My entry:
Wishing Fountain - - Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
Name a card type, then reveal the top card of your deck.
If it has the named type, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may either trash it, discard it or leave it on top.
A much generous Wishing Well mixed with Sentry.
It’s much easier to activate than Wishing Well, you only have to name correctly the type of the top card of your deck. So, many times it will be a Lab.
However, if you fail to name the right type, Wishing Fountain still has a gift for you (so, sometimes you may want to fail). In this case, it works as a half Sentry, giving you the choice to trash the top card, discard it or leave it in the top.
It’s very good when you are building an engine and want to draw your Actions and trash Coppers and Estates. After, if you manage to have an Action based engine, it’s virtually a guaranteed Lab until you start greening.
It also works in money based strategies. Name Treasure type and it would be a Lab most of the time, like Magpie does in such decks.
If you have deck inspection or good deck control, it becomes a “do what you want” with the second card of your deck, after you draw the first. You can put it in hand, trash it, discard it or leave it there. Filtering by type gives you good control and versatility if you have different goals for different types of cards.
Lab is better than it only when the top card doesn’t have the named type but even so it is a card you would want to have in hand. When it is a card of a type you would better trash than put in hand, Wishing Fountain is better than Lab. It is more versatile and could help to build your deck even faster than Lab, so I think it’s good at
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Feedbacks are always welcome!
EDIT: DUE TO FEEDBACKS, I'M CHANGING MY ENTRY TO: Wishing Fountain - - Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
Name a card type, then reveal the top card of your deck.
If it has the named type, put it into your hand or trash it. Otherwise, you may discard it..