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Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« on: November 08, 2013, 10:52:46 am »
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The sixth contest is to design a card that would fit well in Cornucopia.

Submission Rules

• Submit no more than one card per challenge.
• You are not obligated to submit a card for every challenge.
• Submit your card to me via this forum's messaging system.  Submissions made after each week's deadline cannot be accepted.
• Each card you submit must have a name, a cost, a list of types, and the exact wording that should appear on the card.  Also include a brief description of any special design considerations (e.g., Stash having a unique back), but do NOT include any other information, such as strategic commentary or examples about it would play.
• Unlike the previous set design contest, the name you give your card will appear on the ballot. If multiple cards with the same name are submitted, I will differentiate them with letters in a randomly chosen order, e.g. [Card Name] A, [Card Name] B, etc. Cards themselves will likewise be listed in a random order on the ballot.
• I will accept revisions to your contest entries provided they are submitted to me before the deadline.  If you submit a revision to an entry you have previously submitted to me, resubmit your revised card(s) in their entirety.  That is, don't tell me "Oh, can you make that +2 Cards say +3 Cards instead?"  Just resubmit the full card.
• Only submit cards that are your own design.
• You may submit cards that have been previously posted here in this forum, including those that have been refined by the community as a whole, provided you can still claim that the central conceit of the card -- and the majority of its final version -- is yours.
• A single card might conceivably qualify for multiple challenges within this series. If your card doesn't win the first challenge you submit it to, you may submit it for any and all future challenges (until it wins), provided the card fits those challenges. This is particularly pertinent for cards that don't win the first of two slots for a large expansion, although depending on which card does win, your card may not qualify for the second challenge.
• Do not disclose your submissions publicly, either in this thread or elsewhere!

For this Treasure Chest set, you may not submit cards that combine certain mechanics from multiple expansions. The idea is that you could simply slot the cards into their respective sets without needing components or rules specific to another set. Specifically:

• Duration cards may only be submitted as candidates for a Seaside slot.
• Potion-cost cards may only be submitted as candidates for the Alchemy slot.
• Cards that use VP tokens or cost $7 or more may only be submitted as candidates for a Prosperity slot.
• Cards that use Coin tokens and cards that use overpay may only be submitted as candidates for the Guilds slot.
• Cards that use Ruins (Looters) and cards that use Spoils may only be submitted as candidates for a Dark Ages slot.

Many mechanics are fair game for any submission. The following is an incomplete list.

• Victory/Action and Victory/Treasure hybrid cards.
• Cards that allow you to choose an ability from a list.
• Cards with on-buy, would-gain, on-gain, and on-trash abilities.

I will be putting some constraints on the set as a whole.

• The raw number of cards (including randomizers) must not exceed 150.



Challenge #6 : Cornucopia

Design a Kingdom card that would fit into the Cornucopia expansion. Such a card could have one or more of the following qualities:

• Encourages you to have a variety of cards (in your deck, hand, etc.).
• Helps you get a variety of cards in your deck.
• Has ridiculous power creep. (kidding!)

There is an additional stipulation! Your card may not use or reference Prize cards. That's Tournament's schtick! Let it keep it.

Submissions are due by the end of Friday November 15th, 2013.

If you have any questions, please post them here or send me a private message and I will endeavor to answer them in a timely manner. Good luck! No, seriously. I will.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2013, 10:52:59 am »
+5

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Bounty
Types: Action
Cost: $5
Reveal then discard the top 2 cards of your deck. For each differently named card revealed, if it is an… Action card, +2 Actions; Treasure card, +$2; Victory card, +1 Card; Curse, +1 Buy.


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Field
Types: Action
Cost: $4
Reveal the top 4 cards of your deck. Put one of each differently named card revealed into your hand. Discard the rest.


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Storyteller
Types: Action
Cost: $4
+1 Card. If this is the first time you played a Storyteller this turn, +1 Action.

While this is in play, when you play an Action card that you don't already have a copy of in play, +1 Action.

Clarification: The first Storyteller you play only gives you +1 Action, not +2 Actions, because it wasn't in play when you played it.


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Scarecrow
Types: Action
Cost: $3
+2 Cards. +2 Actions. Reveal your hand. Discard duplicate cards one at a time until you have no duplicate cards in hand.


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Player King
Types: Action
Cost: $10
Trash a card from your hand. For each $ in its cost, gain a card costing up to $5 that is not a Victory card, putting it on top of your deck. If you gained 5 or more cards this way, trash this card.

In games using this, at the start of your Buy phase, you may reveal your hand. If there are no duplicate cards in it, Player King costs $5 less this turn (but not less than $0).


