«Mana»…
Few years ago, it will be ignored but now, in the modern era, this only word impress emperors, bring hope to miserable and make the wisest going insane. Your Governors find some on your kingdom’s frontier and you’ve send riders though your realm in order to take as much as possible. After all, mana belong to the one who take it right?
But, now you’ve brought some on your capital and your best scientists try to discover its secret, you have other problems. For a few days, strange things happened in your dominion: peasants heard abnormal noises in the woods, strangers came from everywhere, gathers in clearings and, worst of all, vine start having a strange taste…
And there is this old foolish woman you’ve save last day from some marauders that claim to be able to lift entire castles from the grounds… with a little bit of time and money for her and her «friends», obviously…
Welcome to Witchcraft!
Be prepare to discover the greatest secrets in the darkest libraries and the true essence of magic. This expansion have to main theme: Exile and Potion (and sometimes Exiled Potion). There is also some other mini-theme: Interaction, Victory cards and Treasure.
Disclaimer:
Some of the card aren’t perfectly worded; some of my message will not be worded too, if you you want to show me where I’ll won’t take it personally (On the contrary, I would prefer to correct a mistake as soon as possible).
Some of these cards aren’t mine and some of them have been changed. The only card I’ve create is those with my pseudo on it. I don’t consider myself as the owner of the other cards, including the remaked ones. (You can still made feedback on them, I just clarified that everything here isn't my work)
Special Rules and clarification.
There isn’t any new type of cards, tokens or other special keyword in this expansion but there is still some additional rules when you play with it and I strongly advice you to juge the card with these in mind:
1) If you randomise your kingdom and if it contain only one P-cost cards; replace the last non P-cost card from he kingdom with a random P-cost card.
2) If you play with Potions; add the Floating Island pile with the other base card. There are no other special rules about them. Floating island, like Colonies, isn’t a kingdom card but, as opposed to the Colonies, it will not end the game at the end of it pile.
3) If you draw a P-cost Event or Project in a kingdom that don’t contain any Potions, replace them with an other landscapes (or replace the last 2 piles in the kingdom with 2 p-cost piles and add the Floating Island).
The Number of cards in the Potion pile don’t change but if you play-test this expansion; don’t hesitate to return any thought to me; especially concerning this point. In the base game, buying a lot of potion isn't verry useful, but if everyone start to Exile a lot of them, maybe a too small number of them can create a first-player advantage in 5 or 6 player game.
The cards:
About a common généralisation in the following analysisIn a lot of commentaries I’ll say that potion in a cost «worth» 2.5 coins. Obviously that isn’t true but it’s an approximation that I made in order to test a card’s balance. Indeed, even if a potion cost beweena silver and a gold, it don’t exactly worth 2.5 coins for few reasons:
- You can’t pay potion before your first shuffle.
- You usualy have only one Potion between your first shuffle and second shuffle.
- You need to invest exclusively on potion in order to buy P-cost cards (you can't just pay 2.5 coins).
- You need to have the potion in your hand when you want to buy a P-cost card (the timing is important).
- A card that cost 2 Potions need to collide two 4-cost cards in order to buy it. ( mechanic similar to treasure map)
So I’m conscious about how 2.5 coins is a simplification of the reality but I’ll make it when all the precedent condition are me or if I have previously explained them. (At least I’ll try to do so)
I'll post between 3 and 5 card per day, mainly because it's easyer to proceed like this for me.
