Neither of your cards are showing up for me.
Hmm, Imgur was giving me issues last night so I used another wacky hosting site. Are they showing up now?
Also, thanks for everyone else's comments. I will unfortunately have to wait to respond to them until the end of the day!
CHALLENGE #7 - NON-SUPPLY CARD SUBMISSION
Thereare 30 copies of Witch Bottle.
I like this one, but I think it'd be fine at $5. The attack is weaker than knights' because the attacked player can choose from any card they have in play for the attack to hit, rather than the top two cards of their deck. Or if it's near the beginning of the game and they only have a couple cards costing more than $2, they can always choose not to play them that turn.
I've been weighing it up, but the main reason I opted for $6 is to give players a chance to get a few cards costing $3 to $6 in their deck before they start losing them to Demagogues. It's less likely to whiff than Knights, and the on play effect is a little better than Knights.
Another thing I could do is a non optional chancellor effect on play to limit the number of times it pops up in a shuffle.
Well, Fortress likes Knights and they are still an attack.
EDIT: Some changes to reduce craziness and tracking issues.
I don't understand why this should be an Attack card. Sure, some cards like Harvest or Abandoned Mine are gone, but other cards like Smithy or Jack of All Trades even like this card
QuoteRoot Gatherer
Types: Action, Duration
Cost: $6
+3 Cards. You may set aside a card from your hand face down. If you do, at the start of your next turn, reveal it and each other player reveals the cards they set aside with Root Gatherer cards. If you are the only player to reveal a copy of that card, put it into your hand and gain a card costing up to $5. Otherwise, discard it.
Haven a card in order to gain a card costing up to $5... unless someone else Havens a copy. Feeling brave or will you play the cowardly Smithy?
BOOTLEG TOKENS - Whenever another player gains a card costing up to $4, you may spend a bootleg token to gain a copy of that card. You can only use one bootleg token for each card gained.
The flavor here is that you're paying the bootlegger to steal things for you. The more you pay him, they more he will steal for you.
Its obviously inspired by Smuggler (a personal favorite of mine), except its actually more of a remodeler that you have to wait for and don't have a lot of control over.
I really like your wording, but the way I have it currently should in fact work since it is referencing any changes the last card played did to your total coin and not what your current total coin is.
I actually first thought of Storyteller and then realized Poor House did the same. So, when I play Poor House and get to 6$, I draw only once, not twice, right? What happens when I play cards that iteratively give +1$? Vault and Storeroom for instance give "+1$ per card discarded". What about Diadem? Is it once per card?
The intention was for this to draw after each card is played that puts your total coin at $4 or more. As worded though, it would draw each time your total is increased above that amount, so cards like Vault would be quite good. Big oversight! This newest version should address this.
So now hopefully the draw card check is pretty simple and robust.
(1) Play a card.
(2) Did my total coin change?
(3) If yes and my new total is $4 or more, +1 Card.
Applying this to your questions:
-Poor House will only get +1 Card if upon it's resolution (1) you have above $4 coin and (2) it increased your total $. So you could have $4 prior to playing Poor House, but if it nets you $0 or less, you will not get +1 Card.
-Cards that incrementally increase your total $ only get +1 Card if after you resolve them your total coin is at $4 or more.
Other things worth noting:
-This interacts with all cards - Action, Treasure, and Night cards.
-Treasure cards drawn during your Buy phase can then be played to draw more cards, which can then possibly be played to draw more cards.
Thanks for catching yet another big oversight on my part!
Does this work with the rules of the game? Do unused actions disappear when you enter the buy phase?
This is strictly better than Caravan.
This one you get to start with +2 Actions on your next turn and start with 6 cards on your next turn. Of course if you were to play a lot of these it could make the next turn too powerful. Of course with all the attack cards. I’m sure one of them will tone this card down.
Edge case: next turn you are going to play Storyteller then Diadem, and drawing 1 extra card would cause a badly-timed reshuffle.
Here's a card from the Weekly Challenges thread that appears to be inspired by a version of Memorial (or at any rate is very similar):It would appear that Memorial is a pretty good idea, if someone else also has that idea or uses it as inspiration.
Clarification: Cost reduction effects such as Bridge and Highway will make General cost fewer Debt during your Buy phase.
How about this new Banshee:
Imagine this scenario (4 players):
Player 1 has 3 debt, Player 2 has 0 debt and Medallion in hand, Player 3 has 2 debt, and Player 4 plays two Banshees.
Players 1 and 3 takes 1 debt, Player 2 take 0 debt, Player 4 gets +2 coffers.
Players 1 and 2 take 0 debt, Player 3 takes 1 debt, Player 4 gets +3 coffers.
Net totals: Player 1 +1 debt, Player 2 +0 debt, Player 3 +2 debt, Player +5 coffers.
If anything the non-attack part is too strong now in my opinion.
Since for you to gain a Banshee you need to let other players trash, I think this is rather balanced, certainly no worse than cards like Torturer, Swindler, Possession, etc.
Two major problems with Banshee:You are aware that Marsh helps the opponents, right?
1. There's a reason that no official Attack card both stacks infinitely and directly harms opponents' turns. Play enough Banshees, and you lock everybody else out of the game.
Quote2. If you only have one opponent, the Banshee can get you two Coffers at most, but if you're playing a 4-player game, it can give you up to 4 Coffers, which means it scales poorly with the number of players. Simply the number of players should not influence how powerful a card is, but player count definitely matters for Banshee.Hm, let's take Witch. In a 2P game you end up with an average of 5 Curses, in a 3P game with an average of 7 Curses and in a 4P game with an average of 8. Doesn't seem to scale so well.
Hm, let's take Pirate Ship. Wow, with an additional player your chances to hit something are significantly increased. Doesn't seem to scale so well.
Seriously, being invariant to player count is a good guideline. As long as you don't mind ignoring it.
Moneychanger
Action - $5
+3 Coffers
Pay any number of Coffers. +1 Villager per Coffer paid.
