Deck-building games are among the newer innovations in the ages-old hobby of playing card and board games. Like many fresh ideas, the concept of a deck-building game is startling in its simplicity.

Instead, she wrote a deck of cards. Ratnikova grew up in East Tennessee ... or with her 3-year-old daughter, Lea, with whom she hoped to share her love of the outdoors. But without other adults ...

From Renaissance Milanese court painter Bonifacio Bembo to the Surrealists and even contemporary artist Claire Tabouret (who painted her home's ceiling with images from an early-20th-century tarot ...