

A single trading card (in the vein of Magic: The Gathering) from the game Kardboard Kings, depicting the Traveling Knife Salesman, an energetic hooded figure wearing a purple caped coat and puffy green trousers, doing the splits in mid air as various kitchen knives rain down. The salesman appears to be holding a knife in an arm sticking straight out of their hood

On a basic level you’re trying to make enough money to keep your shop open.

But my favourite thing about Kardboard Kings is the art.

Every card has character art, designed as distinct sets with recogniseable styles.

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It’s legitimately possible to have favourite cards, and I’d encourage it.

My favourite single card is the Traveling Knife Salesman.

It’s a common card.

A collection of cards in Kardboard Kings, stored in a trading card binder, from a collection called Dark moon. They’re black and grey line drawings of magical looking animals - a fox with trees growing out of its back, a close up of a beetle full of leaves, a cat sitting on a broom

I just really like that dangerous little motherfucker.

My favourite set, though, is the Dark Moon, which is a new set released early on.

Their art is all kind of goth-looking black and grey linework, and I dig it.

If only all shops were this chill.