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Ingot
Types: Treasure
Cost: $5
Worth $2. +1 Buy. If you have at least 4 differently-named Treasures in play (including this), +$2.


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Flea Market
Types: Action
Cost: $5
+1 Card. +1 Action. +$1. This turn, you may buy any number of cards, but you may not buy more than one copy of any card.


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Grocer
Types: Action
Cost: $3
+1 Action. Put one of your Grocer tokens on a Supply pile; this pile must not cost more than any pile without one of your tokens. You may gain a card from any pile with one of your tokens on it.

Clarification: Each player has a set of identical tokens that are distinguishable from other players' tokens. Tokens are not artificially limited.


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Kaleidoscope
Types: Action
Cost: $4
+1 Card. +1 Action. Reveal your hand and note the number of differently-named cards revealed. If you revealed at least: Two, +1 Buy; Three, +$1; Four, +1 Action; Five, +1 Card.


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Raffle
Types: Action
Cost: $5
+1 Action. Set aside any number of differently-named Treasure cards from your hand, then play them in any order. Draw until you have 5 cards in hand.


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Vanguard
Types: Action
Cost: $5
+2 Cards. +2 Actions. +1 Buy.

While this is in play, when you buy a card, trash each copy of that card you have in play.


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Pariah
Types: Action
Cost: $5
Gain a card costing up to $6. Each other player may gain a Curse. If he does, he gains a copy of the card you gained.


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Theater
Types: Action
Cost: $4
+2 Actions. You may reveal a Patron card from your hand. If you do, +2 Cards.
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Setup: Add an extra Kingdom card pile costing $5 or $6 to the Supply. Cards from that pile are Patron cards.


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Carnival
Types: Action – Attack
Cost: $3
+1 Card. +1 Action. The player to your left chooses a card in the Supply without a Carnival token on it. Either gain a copy of it or each other player gains a copy of it, your choice. Put a Carnival token on that pile. If each Supply pile has a token, remove all the tokens.

EDIT: Carnival now gives [+1 Card; +1 Action].

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Side Show
Types: Action
Cost: $5
+2 Actions. Reveal your hand. +$1 for each differently named Action card you revealed.


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Wine Cellar
Types: Action
Cost: $4
Reveal up to 2 differently named cards from your hand and put them on top of your deck. +$2 per card revealed this way.

When you buy this, reveal your hand. If you don't reveal at least 2 differently named cards, trash this.


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Traveling Circus
Types: Action – Victory
Cost: $5
Look through your deck and set aside any number of differently named Victory cards from it. Put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Worth 1 VP for every 2 differently typed cards in your deck.

Clarification: Each unique combination of types counts as a unique type. For example, an Action card and an Action – Attack card count as differently-typed cards.


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Nomad
Types: Action
Cost: $4
+1 Card. +1 Action. Trash a card from your hand. You may gain a card with cost exactly equal to the cost of the trashed card, putting it into your hand.


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Harvest Queen
Types: Action
Cost: $5
Set aside any number of differently named Action cards from your hand. Play them in any order.


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Showman
Types: Action
Cost: $3
+1 Action. Reveal a card from your hand, then reveal the top card of your deck. If they don't match, +1 Card and +$1.


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Old Gaffer
Types: Action – Attack
Cost: $4
+$2. Each other player may reveal a hand without duplicate cards. If he doesn't, he gains a Curse.


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Wheat Field
Types: Victory
Cost: $4
Worth 1 VP for every each differently named non-Victory card of which you have at least 4 copies.


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Potluck
Types: Action
Cost: $4
+2 Actions. +1 Buy. If you have at least 4 differently named cards in play (counting this): +2 Cards, +$1, discard 2 cards.


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Hydra
Types: Action – Reaction
Cost: $999
+1 Action. +1 Card per Hydra you have in play (including this).

When another player plays an Attack card, you may discard this. If you do, gain a Hydra.


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Outcast
Types: Action – Attack
Cost: $4
+1 Buy. +$1. Each other player discards any number of cards, then reveals his hand. Each player who reveals duplicate cards gains a Copper.


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Dairy
Types: Action
Cost: $5
+3 Cards. Reveal then discard any number of cards. If you discarded any cards, gain a card with cost up to $1 plus the number of differently named cards discarded. If you discarded at least 3 differently named cards, +1 Action.


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Barter Shop
Types: Action
Cost: $5
+1 Card. +1 Action. Reveal your hand. You may discard a card from your hand that is not a duplicate. If you do, gain a card costing up to $6 that is not a copy of a card in your hand.


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Sharpening Stone
Types: Treasure
Cost: $4
Worth $1. If you had at least 4 differently named cards in play (not including this), +1 Buy and +$2.


