Small Seed
$4 Action - Traveller
+1 Card
+2 Actions
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When you discard this from play, you may trash this and a Treasure card from your Hand for a Plain Plant.
Plain Plant
$5* Action - Traveller
+1 Action
You may do this up to twice: discard a card to draw a card and +$1.
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When you discard this from play, you may exchange this and a Victory card from your Hand for a Bold Blossom. (Not in the Supply)
Bold Blossom
$6* Treasure - Duration
+1 Buy
You may set up to four cards under this revealing them for +$1 per differently named card.
At the start of your next turn put the cards into your Hand and +1 Action. (Not in the Supply)
Small SeedMy first thought was to do a traveller series which itself is sort of like a life cycle. I tried and failed with an animal and instead went with a plant. After playing a few rounds of Dominion today with scant trashing, i tried to think about what i would have wanted aside from trashing in such a game.
$4 Action - Traveller
+1 Card
+2 Actions
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When you discard this from play, you may trash this and a Treasure card from your Hand to gain a Plain Plant.
Plain Plant
$5* Action - Traveller
+1 Action
You may do this up to twice: discard a card to draw a card and +$1.
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When you discard this from play, you may exchange this and a Victory card from your Hand to gain a Bold Blossom. (Not in the Supply)
Bold Blossom
$6* Treasure - Duration
You may set up to three cards under this.
At the start of your next turn, +1 Buy, reveal the cards for +$1 per differently named card, and put the cards into your Hand. (Not in the Supply)
(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/827692005160648744/1097139087716122635/Renovate3.png?width=1076&height=702)
Spring cleaning time! Out with the old, in with the new. Improve may not be the best card, but when you've got free reign to not deal with a terminal Silver in your deck, maybe you can get more use out of it.
Pollenated
Trait
When you gain a Pollenated card, gain another one (that doesn't come with another)
(https://i.imgur.com/f7QFc9bh.png) | Quote Maypole • $4 • Action - Treasure |
My Submission:I think this would probably be fine at $3. Vanilla-wise it is cantrip, Village or Market Square but unlike Sage it does not sift.
(https://i.imgur.com/f7QFc9bh.png) QuoteMaypole • $4 • Action - Treasure
Reveal the top 4 cards of your deck. Choose one:
play a revealed Action card; or +1 Buy and
put a revealed Treasure card into your hand. Put
the rest back on top in any order.
Alright so I keep looking at what I submitted before and it doesn't really do what I wanted it to. So here's my revised submission, for better or worse:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52826674915_51bc35cbd4_w.jpg)(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52826710058_abcd7f8b69_n.jpg)
Rainmaker still builds up the clouds by pseudo-trashing. I did like the limit on the old one, but I don't like the sound of "Discard up to 3 Rain from Exile" which would be the equivalent here. Anyways it gains a Rain in addition to the Exiled one, if you Exile like a Silver or a Duchy, which opens the floodgates and you can have a nice storm to bless your crops.
Notes: Rain costs $2 so that you can't just Exile it with Rainmaker to get extra Rain.
Rainmaker says "Exile a Rain" because I can't say "from the Supply" if it's not in the Supply, and "from the non-Supply" sounds stupid to me.
Rain ended up pretty similar to Figurehead but that wasn't the goal. At first it was a Treasure that gave +2 Cards, but that was basically a slightly worse Horse. This had more of the feel I was going for: it stacks up for simultaneous effect, rather than playing and returning in a chain like Horses/Spoils.
Rainmaker says "Exile a Rain" because I can't say "from the Supply" if it's not in the Supply, and "from the non-Supply" sounds stupid to me.Maybe we can use 'its pile' like those one-shot non-supply cards.
The Rain is not Exiled from hand.Alright so I keep looking at what I submitted before and it doesn't really do what I wanted it to. So here's my revised submission, for better or worse:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52826674915_51bc35cbd4_w.jpg)(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52826710058_abcd7f8b69_n.jpg)
Rainmaker still builds up the clouds by pseudo-trashing. I did like the limit on the old one, but I don't like the sound of "Discard up to 3 Rain from Exile" which would be the equivalent here. Anyways it gains a Rain in addition to the Exiled one, if you Exile like a Silver or a Duchy, which opens the floodgates and you can have a nice storm to bless your crops.
