Everything including the kitchen sink... but with special attention paid to board games, Jesus Christ, my family, being a "professional" (and I use that word loosely) Christian, and the random firing of the 10% of the synapses I'm currently using.
Five years ago, I debated between including putting this game or Starship Catan - both games I love - on the list, but Starship is very similar to Anno 1503 (which appeared farther down the line), so I went with Settlers Card Game. My pull quote: "I like the way the game develops, even if it takes a bit too long."
Five years later, I've made the same decision for similar reasons - as much as I like Starship, I think Anno 1503 is more fun (and it's even been outdone by Anno 1701: Das Brettspiel). But for the full-on sprawling "build your kingdom" experience, nothing performs like the Settlers of Catan Card Game. I've been playing this since the original German release - I bought my copy in 1997. (yep - my first 10-15 plays were with a German deck & a cheat sheet to translate the cards into English.)
The game went through a revision back in 2003... primarily (I think) to better integrate the expansion cards into the game without making for some game-breaking combinations (and to correct some printing errors.)
It's about to go through a major reboot later this year as The Princes of Catan... evidently Teuber has worked to simplify learning the game & shorten game time a bit, but I haven't actually seen a copy yet.
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Settlers of Catan Card Game 
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