Wayfinder - Fury, $5
To play, delay an Action card from your hand by 2.
+2 Cards
+1 Buy
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Salvation Army - $3 - Action - DurationThe Salvation Army cares about the poor. Junk yourself to get +$2 and your card back, or rely on cost reduction or good $2's. Maybe you can even play multiple and gain a copper for lots of $$. The +Buy is there, but watch out for cursers.
+2 Cards
+1 Buy
Next time you gain a card costing $2 or less, +$2.
On this turn and your next, cards cost $1 lessKeep one mounted for an extra buy per turn. The top part makes good use of the extra buys and is spread out of two turn to help prevent duds. Dismounting one when it's the only source of buys is quite painful.
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Mount: At the start of your turn: +1 Buy. Dismount when you have any Buys remaining at the start of Clean-up.
Pantry, Action - Reserve, $4
Gain a card costing up to $4.
Put this on your tavern mat.
At the start of your turn, you may call this to draw until you have 6 cards in hand, and then you may trash a card from your hand.
Maybe we should have another rule: when the judge cannot post the result within 7 days after submission closing, [...]It would indeed be good to have such ruling in place for future contests, and have that incorporated into the 'what do I do when I win' topic. Ideally there would be a secondary way to (temporarily) judge the contest (e.g. by a mod or community votes).
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Quote Thriving Market - $6 - Action | Quote Silent Market - $4* - Action |
--edited for brevity--The goal of this pile is usually to get a Stone of Preparation onto your Tavern mat, and then return it with a Stone of Repetition. Strong pile control is required to set this up and might be outpaced by other strategies if your opponent messes with the pile. A few Stones of Improvement can quickly snatch enough Provinces to win the game, especially when combined with a Stone of Repetition.
At the start of your turn, you may call this to trash a card from your hand, gain a Silver and rotate the stonesStone of Transformation
Early game remodeler with mandatory pile rotating. Can even turn cards into gold when combined with Stone of Improvement.
When you gain a card, you may call this to exchange it for a card costing up to $3 more sharing a type with it.Stone of Improvement
Got a card you don't like or (up to) $3 short of the card you needed? The Stone of Improvement's got your back! Defends against Charlatan or puts a Province for sale at $5 (as long as Duchies last).
At the start of your turn, you may call this to discard your hand for +6 Cards, +$2 and +1 Buy.Stone of Preparation
Gains Reserve cards directly onto you Tavern mat. Good with any reserve card (except Wine Merchant) and turns into a Silver+ when all reserve cards are gone. If you somehow manage to get it on your Tavern mat, you can have a great shot at a double-province turn.
When you call a card (not Stone of Repetition), you may call this to put it on your Tavern map.Stone of Repetition
A throne room for reserve cards (except Wine Merchant). Allows you to have a silver in your deck instead of an otherwise dead card, and the only way to return a Stone of Preparation to your Tavern mat.
The one problem with SoP is that I have is that it makes splits useless, if you win the split then your opponent basically doesn't want the fourth except to set you back. Otherwise seems pretty good.
Quote Put this on your Tavern mat | Stone of Transformation Early game remodeler with mandatory pile rotating. Can even turn cards into gold when combined with Stone of Improvement. |
Quote Put this on your Tavern mat | Stone of Improvement Got a card you don't like or (up to) $2 short of the card you needed? The Stone of Improvement's got your back! A savable Silver that defends against junkers, let's you gain $5's with SoT or puts a Province for sale at $6. |
Quote Choose one: +$2 and +1 Buy; or gain a Reserve card onto your Tavern mat. | Stone of Preparation Gains Reserve cards directly onto you Tavern mat. Good with any reserve card (except Wine Merchant) and turns into a Silver+ when all reserve cards are gone. If you somehow manage to get it on your Tavern mat, you can have a great shot at a double-province turn. |
Quote $2 | Stone of Repetition A throne room for reserve cards (except Wine Merchant). Allows you to have a silver in your deck instead of an otherwise dead card, and the only way to return a Stone of Preparation to your Tavern mat. |
Old CitySimple Lost City variant that junks the buyer rather than helping all other players. Assuming you draw your new junk with this card (which likely isn't the case), you have a choice between a village or a festival without the buy.
+2 Cards
+2 Actions
When you gain this, gain an Estate or 2 Copper.
I had the dragon and st George switched around initially and hoped extra coin for trashing Tales would make dragon worth $6. Turns out it is probably not. Perhaps the better option is to give a VP for trashing a Tale (in addition to virtual coin) or +2 Cards on top (with mandatory topdeck). Too late for the competition but I'll keep my digital copy updated.Tales is an Action split pile with four cards. Like all split piles in Allies, the pile starts with four copies of each card sorted by cost.I like the first three cards here, but dragon seems really weak for $6 bottom card of a split pile. You gave an example of a play that works out well with it, but when you can't do that (or might be able to do it only once), then it probably isn't worth the $6. One easy (but perhaps not very thematic) fix would be to put a few victory points on it to make it fit better (mechanically) with the first two cards. By the time you've gotten to the bottom of a split pile, you've probably done most of your trashing already if there's any other decent trashing on the board.
There is an old tale of Saint George and the Dragon, where the dragon demanded the city to send two sheep every day so he could eat. When the city ran out of sheep, the dragon demanded human tribute. When the princess was eventually chosen to be offered, Saint George stood up and defeated the dragon.
Sheep: $3 Treasure - Victory - Tale: Worth $1 per Victory card you have in play (including this). You may rotate the Tales. Worth 1 VP
Princess: $4 Action - Victory - Tale: A magpie that doesn't gain itself but is worth 1 VP instead.
Saint George: $5 Action - Tale: +3 Cards. You may play a Tale from your hand. When you trash this, play it.
Dragon: $6 Action - Tale: You may topdeck a card, then discard discard any number for +$1 per card and trash the rest. Trashing a Tale grants an extra +$3.
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What if door is the only card that discards cards in the kingdom? If it is I don't really want to discard doors most of the time to get the doorbell so the doorbell is useless unless you have a bunch of doors.Playing two doors means you'll have to discard two of your other three cards, so I think you'd usually just discard a door there. If you only have one door in hand, you have no choice anyways. Buying another door to discard is only 1 buy and 4$ to be able to take the doorbell many times in future turns, which I consider much cheaper than anything that lets you pay to take it once. In the end, there are two ways (I think) to play doors (assuming no other discarder): Either take one or two (more in slogs) and be ready to discard a copper or victory card, or take as many as possible to have it function as sifting village (with doorbell).
(I had a quick check and couldn't see an Artifact contest before - if it has already been done let me know.)It appears that WDC 47 already did an artifact contest, though it specifically asked for an event+artifact.
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Quote Door - Action - Reaction - Cost: 4$ | Quote Doorbell - Artifact |
