Foodstall
$1* Action - Duration - Shelter
+1 Action
At the start of your next turn, +1 Buy
Terminal draw coupled with discard for benefit puts a cap on the usefulness (after several plays) of this for the opponents.
Among the 'party for everybody cards' we mainly had draw with Council Room and Governor as the 3 other vanilla thingies are not savable but with tokens they are.
Marketeers are Buy tokens; VP tokens could be easily broken in overdrawing engines.
This card probably looks better than it is - it’s a good trasher for estates, but it’s very weak for coppers (if you trash the estate you gain, you’ve spent 2 actions for 2 villagers, needing two turns). And it’s hard to make it worth a lot. But, in the rare cases where it works out it’s fun to see it explode. A bit like groundskeeper, but of course less elegant (it’s not a cantrip, and you have to trash these VP cards to score):
Subversives, Action-Victory, 4$
Trash a card.
If it’s a victory card, +2 villagers.
Otherwise, gain an estate.
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This is worth 1VP for every two villagers you have (round down)One common omission in fan cards is specifying where cards must be when you use them. If a card's effect is to "Put any number of Treasure cards on top of your deck," where do those Treasure cards come from? From your hand? From play? From your discard pile? From the supply piles? It may sound pedantic to require this to be specified explicitly, but since different cards look for things in different places, the clarity is important.
Where are these cards trashed from? The supply? Your hand? The top of your deck? Your discard pile?
This card probably looks better than it is - it’s a good trasher for estates, but it’s very weak for coppers (if you trash the estate you gain, you’ve spent 2 actions for 2 villagers, needing two turns). And it’s hard to make it worth a lot. But, in the rare cases where it works out it’s fun to see it explode. A bit like groundskeeper, but of course less elegant (it’s not a cantrip, and you have to trash these VP cards to score):This could get quite silly with Recruiter. The other official Villager cards probably work fine with it, but Recruiter... oh man.
Subversives, Action-Victory, 4$
Trash a card.
If it’s a victory card, +2 villagers.
Otherwise, gain an estate.
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This is worth 1VP for every two villagers you have (round down)
Going for Renaissance themes of simplicity + Coffers:QuoteStock Exchange
Action/Victory - $5
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+2 Coffers
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Worth 1VP for every 3 Coffers (round down) on your Coffers mat at the end of the game.
Go to the Stock Exchange to invest, and as long as you can hang on to those investments, the more this is worth. I'm still working on the cost and the Coffers-to-VP ratio. Right now, with no other Coffers gainers in play, you'll need to play Stock Exchanges five times to make it worth as much as a Duchy. However, it could potentially get pretty nutty with good Coffers gainers in play, like Merchant Guild. May bump it to 1VP per 4 Coffers (or 2VP per 7 Coffers). Will try to playtest if I have time.
I think/am worried that having 1 more Lily than your opponent gives enough endgame control that it's a big deal.
CHALLENGE #8 SPLIT PILE W/ ACTION AND CHEAPER TREASURE
Clarifications:
-Victory cards with a varying VP amount (Gardens, Duke, Vineyard, Fairground, Silk Road, Feodum, Humble Castle, King's Castle and Pasture) cannot be used with Timberland.
-Monster is a type I made up to help players remember that while that card is in the Supply, it has an effect on certain parts of the game. In this case, Victory cards cost $2 more.
I like the general idea but I doubt that anybody has much of an incentive to go for a Treasure which is a dead card until fairly late in the game.
Great challenge this week! Indeed, it’s not easy to create a desirable Treasure, which also synergizes with the Action ... my attempt is to make the treasures available later and provide a way to bump them up. It took some time to balance it out, and the following cards require some patience, but when they finally exploded, it was real fun:
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Goldsmith, 5$, Action
+3 cards
You may reveal 3/4 differently named treasures for 1/2 villagers.
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Medallion, 2$, Treasure
Worth 1$ for every two villagers you have (round down).
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Remarks:
There are 5 Goldsmiths on top, with 5 Medallions below.
If you play Goldsmith and reveal 3 differently named treasures, you get 1 villager, if you reveal 4 differently named treasures, you get 2 of them. But not on top: it’s at most 2 villagers in total. If you don’t like the wording, I’m happy about better suggestions!
Is it better to have horses killing other horses lurking for money?
Equus equum lupus est.
Translation: A horse is a wolf to horses.
The question that bothers me more is, why you no interact with Horse Traders?