Special Cards
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Floating Island
Posted the: 24 April 2021
Owner: Shael
Floating Island is a base card so it’s never on the kingdom but always in the supply when you play with potion (like Colony and Platinum). So, when you play with this, Potion can buy a total of three cards: two on he kingdom and this one. Assuming that potion worth 2.5 (approximation) it’s 5vp for 6.5 so it’s a ration of approximatively 0.8 vp/coins (province is at 0.75). Obviously it’s balanced by the fact that it take more space in your deck for the same amour of point and you need a Potion to get one. Let’s hope it will be enough to push potions a little bit…
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Kingdom Cards
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Aqua Vitae
Posted the: 24 April 2021
Owner: eHalcyon (changed effect, cost & illustation)
The original version was more expensive but also consider by those who play test it as an overpowered auto-buy so I needed to fix it if I wanted to include it in the set. (It originally give +1$ to all the Potions and Coppers and stack when you play multiple of them)
Now, It’s still a peddler variant but you need to play the cards if you want to gain some coins so a card can’t get multiple buff and each Aqua Vitae can only give up to 2 coins. It’s a huge nerf but the cost have been decrease too. It combo with cards that like when treasure are played during action phase like draw-to-X or Tactician for example. It’s not what make you buy a Potion but it’s potentially a correct source of coins and a support for a potion-oriented strategy in my opinion.
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Arboretum
Posted the: 24 April 2021
Owner: Shael
A simple vanilla bonus card; it’s a peddler+Laboratory but the coin and the action can be save for later. I don’t have a lot to say for this one except that is a strong payload for a classic engine deck. If you miss to buy your province at only 1$ you can just buy this to make you deck more flexible an increase your economy.
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Barrels
Posted the: 24 April 2021
Owner: Shael
It's a pure reserve card: You buy it and you Exile some other cards in one of your future turn. Then, you can continue to buy some barrel to use his effect more than once: with two Barrel you may always exile one with an other and each time you do it, you draw a card and you may exile one more card. A pure reserve was something I would try to make since a lot of time and I think it's a good way to start this concept.
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Posted the: 24 April 2021
Owner: Shael
An attack that junk your opponent, especially if they don’t use Potion. But, in order to attack them, you have to Exile one of your own Potion so you could continue to buy Potions, or hope that someone will also use Cauldron or just take it for a terminal draw that attack the first times you play it.
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Cipher
Posted the: 25 April 2021
Owner: Kru5h (cost change)
It’s one of my favorite card: I love the idea of pllay a card again. It’s an other terminal draw but it have two special ability: you can sift one card onto your deck or in your discard pile and you may play it one more time. If you have a lot of action or if the 3 card you’ve draw are really good and you whant to keep all of them, you can just top deck a card and Cipher again.
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Citadel Have been remove from this set. It will maybe be reintroduce later in an other form.
Posted the: 25 April 2021; removed the 27 April. The owner was: Shael (rip).
Original though: It’s just Lost City; but you opponents get nothing and it have an alternate cost. It’s one of my first P-cost card and I don’t have a lot to say about it: it’s a good tool for engine, like a lot of P-cost card in the original game.
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Curio
Posted the: 25 April 2021
Owner: Shael
My first idea was an expansion that rely on interaction between player so this is one of the first card in the set. As you see, the set have change but this card not. It’s a trasher that give VP but if your opponent try to attack you, you play if for free and draw 2 card. Because it’s a treasure, you can play any number of them during you turn but if you haven’t any card to trash in your hand you’ll get nothing.
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Decoration
Posted the: 25 April 2021
Owner: Shael
The idea of a Treasure-Command sound fun so I came up with this. There is two cards like this one in the set but the two are played very differently. I think the idea with this card is to buy some in order to Exile exile your Copper and then, manage to buy a least one with an interesting treasure in play. With potion or other treasure in the kingdom, you may even choose which one to play depending of what you need.
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Enchanted Wood
Posted the: 25 April 2021
Owner: McGarnacle (illustration change)
This card that aren’t mine and I haven’t change anything about the effect. If the idea of making a card that is balanced at nearly any reasonable cost sound interesting but dificult. And the idea of making it cost random amount is even better in my opinion. I’m not a great fan of random (especially pre-random) but here it don’t affect the balance of the card. You can play 2 or 3 game in a row with enchanted wood and it different at each game. In therm of strategy, beware to don’t buy too much of the because your opponent could just end the pile buy buying / trashing them in order to reduce the importance of your own card.
