Hi Last Footnote,
Let me first start by saying that I have never played with fan cards before. I have been very hesitant. So, I printed some of your cards and went full random. I used four of your cards, and really enjoyed a couple of them. Overall, this set seems well-designed and Donald X. really needs to play with your cards sometime.
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Now, please pester Donald and tell him to print this expansion.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad your experience with the cards was good overall.
As for Enterprise becoming an official expansion, don't hold your breath!
It's easy, from a Dominion player's perspective, to think, "If there are a bunch of good cards, why not publish them?" But from Donald's perspective, it's a similar amount of work to making an expansion himself, but without a lot of the fun of making up the cards! And he (very rightly I think) chooses projects based on whether he wants to do them, not based on financial incentives.
Another thing is, I think Enterprise in its current form would look pretty lame when compared to Adventures and Empires. At minimum I think I'd want some Events and maybe another fresh mechanic (I should start testing
Edicts). On the other hand, there is definitely some number of people (on BGG at least) who want a simpler Dominion expansion, without as many tokens, etc. Though Enterprise does have tokens. Anyway.
It would be neat if Donald were to someday take over development of Enterprise and mold it into an Adventures-level set. But I wouldn't count on it!
Let's talk about these cards.
Fund did not get bought, but HoP is hard to contend with. So, I would not count that as a strike against it.
Fund doesn't get bought all that often, I've found. In fact the version in the OP is untested; the old version only gave you the +1 Buy when you trashed it. I'm not sure which version you used. I think Fund's power level is reasonable, but a dud is a dud, and I may someday abandon it if this new version is equally dud-like.
The place on top of Harbor never got used. Unfortunately, for this card, I would say the effect is weak most of the time. Or, maybe it was just this board. However, I felt for $5 cost terminal draw, this card is on the weaker end.
Harbor seems pretty strong in a deck that doesn't draw itself. But it's also very AP-heavy in those situations. And at the same time it lacks that special something. Probably I find something better. Really the set has plenty of card-drawing without it, including Wanderer, Convoy, Conclave, and Wheelwright (although maybe not all of them survive). But I need some more $5 cards, so for now it's still there.
General is decent. The top-decking rarely factored in, but it's always nice to have a Throne variant, and it feels fresh.
Thanks! I'm a bit surprised the top-decking wasn't more useful to you. Did you often Throne something you didn't want in your next hand?
Now Terrace, holy crap, this card is STRONG! It might be a little to OP. Drawing 5-cards for $4 is very, very good even if it is one-shot. I understand Ranger does the same, but that card is terminal, and doesn't draw 5 cards the first time it is played. I think you should consider having it draw maybe four cards, potentially even three, although, it's probably not as fun then. Although, I really enjoyed playing with Terrace, but I think that had more to do with how strong the card is. Although, considering that I only played one game with the card, perhaps, I am wrong about it's power level. It is fun though.
Forgive me, but I'm not sure whether you read the card correctly. When you activate Terrace's token ability, you discard your hand,
then draw 5 cards. Which can still be pretty strong, don't get me wrong!
I have been considering swapping Vendor and Terrace's token abilities. That way you get a Village that can one time pull a card from your discard pile, and a Peddler that can one time mulligan your hand. Though I think the last time I suggested that idea it wasn't popular. And Terrace is fine as-is, so maybe I shouldn't mess with it.
Overall, I feel like Terrace and General feel like real Dominion cards. I need to play more games though with these cards and your other cards, but I am quite impressed.
Thanks again! I really appreciate the feedback!