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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #163: Cleaning The Banlist
« on: September 13, 2022, 05:00:21 am »Upcycle
Action
$5
Trash a card from your hand. Gain a card costing up to $3 more than it, that it shares a type with it.
Notes
- Replacement for Rebuild
- My objective to to stop the card having a monolithic strategy. To do this the card is now terminal and now trashes from your hand instead of digging through your deck. It now behaves more like the more traditional remodel family members.
- To keep the spirit of Rebuild, the price gap is still $3 so you can still turn Estates into Duchies and Duchies into Provinces, etc.
- To give something back to the card and to open up the scope of its use, it no longer just trashes and gains Victory cards. That restriction is now that the trashed and gained cards must share a type.
From the Allies Secret History: I also had an Expand that required the gained card to share a type with the trashed card. It only cost $4 and still wasn't exciting most games.
Thanks for the feedback. I have updated my original post with some updates. I have given the card some sifting ability to make it more interesting, which fits thematically with Rebuild.