My entry:
ZOMBIE WORKSHOP - – NIGHT
Choose one: trash a card from your hand or discard pile; or gain a card costing up to per each differently named card in the trash. If it's a Victory Card, trash this.
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Instead of paying this card's cost, you may trash a card from your hand costing or more.
Exclusive mechanic from Menagerie: Alternate cost
Exclusive mechanic from other set: Night Card (Nocturne)
Other elements are to care about variety like Cornucopia cards and to care about trash like Dark Ages cards.
Also from Dark Ages, the mechanic exclusive to Hermit of trashing from hand or discard pile.
ZOMBIE WORKSHOP It’s a trasher and a gainer. At the same time that you use it as a trasher, you are also building to it be a better gainer, adding different cards to trash.
Trashing from discard pile besides from hand helps to find those differently named cards to trash. Also enables to trash cards gained in the same turn.
The alternate cost of trashing a card also helps to achieve variety in the trash. However, the card trashed has to cost
or more. You can't pay for it by trashing Coppers or Estates, otherwise it would be too powerrful. So, you can't pay the alternate cost in the first two turns, except in edge cases like with Cursed Gold or Lucky Coin.
Like Horn of Plenty, to not be overpowered, it trashes itself if you gain a Victory Card with it. You may use this feature as a tactic, gaining an Estate or other VP card to trash Zombie Workshop, which would be one more different card in the trash.
It’s a good card for engines and money strategies but also it's a good counter in slog games with cursers or junkers, since you can use the junk cards as fuel to diversify the trash and gain better cards.
It has strong synergies with Necromancer and Ruins (and fit them thematically). Also with Shelters, Lurker, Salt the Earth, other trashers and good cheap cards. Cost reducers are good for the gaining part but not for the alternate cost.
I think its regular price is OK at
. This way you can gain one of them in the first two turns, but not two (edge cases apart).
As always, feedbacks are very welcome.