Yeah, I think it works like Masquerade where cards just appear and disappear without being gained or trashed. They're just exchanged between your hand and the mat. You don't "gain" cards on your NV mat either.You mean I cannot "gain" all the cards from the trash, reveal Trader and boost my Feodums? /s
I considered allowing to put up to 2 cards on the mat which makes it quite stronger.
Two thoughts:
It's a bit like a reverse Lookout: weak at the start, strong towards the end. Which means that if there are genuine trashers in the kingdom, the Thrift Store loses its appeal at the end of the game.
The +Action is a true boon as it leaves room for doing something with the stuff. Got two dead Stables in hand? Off you go. Vault, Artificer, even Storyteller shine with this. Cellar just got better than Warehouse. Are you a Hamlet idiot? Not to be worried anymore, ready yourself for the final turn with lots of buys.
Sounds like an argument in favor of the card to me, no?
Favorite combo with this card is Ghost Ship.
That's where YMYOSL comes from.
Well, if a player has some sort of combo deck, getting milled can be bad if it discards all the copies of a key component of the combo (unless he has a way to get them back from his graveyard). So even if on average it has no effect, in any single game it can be an instant loss for that player.
Granted, milling only because you are hoping for that seems like a pretty terrible idea.
Milling is just as likely to make an opponent draw his key card that he otherwise wouldn't have drawn as it is to make him miss his key card.
I unfortunately do not
This AI does though! http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/computer-beats-go-champion-for-first-time/
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRETip for anyone who ever wants a guaranteed +1 from me on their posts: reference Billy Joel.
IT WAS ALWAYS
That means it's never* dead, which is also cool.*Edge case: Tactician.
What??? Isotopic is going down??? No!!!ugh ... is it?
Looks like he found better things to do (than updating isotropic Innovation) for quite a while now.Dude, there's still Innovation, and uh. The Celtic knot thingy.Does that mean isotropic is going down?Does this mean you stopped testing online halfway through Empires or that you moved too 3/4 player testing online on Empires. If so, that's a very interesting decision.Doug found better things to do with his time midway through Empires. So, he stopped updating isotropic, so we couldn't test new cards on it anymore.
Playing it is nonterminal, invoking it (at start of next turn at the earliest) isn't. Well, at least it isn't +action.I am not getting where the "+action" comes from.Transmogrify is nonterminal.
For Weight, it was only Scale and Gold, giving you 2 extra guesses for the ones you missed on Shades.
I now renounce my claim that transmogrify is a better tfb with peddler. I forgot about butcher. I think they are closeI don't agree at all that butcher is better for this. Besides the fact that Transmogrify is non-terminal, you also just need one Province in hand to mill it several times.
LF's reply was to your assertion that Transmogrify-Peddler is "better than any other trash for benefit peddler.". They're saying that Butcher is a better TfB with Peddler in general, not necessarily that it's better if your goal is purely to mill Provinces.
Since he's playing by himself,
