Badly Cooked Bacon
$4 - Action
Reveal your hand. Trash the weakest card and strongest card from your hand. Gain two silvers to your hand.
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MEQuoteI've found an undefined behavior on dominion.games.(This is the summary of this twitter post.)
I played Throne Room to play a inherited Estate(Crown), to play Herald, to reveal and play University, gained Mandarin (topdecked that inherited Estate), played Herald (second time), drew the Estate, revealed and played Ambassador, returned the Estate, and played it (second time) AS THE CARD MY OPPONENT HAD INHERITED.
I don't think I can play other player's card, but I am not sure.
And more, I've noticed another problem. If I have another Estate in my hand, we cannot tell which Estate I played (on dominion.games). Did I play the returned Estate? I mean, do I play Estate as Crown, or play Estate as "solid Estate" (so I fail to play it again)? (Maybe too complicated question...)
The behavior is correct, and you are correct about the other problem.
There are two classes of solutions: changing the lose-track rules to lose track harder, and changing Inheritance.
The lose-track change would change Throne / Feast in the original main set; I'm not doing it. People don't know the lose track rule, and the main set rulebook said Throne / Feast worked. For new games this would be a thing to consider; Dominion does not want to mess with that.
The only possible (heavy errata) fix I see for Inheritance is the "during your turn" that Bridge etc. use - all copies everywhere change. Inheritance breaks an important rule, that all copies of a card should be identical, and this convoluted combo exploits that. Inheritance originally said "during your turn"; the problem is that you get super-weird stuff immediately, with trivial rather than convoluted combos. For example I inherit Caravan Guard and play an attack; you respond with Estate because it's Caravan Guard. But on your turn the Estate is in play and has no abilities, or is some other card that you inherited. The rules handle it, but it's super-confusing.
Feel free to simply not play with Inheritance. That actually solves the problem.
In my defense, Inheritance was a lot of fun. Today I would have you do the effect without Estate changing, e.g. you can discard Estate to play the set-aside card, leaving it there, and it's limited to non-durations (like Necromancer). That gives you "my Estates do this thing" but cuts out things like "they are Actions for Herald." And the Estates are always just Estates so so much for that. It's a poor fit for Adventures, since there are lots of Durations and also Reserve cards, which are useless here. It could have been in Empires though. Anyway we wouldn't use errata to effectively make Inheritance some other related thing.
GoldsEasily fixable by calling it a victory-treasure instead of using the curse type. Since I first started playing Dominion, I never understood why Curses needed their own type. I always thought they should be considered victory cards which happened to give negative VP.
Gold [Cursed] Curse-Treasure $5
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-2 VP
So yeah, it's cheaper but it's also Cursed. It runs into problems with Cursers though so I think this one won't make it. Kind of a filler idea.
VeteranCould be used to gain a province, but it also can junk you with estates.
$5 - Action
+3 Cards.
Turn over your journey token (it starts face-up). If it's face up and you haven't gained a province this turn, gain a victory card costing up to $2 per Veteran you have in play. If it's face down, additional +1 Card.
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Heirloom: Gilded Sword
Gilded SwordThought it would be fun to have a journey token heirloom, and it makes the "You may" part work.
$4 - Treasure - Heirloom
+1 Buy. If your journey token is face up when you play this, discard up to 3 victory cards for +$1 each.
You may turn your journey token over.
I was thinking too much of the possible interaction with other journey token cards. This is why I often bounce random ideas off the community before I take them seriously...Veteran
$5 - Action
If you have at least eight (nine?) cards in hand: +$2, +1 Buy, and discard any number of cards for +$1 each.
Otherwise, +3 cards.
Veteran
$5 - Action
You may turn over your journey token (it starts face-up). If it's face up, +3 cards. Otherwise, +$1, +1 Buy, and discard any number of cards for +$1 each.
Correct. And when you hit Overlord with zombie mason, you can just replace it with another Overlord, so it just makes Necromancers stronger.It must be pretty rare for an Overlord to end up in the trash. Really bad luck for someone with Locusts?It's a necromancer game, so blindly playing zombie mason? usually it's ok to blind zombie mason because the vast majority of the cards in your deck you would be happy with a card that costs one more. if you'd already used the zombie spy, I'd be tempted to zombie mason if i had nothing better to do, even if there was a 10% chance of hitting my overlord.
They weren'tI played a Necromancer as an Overlord as a Necromancer as a Sacred Grove.That's neat, but why were any of the additional steps necessary?
