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[werothegreat]

While Donald X strives for clear wordings, every so often a card will have some ambiguous phrasing.  The rules, of course, takes care of most potential confusion, but I think it might be interesting to wonder at how balanced cards would be if interpreted differently.

The main one I'm thinking of is:

Incorrectly Parsed Artificer
- Action

+1 Card
+1 Action
+

Discard any number of cards.  For each card discarded, gain a card costing exactly , putting it on top of your deck.




So if you discard five cards, you put 5 Poor Houses on top of your deck.  Or other things, depending on how many cost reducers have been played.

[LastFootnote]

Out of curiosity, how would you have worded Artificer?

[werothegreat]

Out of curiosity, how would you have worded Artificer?

"...gain a card with a cost in exactly equal to the number of cards discarded..."

[LastFootnote]

Out of curiosity, how would you have worded Artificer?

"...gain a card with a cost in exactly equal to the number of cards discarded..."

Nope, wrong. Then you can discard 3 cards and gain a Familiar. Try again.

[XerxesPraelor]

Out of curiosity, how would you have worded Artificer?

"...gain a card with a cost in exactly equal to the number of cards discarded..."

Nope, wrong. Then you can discard 3 cards and gain a Familiar. Try again.

Put it in alchemy and call it a feature.

[werothegreat]

Out of curiosity, how would you have worded Artificer?

"...gain a card with a cost in exactly equal to the number of cards discarded..."

Nope, wrong. Then you can discard 3 cards and gain a Familiar. Try again.

Well, a couple different ways, depending on how wordy you want to be:

"...gain a card costing exactly $X, where X is the number of cards discarded..."

"...gain a card costing exactly times the number of cards discarded..."

[Gubump]

This problem appears with Horn of Plenty, as well.

Wrong Horn of Plenty:
$0
When you play this, for each differently named card you have in play (including this), gain a card costing up to $1.
Cost: $5
Treasure

[GendoIkari]

FYI the image for artificer on the wiki is a picture of mountebank.

[werothegreat]

FYI the image for artificer on the wiki is a picture of mountebank.

Where are you seeing this?  I'm not seeing this...

[GendoIkari]

FYI the image for artificer on the wiki is a picture of mountebank.

Where are you seeing this?  I'm not seeing this...

It's happening on my iPhone, though it's correct on my desktop. Must be a caching thing; most likely the image name somehow got crossed at some point and then fixed. Refreshing the page on the iPhone fixed it; but for fun; screen shot:

[Chris is me]

FYI the image for artificer on the wiki is a picture of mountebank.

Where are you seeing this?  I'm not seeing this...

It's happening on my iPhone, though it's correct on my desktop. Must be a caching thing; most likely the image name somehow got crossed at some point and then fixed. Refreshing the page on the iPhone fixed it; but for fun; screen shot:

I've had this issue (and other image display issues) on my iPhone too. It just doesn't display things on the wiki right very often. When you see a Beggar every time there should be a coin symbol it makes the wiki a lot more interesting at least...

[King Leon]

Misinterpreted Fairgrounds
Victory
Cost: 7
Worth 2 VP for each set of 5 different named cards in your deck. (round down)