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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Villa: To Infinity and Beyond

« on: November 04, 2016, 09:36:41 am »

Fewer cards I have found to loop infinitely.
6 cards, no Event

Kingdom: Overlord, Lurker, Raze, Watchtower, Crown, Mandarin

Setup: trash Mandarin
Deck: 5 Overlord, 2 Watchtower

You have 2 Overlord and Watchtower in your hand.

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Watchtower
---- play Watchtower
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord)
---- play Overload as Watchtower

Now you have 5 Overlord and Watchtower in your hand.

LOOP FROM HERE

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord)
---- play Overload as an Action costing up to $5
-- play Overload as Watchtower

LOOP END

Use Band of Misfits and Ferry instead of Overlord to make this more practical.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: November 03, 2016, 09:22:14 am »

Fall Behind Action,
+1 Card
+1 Action
---
When you gain this, each other player gains a card costing up to .

Spring Forward
Reaction
Cost: $4

When another player gains a card, you may discard this.  If you do, you may gain a card costing up to $1 more than the gained card.

Christmas Present
cost $4 - Action - Reaction
Gain a card costing up to $4.
When another player gains a card, you may discard this to gain a card costing up to $1 more than that card.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Dominion: Strive & Reward

« on: October 30, 2016, 08:06:44 pm »

Investor doesn't work.
When does it leave play?
In buy-phase, you cannot gain Treasures without buying (except Treasure Trove, Ill-Gotten Gains, Hoard, Horn of Plenty, or so). So +1 Card when you gain a Treasure has no meaning without +1 Buy. And with it, it is still weak.

629

Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Cards you don't actually buy

« on: October 30, 2016, 04:03:40 am »

It's worse than Smithy so I thought 3 is ok since 3 and 4 are kind of the same.  But I don't mind putting it at 4 at all. 

Isn't 3 cards take 1 debt almost strictly better than 3 cards discard a treasure? Sometimes you're forced to discard a Silver, not a Copper.

The infinite loop is on purpose.

I think Refugee Camp needs more attraction if it junks your deck.

Refugee Camp
cost $0* - Action
+2 Action
+$2
When you buy a card, you may gain this and a Copper.
(This is not in the Supply.)

This is finite, more strategic, more attractive I think.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Cards you don't actually buy

« on: October 29, 2016, 08:43:00 pm »

I was going for crazy and absurd.  At a minimum, if it's the only village and it's a Goons tableau, gaining Necropoli at risk of getting more of them than you'd prefer is mandatory.  But I want to figure out something to where maybe it competes with normal villages also.

The templating ugliness is true.

I tried to make Refugee camp a kind of spoils pile so that maybe it will work.  The idea is that with 1 Overseer in deck and a few powerful 5$ terminals in deck, you could start gaining free camps without getting decimated for it, donating the wrong stack could be the wrong play, it's not that bad, and now you ensure you yourself will spend 1 buy on every single one of your villages when someone else didn't.


I think Woad Raider is unsalvageable

How about this?

Overseer
3$
+3 Cards
Discard a Treasure card (or reveal a hand with no treasures).
You may gain a Refugee Camp.

Refugee Camp
*2$ - Action
+2 Actions
+1$
Return this to its pile.
(This isn't in the supply)

631

Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: October 28, 2016, 08:34:15 pm »

Another.

Q. Gain a card costing $5 before the cleanup of T4 when you have WORST SHUFFLE LUCK.
No Coin Token, no Event.

HARD MODE: before Adventures, no Shelters

5/2 or 2/5 openings are trivial.

On 3/4, you can do this:
  - open Watchtower/Doctor(overpay 1) (shuffle)
     - if you reveal WT, put it on top of your deck
     - otherwise, trash.
  - on T3, things split up depending on what happens.
       - Case 1: hand is WtCCXX
          - buy Squire, trash, gain Rabble.
       - Case 2: hand is WtEEEC
          - don't play Watchtower, next hand is CCCCC.
       - Case 3: hand is CCCCC
          - buy $5.
       - Case 4: hand is EXXXX (in this case you always trashed, since Wt is not in hand)
          - next hand is EEWtCC or better; then buy Squire, trash.

