The prophet pile is a mixed pile of 20 cards, 10 copies of each of these versions:
Please let me know if this violates mono-gaining rulesI've had this idea for a while of a card that alternated between even and odd trashing. Originally, I had the cards with different names. Then this contest inspired me to try out the idea ... what if two functionally different cards had the same name? The art is flipped to help tell the difference and the * * are supposed to be bold but I wasn't able to use the card template I used to easily bold the difference.
It scales up in power in multiplier games, of course, but it also runs out a lot more quickly in multiplayer games. There's an interesting meta game -- you want to be able to hold onto a Prophet at the end potentially for the big $ it can generate. Maybe that means you hold on to your "even" Prophet so that you don't have to trash to get the $. There's some fun strategic considerations in terms of if you want to play your prophets, or when you should buy a second prophet, etc.
Despite this being almost entirely unprecedented, I do not think this card causes major problems. Band of misfits and similar cards use the card in the supply to play, so if the odd was on top, then it acts as an odd one. They have the same name, but are not copies of each other, so Ambassador might return one and fail to give out more than one, depending on the order of the piles. I don't think any of this is that confusing.
Flavor wise, your prophet sacrifices himself and reincarnates again! However, the disciples that got convinced to convert just stay in the trash -- they don't come back. They gave their life to the cause in terms of $. The more people you've converted the more $ you get. And it's one religion, so anybody your opponents convert also give you $.
I am definitely open to feedback on this card!