I actually think neither that or a Bane technically works for the clarified wording, because no card is triggered, and nothing special happens when your opponent plays the Young Witch or the Tournament (but after he has gotten +1 action or +2 cards and discarded 2 cards). Though being technically correct hasn't traditionally been an issue in this thread. If Bane and Province work, then arguably Curse should work too because of Mountebank and any card should work because of Torturer, Bishop, Governor and Vault, since Market Square is revealed by discarding it and Fool's Gold is revealed by trashing it and those are Reactions.
I guess it is not so much of a stretch to request "reveal" to be actually mentioned in the card. Nowhere does it say that all Reactions should count as revealable.
Yes!(2) I am an Attack card, but you cannot ever play me. What am I?Knights (The randomizer card)?
Yes!(1) I am not a Reaction card, but I can be revealed just like one. That is, I am triggered at times when I am not visible to all players. What am I?Bane card?
(1) I am not a Reaction card, but I can be revealed just like one. That is, I am triggered at times when I am not visible to all players. What am I?
This could be Copper, revealed from the discard through Counting House, Province, revealed from hand through Tournament. "Reveal just like a Reaction" is not clearly defined, but any card can really fulfill the condition "revealed at a time when it was not visible by all players" when it revealed from hand by playing Shanty Town, Menagerie, etc, from your own deck by Wandering Minstrel, Apothecary, etc, from opponent's deck by Rabble and the like, and maybe others.(2) I am an Attack card, but you cannot ever play me. What am I?
I hope this is some wordplay trick or something like that.(3) I am in the supply. I enable certain cards to be bought by a player, which cannot be bought by any other players for the rest of the game. What am I? Hint/clarification: I am similar to a Tournament, in that any given Prize can only be gained by 1 player (unless they're trashed then gained by different players, or passed to other players like with Masquerade), except the keyword here is *buy*, not gain.
Black Market is likely what you had in mind, although any Knight also enables a card (itself) to be bought solely by a player. Although, technically, you could return it to the supply with Ambassador and make it be bought by another player later, so BM is a better answer anyway.
(3) I am in the supply. I enable certain cards to be bought by a player, which cannot be bought by any other players for the rest of the game. What am I? Hint/clarification: I am similar to a Tournament, in that any given Prize can only be gained by 1 player (unless they're trashed then gained by different players, or passed to other players like with Masquerade), except the keyword here is *buy*, not gain.
Black Market.
(1) can be anything if you've played a Contraband.
But:I did my best to limit the possibilities to 1 card each
Depends what you define a "card" as I guess. Is the Bane card 1 "card"?
Fair enough, but I must protest your rejection of my answer.(1) Why couldn't I buy those? Oh I see -- it could be a certain type of knight or ruin, which isn't on top. That's wrong because you *could* buy me if you had enough buys/coins. You *cannot* buy the card I'm thinking of, under the circumstances listed.
Your answer is no less "wrong" because you *could* buy it if it were not contrabanded.
The circumstances you listed allow for not having played a Contraband just as well as they allow for the ability to buy any specific Knight or Ruin.
(1) can be anything if you've played a Contraband.
But:I did my best to limit the possibilities to 1 card each
(1) can be anything if you've played a Contraband.
Hint for (1): You can gain me.
You're not talking about Duchess, right? You can still buy Duchess. There's just an extra way to gain it.
(2) Island
(1) You have enough coins to buy a Colony, you have a potion in play, >= 1 buy, and no coppers in play. I am in the supply, but you cannot buy me. What card am I?Have no idea on 1 or 2, haven't seen all the cards, but for 3 I would guess
(2) You process me with Procession, to play me twice. There are no reaction cards played this turn, or other on-trash effects (so no Fortress), or anything else in play. Basically, you have no other action cards in your hand after you play me the 2 times, and there are no weird shenanigans going on (Possession, etc.). You gain your other action card from the Procession. But you don't trash me, and at the end of the game, I'm still in your deck. What card am I? (Hint: this may be a Goko-bug -- not sure what is actually supposed to happen here.)
(3) You Thrown Room/King's Court me, you don't trash me, but you cannot actually play me more than once this turn (unless you have another one of me -- you could play that one). What card am I?
--> As always, there are probably multiple possible answers for each of these. I did my best to limit the possibilities to 1 card each
Fool's Gold?
(1) You have enough coins to buy a Colony, you have a potion in play, >= 1 buy, and no coppers in play. I am in the supply, but you cannot buy me. What card am I?
(2) You process me with Procession, to play me twice. There are no reaction cards played this turn, or other on-trash effects (so no Fortress), or anything else in play. Basically, you have no other action cards in your hand after you play me the 2 times, and there are no weird shenanigans going on (Possession, etc.). You gain your other action card from the Procession. But you don't trash me, and at the end of the game, I'm still in your deck. What card am I? (Hint: this may be a Goko-bug -- not sure what is actually supposed to happen here.)
(3) You Thrown Room/King's Court me, you don't trash me, but you cannot actually play me more than once this turn (unless you have another one of me -- you could play that one). What card am I?
--> As always, there are probably multiple possible answers for each of these. I did my best to limit the possibilities to 1 card each
1) You could be either a Knight or a Ruin.
2) I'm guessing Goko bug.
3) I may be missing something, but I don't think there is any action card that can't be played more than once. There are plenty of cards where the second play would have no effect (e.g. Watchtower, Prince, Outpost, Tactician).
If you think it's still near 50/50 after the above scenario, I would bet you are highly mistaken.
I did not say that nor I think that. I think and meant more or less what MicQ said in more detail. The percentages only make sense if both players play equally strong. If you play reasonably better than the opponent, and he/she does not get luckier than you for the rest of the games, you would usually win despite the starting Merc/Chapel/Tournament luck.
Getting Mountebank or Cultist or Witch one shuffle earlier is probably similar. I mean, getting Merc one shuffle early is more or less equivalent to it missing a shuffle less, so, ok, you are 1-0 down on the "bad things that happen with Merc" game, but it is just 1-0, not 10-0. Also, discard Attacks are pretty high-variance in general, and Merc especially, so you being initially down by not getting it early has less impact on the final outcome than other stuff.
EDIT: Removed silly comment.
For the record, I hate all these usually-entirely-luck-dependent games:
Urchin -- whoever gets Mercenary first pretty much always wins
Tournament -- whoever gets prizes first (usually Followers) pretty much always wins
Chapel -- pretty much game-set-match when it misses your first reshuffle
All of this statements are absolutely not true. Especially the last one. Of course, every game can be lost by a bad shuffle, and Tournament and Urchin are especially luck-dependent, but if you think whoever connects Urchin first or gets Followers wins almost every time, you are 1) seriously mistaken, 2) making it true for yourself by not trying as hard to overcome those situations.
You don't need attack cards to make the pin. You can do it with Village, Outpost, King's Court and Masquerade.
They can protect and counter-attack any pin with Durations. But that kingdom is definitely some kind of pin-war, with the addition of Possession possibly.
But how fast can you set up the pin? There ate some really fast mega turn strategies out there too...
