It's almost exactly Zombie Spy. The only difference I see is that Zombie Spy lets you (strictly, compels you to) look at the top card of your deck before choosing whether or not to discard it.Harbinger Makework
Action
Cost: $1
+1 Card
+1 Action
You may discard the top card of your deck.
AKA Spy
Rats is actually a surprisingly brutal card to have miss the shuffle. If you can’t have 2 rats in your deck by the third reshuffle [...]Remember you can often buy a second Rats on T4 if you need to. The opportunity cost is not buying something else, but if not having two Rats after the second shuffle is going to be a disaster, you can mitigate.
Lookout can handle a 2:1 ratio just fine though after 2nd reshuffle there is an actual possibility he decides to bite you in the balls.Just once, I was playing online against someone who forgot Treasure Map topdecked its Gold and played Lookout later that same turn...
This prevents you from buying Action cards during one turn, starting in the Buy phase. If you get Deluded during your turn before the Buy phase (such as with Leprechaun), it will apply that turn; normally it will apply to your next turn.
The Curse being worse than a Copper doesn't matter so much given that there's a cantrip trasher in your deck so the Copper would likely just be getting trashed the next time you draw it anyway.That's not a given.
Junk Dealer and Upgrade are considered to be top $5's. Having the ability to effectively optionally trash an extra card is arguably stronger than +$1 or the gaining, the optionally is super important here.Poacher has demonstrated that +1 Card +1 Action +$1 costs >$4 even without a buff. I understand, of course, that you can't just sum up notional values for each part of a card to reach a right price for it, but even so it feels like you'd have to discount the price of Junk Dealer quite a lot for omitting the +$1.
This is why a cantrip trasher cannot cost less than $4 (just imagine when you would not open Cantrip Trasher - Cantrip Trasher).If there was some hypothetical "Foo: +1 Card, +1 Action, Trash a card from hand" I feel opening Foo/Foo is worth comparing with opening something like Steward/Silver. It's not clear the Foo/Foo option is better at all (on T3/T4 the extra +Action from Foo/Foo is useless, and +$2 is better than +2 Cards). Even if it does turn out to be slightly stronger on some boards, it doesn't feel like a game-breaking no-brainer.
Ratcatcher? And Monastery isn't a cantrip, but is at least a Night card and lets you both spend and trash Copper. Loan is a $3 Treasure giving $1 which can trash your treasures without needing to draw them, and most people think it's weak.ContractI can tell you right now that a cantrip trasher is way too good for $3. This would probably be balanced at $5.
$3 - Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
Trash a card from your hand.
You may gain a curse. If you do, trash up to two more cards from your hand.
If you're playing by the official rules, there is no way to have Colony/Platinum in the game unless you have at least 1 Prosperity card in the Kingdom.
Prosperity includes two new base cards, Platinum and Colony. You can include them whenever you want to; they are always used together. If you want to determine when to use them randomly, choose a random Kingdom card being used, and if it is from Prosperity, use Platinum and Colony.
I think what LFN doesn't like is that the other players will have to keep doing stuff (and making decisions) as you play them, slowing down the game. It's better when attacks either don't stack or don't require decisions.Is that really a problem, if the decisions are fairly simple? I mean, Masquerade is great fun. Or am I the only person who feels that way about it?
I also notice that some players, when buying a card, tend to take that card into their hand, and then do clean-upI don't see that one. But I do see people confusing their play area and their discard pile quite frequently: gaining to in-play, or playing to the discard pile.
Are there expansions you do hate? If so, why?Not that I hate, but honestly I'm not much liking what's happened to Dominion in the past couple of years. Empires, Nocturne, the second-edition changes to Base and Intrigue, "you may X for Y", the new reshuffle rule and especially that "Coffers" change to Guilds don't thrill me. )-8
