Horse Thief
Action-Attack
+
Gain a Horse. Each other player Gains an Idle Hands.
Turn Bettering BatterIsn't that only deck bettering right now? Shouldn't it be gained to your hand?
Action
Cost: $2
You may trash this and a Silver from your hand. If you do, gain an Action card costing $5.
Shouldn't that be an attack?QuoteWith Cat-Like Tread
$4 - Action
+$2.
This turn, when you buy a Victory or Attack card, tell other players to look away so they don't see you gain it.
- ActionI just wanted to mention that all of the cards that use a single condition could just instead use the Journey token (other than for theme purposes). Someone pls correct if I'm wrong.Conditions are for everyone, not just one person
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
QuoteSwallow - $4
Action
+2 Card
+1 Action
If it is Warm, discard a card. If it is a Treasure or Action card, gain a Swallow.
If it is Cool, discard 2 cards. If at least one is a Treasure or Action card, +$2.
Heirloom: CoconutQuoteCoconut - $2
Treasure - Heirloom
$1
You may flip Warm/Cool to return a Swallow you have in play to the supply for +2VP.
A cross between Fugitive and Magpie. Swallow is certainly weaker when it is Cool, but not overly so. I have the Swallows returning to the supply instead of trashing to allow the following players an opportunity to pick it up and for flavor purposes. The 2 VP gain may be too much, but I was worried 1VP would not be as appealing. Feedback is more than appreciated.
I'm struggling to see how the Conditional type is justified, unless a card ever needs to interact with them specifically. Each different card needs its own set of conditions, so the Conditional type isn't really doing one common thing, and there's no unseen rule that needs explaining.But then there's also Fate/Doom cards to bring out Boons/Hexes, even though the cards already mention them.
Looter, for instance, explains not just adding the Ruins to the game, but also 10 per player, shuffled, and only the top one is visible. Players can refer to the rulebook to be reminded of all those unseen extra rules.
Artifacts, by comparison, don't need a type, nor anything with the journey token. You see them mentioned in the card's text, that prompts you to get them out the box, and that's it, no other rules.
Also, you can write which side starts face up on the relevant side of the Condition card itself.
there aren't any duration treasures because there are things that trash treasures in play. Most people suggest adding "if this is in play at the start of your next turn,"Wording Changes:Craft and Hostile Village: sure.
Craft:
Trash 2 cards from your hand. If botharewere Resources, +;.oOtherwise, gain 2 Resources.
For the first change, see Border Guard. For the change in punctuation, see Werewolf, Tormentor etc.
Hostile Village:
+3 Cards
+2 Actions
Trash a card you have in play that would be discardedatduring Clean-up this turn.
See any card that talks about Clean-up e.g. Village Green.
Creed:
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When you trash a card, you may trash this from your hand for +1per card you've trashed this turn.
See Fool's Gold
Ravage:
+
If there are any Resources left in the Supply,eEach other player discards a non-Victory card costingif there are any Resources in the Supply. Those who doand if they did, they gain a Resource to their hand.
For the move of the "if", see cards like City. For the second change, see Soothsayer.
Ancient Ruins:
+1 Buy
Trash the top card of your deck for +2either +Cards, or +one: +1 Card perequal to its cost in
is costs; or +
I think it looks more like official Dominion cards.
Creed: that was dumb of me.
Ravage: I wrote it how I did to try and be clear about stopping whenever the pile empties in the middle of the Attack. To me, rightly or wrongly, your version implies, 'first check there are any Resources in the Supply, then if there are, everyone discards'.
Ancient Ruins: yeah, your wording might be simpler, I chose what I did because I felt it was more elegant, with fewer $ symbols and no repetition.
(I look at such comparisons as Enchantress and Gatekeeper and see that Donald/whoever formats the cards isn't rigidly coded on how to structure the wording.)
And I confirm that what was concluded about Declare is correct. After one player finishes with it the player to the left can then use it, and if they do and play carries on like this, it's basically continuous. Just as long as this doesn't encourage mirror play too often...
Another reveal:
QuoteInsignia - Treasure Duration, $5 cost.
$1
At the start of your next turn, reveal cards from your deck until you reveal an Action. Discard the rest then play the Action.QuoteWarband - Action Attack, $5 cost.
+3 Cards
Each other player with 5 or more cards in hand reveals the top card of their deck, reveals a card in their hands that shares a type (or reveals they can't), then puts the revealed cards onto their deck in any order.QuoteDescend - Act
+2 Cards
Each other player gets +1VP.QuoteHire - Act Attack
Discard a Treasure. If you do, each other player with 5 or more cards in hand discards a card.