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Scythe
Types: Action
Cost: $4
Trash any number of differently named cards from your hand. Gain a card with cost less than twice the number of cards trashed.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2013, 10:53:10 am »
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Scarecrow15
Showman15
Field14
Harvest Queen11
Storyteller10
Flea Marketjpople028
Side ShowShowdown358
Dairyawildnoobappeared8
IngotHeavyD7
Wine CellerJean-Michel7
RaffleXerxesPraelor6
Vanguardsoulnet6
TheaterA Drowned Kernel6
PariahNoMoreFun5
CarnivalEggplantation4
NomadSaucery4
Potluckmarkusin4
Barter Shopandwilk4
Sharpening Stoneignorentmen4
ScytheRobertJ4
BountyPolk54403
GrocerSchneau3
KaleidoscopeJack Rudd3
Traveling CircusMatt_Arnold3
Old Gafferyuma3
Wheat Fieldangrybirds3
Outcastscott_pilgrim3
Player Kingjamespotter2
Hydrajackelfrink1
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2013, 12:24:01 pm »
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2013, 12:40:29 pm »
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Design a Kingdom card that would fit into the Cornucopia expansion. Such a card could have one or more of the following qualities:

• Encourages you to have a variety of cards (in your deck, hand, etc.).
• Helps you get a variety of cards in your deck.
• Has ridiculous power creep.

ALL my +1's to you, sir.
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...spin-offs are still better for all of the previously cited reasons.
But not strictly better, because the spinoff can have a different cost than the expansion.

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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2013, 01:37:47 pm »
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2013, 01:45:06 pm »
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OK, I give up. I have no clue what this "tag" business is about. Is it a mafia thing?

People post "tag" in a thread so that that thread will show up on their "show new replies to your posts".
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2013, 01:54:07 pm »
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OK, I give up. I have no clue what this "tag" business is about. Is it a mafia thing?

People post "tag" in a thread so that that thread will show up on their "show new replies to your posts".

Wow, that is awful. So the forum really needs a Watch Thread button, huh?
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« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2013, 01:54:51 pm »
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Is that what the "notify" button is?
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2013, 01:58:15 pm »
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Is that what the "notify" button is?

Sadly, no. Thanks for giving me a good excuse to reply.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2013, 02:00:43 pm »
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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2013, 02:06:28 pm »
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I'm pretty sure it means you're it.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2013, 02:10:39 pm »
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I'm pretty sure it means you're it.

Yes, this was my initial reaction!
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2013, 02:59:13 pm »
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I thought it was a German greeting. Moin!
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2013, 03:09:52 pm »
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Great, this is up again! Thanks a ton, LF.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2013, 06:10:03 pm »
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The contests I'm most interested in submitting to are Alchemy and Guilds, so of course Cornucopia is the next one.  ::)

I actually have a decent concept for Cornucopia, but the wording is difficult to nail down and I think someone posted a similar fan card recently.  Hmmm.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2013, 06:20:27 pm »
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The contests I'm most interested in submitting to are Alchemy and Guilds, so of course Cornucopia is the next one.  ::)

I actually have a decent concept for Cornucopia, but the wording is difficult to nail down and I think someone posted a similar fan card recently.  Hmmm.

Alchemy was next on my list but I opted for Cornucopia instead so that I could post the extra Prize contest by way of apology for my absence.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2013, 06:28:59 pm »
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Cornucopia is one set I have almost no ideas for. Just...blank brain.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2013, 06:35:22 pm »
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« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2013, 06:19:32 am »
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Been looking forward to this one for a while. Thanks LFN!
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2013, 10:49:22 am »
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Alright, I was ready for Cornucopia. What I wasn't ready for was a prize contest.
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #22 on: November 11, 2013, 07:56:58 pm »
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A few possible card names, based on harvests, festivals (particularly those celebrating the start or end of harvest season) and some of the entertainment that might appear at such festivals (in the vein of Jesters and Fortune Tellers):
Thanksgiving
Plough
Yield
Banquet
Corn dolly
Lammas
Samhain
Beltane
Effigy
Bonfire
Corn-mother
Yule
May Bush
Mummers
Harlequin
Pantomime
Soul cake
Punchman
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2013, 10:51:30 am »
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Just noticed that there is not a specific time deadline on this contest…am I correct in taking the "end" of Friday to mean midnight, CT?
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Re: Treasure Chest Design Contest — Card #6: Cornucopia
« Reply #24 on: November 13, 2013, 11:02:18 am »
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Just noticed that there is not a specific time deadline on this contest…am I correct in taking the "end" of Friday to mean midnight, CT?

Yeah, more or less. I'll be lenient if it's still Friday in your timezone, or whatever.
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