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Essence
Owner: Shael
Posted the: 26 April 2021
Essence is like a Cantrip that do 3 things: you sift 1 card, you may save an action for later and same with a coin. It just make your deck less swingy; it give you more more control on your cards, your economy and your actions. At least, it’s a cantrip, at most, it could be way more interesting.
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Florist
Owner: Fragasnap (cost change)
Posted the: 26 April 2021
It’s not one of my card. I haven’t change a lot of thing in this card: I just make it P-cost in order to fit it better in the expansion. When I saw the card I really liked the idea of counting the cards you have in play and gain effect with it. If you play it on the right timing, it’s a Peddler and it don’t seem to hard to do so in the good engine.
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Forest
Posted the: 26 April 2021
Owner: Shael
The original text was «When you discard it +1 Card». I though it was clear enough but some people thought that you instantly discard the card you’ve draw in that code so I have to do this wording, less elegant but clearer. Maybe I’ll use the original wording if everyone agree that card are discarded simultaneously during clean-up but for now, I use the precise one.
In there of strategy; it’s a sort of « cantrip » 3VP in that that, when it take one spot in your hand, it will give you back on your next turn.
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Guilded Sack
Posted the: 26 April 2021
Owner: Shael
I’ve struggle to balance this one but I think it’s fine now. Like treasure map; it ask you to make something hard in order to be rewarded. Unlike TM, it’s not a one-shot so when you manage to complete the conditions, all of your guilder sack become very strong. I’ve receive some commentary that say it’s a maybe little bit weak for now so I really want to playtest it to see his power.
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Hometown
Posted the: 26 April 2021
Owner: nobody
I think nearly everyone already though about this and I’m not an exception. 2$ seem good but I’ve hesitate to put it at 1$ since there isn’t a lot of differences between these two cost. I have nothing to say about his balance or potential strategy here; it's just a village.
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Ingredient
Posted the: 27 April 2021
Owner: Shael
It’s between Cauldron and Gilded Sack for the attack part: it exile Treasure and if it’s potion it attack. The treasure part however is quite interesting, especially if you get rid of your potion for the attack but you still want to have a potion strategy for your Victory cards, and the +Buy is a good suport to this option.
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Land of Exile
Posted the: 27 April 2021
Owner: Psly (Reaction effect, illustration and cost changed)
This one isn’t mine, and like a lot of card I’ve change the image and make it P-cost.
Since the expansion play on Exiling card; I thought this one will fit well here. Originaly, the reaction also worked when you trash a card but it was too op with Province + Trash for benefit so I remove this part; hope it's fair now.
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Magical Land
Posted the: 27 April 2021
Owner: Spheremonk (illustration changed)
Usually; cards that cost 2 potion are too swingy because you don't buy a lot of potions and the oods to colide them are pretty low. However, I think it’s quite fine here because you want to buy potions: more you have potion, less it’s swingy and more you'll get points. I think the idea of magical land is to make an engine efficient enough to collide two potion nearly every turn in order to buy 2 or 3 Magical land without using the exiling part and then; buy up to 2 more with the highest amount of potion in play to gain a lot of points.
It also combo with some other cards on the expantion and I've tried to make these combo fair: the original game have some verry strong combo and I don't think this is stronger than as some of the most well-known combo in Dominion.
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Medium
Posted the: 27 April 2021
Owner: Alion8me (cost and effect change)
Still not mine even if I've change the cost because the original version was too strong.
It’s a sort of upgraded cantrip: your action is a villager and you draw any card your own. The +1 buy is here because, if you play a medium, your turn will probably be great since you've probably choose a strong card to put in your hand in order to start odr continue a big turn.
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Ore
Posted the: 27 April 2021
Owner: Shael
It’s a silver, in slightly better with a +1Buy and you may « upgrade » it. I think the ability to turn it in an other treasure is quite nice in this set because there is some interesting special treasure so you can have games where you gain something else than Gold.
