Contest 83: Bigger is Better SubmissionOkay, got a wild one. Two big cards
Refine - Action - $4
Trash a card from your hand. Choose one: Gain a card that shares one of its types costing up to $3 more; or gain a card costing less than or equal to the trashed card.
Heirloom: Graveyard Key
Graveyard Key - Treasure - Heirloom - Duration - $0
You may pay $1. If you do, at the start of your next turn, you may put every non-Victory card in the trash into your hand and you may trash this.
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Setup: Each player gets +1 Coffers.
Okay, there's a lot of concepts together here but it's the best way to balance it. The big Graveyard key allows you to gain tons of cards at once. In a two-player game with good trashing, that means you're gaining 14 coppers... wow! So big!. Graveyard Key is a confusion in your deck, that you can pay $1 to get rid of, and/or open the graveyard (gain all non-victory cards from trash). The higher cost of Graveyard Key is keeping it in your deck as a confusion and not-self trashing it until there's enough cards in the trash to be worth it. I needed to make some higher cost for the "gain all cards in the trash" so that's why the Graveyard Key is a self-junker that can also self-trash. I am unsure of the price for it.
But, graveyard key would only be useful if there are good cards in the trash. That's why it comes paired with a card that gives you a reason to put things in the trash. Refine is "big" for the "up to $3 more." Despite the $3 clause, it's actually fairly weak, you can't turn estates into action cards. You can, over two shuffles, turn an estate into a duchy and then turn that duchy into a 5-cost. In the end game, you can't turn golds into province, dang. I would probably buy Remodel over this card most times. It's weak, but I think still interesting and priced appropriately.
I am totally open to feedback on these cards, of course! I'm considering pricing Graveyard Key at $1 so that it can be refined into a Caravan, for example. Or even costing it 2 to be refined into a Den of Sin, Wharf, etc. Graveyard Key does have that helpful Duration type on it. Is Refine, too weak? I'm considering having the same-or-less-cost gain go to hand. (the $3 more can't go to hand because then it's strictly better than mine).