Ah lovely, thanks very much for your hard work in doing this contest scolapasta, it was worth it for the challenge. I will put up the next contest shortly.
It looks like your commentary for xen3k's Night Traders is half finished?
The statistics for the use of each mechanic seem mostly understandable; Conditions and Trade tokens (Gems as LFN calls them now) are versatile, whilst Kins and Wonders aren't. Freezing could be more versatile than suggested here, though, imo.
Gourmet - Treasure - $7*
+3 Coffers
+1 buy
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You can't buy this if you have Coffers.
Uses Grand Market's you can't buy if you have...
I tried making a list of unique Dominion mechanics: Someone tell me if any of these are incorrect, as there doubtless are some goofups made on m,y part
I think some cards in this list start getting into too specific of "this card is unique because...", but that will be up to the judge to confirm for sure, if people do choose to use some of those ideas. (As stated in the OP, all cards are unique in some way).
I'll address some of the ideas you brought up, from my perspective.
Tactician - yes, discarding whole hand for next turn benefit (but there are multiple cards that discard whole hand for a benefit).
Treasury - yes, it topdecks if you didn't buy a Victory card, but there is at least one other card (a village of some sort, can't remember which) that topdecks under a certain condition.
Native Village - obviously the only card to use the Native Village mat (the same could be said of Island, Trade Route, Pirate Ship, etc. for their respective mats).
Alchemist - same idea as Treasure and the village I mentioned above.
Golem - it lets you look for a certain card, sort of... but I think this is the same idea as Venture.
Loan - this is very specific, and would be sort of pointless to design another card with this same "concept" (set of concepts) but a minor difference (probably a different vanilla bonus).
Sorry for the delay, I had hoped to get judgement out before the weekend, as I knew I wouldn't have time then. But for whoever posted that designing a card with two or more of these mechanics was hard, I gotta add, JUDGING a contest with 2+ fan mechanics feels even harder.
I'm hoping to get the judgment in by tonight or tomorrow latest (I want to post the new weekly contest first, so that people have something to noodle on).
Thanks for the feedback. Eunuch probably needs some testing for how it interacts with remodels (trash a province, gain a province, trash this to gain the province back), and seems the reaction doesn't actually relate to the top part, so I might need to adjust the on-trash ability and maybe make it more expensive if it turns out to be too good with remodels. Rice farmer even without lab is better than pearl diver and harvest already uses "differently named". You can open winery + silver at open to spike $6 or $7, you can gain them with workshops, and wine token mechanic could perhaps be used for other one-shot/permanent cards, of course.
Didn't have time to post this earlier, but:
Submissions closed.
(@fika monster, is Way of the Egg / Hen your final entry?)
Thanks for the suggestion. updated the cards.All right, one last idea before i decide which one is my submission.
This one is Trade and condition
When a Way uses the word "this" it refers to the Action card being played using the Way, not the Way itself (see Way of the Butterfly, Frog, Rat,
Turtle). Thus, these should probably say "Flip Way of the Egg" and "Flip Way of the Hen" instead of "Flip this."
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QuoteMission • $4 • Action
If it is A Time To Preach, +1 Worshipper. If it is A Time To Build, +2 Villagers.
Turn over A Time To Preach/A Time To Build.QuoteA Time To Preach • Conditionand on the other side:
At the start of your turn, you may spend a Trade Token for +1 Coffers.
(A Time to Build is on the other side)QuoteA Time To Build • Condition
When you buy a card costing $3 or more, gain a Trade Token.
(A Time to Preach is on the other side)
the condition starts with "A Time To Preach" face up, so it will take at least two plays of Mission to turn trade tokens into coffers.
An alternating village/trasher. Uses Conditions, Worshippers, and Trade tokens. Only allows conversion of one Trade token into Coffers at a time.
A quick idea i got: Faithful hound meets band of misfits. It's probably pretty weak without its reaction, which is why i added it.Buffed Scribe
I think this is strongest late game, when you have a lot of douchys or provinces. But early game, you might want two or three if there is no thinning.
