*Doppelgänger*
The “discard, revealed” wording is only used/needed when discarding multiple cards at once. If discarding a single card (Mountebank, Cutpurse, etc); “revealed” isn’t necessary.
Doppelgänger
Exchange this for a non-Command Action from the supply you have no copies of in play. Play it.
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§: To buy this, discard an Action card that you have a copy of in play.
Action-Command
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Yeoman
Reveal your hand. +1 Card per different card type you revealed.
$4
Action
Reassign
+1 Buy, flip over your Necessity or Luxury.
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Setup: Each player takes Necessity.
Event
$1
Necessity
At the start of your turn, +1 Coffers.
State
LuxuryNecessity/Luxury is the two sided card-shaped thing, with 6 copies total so each player can have one.
At the start of your turn, +1 Villager.
State
Grindstone
+5 Cards
Gain a Scraps.
$5
Action
Scraps
Return this to its pile.
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When you trash this, return this to its pile and +1 Coffers.
(This is not in the supply.)
$3
Action
Metronome
At the beginning of your turn, turn over your Journey token (it starts face up). If it is face up, discard down to 3 cards in hand. Otherwise, +2 Cards.
Project
$3
I guess you mean something like play a Copper from the Supply.The curse does not enter your deck, only the copper does. If you want to model it as -1 card, you also have to model it as +1 coin since copper gives you +1 coin. With borrow, you get it once and next turn. With h/c, you get it many times, but much later since it doesn't affect you until you draw the copper the next time. Short term, h/c is much stronger than borrow, so the question is how heavily you want to discount.
I didn't mean to imply that I thought the Curse would enter your deck. But a Copper entering your deck is still junk. True that it hurts a little less to draw Copper than it does to draw Curse/Estate; but junk is still junk; if you have trashing available you're going to trash your Coppers. And true that taking your -1 card token hurts more than adding Junk to your deck for the very next turn... but for the rest of the game after that it's the other way around. Just imagining this much stronger version:
Event - $0
Once per turn:
+1 buy
Gain a Copper, putting it in your hand
I think this would get almost never bought; and it doesn't give you -or make you wait a turn to have the extra
to spend.
I don’t see how this is automatically better or worse than Borrow. Depends on the sifting/trashing power of the Kingdom. The notion that it will never be bought is definitely wrong.
Anything that makes you want extra gains for some reason makes this not strictly weaker. There are probably situations where you want this in Forager or Priest games just for food, although they are rare. I suppose the copper shuffling could also be nice for an overpay Doctor?This is strictly weaker than Squire (Vineyard is the only edge case that comes to mind). Why would you want a non-drawing splitter that comes with junk and makes the next turns worse via shuffling Coppers back in?QuoteBoarding House - $2
Action - Looter
+1 Action
+$1
You may play an Action card from your hand.
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When you gain this, gain a Ruins and shuffle it as well as all Copper you have in play into your deck.
Not sure about the wording or the power level for this. The on-gain effect is only really good early game to help get a $5, but the Ruins don't make it a guarantee and delays your first shuffle. I am thinking of making it shuffle all treasure in play into the deck.
Why "you may play an Action card from your hand" instead of just +2 Actions at the top?
Yeah, I guess that would be simpler. I think that is a hold over from an earlier version of this card when you could trash the action you play off it.QuoteBoarding House - $2
Action - Looter
+2 Actions
+$1
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When you gain this, gain a Ruins and shuffle it as well as all Copper you have in play into your deck.
So this would make it a bad Fishing Village. Hmm, not sure if I am happy with it. I may try and make the "play an action from your hand" work so if you play a Ruins you are rewarded or change it back so you can trash the action.
QuoteBoarding House - $2
Action - Looter
+1 Action
+$1
You may play an Action card from your hand.
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When you gain this, gain a Ruins and shuffle it as well as all Copper you have in play into your deck.
Not sure about the wording or the power level for this. The on-gain effect is only really good early game to help get a $5, but the Ruins don't make it a guarantee and delays your first shuffle. I am thinking of making it shuffle all treasure in play into the deck.
In it's current state it's a terminal action and therefore quite a bit weaker after you gain it that Ghost Town is.This is busted. +1 Action +1 Card is already ghost town, so add in the $ and it is already worth 3$ even without the attack and the play-on-gain.
This can add something to your opening, and mess with other players' openings in return. I want to make this a $3 so opponents can open with it in response to you opening with it. I'm comparing this to Enchantress and Ghost Town. The attack is weaker than Enchantress, but the duration effect is arguably stronger. It seems stronger than ghost town, but (except for when you first buy it) it's a terminal.
I could make it a night card and up it to $4, but that seems to make opening 4/3 vs. 3/4 matter too much.
Also, how does the attack interact with expedition?
I like Dyke a lot.I agree that Dyke seems pretty cool.
Soul does not work though. There is a reason there is no official unconditional DoublePeddler which would have to cost $7 and this comes with a village on top.
24 hours left!!!!The heirloom itself is worth 1 VP less, not the cards. What do you mean final version in the original post?
Also, I have a couple of questions:Update to Bale - removed the +buy from the discard clause since it doesn't really need it
/Harvest - was worth way too much VP. Now has a cap of 4 and lightly punishes big money, and also decks which use 1 card like lab, governor, etc.
Edit - Should I raise the VP to discourage trashing the heriloom?
Do you lose 1 VP per differently named card you have at least 4 copies of? Or is each individual copy going to bite when the 4-mark it hit? (also make sure the final version is mentioned in the original post)
Also, that is not the final version. The final version says 4 or more, instead of at least 4.
Here's my first batch of new ideas since getting back on here, is it better to have a new thread for a new group of cards, or just add them to my page/thread? Anyway, here's some cards.