Notes: Rain costs $2 so that you can't just Exile it with Rainmaker to get extra Rain.
Rainmaker says "Exile a Rain" because I can't say "from the Supply" if it's not in the Supply, and "from the non-Supply" sounds stupid to me.
Rain ended up pretty similar to Figurehead but that wasn't the goal. At first it was a Treasure that gave +2 Cards, but that was basically a slightly worse Horse. This had more of the feel I was going for: it stacks up for simultaneous effect, rather than playing and returning in a chain like Horses/Spoils.
It has an accountability problem. How can I prove that I don't have a Rain in hand?
It does not care whether I actually Exiled a Rain. Is it intended?
The Rain is not Exiled from hand.Alright so I keep looking at what I submitted before and it doesn't really do what I wanted it to. So here's my revised submission, for better or worse:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52826674915_51bc35cbd4_w.jpg)(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52826710058_abcd7f8b69_n.jpg)
Rainmaker still builds up the clouds by pseudo-trashing. I did like the limit on the old one, but I don't like the sound of "Discard up to 3 Rain from Exile" which would be the equivalent here. Anyways it gains a Rain in addition to the Exiled one, if you Exile like a Silver or a Duchy, which opens the floodgates and you can have a nice storm to bless your crops.
Notes: Rain costs $2 so that you can't just Exile it with Rainmaker to get extra Rain.
Rainmaker says "Exile a Rain" because I can't say "from the Supply" if it's not in the Supply, and "from the non-Supply" sounds stupid to me.
Rain ended up pretty similar to Figurehead but that wasn't the goal. At first it was a Treasure that gave +2 Cards, but that was basically a slightly worse Horse. This had more of the feel I was going for: it stacks up for simultaneous effect, rather than playing and returning in a chain like Horses/Spoils.
It has an accountability problem. How can I prove that I don't have a Rain in hand?
It does not care whether I actually Exiled a Rain. Is it intended?
PlanterI played with this a few times. Still not sure just how strong it is. I figured it being slow made it need the bottom part, but maybe I'm wrong because the next turn effect is strong.
$5 - Action - Duration
Trash a treasure from your hand. Gain a Treasure costing up to $3 more than it, putting it on your deck. At the start of your next turn, discard up to two cards, then draw up to 6 cards in hand.
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When you gain this, play it.
Strong at 5$, I think. Definitely not 4$.Mine and variants like Taxman or Planter are slow and weak. Mine could be non-terminal or cost $4 and it would probably still suck.
题都城南庄 Written in a Village South of the CapitalI design a Victory card with Heirloom, trying to tell a story about the poet's memories and peach blossoms:
(崔护 Written by Cui Hu, translated by Xu Yuanchong)
去年今日此门中,
In this house on this day last year a pink face vied;
人面桃花相映红。
In beauty with the pink peach blossom side by side.
人面不知何处去,
I do not know today where the pink face has gone;
桃花依旧笑春风。
In vernal breeze still smile pink peach blossoms full blown.
Poem Notes(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/3/3d/Coin2.png/16px-Coin2.png)
Treasure - Heirloom
+(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/f/f7/Coin1.png/16px-Coin1.png)
You may discard a Victory card for +1 Villager.
Vernal blossoms (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/2/2a/Coin4.png/16px-Coin4.png)
Victory
2(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/9/92/VP.png/16px-VP.png)
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When you gain this, you may remove 2 Villagers from your mat to +2(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/9/92/VP.png/16px-VP.png)
Heirloom: Poem Notes
OK, I will try something Chinese.
Spring is a special season in Chinese classical poetry. (Of course, the other three seasons are special too.) I selected a very famous and storytelling Tang poem about spring:Quote题都城南庄 Written in a Village South of the CapitalI design a Victory card with Heirloom, trying to tell a story about the poet's memories and peach blossoms:
(崔护 Written by Cui Hu, translated by Xu Yuanchong)
去年今日此门中,
In this house on this day last year a pink face vied;
人面桃花相映红。
In beauty with the pink peach blossom side by side.
