Welcome to Bricks and Cantrips
01 Feb 2026Welcome! I hope you found it okay.
I am your author, Chase Stevens. Software engineer by day, game designer by night.
I would like to introduce you to Bricks & Cantrips, a blog dedicated to game design within card games. Popular topics will run the gamut from stalwarts of the genre like Magic the Gathering and Slay the Spire to the classics like Poker and Uno. If it has cards and is a game, we can take a look.
What is it about card games that makes them so fun to play? That is what we’d like to find out.