This probably likes sifters a lot, and village Green of course. I imagine that it should combo with faithfoul hound a bit.
Edit 2: (v7)
On play ability has been buffed: You can now, for example, discard a douchy and play a powerful 5$ card.
Added an "When you gain this, you may exile a card in hand". I think this is unique, very late game, you might want to buy a Srcribe over and estate as you could exile a victory card in hand. This should also give workshops a sort of unique thinning on the boards it's on.
I think you are trying too many things on one card. I would remove the Treasure part from the top and one of the parts below the line, at least.
StratagemLooks like a Necro/Village and not a Scheme variant to me.
Night - Duration
Set aside an Action card from your hand. At the start of your next turn play it.
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This is gained to your hand (instead of your discard pile).
My thoughts
- This is a really interesting challenging idea for the contest. When thinking through and refining cards, very often you might want to add vanilla bonuses or other tweaks which would not be permitted. This has evolved quite substantially from my original idea as a result. It has retained a common theme of being able to do something with unplayed action cards.
- This is a variation of Scheme that trades not playing an action card one turn for playing it without using up an action the next. It can still be used to bootstrap your turns but more careful deck planning might be required as the Stratagem and the action will be stop cards in your action phase.
- Where it offers more flexibility then Scheme is when action cards are unintentionally drawn dead. The gain clause allows for the possibility of tactically gaining it should cards have been drawn dead on that turn.
I think that it is weaker than Ghost Town. If you drew no Actions dead that you can set aside with this, you'd rather have the +1 Card of Ghost Town.
A quick idea i got: Faithful hound meets band of misfits. It's probably pretty weak without its reaction, which is why i added it.Buffed Scribe
I think this is strongest late game, when you have a lot of douchys or provinces. But early game, you might want two or three if there is no thinning.
This probably likes sifters a lot, and village Green of course. I imagine that it should combo with faithfoul hound a bit.
Edit 2: (v7)
On play ability has been buffed: You can now, for example, discard a douchy and play a powerful 5$ card.
Added an "When you gain this, you may exile a card in hand". I think this is unique, very late game, you might want to buy a Srcribe over and estate as you could exile a victory card in hand. This should also give workshops a sort of unique thinning on the boards it's on.
A duo traveller line im sketching on: Right now its a total mess, but here the first version is. also, maybe using The little mermaid pictures for your dominion cards isn't the best idea.
Anyway, I will inevetabvle edit this Duo line, and when I do, I will create a new post that I link to from this one.
QuoteConsulate • $5 • Actiontwelve to the pile in 2, 3 and 5player. fifteen to the pile in 4p, fourteen in 6p.
+2 Cards
+2 Actions
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When you buy this, gain another Consulate, then each other player gains a Consulate.
will pile in
4 buys in 2p
3 buys in 3 + 4p
2 buys in 5+6p
Lost City version of Port that also gives everyone else the card.
The effect upon completion (fully advanced, a player cube on each space), is provided to all players and on every turn from the point of completion onwards, and is given by the main text above the line. The only distinction between players is provided by any bolded text that has slashes dividing the bonus. All players tied for first, the most cubes placed on the Wonder, get the first number, all players tied for second the second, etc., with no skipping of places in case of a tie. A player who places no cube gets no bonus, you can think of a Wonder as a delayed Project with an alternate cost as the buy-in. There is a front/backside to each card, with a two player and a three+ player variant of the Wonder.
Third times the charm. This is my submission now
Jewelry is a 20 card supply pile, regardless of the numbers of players
A self gaining gold that hates having other copies of itself in its hand: Can give you a huge boost early on, but tank your deck if you aren't careful
edit 2:
Improved wording courtesy of crlundy
Edit 3:
Increased its cost to 4 so players cant double open with jewelry: Buffed it by adding an option to trash itself. Its now a 20 Card pile, similar to Rats
