Adventure Time Munchkin is probably the best variant I've played.
Man, if you're both buying Colonies at the same rate, the correct result is a tie, so what's the problem?
Because sometimes you're playing a tournament set and you want to get a win when your opponent has first player advantage.
Also, this is completely the wrong way to look at it. If michaeljb and I did not diverge strategically, then indeed the game would probably have ended in a tie (caveat below). But because I added Moat to my deck and he didn't, I swung the odds in my favor despite not having first player advantage.
I also explained in the previous post that in this situation where both players are buying Colony at the same rate, if second player gets a bad draw, he loses the game unless he hopes that first player also gets a bad draw, whereas first player needs to get two bad draws in order to lose.
What about something crazy:
Trash this card
Gain one victory card
Gain one treasure card
Time for a card idea that really is just a bad idea, not a joke:
$7
Action
Double your coin tokens. Take a coin token.
- worth 1 VP per 3 victory cards in the trash.
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I tried the first of those in both Seaside and Dark Ages. The Seaside one was called Landfill, and also trashed cards from supply piles. Since you can profit from it being built up, regardless of who does it, what would happen is, we'd fight over them, and then the player with more of them would build it up while the other didn't. Only, if we split them 5 to 3, the difference isn't enough to make it exciting. At first it seemed like it had promise and was a shoe-in, but it was just no fun, it had no fans whatsoever. In my mind City is a fixed version - City is something we can all build up and/or profit from, but plays much better. Forager and Trade Route are in this family but play much differently from City. Anyway you might think it would work as a VP card but man it didn't. I revisted it in Dark Ages; there another key issue was how much caring about the trash varied in power level from game to game.
So from the effect and the image I'd guess it's page.
No idea why it has such a long name though.
What's the German word for "Douchebag"?
"The ghost was Donald X all along!"
Swamp Hag: Beautiful, but the woman looks too pretty to be, well, a hag.
Amulet: One of the strongest cards in the game. You can gain two Silvers every time you play it! I'm guessing the other two options are just there so that the card isn't dead once the Silvers run out. This doesn't hold a candle to Trader or Masterpiece, but it's still likely to be the best Silver gainer on the board. Usually you want to win this split.
- a card that gives the 2nd player an advantage (Lost City)
The difference being 1 card's worth of sifting is entirely correct, yet misconstrusive in this context; having the sift be right before the draw has much more of and impact than a 1-card sift in a vacuum.
My guess is that the card you can play when it isn't your turn is the treasure village card. It could be something which gives you both actions and coins on your next turn.
Border Village is too far away for anybody to go after.
Maybe my knowledge of the history of warfare is a little hazy, but I'm not sure that villages on a nation's border are less likely to be attacked.
Hmm. I always pictured Border Village being way out on the border of unoccupied land rather than the border of another nation, probably because it's in the hinterlands. But you make a good point.
But maybe the village is way out on the border and doesn't particularly care which nation wants to claim it; they're just there enjoying the trade.
As an Australian, the concept of settling in an "unoccupied land" is somewhat political.
You realise you are talking to Americans mostly....I think they already have their own history with this.....
Makes me glad us Tuvaluans are not territorial..... All those Naaru Islands have some sweet guano we are eyeing up...
17 days until previews... shall we start taking bets which artists will have their art featured in the first few cards?
Border Village is too far away for anybody to go after.
Maybe my knowledge of the history of warfare is a little hazy, but I'm not sure that villages on a nation's border are less likely to be attacked.
Hmm. I always pictured Border Village being way out on the border of unoccupied land rather than the border of another nation, probably because it's in the hinterlands. But you make a good point.
But maybe the village is way out on the border and doesn't particularly care which nation wants to claim it; they're just there enjoying the trade.
Border Village is too far away for anybody to go after.
The village was already being pillaged, give the poor peasants a break!
New action subtype "Rat", which gives +1 Card when trashed. Several cards require errata though, including Rats itself.
This would make some original cards so much simpler!
Cultist
Action/Attack/Looter/Rat
+2 Cards. Each other player gains a Ruins. You may play a Cultist from your hand. | When you trash this, +2 Cards.
Overgrown Estate
Victory/Shelter/Rat
0 VP
Sim Sim City
