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Dominion => Variants and Fan Cards => Topic started by: Xen3k on June 13, 2022, 02:59:51 pm

Title: Pricing a custom card for fun (and helping me out).
Post by: Xen3k on June 13, 2022, 02:59:51 pm

So, I have been discussing a design that one of my friends are wanting to add to our custom Dominion cube, and there are some disagreements over pricing it, so I figured getting some alternate opinions would help. You can also just have fun and try to gauge these cards cost.

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So, this is obviously a a mix of Vineyard and Great Hall/Nobles. The goal is not to have it play the same as Vineyard or Great Hall, but be an appealing alt victory card that is not obviously better than Province. If you think some of the designs cannot be priced, that is completely acceptable. Thanks ahead of time to anyone who cares to help out.

Title: Re: Pricing a custom card for fun (and helping me out).
Post by: Joxeft on June 13, 2022, 03:03:26 pm

Id go with 3 and price it at $4.

Title: Re: Pricing a custom card for fun (and helping me out).
Post by: emtzalex on June 13, 2022, 05:59:23 pm

I would point out that of all the Alt-VP (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Alt-VP) that exists in the official game, it is almost entirely divided into Scaling Victory cards (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Alt-VP#Scaling_Victory_cards) and Functional Victory cards (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Alt-VP#Functional_Victory_cards). The only cards that fall into both of those categories are Humble Castle (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Humble_Castle) and Pasture (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Pasture), which both have as their "function" being a Copper, and which there are a very limited number of. Combing the two functions is very strong.

Title: Re: Pricing a custom card for fun (and helping me out).
Post by: Xen3k on June 13, 2022, 06:36:40 pm

Quote from: emtzalex on June 13, 2022, 05:59:23 pm

I would point out that of all the Alt-VP (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Alt-VP) that exists in the official game, it is almost entirely divided into Scaling Victory cards (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Alt-VP#Scaling_Victory_cards) and Functional Victory cards (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Alt-VP#Functional_Victory_cards). The only cards that fall into both of those categories are Humble Castle (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Humble_Castle) and Pasture (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Pasture), which both have as their "function" being a Copper, and which there are a very limited number of. Combing the two functions is very strong.

I agree, and being a cantrip VP card is VERY strong.

Title: Re: Pricing a custom card for fun (and helping me out).
Post by: Gubump on June 13, 2022, 06:54:31 pm

Quote from: Joxeft on June 13, 2022, 03:03:26 pm

Id go with 3 and price it at $4.

v1 and v3 definitely can't cost _{(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/2/2a/Coin4.png/16px-Coin4.png)}. Both are strictly better than Vineyard, and Vineyard is harder to get than a _{(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/2/2a/Coin4.png/16px-Coin4.png)}; to buy a Vineyard, you need to first gain a _{(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/2/2a/Coin4.png/16px-Coin4.png)} card (Potion), and then buy Vineyard using that card. Costing _{(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/2/2a/Coin4.png/16px-Coin4.png)} cuts out that first step.

I'd go with version 4 and price it at _{(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/7/7d/Coin5.png/16px-Coin5.png)}.