Prospector really needs to give +1 action, in my opinion.
First time you play this, you trash a copper for $0 essentially. Second time, you do it for $1, then for $2, then for $3 and so on. Eventually you'd need to start putting silvers on the mat but whatever, you can still even just play it for the +buy.
The main issue I can see is that it's far too strong a strategy to itself. The most powerful thing it combos with is more War Chests (probably), and with 2-3 of them going through your deck, you'd easily get a card giving obscene amounts too quickly. But it's REALLY hard to judge - in a quick game, it's probably bad, as it won't get up to value quick enough. But in a slow game, it'd be incredibly strong. I think that swing is probably too much, and I think it leans towards the latter too often.
QuoteVassal -5$ - action
+1 Action
you may set 1 card from your hand aside.
Discard your handcards. If you discarded at least one card: +3 Cards
put the set aside card back into your hand.
I like the minion effect and this is pretty similar and mostly a bit stronger. therefor it doesnt attack and you cannot choose +2$ so it is not self supporting with virtual money. On the otherhand you can set a gold or any strong action into the next hand. so it even works with powerful tressure cards (platin/Gold)
Do you think this is balanced?
The Noble ___ seems simple enough, but already has some strange things:The Settled X card in the original post increases the price by $3 for the 2VP and requires a card costing $2-3. That doesn't have the "strictly better than Duchy" problem with cheap Victory kingdom cards and also doesn't let the Peddler player get additional 16VP for free.
Noble Great Hall and Noble Tunnel are strictly better than Duchy (assuming they would be worth 3 and 4 VP respectively) by a far margin. Noble Island seems like it would be pretty great. Noble Harem seems interesting, although not much more interesting than Harem itself.
Fun thing: Noble Curse would be basically identical to an Estate.
Cards that interact with Victory cards in a positive way would be much better (spamming Noble Scout seem like it may work to keep the engine going through heavy greening). Noble Crossroads in particular would be amazing. Noble Hoard would be pretty interesting, but not clearly dominant competing with Provinces at $8.
Really cheap cards seem like they would be way better if the increase does not break the 4/5 barrier. Noble Chapel seems a lot better than Chapel with 3/4, although it probably means both players would get +2VP and the game would be the same as with Chapel.
Now I think the coolest part about this general idea is that a really simple idea like "substract two cards and make a modificator" already brings up a lot of strange interactions.
I think dealing out a modifier for everything sounds like crazy overkill, but then I am the guy who has been forcing all my games to exactly 3 Dark Ages cards. I like my strange in small doses, so I can savor it.
I'd much prefer shuffling the modifiers in with all the other randomizers, so they come out in proportion. Then dig for the first valid kingdom card for each modifier in play, just like digging for a bane.
Even in regular dominion, you prefer hamlet to village in draw-up-to kinds of games. Small _ cards are weaker in the presence of sifters and discard attacks. Small_ cards don't work as well in multiples in most games.I didn't see enough cost-reducers.
Small [Remote?] [Aged?]__
Cost -$1
If this is a Treasure or Action, when you play this, you may discard a card, If you do, "card effect."
The problem is, of course, draw-to-X cards like Library or Jack-of-all-trades are actually improved with the discard effect. A Small Library lets you to Cellar one card in addition to what a normal Library does, and at a cheaper cost!
Perhaps it'd be better to just discard 2 cards afterwards. This is what brings Witch to Young Witch (of course there's also a Bane card... but see below). This is only exploitable when you discard all your cards (for example, storeroom). But you can't really do too much broken things without cards, so it's probably not broken.
By the way, I think we should generally forbid these negative template from Attacks. For example, imagine a Small (Young?) Sea Hag or a Small Saboteur. They will make the game way too slow. I don't think they're acceptable or fun, at all.
i called it smith because i draws cards like smithy but its more flexible so i made it a silversmith maybe it could be called steel-smithy
In the overall game of dominion, nearly everything has been shown as +cards. Embassies, Hunting Grounds, Oracles, Torturers...
I didn't see enough cost-reducers.
Small [Remote?] [Aged?]__
Cost -$1
If this is a Treasure or Action, when you play this, you may discard a card, If you do, "card effect."
Hinterlands seem to really like this. (And for a good reason -- its theme is when-gain, after all)
I mean, Troll Bridge + IGG + IGG = Province
Troll Bridge + $6 = Province, If you can buy a Border Village to get a Cache.
But this looks so interesting!
Okay. But the reverse of Tunnel would allow you to discard it when you gain a gold, other than during your clean up phase.Everything you played (except Duration) are discarded during Clean-up. You would probably want to state "from your hand during Clean-up" to prevent it from being a card on the table.I never knew there was a discarding phase.Sorry, meant Clean-up phase.
Is it triggered by Militia?QuoteWhen you discard this other than during a Clean-up phase, you may reveal it. If you do, gain a Gold.
(sighs) But then it doesn't look like a reversing card, nor does it look particularly interesting or broken, anyway...
I still prefer the version which looks like a Duchess.
Everyone seems to have a different approach to reverse Tunnel. But, how is the discard-when-gain-gold ability useful?
Who said they have to be useful?
Okay. But the reverse of Tunnel would allow you to discard it when you gain a gold, other than during your clean up phase.Everything you played (except Duration) are discarded during Clean-up. You would probably want to state "from your hand during Clean-up" to prevent it from being a card on the table.I never knew there was a discarding phase.Sorry, meant Clean-up phase.
Is it triggered by Militia?QuoteWhen you discard this other than during a Clean-up phase, you may reveal it. If you do, gain a Gold.
(sighs) But then it doesn't look like a reversing card, nor does it look particularly interesting or broken, anyway...
I still prefer the version which looks like a Duchess.
About specific examples, the problem with Loan at $7 is not that you don't want it early if it costs $7, is that early, you don't have $7, so you would only buy it if the bonus itself (plus the $1 of Loan) is enough, but costing $7 almost completely ruins the trashing power of Loan. This kind of thing is what I say can happen to many cards. However, for RL play, it could be fun to try and maybe repeat the choice if the resulting combination is bad in some sense.Settled Loan would be $6. But it's true, Settled Early Game Card is usually very bad, because you don't want to pay extra for VPs in the early game. At least Steward, Chapel and Swindler if it is the only curser in the game are exceptions - while they lose a lot of their power when Settled, Steward is still usable for its versatility in the mid game and Chapel and cursers are just that good.
Settled Fortune Teller would be very interesting. Probably not very good though.
Everything you played (except Duration) are discarded during Clean-up. You would probably want to state "from your hand during Clean-up" to prevent it from being a card on the table.I never knew there was a discarding phase.Sorry, meant Clean-up phase.
Is it triggered by Militia?QuoteWhen you discard this other than during a Clean-up phase, you may reveal it. If you do, gain a Gold.
I never knew there was a discarding phase.Sorry, meant Clean-up phase.
Is it triggered by Militia?
When you discard this other than during a Clean-up phase, you may reveal it. If you do, gain a Gold.
Does removing the pile count towards emptying the supply for puzzles?I guess no. It's like a card that has been set into the Island mat. It's not reachable at all but it still exists.
Baroness
2 VP
Whenever you gain a Gold, you may also gain a Baronese.
Victory - $3
It is the reverse of a Tunnel, but also looks like a Duchess in some senses...
The reverse of a Tunnel should be when you discard a Gold, right?
I kind of like the "when you gain a Gold" effect, though, as a mechanic. It acts like the opposite of Duchess, and functions a bit like Harem.
The actual opposite of Baron also seems nifty: "You may gain an Estate; if you do, +$4".