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Outrider
Posted the: 28 April 2021
Owner: eHalcyon (illustration changed)
I’ve already talk about the fact that I’ve though about a set that rely on interaction between player. I also say that I'll put cards from other here. This one is both: I really like the bluff part and the number of possibilities on this: it’s like a lab but I think that game using this will be really fun.
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Pillager
Posted the: 28 April 2021
Owner: Shael
An other one from the previous set, like a lot of reaction here. It’s a little bit like Coven but it don’t strongly junk you at the end; it’s more delayed. Moreover, have a ruin in Exile is way better than have a Curse in Exile but play this outside of your turn is terrifing for your opponents
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Replacement
Posted the: 28 April 2021
Owner: Shael
It’s a small pay-off for your engine that you can buy when you have too many actions: you can play once more at any point in the game by spending one action. It’s just to make them more valuable and avoid the turns where you have a lot of actions and nothing to do with them.
Btw, I really don't like the art of this one but it was so hard to find one that fit here taht I finnaly give up
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Ring
Posted the: 28 April 2021
Owner: Shael
A silver that turn a Treasure to your hand into a sort of Spoil. It’s especialy interesting with Copper since it's a treasure that you whant to get rid of. I’ve made it Exile in order to allow you to take back your treasure witch is something nice if you really need the +3$ and you heve no other way to do it. It’s in the expansion theme, so why not increasing the combo possibilities?
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Shelves
Posted the: 28 April 2021
Owner: Will(iam|ow) (cost and illustration change)
I’ve just introduce a potion in it cost, the original idea was well design and there isn't any broken combo so keep it like this is fine.
It’s a sort of terminal Haven but you may set aside multiple card in order to gain them later at the right time but also get rid of your victory card and keep their points.
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Spectral Witch
Posted the: 29 April 2021
Owner: Shael
The attack part «downgrade» your opponent’s ruin into Curse. If they haven’t one, they take a ruin so you need to be attacked 2 times to be cursed like other wiches do. The effect is also interesting: you turn a card in your discard pile into a gold so if an other player just play spectral witch in a previous turn, you can get rid of one of the Ruin or the Curse he give you. It's obviously stronger in Big Money since you have a greater discard pile but in engine, you can use gainer or force your deck to shufle in order to don't exchange an good card with a Gold.
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SpellBook
Posted the: 29 April 2021
Owner: Shael
Spellbook give you a Potion. Usualy you don't want a lot of these but here is the twist: it also give you victory point if you have a lot of P-cost card. And it cost a Potion so it already help you to take some points. I think it could be interesting: 8 P-cost cards aren’t too hard to get if you really want them. If you manage to get your 12th P-cost card, your spellbook start to be incredibly strong.
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Superintendant
Posted the: 29 April 2021
Owner: Shael
The effect really seem like decoration, but here, you usually don’t want to Exile your Card. However, play an action from exile give you more possibilities than just play treasure. I think it's fair at $2 since you have to sacrifice your cards in order to increase the power of the Superintendant. The first time you buy it, you just set the cost of an Action you have in play to $2. I've hesitate to make most expensive version that also throne the card you play but the set don't have a lot of cheap cards, maybe if it useless during the playtest I'll change it.
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Surplus
Posted the: 29 April 2021
Owner: JackTheBard (Cost and type change)
This is an adaptation from someone else’s card.
You choose 3 cards and the worst one (usually) will have it cost decrease by 3. The idea is obviously to choose 3 card you really want and then use the +Buy to take a maximum amount of them. I think it’s good way to gain a lot of cards in the early game or in slog strategy. The other thing is that more you play stock in the same turn, more it become weak: if you choose the 3 best cards, one will reach $0 and you have to choose an other card, probably less interesting than the others, because your opponent can always choose the one that cost $0 and then, your Surplus will became useless.
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Watchpost
Posted the: 29 April 2021
Owner: Jonis2004 (effect and illustration changed)
Watchpost is a cantrip that put your cards in exile if you don’t want them. At least, you see it so it could be interesting for some cards (like Wishing well) or to give you information for your next play.
