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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: May 24, 2024, 06:29:18 pm »

Pigchantress
Art: something that implies turning your opponents into squirrels.
$4 - Action - Attack - Duration
Now or at the start of next turn: +1 Card and +1 Action.
Until the start of your next turn, the second Action card played by each other player on their turn becomes a duration with "At the start of your next turn: +2 Cards" instead of its usual text.

Giant Scout
$4 - Action - Attack
Turn your journey token over (it starts face-up). If it's face-up, +$4 and each other player reveals the top three cards of their deck and discards the Actions and non-Copper Treasures. Otherwise, +1 Action and reveal the top four cards of your deck, putting the revealed Victory cards in your hand.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #219: Livin' in the (Lost) City)

« on: May 19, 2024, 03:17:19 am »

Seems like everyone is requiring images when they judge now. Why?
It's a pain to make the mock-up, then upload it somewhere and post the link here. I don't want to have to make an imgur account just for the weekly design contest.

The primary purpose is to make sure that your effects actually fit on a card and still remain readable. If given instructions for what a card does, I don't mind making a mockup of the card myself personally.

I will take advantage of this offer, thanks, but really this one will fit on a card easily so it seems unnecessary.

I have submitted this one to a contest before, but I figured I already have 2 cards that qualify for this week so why make a new one? Also, we've played with this card several times and we like it.

Ambitious Village
$5 - Action
+1 Action.
Play the top 2 cards of your deck (one at a time). Any non-Action Victory cards played this way give +1 Action.

Yes, it can put a Province into play. Just don't put Tools in the same kingdom.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #219: Livin' in the (Lost) City)

« on: May 15, 2024, 11:30:52 pm »

Seems like everyone is requiring images when they judge now. Why?
It's a pain to make the mock-up, then upload it somewhere, post the link here, and then redo the upload and link if I change the card. I don't want to have to make an imgur account just for the weekly design contest.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.

« on: May 09, 2024, 12:00:41 am »

DZ is like something you're trying to remember that everyone else wants you to forget.

Donald X. is like something you've forgotten that no-one wants you to remember.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/10525/donald-x-vaccarino

There should be a link from that page to this thread. Then we could play Scepter and go infinite.

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Rules Questions / Re: money lender and sewers not letting me trash estates after trashing copper

« on: May 04, 2024, 11:50:35 pm »

Is the Moneylender autoplay on by default so you might not notice it? I would double check that.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #217: Silver

« on: April 22, 2024, 09:58:10 pm »

Mad Scientist
$5 - Action
+1 Card.
+1 Action.
You may trash a card costing at least $2 for +2 Cards. If you don't, gain a Silver.

I may have entered this card in a design contest before. If I have, it's been a few years at least. This is an old one I have, but it's one I've played with several times and I like it.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Rising Sun pre-orders available, also more info!

« on: April 12, 2024, 08:32:53 pm »

If they fly out of your deck, obviously they must have wings.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #216: Blue Dogs

« on: April 11, 2024, 12:03:23 am »

Trailsniffer
$3 - Action - Reaction
+3 Cards.
Discard two cards.
-
When you gain, trash, or discard this other than in clean-up, you may play it.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #214: Cornucopia AND Guilds AND Menagerie

« on: March 31, 2024, 02:57:42 pm »

Updated my entry with a link to the mock up.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #214: Cornucopia AND Guilds AND Menagerie

« on: March 28, 2024, 07:04:47 pm »

This is a very intense convoy that's marching right into the river!

I think Moses is about to part the red sea.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #214: Cornucopia AND Guilds AND Menagerie

« on: March 26, 2024, 06:58:33 pm »

Harvester
$5 - Action
+$2.
+1 Buy.
Exile a card from your hand. If you Exiled an Action or Treasure costing at least $3, +1 Coffers.

EDIT: Just noticed you require a mock up. ugh.
Here's the mock up.
 I'm not going to go through the trouble of finding a place to upload it just for this.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #214: Cornucopia AND Guilds AND Menagerie

« on: March 25, 2024, 06:23:11 pm »

I'm quite happy with this in some ways, but also something feels wrong with it. And i don't know what it is.
Does anyone have any critisism or feedback?

To me, the thing that feels off is that the bottom half is the same as adding Delay (costing $2 instead of a buy) to the kingdom, and Delay is already in Menagerie.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Card Fusions

« on: March 22, 2024, 07:43:22 pm »

I would recommend adding +1 Action or +$1 (or maybe both) to this. +1 Buy +$1 is really weak for a $5 Action (even with the on-gain effect). Great way to move the -$2 token though!

EDIT: or make it cost $4 or $3

Pretty sure the card itself is supposed to be very weak because the on-gain is the main effect. Did you notice that it can gain any action in the supply as well as placing the $-2 token?

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #213: GREEN

« on: March 17, 2024, 07:32:06 pm »

<woods>

In games using this, at any time you may reveal a hand of all Woods to take Lost in the Woods.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #213: GREEN

« on: March 16, 2024, 01:12:51 am »

This pair have gone through a few different versions, but I think I have them pretty well balanced (and not overly complex) now.

Rubber Duchy
$4 - Victory
2VP.
-
When you trash this, discard it for +1 VP.

Cards that can't really be trashed are fun.

FAQ: This replaces the Duchy pile and is not a kingdom pile. In addition to using Rubber Duchy when Rubber Duke is in the kingdom, you may use a randomizer for this to replace the Duchy pile with this sometimes when Rubber Duke is not in the kingdom.

Rubber Duke
$4 - Victory - Reaction
2VP if you have at least 2 Rubber Duchies (Otherwise, worth 0VP).
-
When you discard a Rubber Duchy either from your hand or by trashing it, you may discard this for +2 Cards.
Setup: Replace the Duchies with Rubber Duchies.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #212: Three's Company

« on: March 04, 2024, 08:13:39 pm »

Silver Saddle
$3 - Project
After resolving an Action card, you may return a Silver from your hand to the supply for +2 Cards, or return a Gold from your hand to the supply for +2 Cards and +$1.