人面不知何处去,
I do not know today where the pink face has gone;
桃花依旧笑春风。
In vernal breeze still smile pink peach blossoms full blown.
(https://i.imgur.com/ztsqdlH.png)(https://i.imgur.com/02kg7aA.png)QuotePoem Notes(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/3/3d/Coin2.png/16px-Coin2.png)
Treasure - Heirloom
+(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/f/f7/Coin1.png/16px-Coin1.png)
You may discard a Victory card for +1 Villager.QuoteVernal blossoms (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/2/2a/Coin4.png/16px-Coin4.png)
Victory
2(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/9/92/VP.png/16px-VP.png)
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When you gain this, you may remove 2 Villagers from your mat to +2(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/9/92/VP.png/16px-VP.png)
Heirloom: Poem Notes
I would second this. The only official cards that lets you pay with tokens is Butcher (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Butcher), the current version of which refers to "Coffers you spend" (although the two prior version each had completely different language).(https://i.imgur.com/ztsqdlH.png)(https://i.imgur.com/02kg7aA.png)
How about "spend 2 Villagers for +2vp"? Shorter.
OK, I will try something Chinese.
Spring is a special season in Chinese classical poetry. (Of course, the other three seasons are special too.) I selected a very famous and storytelling Tang poem about spring:Quote题都城南庄 Written in a Village South of the CapitalI design a Victory card with Heirloom, trying to tell a story about the poet's memories and peach blossoms:
(崔护 Written by Cui Hu, translated by Xu Yuanchong)
去年今日此门中,
In this house on this day last year a pink face vied;
人面桃花相映红。
In beauty with the pink peach blossom side by side.
人面不知何处去,
I do not know today where the pink face has gone;
桃花依旧笑春风。
In vernal breeze still smile pink peach blossoms full blown.
(https://i.imgur.com/ztsqdlH.png)(https://i.imgur.com/02kg7aA.png)QuotePoem Notes(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/3/3d/Coin2.png/16px-Coin2.png)
Treasure - Heirloom
+(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/f/f7/Coin1.png/16px-Coin1.png)
You may discard a Victory card for +1 Villager.QuoteVernal blossoms (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/2/2a/Coin4.png/16px-Coin4.png)
Victory
2(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/9/92/VP.png/16px-VP.png)
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When you gain this, you may remove 2 Villagers from your mat to +2(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/9/92/VP.png/16px-VP.png)
Heirloom: Poem Notes
Sprig
$4
Project
The first time you play a Gold on each of your turns, Set it aside. If you did, then at the start of your next turn, discard it for +1 Card.
Seed, $3 Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
You may trash this for +1(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/9/92/VP.png/16px-VP.png).
All Victory cards have "Overpay: Gain a Seed per $1 overpaid."
I like the idea, but I suggest excluding Estates or limiting the amount of overpay. I'd be buying Estates at $8+ at least the first couple times I would've bought a Province. Then trash the Estate and it's like a Province that doesn't take up any space.QuoteSeed, $3 Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
You may trash this for +1(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/9/92/VP.png/16px-VP.png).
All Victory cards have "Overpay: Gain a Seed per $1 overpaid."
Battlefield variant I guess.
Vernal Blossoms and Poem Notes by Ethan (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=21712.msg902656#msg902656)
Big fan of the flavor here, and I love that keeping your Poet Notes around can help you better enjoy Vernal Blossom's full majesty. As a VP card, Vernal Blossoms works nicely, and the minigame of getting the bonus VP is a compelling one, especially when Villagers are more scarce--when is it worth exchanging them for VP vs. holding onto them for +Actions? And Poem Notes is an excellent Heirloom--it's still just a Copper and there's still the question of keeping it or not (especially if you're planning to trash your Estates), but it also can change up the opening a bit by making you more likely to open double terminal. If there's any concern, it's that Villagers can become extra plentiful on some boards (such as with Recruiter), such that Vernal Blossoms bonus becomes automatic. Aside from that though, I think it's a fantastic entry.