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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Dominion: Fantasy, a junk-themed fan expansion by mail-mi
« on: February 14, 2013, 10:32:19 am »Thanks for the feedback!Yeah, but Dragons Hoard costs more, is very bad in engines and not better than Horse Trader in junk decks. It's better ONLY if your entire hand (but, possibly, one card) is treasure cards, no attacks are played, trashing your starting estates/shelters is possible (best if you can get rid of the trasher itself) AND no engine is available that does better than big money. As many boards help engines, contain attacks or lack good and fast trashers, this will usually be far worse than Horse Trader. Not to mention the fact it allows every other player to gain a silver...
Pegasus: So...
+1 action
+$1
Discard a card from your hand. If it is a...
Treasure card: +1 card, +1 action
Action card: +$1 and put this card back into your hand
Curse card: Trash it and gain a silver, putting it into your hand.
Cursed Idol: Add a cap maybe? Gain up to 3 curses, for each curse you gain +$1?
Time Machine: Up to $5 would be better, then. "Gain a card costing up to $5 that is not named Time Machine that your opponent played on their last turn and put it into your hand"
Griffin: It has other bonuses to boost it up. +$1 and +1 buy after victory card buy, then topdeck after 2.
Dragon's Hoard: One big difference: Horse Traders makes you discard.
Dragon: It has it's own after-the-fact reaction. I added that to boost it up to $5
Minotaur: Should it stack? Because it only attacks if attacking, and if you can't attack, it should give some bonus.
Griffin is something you'll like to put back on your deck if it does good, so yeah, probably you'll like to have this if you are in need of green and allready have some. It's different than the card we discussed, after all.
That's better, Pegasus and Cursed Idol are much less crazy this way.
Your opponents with watchtower will love you for your Dragons. "I'll just top-deck that platinum, thanks a lot." "A Curse? No, i think you should be the only one to gain one, have fun with it."... Compare Dragon to Jack of all Trades, which is also an after-the-fact reaction. It gains only one card and trashes only one, but draws cards and allows a bit of filtering. Plus it gives no advantage to other players if you want to gain a good card. Dragon might be nice with Moat, where players need to decide if they want to defend BEFORE your decision of what to gain, but it is horrible against Watchtower or Trader. Dragon is a 4$ to me, but well, it's your card after all...
About Minotaur: If it does not stack, many times you'll just get +1 Card, +1$, which is not very good for a Card costing 5. If it does, +4 Cards +4$ is crazy. Why don't you make the vanilla bonus standard and only the cursing a matter of chance?