I think the flavor implications of buying multiple Brides for the sole purpose of impregnating them and have them raise children easily beat Harem in terms of offensiveness.
Time to think about our pension, and raise some children!
My design tries to implicit that it takes a huge effort to do so, makes you lose a lot of time, but can eventually pay off big.
Obviously, to suit the given cards, each player has a pension mat:
Bride, Action, 4$
+ 2 Actions
+2 cards per child on your pension mat
Gain a Child.
Child, Action, 0* [*not in the supply]
+ 2 coffers
You may put this on your pension mat for 6 coffers.
If you do, +4 VP
Is it better to have horses killing other horses lurking for money?
5 Horses on top, 5 Paddocks below, like a standard split pile. If a Goat is allowed to be a Treasure then Horse is too! It also trashes things a bit like Goat. Horse might be able to get away with costing $2? I thought I'd play it safe but am open to changing it. At first I had Paddock revealing for treasures first before the +3 Cards, but I like it this way because it works with Wishing Well type things which is always fun. I didn't want the cards to specifically mention each other like a lot of split piles do.
I feel like Contract should be more expensive. In the majority of situations, it is better than CotR.
Well, Delve is an Event; it doesn't have the same dynamic as a $4 Silver+ kingdom card (where buying it up hastens the end of the game in a way that buying Silver doesn't).
If youhavebuy Delve twiceand any $2 cantrip, that'spretty close to beinga $4 Silver+.
Here's my entry: Treaty and Domain. Treaty is a terminal, one-card trasher that especially loves trashing Estates in the early game, and then later, you can win a Domain from your Treaty. Domain is 5 VP all together, though just 3 VP if you trash it later, which you probably will. Trashing a Domain with Treaty gains you a Silver and a Gold to hand, yeeha--hopefully you still have some Coppers left to win that next Domain. This makes for a fun minigame to try and churn through the Domains, though you'll need some extra help to keep lining up your Treaties with trash targets and the needed treasures to activate. There are eight Domains in a two-player game, otherwise there are twelve.
When scoring: If you have 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 Excavation Pieces, you get 1/2/3/5/8/13/21/34 VP.
(This is not in the supply.)
There are only 8 Excavation Pieces in the game.
8 Coffers and 4VP would be crazy even if Child did not buff NecropolisBride.
Time to think about our pension, and raise some children!
My design tries to implicit that it takes a huge effort to do so, makes you lose a lot of time, but can eventually pay off big.
Obviously, to suit the given cards, each player has a pension mat:
Bride, Action, 4$
+ 2 Actions
+2 cards per child on your pension mat
Gain a Child.
Child, Action, 0* [*not in the supply]
+ 2 coffers
You may put this on your pension mat for 6 coffers.
If you do, +4 VP
Here's my revised entry, an Action-Attack-Duration! Stowaway is sort of a mashup of Gear and Ambassador: you save cards from this hand for next hand, and give a copy of one of them to your opponents. Early game, this will neatly keep Estates and extra Coppers out of your shuffles while junking the other players, though being a duration means it only works every other turn. In the mid and late game, a pair of these can function as handy utility cards to keep your shuffles clean, as well as set up big turns, just be sure to keep some junk around to hand out copies of (or perhaps a Province when you're ready to end the game).
*Revised to change to an Action type instead of Night, so to fit within the parameters of this week's contest.
It is not that simple. I know too little about game theory to give a good answer but I guess that the best strategy is to randomize your number with higher probabilities for lower numbers and lower probabilities for higher numbers. Always choosing 1 is definitely not best as this is then a save $1 for the opponent.Old:QuoteMissile (Pays homage to Battleship)
https://shemitz.net/static/dominion3/?title=Missile&description=%2B1%20Action%0AYou%20and%20the%20player%20to%20your%20left%20each%20write%20down%20a%20whole%20number%20between%201%20and%204%20on%20a%20piece%20of%20paper.%20Unfold%20the%20pieces%20of%20paper.%20If%20the%20numbers%20were%20the%20same%2C%20%2B%20%24%20equal%20to%20the%20number.&type=Action&credit=Google%20Images&price=%243&preview=&type2=&picture=&color0=0&color1=0&size=0Quote+1 Action
You and the player to your left each write down a whole number between 1 and 4 on a piece of paper. Unfold the pieces of paper. If the numbers were the same, + $ equal to the number.
Why would the player to your left even write another number than 1?
That said, the card is obviously far too weak.
