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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #216: Blue Dogs
« on: Today at 03:18:11 am »Sir Pounce by faustI find this analysis a bit reductive. Yes, there are kingdoms where the Reaction cannot be triggered. This is pretty normal for Reaction cards. A cursory computation I did shows that in fact around 60% of kingdoms with Sir Pounce will also have other spendable tokens, so your assumption at the beginning there is false. Yes, for a couple of Allies, you need extra support. But I think even if you can never react, the top effect of Sir Pounce is okay at $4 (roughly on par with Underling, so a bit weak, but not unplayable), and that never even enters into your analysis.
Assuming that Favors are your only tokens to use with this in most games, there are a lot of Allies with which this would not do anything. Any start of turn ones, since you won't have more differently named cards than Sir Pounces, barring Durations (Cave, Crafters, Desert, Forest, Pickpockets, Mountain), some that trigger at strange times (Astrologers, Masons, Coastal Haven, Island Folk, Plateau Shepherds) and some that are only useful if you have some way to gain cards other than buying them (Trappers, Nomads, City-State, Architects). So a lot of the time the reaction will be irrelevant.