Insignia digs for an Action at the start of next turn, and it's a Treasure so it can't dig for itself.
Warband launches a random Attack on each opponent, depending on the top card of their deck.
Descend is a simple Act. Will you drop a point to play a Smithy?
Hire makes more of extra types on Acts. It's an Attack; whilst not a card in play, it is still 'playing an Attack card' for all the Moats, Lighthouses, Horse Traders, etc. Tell me that's convoluted and landscapes should never count as played cards.
I'll have to do the next reveal a while later than usual, as my computer screen has gone from funny to unusable.
Thanks again for your feedback!
Undeaderywon't a debt card immediately give you a nightmare?
Night
Cost: $3P
+P
+$1
Gain a Nightmare whenever you gain a card costing $2P or more this turn.
You may play a Treasure from your hand.
You may buy a card costing P or more.
Nightmare
Night
Cost: $1P (not in the Supply)
+5 Cards
+1 Action
Return this to its pile
I must have missed thatI thought there was only one of these in the pile thoughSnow Shoes - $2*This has accountability issues, because if you have multiple, you don't know if you're just revealing the same one over and over, or if you're actually revealing different ones. I'd suggest "When you play a snow, you may set this aside for +1 card. Once an action card is resolved, return this to your hand"
Treasure - Reaction - Snow Gear
$1
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When you play Snow, you may first reveal this from your hand once per Snow played for +1 Card.
(This is not in the Supply.)
If ride is justification for something with the text of horse to costWay Of The Beaver
+$2
+1 Buy
Appearing alongside Monkey or Sheep is the only real problem with it.
That's not really a problem, as it's not recommended to have several Ways in one game.
However, Beaver's effect is identical to playing Woodcutter, which while weak for a $3 card is rather too strong for a Way. Most of the Ways which have an effect that's independent of the card on which they are used would be too weak as a $2 kingdom card. (Mouse and Worm are the only real exceptions to this rule IMO.)
And I think that's a sensible design decision, so that you don't buy a random $2 kingdom card solely to use it as the Way.
I think Way of the Horse is an obvious exception here—the existence of Ride suggests Horse is not too weak for a $2 kingdom card. (And I've definitely bought Poor Houses just so I could use them according to the Way of the Horse.)
And Worm is definitely too weak for a $2 kingdom card. Way of the Worm is to Monument roughly as Ruined Market is to Woodcutter.
Yes, you're right about Way of the Worm. I somehow thought it was nonterminal, but of course it's not and therefore too weak for $2.
Ride is an Event, not a kingdom card, and therefore can afford to be more narrow. Since Experiment gives you 2 "Horses" for $3, a single Horse as a $2 kingdom card seems rather underpowered to me. It would also be significantly worse than Encampment.
But sure, it may be a good deal for $1 if Poor House is in the Kingdom and you have spare buys.
, then Delve could be an excuse for silvers to cost and not cost a buy
Snow Shoes - $2*This has accountability issues, because if you have multiple, you don't know if you're just revealing the same one over and over, or if you're actually revealing different ones. I'd suggest "When you play a snow, you may set this aside for +1 card. Once an action card is resolved, return this to your hand"
Treasure - Reaction - Snow Gear
$1
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When you play Snow, you may first reveal this from your hand once per Snow played for +1 Card.
(This is not in the Supply.)
Maybe lower the cost of luxuries, and increase the price of vegetable patch?Congratulations for making you set.
Vegetable Patch puts Luxury pile in Kingdom but is better without them. If you simply ignore Luxury cards, you have a Lost City at $4, which is broken.
The card itself is better without them, but is your game better without them?
I think so.
- Luxury cards: Cost $5. At first play they are stop cards or don't draw. Each one gives a vanilla bonus at start of your turns:
- A free Copper every turn, not so good.
- Fair effect, which with Fair costs $4 and is imediately activated.
- Barracks effect, which with Barracks cost $6 once and is imediately activated.
- Hireling effect, which cost $6, but Hireling is stackable.
- Vegetable Path, ignoring Luxury cards: Cost $4. Gives two vanilla bonus at each play (card and action). It's Lab + Village. It's stackable. It's not difficult to play every copy you have in all your turns if you have some of them.
This would be different only if Luxury cards are the only source of +Buy on Kingdom, but even in this situation I think I problaby won't go for them.