The reaction also allow you to put your card wherever you want in your deck so if you gain some interesting cards, you may put them on top of your deck to draw them faster or together in order to make a combo.
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Landscape
Events
Annexation
Posted the: 30 April 2021
Owner: Shael
Annexation is like delve for Duchy: but it came with a different cost and a reward. If you choose the Coffers option, it only cost 2$P, so it’s slightly "cheaper" than Duchy and it also attack. I think it’s a good way to use your Potions on mid-game or during Duchy dancing. The Ruin part make it especially valuable at the beginning but the Duchy gaining is only interesting on late-game so it make the power of the event consitant during the game. I think it could actually have a lot of way to use it depending of the board.
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Contest
Posted the: 30 April 2021
Owner: ShadowLancer (litle change on the effect)
It’s not my card.
I think Contest is a great idea since it really feel like a race. Since 12$ is a pretty hight cost to reach, I think there isn’t any First player advantage here. The way to use this card is also pretty interesting: you can just ignore it and consider that you’ll hit 12$ one time in the game to get a decent prize or you can try to get the 12$ as fast as you can in order to take the best prizes.
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Copy
Posted the: 30 April 2021
Owner: Shael
Assuming that a Potion give 2.5, Copy could be pretty interesting depending of which event is under it: Banquet is stil pretty bad, even if it could combo with Aqua Vitae or Apothecary; Bonefire turn your potion on trasher; Enhance change them to non-terminal Upgrage; Expedition is very good too; Ferry is quite interesting since you can change the token’s pile more than once per game but even with the +1 Buy it will probably never be played a lot of times; same for Plan but if it’s probably weaker here; March could do some verry fun stuff as always and transport makes you gain any Action for 2 Potion.
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Fallow
Posted the: 30 April 2021
Owner: Convolucid (illustration, effect and name change)
I think it have a nice synergy with this Exapansion’s theme: Potion strategy could be easily be stuck but if they manage to obtain their decent amount of +Buy (thing that Potion strategy already look for) they can just get rid of the token and block the pile that they don’t use.
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Invade
Posted the: 30 April 2021
Owner: S_Smart (illustration change)
This is also an adaptation from someone else’s card.
A cool way to end the game swiftly. If you have at least one Duchy in your hand you’ll use it. But do you really want to buy Duchy in order to transform them later? Probably not if the kingdom won’t allow you to draw 2 duchy with 5 coins each turn. A more "normal" way to use it seem to just destroy the Province pile or during Duchy dancing.
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Ordeal
Posted the: 1st May 2021
Owner: Shael
I have a card that use the Prize, why not an other one? Now you can open Estate/duchy during your 5/2! Isn’t this amazing? (spoiler alert: probably not without trash-for benefit). However, if your engine manage to draw you 4 victory cards while not hurt too hard how many coin you have this turn or if you have an incredibly bad luck, you can still grab these.
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Renovate
Posted the: 1st May 2021
Owner: Unknown (image and effect change)
Renovate let you change your treasure for action card. It cost you 2 coins but you immediately play the action so more the action is strong, more renovate is interesting: Silver can make you gain decent action, Potion is better Gold is probably the most interesting. Since you exchange your treasure for cards that have a similar power level, the event will essentially just trigger action’s effect (and have a very interesting synergy with gold gainer).
Or you can just destroy Coppers (it’s not very efficient but if you need it…).
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Stargazing
Posted the: 1st May 2021
Owner: Shael
Basically it’s « while you have potion, you may tun your Coins into Buy ». Potions like Buy so potions should like this right?
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Project
Clock Tower
Posted the: 1st may 2021
Owner: Jupaoqqq (Illustration and name change)
About interaction between player, this one is pretty interesting. You can buy it to encourage oner player to don’t end a pile or buy it just before one end in order to gain some Coffers for your next turns.
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Collection
Posted the: 1st may 2021
Owner: Jupaoqqq (Illustration and name change)
In a normal game, it will be 17 piles in the kingdom. The number grow a lot with potions, colony, ruin and so on… More there is piles, more it could be interesting. It’s pretty decent source of Coffers and potentially a good way to setup a megaturn, or just a good way to accelerate your deck on the early game.
