My entry:QuoteTutor - Action Duration, $3 cost.My oldest fan card in its newest form. It does everything an engine likes (apart from trashing Nights but you don't have to do that) but it's slow. With Action Victories, I'm hoping I'm right in saying that they would be discarded, then stop-move applies and they can't then be played.
+1 Card
+1 Action
You may set aside a card from your hand. At the start of your next turn, if it is a...
Victory, discard it and +1 Card;
Action, play it;
Neither type, trash it.
Alright, time to judge. As always, if you’d like to have a rebuttal against what I’ve written, please do so. It’s all about helping one get better at judging. So yeah, I encourage you to show me where you have disagreements and stuff. It’s all in good spirit!Cool idea! A +2 Cards where you can pull them from a pool of set aside cards you’ve stockpiled before. But see, that’s the thing. That’s... essentially a +2 Cards in essence, no? Yeah, there’s some deck culling attributes with Galoer. But when you play it, the immediate effect is that it’s going to feel like a +2 Cards. Therefore, I believe this is overpriced. I think maybe aGaoler (Action)
Exile the top 3 cards of your deck, then put 2 cards you have in Exile into your hand.or even maybe a
would have suited this card.
It seems prudent to mention that Donald's testing found that it's bad to Exile useful cards. I guess it feels awful when another player empties that pile out or something.
Yeah I’m not saying there’s a reasonable incorrect interpretation. Just that I had to read it twice to get it. You’re probably correct that it’s because we see similar wording on other trash for benefit cards.
Balance aside; with the version that returns rope at the end of turn; seems weird to use an artifact. Artifacts are things that you have until another player takes it from you; this is just a way of splitting the wordy “until the end of turn” effect across 2 separate card-shaped things. Though it also causes it to be limited to one per turn. Which is like adding “if this is the first time you played climber this turn”.
Which actually is another reason it’s not as strong as Fugitive and doesn’t matter if it’s cheap.. because only the first one you play each turn is a Fugitive... the rest are cantrips that do nothing at all. The only reason to buy multiple Climbers is to increase your chances of having one every turn.
A Reserve that can turn everything into a Cemetery. An old card from the Ice Age expansion so it's had a decent amount of testing.
I don’t know a good fix off-hand, but the wording is a bit tricky; when I first read “per $1 it costs” I thought it meant the trashed card. Which doesn’t make any sense, so on a second reading, I got it. Maybe replace “it” with “the gained card”?
It is a Courtier variant. And while it is hard to judge whether this is better or worse than Courier, it is definitely not that much better that it is worth $6.
Furthermore, the below-card in a split pile can always be a bit stronger than a card which is immediately available. See Plunder.
Alright, let's make the plunder comparison:
Plunder is a treasure that has the same abilities as a terminal action (Monument) and costsmore than that action.
Your card is a terminal action that, if it were a treasure, would cost. By this comparison, making it cost
makes sense.
Also, I would say it's really not a courtier variant, as courtier has, well, variance. You're not guaranteed to be able to make more than one choice in any given kingdom. And in (albeit very rare, depending on what expansions you're using) others, you might be able to get all four (Dame Josephine or Werewolf).
Goods (Action, $5)
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Obviously this plays well with any discarder, with Warehouse being a great example.
It's also strictly better than gold. Cheaper, has +buy, and plays itself on discard.
It gives the same amount of money as Moneylender?
Wasn't feeling particularly inspired this week. It's a terminal Counterfeit thing, gives less money than Moneylender for trashing Copper but can blow up bigger Treasures for a bunch.
Thanks for looking!The "play this as if it were" phrasing was phased out with the introduction of Command cards, and anyways makes no sense here. The card should just say "play the cards on your Army mat in any order, leaving them there." Even then, it is unclear to me whether you determine the order when you play Army or if you can switch things around once you played the first card from the mat. If it's the latter, maybe you want the wording "As often as you like: Play a card from your Army mat that you haven't played yet with this, leaving it there."CHALLENGE #63 - GOLD IS THE CURRENCY OF PEASANTS
ARMY - ACTION - $6
Choose one: Put a non-Command Action card onto your Army mat; or play this as if it were all the cards on your Army mat (played in any order).
Pretty self explanatory I hope. This can make you think about the order you buy things which is pretty cool (e.g. if you have $13 and are buying a Province and a $5 Action you should probably buy the Action first.)
I like this. Wonder if it is too powerful the way it is written. Maybe limit to the first buy? Or the first two? On a heavy buy turn, this could gut the opponent's hand.
Nothing obvious about this decision. Seems arbitrarily bureaucratic to me. Who cares about how you implement a particular idea?
Not cool, dude. Kudasai‘s concept is one of the best ones posted, exists for quit some time so quite some thought went into it ... and whether you use cubes or several copies of each card is fairly trivial and only relevant for choosing between a secret or open setup.
Mount cardsThis is overpriced, a card like this you want early, and a 6 price tag makes it hard to get before the third shuffle, which is when you really need it.
Mount cards
When you gain a Mount card, you can choose to either gain it as normal or mount it. Mounted cards are put into play instead of your discard pile and stay out in front of you, they give you some kind of effect. You can only have 1 mount at a time (that's one mount, not one of each different mount). When certain things happen you are forced to dismount your mount, when this happens it is discarded from play and becomes a regular card in your deck. You can only mount cards when you gain them, so once you've dismounted you'll have to gain a new one if you want to mount again. A few examples:
I like this idea a lot. Do you believe that Mount cards should have an alternate colouring, just like Reserve cards are, to distinguish them further from normal Action cards in the Supply? Or to not accidentally discard them in your Clean-up phase if you didn't dismount that turn. It may just be that I'm childish, but I sure love me colours.
How is this mechanically different from “you may play an Action card for...“?
Only in the case of Cuirass does it to make a difference, but here Armor just eases tracking.
A King's Court once that becomes a Throne Room is much stronger than a Throne Room that never misses (Royal Carriage)? Crown and Scepter are definitely a very marginal benefit on top of Throne Room, but having a one-time upgrade is also not much of one. I would not vote a $5 price as overwhelming, merely that the way it plays is dully familiar.Promenade (Action, $6)....
You may play an Action card from your hand twice.
You may return one of your Villagers. If you did, play it a third time.
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When you gain this, +1 Villager.
A Throne Room variant that lets you upgrade to King's Court if you have a Villager to hand.
Yeah. This is just a more-expensive Throne Room that has a stronger effect than Throne Room. I dunno if it's weak at
Would this work better as a $5? I wasn't sure initially if it should cost $5 or $6; eventually I erred on the side of caution.
I think $6 is an appropriate cost. I'd generally advise against using busted cards like King's Court as a benchmark to balance other cards and comparing this to the $5 Throne variants it seems clearly much stronger than those to me.
I'd personally prefer its playing be limited in some other way and it generate Villagers in some circumstance. It would make it feel more different than Throne Room and the other Villager cards.
