OK, there are no Events in Renaissance but nonetheless, Delve for Villagers:
$2
Event
+1 Buy and
+1 Villager$2
Event
+1 Villager. If this is the first time you buy UNNAMED EVENT this turn,
+1 Buy.$2
Event
Once per turn:
+1 Buy and
+1 VillagerThere is
an interesting discussion in Asper's thread about the mirror version of this for Coffers that did not work (and, on a sidenote, I think that this is a very important playtesting result and it made Asper understand the strength of Coffers far better than somebody like me who, in spite of using some fan cards with Coffers, never tried something simple like
convert 2 Coins into 1 Coffers and thus never got such clear insights). LibraryAdventurer had an idea to fix this via forcing you to spend Buys on this Event beyond the first one and an even harsher version would be to make it only once per turn.
I guess that Villagers are slightly weaker (I know, it is a a nearly impossible comparison) than Coffers but above all they are not brilliant in quantities. 16 Coffers and 2 Buys are 2 Provinces whereas 16 Villagers is just the end of worries about your engine not running. With Villagers there is (probably?) nothing abusive / game ruining like the smoothing of Coins over turns that you can too easily do with the Coffers version of this Event.