I cannot really get 4/3 to work though.

I have a simpler answer.

3/4 split:
T1: buy Silver
T2: buy Nomad Camp
T3: if you have...

$3: you have $5 on T4
$4: buy Nomad Camp to have $5 on T4
$5 or more: you already have $5

4/3 is very tough. I used 2nd Edition.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: October 26, 2016, 08:41:15 pm »

Another.

Q. Gain a card costing $5 before the cleanup of T4 when you have WORST SHUFFLE LUCK.
No Coin Token, no Event.

HARD MODE: before Adventures, no Shelters

633

Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: October 25, 2016, 06:32:28 pm »

Your first turn you have $2, and so expect to have $5 on your second turn.. but you don't.  How?

Similarly, you have $5 on T1 and so expect $2 on T2, but don't -- how?

Q1.
You bought Travelling Fair and Ruined Market to topdeck to buy 2 Fool's Gold on T2.
Or you bought Villa on T2.
Q2.
Nomad Camp

634

Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: October 21, 2016, 06:42:23 pm »

Draw 2
cost $2 - Action - Reaction
+2 Cards
Each other player who played a copy of this in this turn gains a Curse.
When another player plays a copy of this, you may play this from your hand.

I want a UNO-like card.

635

Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: October 21, 2016, 06:15:24 pm »

Surveyor - 2 coins action
+1 Card
+1 Action
Reveal up to 10 cards from the top of your deck.
Put them back in alphabetical order ('A' at the bottom).

As a matter of fact, I actually tested this card. It's pretty fun for a RBCI.

It should gain copies of itself if the top card isn't a Treasure and be called Big Bird.

How can I sort? I don't know KANJI order (Japanese).

636

Variants and Fan Cards / Re: experiment: "Discard a card you have in play."

« on: October 09, 2016, 01:55:18 am »

How about these?

Wild Thing B
cost $4 - Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
Put cards on Wild Thing Mat into your hand.
When you discard this from play, you may put an Action card on your Wild Thing Mat.

Wild Thing C
cost $4 - Action
+1 Action
Replay another Action you have in play before this.

The concept is playing an Action you have in play. I think it is ok to let infinite combo, but 3-card combo is no good.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Villa: To Infinity and Beyond

« on: October 06, 2016, 06:32:17 am »

Mr. Ephesos gave me another puzzle. Maybe too easy.

Q. Earn 1 million coins from a SINGLE Copper.

A.

Kingdom: Overlord, Peasant, Raze, Coppersmith, Procession, Band of Misfits, Crown, Graverobber, Mandarin
(Italic cards can be in the Black Market deck)
Events: None


Setup: Put +1 Card token on Overlord, trash Graverobber and Mandarin
Deck: 5 Overlord, Band of Misfits, Graverobber, Copper

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Band of Misfits as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Band of Misfits as Procession
---------- play Graverobber (gain Graverobber)
---------- play Graverobber (gain Mandarin)
------ play Overload as Raze (trash Mandarin, put Graverobber into your hand)
---- play Overload as Coppersmith
-- play Overload as Procession
---- play Graverobber (gain Graverobber)
---- play Graverobber (gain BoM)

repeat this 1 million times
play Copper

638

Variants and Fan Cards / Re: a different and low-octane masquerade

« on: October 02, 2016, 11:41:07 pm »

What if you are forced to pass something?
Possession

639

Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Woodchancellor

« on: October 02, 2016, 08:09:53 pm »

WoodChancellor
cost $3 - Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
+1 Buy
You may put your deck into your discard pile.

Replaced +$2 to cantrip. ...Weak, maybe.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: September 30, 2016, 03:36:20 am »

Casino
cost $0 - Event
Each player (including you) plays any number of Treasures from his hand. The player who earned the most coins gains a card.

In other player's turn, you cannot earn coins. That's the biggest problem. You can gain any card, like a Colony.

641

Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Woodchancellor

« on: September 29, 2016, 08:29:37 am »

How about this?

Downfall
cost $2 - Action
+1 Buy
+$2
You may put your deck into your discard pile.When you gain this, each other player gains a Silver.

