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[Cave-o-sapien]

Last night I played a game where I confused Noble Brigand with Nomad Camp. I purchased what I thought was a Nomad Camp; in fact, I was sure I had purchased a Nomad Camp up until I played it and didn't see the extra buy.

Does this happen to anyone else?

It's not the first time something like this has happened to me (I have confused Orchard/Museum, Plan/Ferry), but it's maybe the most interesting case, given there are several superficial similarities between the two cards:

Name pattern (N____ ____)
Cost
On gain/on buy effect
I rarely buy either one
Hinterlands

Looking at these secondary characteristics (and ignoring the name and art) seems like a really weird way for my brain to come to the conclusion that this was Nomad Camp.

[Cuzz]

I used to mistake Settlers and Encampment occasionally:

Cost
Split pile
Cost of bottom half
Empires
Interacts with treasure


Also Artisan and Altar at least once:

Cost
Name
Used for gaining $5s


Mine/Mint is of course the canonical example as well

[Cave-o-sapien]

I used to mistake Settlers and Encampment occasionally:

Cost
Split pile
Cost of bottom half
Empires
Interacts with treasure

The art is also very similar on those two cards, at least at thumbnail size.

[Cuzz]

I used to mistake Settlers and Encampment occasionally:

Cost
Split pile
Cost of bottom half
Empires
Interacts with treasure

The art is also very similar on those two cards, at least at thumbnail size.

Oh, for sure that's a huge part of it too

[Awaclus]

I sometimes think that Scouting Party is Travelling Fair. I'm pretty sure that's the only one I actually do when I'm playing; on the forums and Discord, I get Scavenger/Salvager, Farmland/Fairgrounds, Procession/Possession, Transmogrify/Transmute and Crossroads/Courtyard confused when the art isn't there.

[LastFootnote]

(I have confused Orchard/Museum, Plan/Ferry)

Oh man, I buy Plan thinking that it's Ferry all the time. Sometimes those games are salvageable, but damn. I've gotta learn to stop doing that.

[DG]

I do this sort of thing constantly. I mistake woodcutters for workshops, get the bane wrong when playing with young witch, think I've got a card in my deck when I never got round to buying it, play 9 card kingdoms, and so on.

[4est]

I had a game recently where I kept mixing up Expedition and Bonfire because they both cost $3 and do something with 2 cards. 

[Cave-o-sapien]

think I've got a card in my deck when I never got round to buying it

Oh, this one! This one gets me all the time.

[benedettosoxfan]

I spent a long time building this engine once where merchant guild was the only source of buy, and just as I was putting it all together and played by merchant guild, I realized that it was merchant ship. You would think I would have noticed that merchant guild is not orange.

[Commodore Chuckles]

The main ones I keep getting mixed up are Patrician and Settlers. They're both tops of split piles and they're both mediocre 2s that you only buy if there's nothing else. I also often need to think a bit to remember which 5 is under which pile.

[tripwire]

I always mix up Talisman and Quarry. They're both four cost treasures from prosperity that provide one coin when played, and have text under their line with coin symbols in them.

[Commodore Chuckles]

I always mix up Talisman and Quarry. they're both our cost treasures from prosperity that provide one coin when played, and have text under their line with coin symbols in them.

Oh yeah, those were two I used to get mixed up a lot. I've also confused Cellar for Chapel at least once; they're both from Base, they're both 2, they both start with C, they both have darkish art and they're both ways to deal with junk.

[Jimmmmm]

It gets harder when you can't even see the card in question. The other day I bought the 5th Patrician (my opponent had the other 4) so I could access the only Village in the Kingdom. To my surprise, the card underneath gave not 3 actions, but 1. (My opponent allowed an Undo.)

[Qvist]

I don't think I tend to confuse cards that often.
But what might be worse, I often talk about a card while recording so much that I thought I already bought it, later wondering why it isn't in my deck.

[Dylan32]

This only happened once, and my excuse is that I was playing while extremely tired. But one game I built this deck that would have been a truly massive engine as soon as I was able to call my teacher the first time, only to realize that, seemingly out of nowhere, I had a Champion in my hand instead... I lost badly.

[Seprix]

This only happened once, and my excuse is that I was playing while extremely tired. But one game I built this deck that would have been a truly massive engine as soon as I was able to call my teacher the first time, only to realize that, seemingly out of nowhere, I had a Champion in my hand instead... I lost badly.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

[schadd]

yeah, and like, when i think i have enough villages but then sure enough i wake up next to my fucking ex-wife again next morning