By the way, you probably want to buy this over Silver with a hovel at hand...
Are you sure? Drawing Estate, Concubine, 3 Coppers is worth as much as Estate, Estate, Silver, 2 Coppers. With the replacing of Estates you don't have the chance to get to 6$, but you'll more surely ge to 5$. You'll never have 3 Estates, Silver and Copper. I admit that two 5$ turns are usually worse than a 6$ and a 2$, though.
2 $5 turns are much better than $6/$2 unless the $6 is like, BV and there's a good $2 in the kingdom.
On a money board I would definitely open with this card twice on a 4/3. I wouldn't open with it or even buy it on an engine board unless there's nothing better at $2 or $3, which granted, isn't that uncommon.
I suppose. Surely not BM, though?
Oh definitely not. Silver is as close to strictly better for an opener to this as you can get.
depends on the boardIm not sure. Is there a solid BM strat where opening Concubine/Concubine is better than Silver/Silver or anything else?
For Nouveau Riche's last effect, do you mean "You may discard another Victory card (including another Estate or Duchy)", or "You may discard a Victory card that isn't an Estate or Duchy"? Because the first will be more generally useful, whereas the second will be of limited use when there aren't alt Victory cards around (but I can see why that may be the one you were thinking of). Even in the first form, I think it's a neat defense against early greening, without being too strong.
Oh...
I missed that. In that case I think the bonuses are okay. It's a situational card, but that's okay in dominion. I would definitely price it less than $5 though.
Aqueduct is probably fine at $5 without the penalty.
Nouveau Riche:
This is a really weak card. It's way worse than baron. $4 and a buy is clearly better than 3 cards or $2. You need a stronger effect than 3 cards, I can get that for cheaper on a smithy. And it's reliable! $2 is even weaker than 3 cards, and +1 action is useless.
So, I would up the power level of the effects. Maybe +4 cards and +$3, +1 action would be good.
After a quick read-through, the three biggest issues that I see are:
Nouveau Riche:
This is a really weak card. It's way worse than baron. $4 and a buy is clearly better than 3 cards or $2. You need a stronger effect than 3 cards, I can get that for cheaper on a smithy. And it's reliable! $2 is even weaker than 3 cards, and +1 action is useless.
So, I would up the power level of the effects. Maybe +4 cards and +$3, +1 action would be good.
Parliament: Pretty much worse than throne room; I would rather play my witch or market twice than my oracle three times. I could be wrong there though. I was going to say that it's OP if highway or bridge is on the board, but if you can play 5 highways in one turn you are probably going to win soon anyway.
Rental: I don't like this because I sense that it will just be a better province in many games. It discourages engines as well, and generally people prefer engines to big money.
Rental
7$, Victory
Worth one per Coin Token on your Rental Mat at the end of the game.
When you gain this, put it on your deck and gain two Coppers.
Setup: Each player gets 7 Coin Tokens and places them on his Rental Mat. Whenever a player trashes a Copper, he must instantly remove a Coin Token from his Rental Mat.
How different would the play be if you just made the VP value of Rental 2 less than the number of Copper in your deck, with a minimum value of 0 and a maximum of 7? Less messing around with tokens.
Oh... Just realized that this card makes 2-5 opening much stronger than 5-2 opening!
I like asymmetry, but is that delay really better than nothing?
Speaking of Scout, this has great synergy with Scout.Personally, I think vanilla half harem is fine. They can't all be the best card ever.
Also, concubine.
I think the problem is the cost. $3 is simply too much, but at $2 it would be strictly better than Estate. It is a card that, if you started the game with, you would want to trash out of your deck, just like Coppers and Estates. The only 2 times you should ever be willing to buy it are 1) times that you would otherwise buy Copper (pretty rare) and 2) times that you would otherwise buy an Estate (only towards the end of the game).
Sure if the game is close to over, and you have exactly $3 or $4 to spend, you choose it over Estate. But otherwise I'm just pretty sure this would be purchased far less often than Explorer, Scout, etc.
It looks superficially similar to ... Lookout?
End of discussion.
Storage
$?? - Action/Reaction
(Insert something here)
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When you would gain a card, you may put it on your Storage mat. Return your storage mat to your deck at the end of the game.
Like an immediate Island. What do you think?
Welcome!
And "Morgrim's crazy brother". That's like saying Infinity's big cousin, Loki's mischievous nephew, Ozle's interesting son.
Some people tossed around some ideas here: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5344.0;all
I like your card though I'm not sure the theme connection is really that tight.
Also you should discuss some PG strategy in our upcoming PG strategy forum! http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?board=56.0
If Tariff tokens on Copper or Silver (or even on basic Victory cards) become too much of problem, I'm sure there's a wording out there that can exclude the basic cards from the clause.
Yes, it was a very simple question. The answer is no. But here is a much more useful answer, to which all the other answers were alluding:
During a turn of Dominion, you are not allowed to do anything other than [...] or count your deck (only looking at the backs of the cards), unless a card specifically says you can do it.
Biggest problem with this idea is that its almost useless a game without villages. Reaction is still there, but most of the point of the card is lost.
You don't need a village, just a non-terminal. Moreover, you could copy a Duration from the previous turn. I guess in a game without non-terminals or Durations it is useless, but how often does that happen?
Chameleon - Action/Reaction - $4?
Choose one: +1 Card, +1 Action; or play this as if it were any Action other than Chameleon that you already have in play.
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When any player (including you) gains a card costing up to $6, you may reveal and discard this from your hand. If you do, gain a copy of the gained card, putting it in your hand.
Fortress is the only major problem I can think of. Procession Fortress is already completely hax, but is mitigated by needing to get them to line up. Here as long as they aren't already in your hand you get +2 cards +3 actions from a two.
Is it so broken that the game is unplayable with both in the kingdom? Probably not. But it still would be a devastatingly dominating combo.
Yes, it sounds like Harvest.Casino
Treasure
When you play this, roll a die. This produces 1$ per dot at the upside of the die.
Actually, doing this with a d4 and making it cost $5 doesn't sound horrible...
Well, Harvest is easier to activate, but is a terminal action.
Did somebody try something like this before? Not that it would surprise me.
Charter
6$, Treasure - Attack
2$
When you play this, each other player must gain a Copper.
Attacks that consistently give Copper tend not to be a good idea because the number of Coppers in the Supply varies so much with the number of players.