Setup: Count out a number of each differently named luxury equal to the number of players plus 1 into a face-down pile, then turn the top card face-up. Put the Opulence card face-up on the bottom of the pile.
But the card still gives actions, it's just ignoredif they already have a snowy village in play, would a normal village count as a card giving +2 actions?QuoteWintery Woods • $5 • Action - Attack - Duration
At the start of your next turn, +3 Cards.
Until then, when another player plays an Action card that gives them +2 Actions, they gain a Snow.
A haunted woods that attacks village use (but only of the common +2 Actions variety)
I tried a couple wordings that'd make it hit like, Snowy or Bustling village and they were a mess, so just when it gives an explicit "+2 Actions".Just was wondering, if I play a Snowy Village (which I think I don't get snow with), then I play a Village, do I get Snow from playing the Village? I don't think I do, but I was just wondering.QuoteWintery Woods • $5 • Action - Attack - Duration
At the start of your next turn, +3 Cards.
Until then, when another player plays an Action card that gives them +2 Actions, they gain a Snow.
A haunted woods that attacks village use (but only of the common +2 Actions variety)
I tried a couple wordings that'd make it hit like, Snowy or Bustling village and they were a mess, so just when it gives an explicit "+2 Actions".
EDIT: Just answer the one that LittleFish posted. Also, I hadn't seen your post before I posted.
no, because the further +Actions are ignored (due to the first Snowy Village)
if they already have a snowy village in play, would a normal village count as a card giving +2 actions?QuoteWintery Woods • $5 • Action - Attack - Duration
At the start of your next turn, +3 Cards.
Until then, when another player plays an Action card that gives them +2 Actions, they gain a Snow.
A haunted woods that attacks village use (but only of the common +2 Actions variety)
I tried a couple wordings that'd make it hit like, Snowy or Bustling village and they were a mess, so just when it gives an explicit "+2 Actions".
can we make a locked (and possibly pinned)thread with the responsibilities of the winner, so it's more clear on what to do?Thanks a lot Fragasnap! Feels a little unreal to have won. I have a flight today that i need to take in about 2 hours, but after that i should be available. Could someone Message me with the step by steps for what your supposed to do when you win a week? In the meantime, i'll try to think of a good theme for next week.All you need to do is post a new thread in this forum with a theme of any sort and then choose a winner and 1 or 2 runner-ups (in case the winner can't or doesn't want to run the next contest) after a week.
Just give the thread a titleCode: [Select]Weekly Design Contest #103: Xand replace X with a snappy description of your contest theme.
Doing a write-up on all the cards is not technically required, but users appreciate it. I recommend doing some write-ups throughout the week (and just keep them in a document somewhere) instead of trying to write them all at once. It makes it easier to ensure you catch all of them and makes it easier to keep to the schedule.
It is expected to post a warning somewhere from 36 to 12 hours prior to your final judgment as well.
If it's all too much pressure, you can just let us know and Something_Smart, as runner up, will take the reigns.
Can someone remind me what the benefit of starting a new thread each week is supposed to be? (It is not immediately apparent.)It's easier to find contests if you're looking back for them
The pre-2019 Pillage still works well with kings courtKing's Court Is So Useless!It's still possibly useful there, because of (a) Will-o-Wisp and (b) the ability to do KC chains, but it's not as good as it usually is.
Fool
Duplicate
Treasure Map
Counting House
Distant Lands
Library
Outpost
Pillage
Scholar
King's Court
Why a non-reaction?Thank you! I copied the text from Bonfire (including the capitalized "T" apparently), but that is a good point about trashing Duration Actions. I also prevented it from trashing Reactions for thematic purposes. Here's the new version:Cask of Amontillado - $4
Treasure
$2
+1 Buy
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When you gain this, you may Trash an Action card you have in play.
Two small things.
Utterly pedantic formatting change: you don't need to capitalize trash in the middle of a sentence.
Avoiding hard-to-track effects: consider trashing only non-Duration Action cards from play. I believe only Bonfire can directly trash Durations from play, but this can cause tracking issues as the Duration effects still occur.
Cask of Amontillado - $4
Treasure
$2
+1 Buy
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When you gain this, you may trash a non-Duration, non-Reaction Action card you have in play.
It would be "Landmark" not LandscapeQuoteGOVERNMENT IN EXILE - $5
Project - Landscape
At the start of your turn, Exile a card from your hand.
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When scoring, 2VP for every differently named card you have in Exile (whether or not you buy the Project).
