Raising the cost doesn't fix the card. From the third play onward, it's just "+1 Card; trash a card from your hand; gain a province."D782802859 said that the tokens are restricted to a maximum of 3:
Experience tokens are limited, similarly to the wood cubes for projects. Each player can only have three.
The last batch of hot takes is short because there isn't a lot to say about the Ways. In general, they make double Action openings better.I basically disagree with everything here. Otter is absolutely essential in Kingdoms without draw, Mule deals very well with terminal collision, Monkey is also essential if there is no extra Buy (it can literally make an engine viable) and Horse is an obvious way to get of unneeded Actions or use cheap Actions as one shots.
Butterfly: fancy but eh, outside of weird costs like Animal Fair.
Camel: Also generally uninspuring in my experience.
Chameleon: Now we're getting somewhere. Very useful and very tricky to play with. The obvious combos are cards like Poor House, but another benefit is playing a +$ card for +Cards when you know that you will draw into the same amount of money, getting through your shuffles faster. Rewards the better skilled player a lot. In a Chameleon game you can build more than you normally would, because all excess draw can be turned into +$, and it's more likely that the Kingdom has draw to make it worth building, because Chameleon turns some actions into draw cards. Long story short, it's good and I think it's pretty fun.
Frog: You don't have to Frog every leftover action you have. Sometimes you should just let it go.
Goat: Goating away an Estate is deceptively useful early on.
Horse: horse. Good for Hail Mary plays.
Mole: Tricky to find a good use for it, but can really help you cycle.
Monkey: Random +buy is random +buy
Mouse: Depends entirely on the set-aside Action, but if the set-Aside action is good, you can get away with some incredibly heinous buys. The Mouse action is your floor, so you can buy cards with high-ceiling low-floor (like Baron, for example), and play them as Mouse if the draws don't line up with the high-ceiling outcome.
Mule: I have literally never played with this.
Otter: I usually don't find a use for Otter, it's pretty easy to find something better to do with your actions, but sometimes you just gotta draw.
Owl: Draw-to-X is bad in general, outside of effects like Cursed Village, but a conditional draw-to-X can be nice because you only use the draw-to-X option if it's going to be good for you.
Ox: If this is the only +Actions source, you're sad. You really want a better village than Necropolis, but sometimes Necropolis is good enough.
Pig: Pretty good
Rat: A lot harder to find a good time to play it than I expected. Having a treasure to discard is easy. Passing up the Action play this turn is hard - the cards you most want to Rats are the cards you most want to play. That being said, I think you do play as Rat 1-3 times in most games.
Seal: I really like Seal. The topdeck effect is great, and unlike Tracker, it doesn't have to be a terminal sitting in your deck. Is it as powerful as Chameleon? Absolutely not, but it's still fun.
Sheep: lol terminal silver. I mean, it's still good at smoothing out bad luck on hitting price points.
Squirrel: Using this as the centerpiece of your draw is possible, but hard and I wouldn't recommend it on most boards. You may be reminded of Enchantress, but remember Enchantress comes with an attack, the card is much worse without the attack.
Turtle: Turtle-Bridge is the notable megaturn, but in general Turtle is very useful. Turtling cantrips to get a +Actions source and turtling draw cards to get +Cards at the start of your turn comes up the most.
Worm: Enables Estate pileouts much more easily, especially when players are playing as Worm just because they have the spare actions. Watch out for that.
Warehouse net draws 2, not 3; two Warehouses thus reduce handsome by 2.Not only is this really really good, but also will take way too long to resolve.
A simple project for this week. Strong sifter, but it lowers your handsize.
For reference, playing warehouse twice gives +6, discard six, so this is almost as good as a free double warehouse each turn
Well, I disagree. KC-KC is so much better than TR-TR that it is anything but clear that the Royal Carriage > TR notion holds when applied to KC.I think this could get away with costing $6 (or $7 but certainly not $8) as it is unable to chain which is arguably the strongest part of King's Court.Royal Carriage costsmore than Throne Room. The situation is the same here, except that this costs
Bequest (Event, $0)Well, if there are junkers or trashers you will definitely use it in the opening.
Once per game: +$5, +1 Buy.
A Free Platinum! When will you use yours?
Art SchoolI like this but fear that there are too many Kingdoms without decent $2s and $3s. And when there are, the crazy piling could make Art School too centralizing.
cost $4 - Action
Gain a card costing up to $6.
Each other player may gain a card costing up to $3.
Yeah, Village is totally stronger than Walled Village and Oasis is totally stronger than Poacher ...My point is that Leprechaun is first and above all a Gold gainer. The Hex is a downside, the Wish is an upside. The latter matters more but you get the Hex more often than the Wish.Cards that cost 3$ aren't weaker than cards that cost 4$. Weirdly, they're probably stronger.
So Leprechaun basically tells us that a vanilla Gold gainer is too good for $3. Bandit says, it is too weak at $5. So we get $4 as the correct price.
I don’t see the relevance of these statistics. My point is that Leprechaun is first and above all a Gold gainer. The Hex is a downside, the Wish is an upside. The latter matters more but you get the Hex more often than the Wish.I've never bought Leprechaun without intending to gain wishes, I believe.Leprechaun misfires far more often than it hits and I have witnessed better players than me open with Leprechaun and win.
Well, since buying Leprechaun is evidence for a good deck, the "only one player bought it" statistics don't work here. The statistics for people who open with it look quite bad (silver/leprechaun openings have a 47% winrate) but the sample sizes are smaller.
I don't think I've ever opened Leprechaun, though I have seen my opponents do it a bunch.
If you flood your deck with Honey, you’ve mostly gained a ton of Silver.No. You have gained a bunch of ton of Gold+.
