Bad Baby Lich Lords' designers wanted to create the Saturday morning cartoon of card games

Bad Baby Lich Lords has been through at least 87 iterations since a trio of designers decided to bring the competitive card battler to life. Meeting digitally once a week over the course of a couple of years, the design team tell Dicebreaker that they spurned easy solutions in their pursuit of something that feels good to hold and play. The concept for Bad Baby Lich Lords comes from illustrator Tay Dow. They pitched a simple whip-quick card game to Heart of the Deernicorn’s Ross Cowman, who loved the idea and welcomed a new challenge. He brought in designer Nathan Weisman early on, but the core team consisted of Dow, Cowman and video game developer Patrick Kemp. Bad Baby Lich Lords pits two to four players against one another as bored children of the Lich King, traipsing through his dead realms and bringing undead minions back to life in order to make enough noise to rouse the sleeping lich from his deep slumber. Players compete to claim realm cards and the noise value attached to them in a race to five points - claiming realms requires raising enough minions to satisfy the requirements on each realm card. Read more