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Fertilizer
Posted the: 2nd may 2021
Owner: Shael
Fertilizer is an alternate version of Pageant but for Actions. It’s interesting if you have a deck that generate a lot of action and if you want to remodel you village later; or if you just want to smooth your deck when you have one potion left and you don’t know what to do with it.
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Fountain of Youth
Posted the: 2nd may 2021
Owner: Shael
Especially efficient in tiny decks, fountain of youth allow you to use your best cards more often but also delay your shuffle. It have nice synergy in combo deck but could also find a place in some Alt-vp strategy. For example, it allow you to play 6 turn without shuffle in a deck of 15 cards. However, the effect could be a problem in early game since it’s really hard to find the card you’ve just bought.
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Lot
Posted the: 2nd may 2021
Owner: Jupaoqqq (Illustration change)
Exchanging a 5-cost card for a gold isn’t very good a a 2-cost action for a Silver is just slightly better. But it’s very useful in Big money or if you want to gain a lot of vp. Indeed, all victory card (except Colony) have a treasure that cost exactly $1 more than it, it could also allow you to just exile any card from your hand if there isn ’t any treasure that cost exactly $1 more than it. Lot also allow you to just get rid of some cards from your deck each turn.
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Naval Domination
Posted the: 2nd may 2021
Owner: Shael
I’m actually sad that only one card use the Embargo token so I made a card that allow you to put an embargo token on any pile with the condition that you have already buy at least one card about of this pile, it’s especially powerful on Victory card because you don’t really care about discarding them. However it also protect you against his own effect so you can put a lot of tokens in the Province pile and continue to grab them. The principal downside is probably that other player could just spend $5 and buy to protect themselves from the Domination but make them pay sometimes on a moment where they don’t really want to spend money could still be an advantage.
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Landmarks
Crumbling terrain
Posted the: 2nd may 2021
Owner: ThetaSigma12 (Illustration change)
In general; I like cards that push an other way to pay dominion. And landmarks are the type of card-shaped-thing that could do it in the most efficient way since they change the way of playing dominion. That’s what Crumbling terrain do, sorta. The most efficient strategy in the kingdom have now one main flaw: if you buy to many time the same card; someone with a different strategy could just finish the pile and make you loose a lot of point. Same for the Province; in game using this, they’ll probably worth 5vp instead of 6.
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Lost Manor
Posted the: 3rd may 2021
Owner: Shael
Lost manor was originally design to give an sort of counter-attack effect to duchy: A lot of attack make you discard cards from your hand and sometimes ask for trashing some. With this effect; you’re encourage to buy duchy once the other player start to take hand size attack or if you play with sifter.
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Prophecy
Posted the: 3rd may 2021
Owner: Shael
The main problem i have with this card is it could freeze the game; especially when there isn’t any +Buy. In the other hand; it make the game far more strategic because ending a pile could give you so many vp that you’ll probably never leave a pile that could easily be empty during his turn. I really want to play test this one because it’s probably the most flawed cards of all the expansion (but it could make some very interesting game and deep tactical choice).
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Shared border
Posted the: 3rd may 2021
Owner: Shael
It’s simple: you buy a province, I discard a Duchy to gain 2vp. So it’s interesting to buy duchy right? Sure but since we all start with 3 Estate maybe you’ll give 2vp to the other player while doing so. And if everyone take all of these card and not the province; Duchy will not be so valuable and there was no real point to buy them. It’s a type of card that I really like because if a strategy s too strong, you can buy a certain card to take advantage of it: if buying duchy is too strong, buy Estate. If buying Estate is too strong (lol), buy Province ect…
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OtherI’ve made two other cards for this expansion:
An alternate version of stargazing (because both art were good so I’ll let people choose their favorite). And an sort of Black market event (since black market is a promo concept, it feel normal that ‘Exotic find’ is in «other»).
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