No name yet
$3 Action-Duration
During this turn and next turn, you may spend a coffer for +1 Buy.
While this is in play, when anyone gains a card costing $5 or more, +1 Coffers.
Really not sure about this or any of these really, their mostly about the main concept rather than the specifics.
Ram
$4 Action-Reaction
+3 Cards
Discard 2 cards.
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When you gain a card during your turn, you may reveal this from your hand to play a card from your hand.
I was looking at Menagerie and I thought of this as a twist on cards like Sheepdog. There's no real reason it's named Ram.
FishI suspect that this is incredibly strong as a monolithic strategy. But if it cost too much more to where you couldn't do that anymore, it would probably be very rarely bought. Drawing Actions to your hand with it will also not feel great for the player.
$2 Treasure
$1
+2 Cards
I think this is interesting. I was trying to think of a card to go with the name fish. I wanted it to be a copper variant, and fishing always makes me think of drawing, so here it is.
Snowy Market
$2 Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
+3 Buys
Ignore any further +Buys you get this turn.
This is fairly obvious and may have been made before.
No nameThis is my favorite one. It think it would usually be pretty weak (but within a good range still) but there are a few exciting tricks it can pull off. Also very helpful once you have green cards in your deck. I suspect you could make this non-terminal to make it better in games without any combos while still not being too crazy.
$3 Action
Discard a card. Gain a non-Victory card costing up to as much as it.
Something I came up with as I was typing these up. No idea how good it is.
I’d do a straightforward Tunnel variant with fixed 2VPs because I prefer player scale invariant cards. But this just boring me.Is it worth too many VPs? Should I bring it back to 4/-1 instead of 5/-2?Bale (for Harvest):Utterly lunatic with Copper trashing in multiplayer games (where you don’t get that many Actions anyway).
Imps are just so goodWhich interesting decision is taken away? Be concrete, what would you do with the Heirloom that you would not do otherwise (except getting Tormentor more often which is not about decisions but the power level of the card).
Maybe I wouldn't exactly say that it's strong generically. I'd say it's strong to open with because of Imps, pretty strong early, ok overall, and well-designed because getting imps is hard. With the modification, it's very strong at every point and pretty boring.
the powerlevel question seems noncentral though; the point is that it takes away interesting decisions.
Tormentor is a very weak $5 which you will never ever buy early if there is a junker or trasher. You will only buy it later if you got the terminal space for a terminal Silver with a weak Attack on top, which is quite rare.
Of course gaining Imps is very strong (but then again, with Lab variants in the Kingdom, Haggler can do the very same thing far more consistently) but you cannot pull that off often with Tormentor so why not buff it? It is not like we talk about buffing Mountebank, Cultist, Coven or some other ridiculously overpowered Attack but buffing a very weak and random Attack.
There is a reason so many Hex Attacks violate the terminal Attack principle: the Attack is weak and random. Nobody would e.g. ever get Skulk because of the Attack, you either want the Gold or are in dire need of the extra Buy. The Hex Attack never matters decisions-wise.
Equerry
$1
You may reveal the top two cards of your deck. If either of them costs from $3 to $6, +$1.
Treasure-Heirloom-Knight
$4
QuoteRectory • $4 • ActionUntested/off the cuff and getting it in right under the wire.
+2 Cards
Trash any number of cards from the top of your deck. For each card trashed this way, +$1.
FAQ: you cannot trigger a reshuffle to trash more cards w this by declaring a large number (you can reshuffle if the +2 cards causes you to reshuffle). You do not look at the cards as you go and decide when to stop - you declare how many you're trashing, then do it, then for each card you trashed, +$1.
Priced at $4 for the same-ish reason chapel is priced at $2.
also sorry if this is the same as a card someone has entered already, i didn't have time to give the thread my usual perusal (school starting up).
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this old RBCI card:
Attic
$2 Action
+1 Action
Draw any number of cards, then discard that many.
This is strictly better than warehouse
One thing I'm never sure of in Castles games is whether to trash my Estates. On a lot of boards, trashing my estates early is a very high priority, since it improves my buying power a lot. In a game with, say, Crossroads, the estates are not so bad to have in my deck, so I probably won't trash them. In a Castles game, if I knew that I will be buying Opulent Castle, I wouldn't trash my Estates. But if I keep my Estates, and my opponent ends up getting the Opulent Castle, I've been playing with an unnecessarily weak deck for a long time for no benefit except the 3VP, which is a big mistake. How do you decide whether to trash your Estates?You always do. All that Opulent Castle does is to convert some Estates into Silvers which is not impressive.
If Baron is the only source of extra Buys, you might want to keep one Estate.
The only (Kingdom) reasons to keep all Estates is Shepherd. Only if they are worth an additional VP and become something between cantrip and Labs (that can sometimes be used several times per turn) does keeping Estates become worthwile. All the stuff that Shepherd and Pasture do to buff Estates, i.e. add extra VP and draw power, and thus make them worthwhile basically shows how bad they are normally.
Burgh
Reveal and set aside any number of Action cards from your hand.
Play them in any order.
$2
Action
Arboretum
At the beginning of each of your turns, you may gain an Action card costing up to $5 to your hand if you have no tokens here. Otherwise, remove a token.
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When you buy this, put 5 tokens here.
8 Debt
Project
This is to King's Court what Royal Carriage is to Throne Room. The name "Master plan" follows the footsteps laid by Mastermind.
It's not particularly creative and I'm sure that card has been done before, but eh. I'm okay with that.
Slap a minus two cost token on viceroy, and bam! Infinite loop with BoM. It needs the command type.
I think this would be more fun as "$3 or more", since that lets it interact with more kinds of gainers (specifically, Silver and Horse gainers).
I agree
