Greedy Village
5$
Action
+1 Card
+3 Actions
+1 Buy
This turn your Coppers are also Action cards with +1 card +$1.
You may not play them from your hand in your Buy phase.
Midas Touch
Action - $4
+1 Card
+1 Buy
+2 Actions
For the rest of this turn, cards that give +Actions give +$ instead.
QuoteSocial Climber - $1
Action
Do this any number of times:
Play an Action card from your hand that costs more than the last Action card you played this turn.
Untitled action
Action
5$ cost
+1 card
+3 $
For the rest of this turn, instead of spending an action, you may instead take 2 debt”
In the event that I do end up winning, the runner-up will have to do the judging, as I will be honeymooning for the next two weeks.
Sheepherder - Action, $3
+$2. You may discard any number of Action cards for +$2 each.
Tied to a Way, which I don't think any other submission does here. Unlike my previous entry, this one's short and sweet.
Old entry withdrawn: New entry here
ROYAL WINDMILL
Royal Windmill
8 Debt
Action - Victory
+2 Cards
+1 Action
Discard three cards, Revealed. If their combined cost is $8 or more, +$5 and +1 Buy
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2VP
SHAM THRONE
2$
Action
Play an Action Card from your hand twice.
You are unable to play any copies of it for the rest of your turn.
Funeral
Action-Night
Trash this and any number of differently named Cards you have in play, your discard pile or in your hand.
If you Trashed 4 types or more, you may gain a Contractor.
Miracle Medicine
Contractor
Once per turn:
If it is your Night phase, you may put 2 Cards you have in play into your hand, gain +2 Actions and +1 Buy, and return to your Action phase.
Studious Village
Action
$4
+2 Actions
Discard any number of cards. Gain +1 Pupil per differently named card discarded.
Looks pretty weak. When you gain an Action with a Workshop, the card has the very same vanillas as Worker’s Village. But unlike that splitter, once you stop building and start greening, Collector is dead.
Collector
$4
Action-Duration
+1 Card
+1 Action
+1 Buy
The next time you gain an non-Duration Action or Treasure card during your turn, you may Play it, put it unto the top or bottom of your deck, or trash it.
my submission:
LOANSHARK.
(v3)QuoteLoanshark:
$5 action-duration card.
Look through your discard pile, and Set aside an Action Card from it or your hand under this. Trash it at the end of your next turn.
Until then, when you play a copy of that card or a card from that pile, you first get +1 Card, +1 Action, +1 Buy and +$1.
^ I think this needs to say "look through your discard pile" first (Eremit, and in general, you're not allowed to search it otherwise), and I think it also needs to be stronger to be viable. Right now, even if you get +2 Actions off of this (which you very rarely will), it's "+2 Actions, trash one card, discard this delayed", which is weak since you can't straight-forwardly use it on junk. And the floor is that you get no Actions at all. (Also, "action card" -> "Action card".)
Loanshark:
$5 action-duration card.
Look through your discard pile, and Set aside an Action Card from it or your hand under this. Trash it at the end of your next turn.
Until then, when you play a copy of that card or a card from that pile, you first get +1 Card, +1 Action, +1 Buy and +$1.
Updated entryQuoteScavenger Dog | Action - Looter | $3
+2 Cards
You may play a Ruins from the Supply or your hand.
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When you trash this, play it.
I've updated Scavenger Dog, it's now a soft-counter against most of the attacks in Dark Ages, similar to Watchtower was. You can choose to play a Ruins from the Supply which puts it in play without gaining the card, next turn it goes into your deck. Or, you could play a Ruins from your your hand, maybe you got junked by Marauder, or maybe you self-junked yourself with a previous Scavenger Dog. This doesn't defend against discard attacks though. Then there's the on-trash aspect, which defends against knights. I think the only interaction Scavenger Dog is missing is Spoils, but you can't put everything on one card then it would look like Junk as opposed to just a Junk Dog
QuoteRedoubt
$3 - Action - Looter
+3 Actions
Gain 3 Ruins to your hand. This turn, after playing a Ruins, return it to its pile.
It uses “after” instead of “when” in the same way that Inspiring does. The timing of the return to pile matters for Way of the Mouse using Redoubt as the set aside card.
Redoubt is a friendly Looter like Death Cart. You are tempted by the possibility of Peddler or a Lab. But some combinations are comparable to $2-cost cards (e.g. Ruined Village x2 + Ruined Mine ≈ Squire). The best effects hinge on Ruined Library. Careful play order is needed so that the desirable Ruins don’t get buried deep. Lean too heavily into Redoubt, and the opponent may just gain and trash the Ruined Libraries, leaving you with a mess of stop-cards. It’s still a double Necropolis if you can get draw elsewhere and have a way to deal with the undesirable terminal Ruins. And it helps counter the unfriendly Attack - Looters.
Redoubt could partially replace Beggar as a card that gains a lot of cheap cards to your hand. It has strong synergies as does Beggar, but Redoubt is more usable in a normal kingdom without those specific combos, while Beggar usually just sits there. Another 2E card can replace Beggar’s defensive Reaction.
Weekly Design Contest #207: Vanilla on the Side
The objective for this week is: Design a card that gains from a specific Kingdom pile.