Turns your Silvers into Horses and your Golds into peddler-horses.
(Just realized Vase merchant also changes the effect of Silvers in a similar way, but I had this in my file before Vase Merchant was posted.)

The project is the original version, and that's (tentatively) my submission, but I just looked at it and thought that doesn't sound like a name for a project. What if I turned it into an Action?  (yes, just because of the name...)

Silver Saddle
$3 - Action
Choose one: +1 Action and gain a Silver, or trash this to gain a Gold.
This turn, after resolving an Action card, you may return a Silver from your hand to the supply for +2 Cards, or return a Gold from your hand to the supply for +2 Cards and +$1.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #211: Not Your Ordinary Village

« on: March 03, 2024, 10:18:59 pm »

Carnival • $5 • Action
+3 Cards
For the rest of this turn, directly after you play an Action card, you may play another action card costing less than it.

This alternative village would help play terminals so long as they don't cost too much.

This has some of the same rules considerations that I discussed in the Social Climber entry.  The way I see it, Carnival's effect happens by the time it is done playing.  There are even hints to an alternate Priest wording in the retrospective which would have worked just like this. But because the Action playing applies to this too, it is essentially a double Laboratory where you can only follow it up with a card costing $4 or less, which should be that difficult to achieve.  That's way too powerful, and we haven't even touched on the stacking effect by playing more than 1 copy.

I was thinking faust's Social climber might work better as an expensive village going the opposite way, like this:

Social Decadence
$6 - Action
+1 Card.
+$2.
Do this any number of times: Play an Action card from your hand that costs less than the last card you played.

Now the baseline is Bazaar+.

I mean I do think limiting it to this card's resolution rather than the whole turn is probably cleaner. With +1 Card instead of +3 Cards, it's not a DoubleLab -- Bazaar+ priced at shouldn't ruffle any feathers.
Just wanted to give BryGuy a little cred though Great minds think alike

I forgot BryGuy's carnival when I made that post. I think a card with that effect costing $5 is a little awkward since the cards you most want to play usually cost $5. That's why I made my version cost $6.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #211: Not Your Ordinary Village

« on: March 03, 2024, 03:55:30 pm »

Congrats to 4est

To implement your suggestions on Lawless Village, how's this?
It triggers itself, but I think it should work okay.

Lawless Village
$4 - Action - Attack - Reaction
+1 Card.
+1 Villager
Each other player with 5 or more cards in hand discards an Action or Treasure. If they discarded an Action, they gain a Treasure to their hand costing less than the discarded Action. If they discarded a Treasure costing at least $3, they get +1 Villager.
-
After any player plays an Attack, you may play this from your hand.

After each fan card contest, I try to usually (eventually) get around to looking at which ones I want to put in my file to maybe print out and use (often after giving them a tweak or two).
I was thinking faust's Social climber might work better as an expensive village going the opposite way, like this:

Social Decadence
$6 - Action
+1 Card.
+$2.
Do this any number of times: Play an Action card from your hand that costs less than the last card you played.

Now the baseline is Bazaar+.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: How often do you buy new Base Cards

« on: March 01, 2024, 07:14:08 pm »

Coppers and Estates?

All of them.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New 2e Cornucopia/Guilds cards are shown in the rule book

« on: February 21, 2024, 11:39:43 pm »

I admit I'm rather disappointed at the lack of a cheese-themed card to match the Guilds description.
Otherwise, generally good changes all-around.

The Farmhands milk the cow and make cheese. It's a cheese-themed card.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #211: Not Your Ordinary Village

« on: February 16, 2024, 07:10:02 pm »

<Maid>

I suggest making the gaining optional.  There will be times when you really want 3 or 4 Actions from this (or just 2 and there's no good $2 cost on the board). Getting +4 Actions from a $4 card is not overpowered, and imo it would just be annoying if you had to junk yourself in order to get more than +1 Action from the card.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #211: Not Your Ordinary Village

« on: February 14, 2024, 05:02:53 pm »

A first submission, but probably not my final entry. Thoughts?

Helper
$6 Action
+1 Action
Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal 2 Action cards other than Golems or Helpers. Set one of the Actions aside and discard the other cards. Play the set aside card.

I like it, but I think it'd be fine costing $5, and it may still be weak for costing $5.

Village with a small buff is a $4.

Finding the next two action cards in your deck and letting you choose between them is (potentially at least) a pretty big buff. (But still not worthy of costing $6.)

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #211: Not Your Ordinary Village

« on: February 14, 2024, 01:22:54 am »

Something kinda silly.
Instead of drawing you a card, it makes the other players discard one. that's just as good, right?   
...right? 
(I hope this qualifies even though Villagers instead of +actions is the only "unusual" way to get actions with it.)

Lawless Village
$4 - Action - Attack
+2 Villagers.
Each other player with 5 or more cards in hand discards an Action or Treasure. If they discarded an Action, they gain a Treasure to their hand costing less than the discarded Action. If they discarded a Treasure costing at least $3, they get +1 Villager.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card

« on: February 10, 2024, 06:58:32 pm »

Cool. I'd never heard of that. Little late for this thread though.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card

« on: February 10, 2024, 06:39:54 pm »

I looked through some of this thread recently for nostalgia's sake and was disappointed to discover most of the images and stuff from the first 100 or so* pages of posts are gone. I understand it takes up space somewhere, but it'd be nice for certain threads to be preserved for posterity(?). oh well.

(*I'm just guessing how far it goes. I only glanced through the first ~50 pages of posts.)