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[Titandrake]

Man, Counting House is fine. It's not that good, but it has its niche, and it's too elegant in its design to add weird balancing clauses.

[elahrairah13]

Counting House has a bit of the "Pilosopher's Stone problem" that way.

As you increase your deck size by bloating it with Coppers, you will see your Counting Houses less often. And even if you buy lots of them, you can only effectively play one per turn to get all the Coppers. You could play the rest for buys though.

The "Philosopher's Stone problem" has to do with the Potion cost. Since you can only buy them when you draw a Potion, you can only get N every time through your deck, where N is the number of Potions you have. If the large deck causes you to cycle slowly, you just can't get enough P.Stones to have it be worth it. It would be a lot stronger if it had a non-potion cost (like $7 or something). At only $5, it shouldn't be hard to buy 3-4 Counting Houses in one time through the deck once you already have a couple. And then you will usually have one to play every turn, even in a bloated deck.

Which is where herbalist comes in. Use the Herbalist to use the potion multiple times to by multiple P Stones, then use the Herbalist to use the P Stones multiple times.

(At least in theory, like communism)