Will he come back?

Too simmilar to messanger. Seriously, Chancellor already made a comeback guys.

I don't know why I posted this...Maybe I'm too sleepy.
I cannot use Messenger's on-buy well. Without that, I'll buy it more...

So I'll make it easier to take to let him come back someday.

Comeback
cost $4 - Action
Messenger's on-play.
When you buy this, each player (including you) put his deck into his discard pile.

642

Dominion Articles / Re: Challenge: Write a Pearl Diver article

« on: September 29, 2016, 07:29:05 am »

How about using as fuel for Death Cart?
With Ruins, play PD to cycle your deck.
Without Ruins, sacrifice PD to keep DC.
When using DC and strong trashers, deck controlling shines more.

http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160519/log.0.1463643069072.txt

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Woodchancellor

« on: September 29, 2016, 04:47:14 am »

How about this?

Downfall
cost $2 - Action
+1 Buy
+$2
You may put your deck into your discard pile.When you gain this, each other player gains a Silver.

Will he come back?

644

Rules Questions / Re: New shuffling rule

« on: September 28, 2016, 10:53:52 am »

My deck has two cards.
My -1 Card token is on the deck.
I play Smithy.
What happens?

A.
1. would draw 3 cards
2. remove -1 Card token
3. would draw 2 cards
4. draw 2 cards

B.
1. would draw 3 cards
2. reshuffle
3. remove -1 card token
4. would draw 2 cards
5. draw 2 cards

C. I can decide.

I would say: A.
Why would you shuffe? You have enough cards to draw them without shuffling, so no shuffling.

I mean, when does -1 card token really work? Instantly when you are ordered to draw? Or just before you actually draw? This matters on this new rule.

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Rules Questions / Re: New shuffling rule

« on: September 28, 2016, 08:47:42 am »

My deck has two cards.
My -1 Card token is on the deck.
I play Smithy.
What happens?

A.
1. would draw 3 cards
2. remove -1 Card token
3. would draw 2 cards
4. draw 2 cards

B.
1. would draw 3 cards
2. reshuffle
3. remove -1 card token
4. would draw 2 cards
5. draw 2 cards

C. I can decide.

646

Variants and Fan Cards / Re: MJ's Cards

« on: September 27, 2016, 06:43:16 pm »

Marisa sometimes gives you unnecessary Actions, like 3rd Workshop, 2nd Outpost, or so. Opponent can buy Actions that ruins your deck (for example, Begger). That's why I included yourself. But I agree this must be fixed, as in many boards every Kingdom Actions are valuable.

Thief, Jester, Saboteur variant is difficult.

Revised:

Thieves
cost $4 - Action - Attack
Each player (including you) reveals the top 2 cards of his deck. If he revealed any Action cards, he choose one:
trash one of them; or you gain a copy of that.
They discard the other revealed cards.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: MJ's Cards

« on: September 27, 2016, 03:33:06 am »

Ice Fairy
cost $9 - Action - Duration
Now and at the start of your next turn:
+$3
+1 Buy
You may put your deck into your discard pile.

From Toho project.

Marisa
cost $5 - Action - Attack
Each player (including you) reveals cards from the top of his deck until revealing an Action. Either he trashes that card or you gain a copy of that card, his choice.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: September 26, 2016, 11:53:46 pm »

Scout
cost $4 - Action
+1 Action
Reveal the top 4 cards of your deck. Put back them in any order.

Usually Scout was such.

Abe Trump
cost $3 - Action
+$2
Discard TPP.
If he did, discard your deck.

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Rules Questions / Crown, inheritance, and Pirate Ship

« on: September 25, 2016, 11:57:08 am »

When Alice is inheriting Crown, Bob plays Pirate Ship to reveal her Estate and she trashes it. Bob takes a Pirate Ship token, right?
(My favorite Thief doesn't have this problem.)

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: September 22, 2016, 04:26:53 am »

Evil Masquerade
cost 3 - Action
+2 Cards
Each player passes a card from his hand to the left at once. Then you may trash a card from your hand.

Replaced cards will be here soon.