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also i still think Architect has a very limited use case when alt-vp isn't present, since
4 estates -> province or
1 duchy + 3 estates -> colony
are the only nontrivial (estate-> estate is trivial) combos you can do w it. Open it up to using whatever as fuel, like a two-turn forge
) and a Duchy. Which "costs the most?" Those two costs are orthogonal and therefore the answer to my question is "undefined." You have to specify "costs the most 
."Arsenal (Action - Duration)This might be too much weaker than Hireling for such a small difference in cost.
+2 Cards
At the start of your next turn, +1 Card. At the start of your second next turn, +1 Card.
, but I disagree with the reasoning. I used to believe that Hireling was brokenly OP, but I've since come around on that belief and have realized that it's actually pretty weak for 
. This is because Hireling is very slow due to doing absolutely nothing on the turn you play it, whereas Arsenal doesn't have that issue. The reason I'd say it's too weak is because of comparing it to Wharf (granted, Wharf actually is bonkers). Arsenal is essentially a Wharf without the +Buys and with the second draw split between two turns. It's about as close to being strictly worse than Wharf as it can get without actually doing so.
QuoteKnight Errant
$5 - Action
+$3. Each player (including you) reveals and discards the top 2 cards of their deck and gains a copy of a card they revealed costing from $3 to $6 that you choose.
This is gonna decimate piles in 4+ player games
Not that much more than Jester, I don't think. That said, I think it's almost certainly too weak. Just +is too weak for
jester, only one person is getting a card at a time. this is tossing out 4+ copies each time its played.
QuoteKnight Errant
$5 - Action
+$3. Each player (including you) reveals and discards the top 2 cards of their deck and gains a copy of a card they revealed costing from $3 to $6 that you choose.
This is gonna decimate piles in 4+ player games
is too weak for (Legionary) and I think this is going to be weaker than that most of the time.
A Procession variant whose upgrading portion is optional instead of mandatory.
Procession was changed to exclude Durations due to new rules around tracking.
Another option would be to adopt similar wording to Improve (ie you do the upgrading when you discard the card from play), which wpuld allow it to be played with Durations. I also don't think the card would be too strong if you could turn Actions into non Actions, or if the trashing was "up to".
A King's Court once that becomes a Throne Room is much stronger than a Throne Room that never misses (Royal Carriage)? Crown and Scepter are definitely a very marginal benefit on top of Throne Room, but having a one-time upgrade is also not much of one. I would not vote a $5 price as overwhelming, merely that the way it plays is dully familiar.Promenade (Action, $6)....
You may play an Action card from your hand twice.
You may return one of your Villagers. If you did, play it a third time.
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When you gain this, +1 Villager.
A Throne Room variant that lets you upgrade to King's Court if you have a Villager to hand.
Yeah. This is just a more-expensive Throne Room that has a stronger effect than Throne Room. I dunno if it's weak at
Would this work better as a $5? I wasn't sure initially if it should cost $5 or $6; eventually I erred on the side of caution.
I think $6 is an appropriate cost. I'd generally advise against using busted cards like King's Court as a benchmark to balance other cards and comparing this to the $5 Throne variants it seems clearly much stronger than those to me.
I'd personally prefer its playing be limited in some other way and it generate Villagers in some circumstance. It would make it feel more different than Throne Room and the other Villager cards.
Yes? King's Court is insane. This is also a Throne with an on-gain Villager which I think would be very strong at $5 anyway.
Thanks.Here's my entry. (Mix of Tactician and Fortune)
It doesn't combine and with fortune to quadruple. It's way cheaper than fortune, but doubles before you play treasures, and discards the rest of your hand (meaning no more treasures).
I like this. My only concern is that it could show up in a Kingdom with no actions that give
There are a decent number that give virtual coin.
Most cards have kingdoms that favor them and those that don't and many are useless (or virtually useless) without support (rats without other trashing, conspirator without + actions, moat when there aren't attacks, etc.). If it's not worth buying, people just don't buy it.
, which makes it very hard to make Profit make more than even a Woodcutter.
Promenade (Action, $6).
You may play an Action card from your hand twice.
You may return one of your Villagers. If you did, play it a third time.
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When you gain this, +1 Villager.
A Throne Room variant that lets you upgrade to King's Court if you have a Villager to hand.
This is especially powerful with cards that provide +Villagers, e.g. Patron or Acting Troupe, since those can be used with for the 3rd play.
For Acting Troupe it's basically +10 Villagers!!
It's practically a dead card if it's the only source of Villagers, though.
How? It's a Throne Room that's a King's Court for the first time you play it.
less than a King's Court. It's so much worse than King's Court for being a similar price.Promenade (Action, $6).
You may play an Action card from your hand twice.
You may return one of your Villagers. If you did, play it a third time.
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When you gain this, +1 Villager.
A Throne Room variant that lets you upgrade to King's Court if you have a Villager to hand.
This is especially powerful with cards that provide +Villagers, e.g. Patron or Acting Troupe, since those can be used with for the 3rd play.
For Acting Troupe it's basically +10 Villagers!!
. Might be too strong for .
This is an oldish idea I put in the Really Bad Card Ideas thread, and I got feedback and now, here is the finished version. I hope it fits the theme.I don't think this needs to be a Duration - it's not in play when you buy it. Compare with Horse Traders.
Guild Admiral
$2+
Action-Duration-Command
+1 Buy
+1 Coffers
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When you buy this, you may overpay for it. If you do, set this aside, and at the start of your next turn, play an Action card from the Supply costing the amount you overpaid, leaving it there.
BTW, just got Guilds+Cornucopia for Christmas! Yaaaaaaaaay!
token at the start of Clean-up.. (The choices must be different.)
QuoteArchaeologistThe first two of these you buy are weak, but once you buy four of them, you'll have all four tokens on your ruins pile which should make them pretty strong.
$5 Action - Looter
+1 Card, +1 Action.
Gain a ruins, putting it in your hand.
You may play an action costing $3 or less.
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When you gain this, you may put your +1 Action, +1 Card, +$1, or +1 Buy token on the ruins pile.
Posting the entry now. I might do a mock-up later so it looks nice.
. (And note this is assuming you use your +1 Card and +1 Action tokens first. You can move the tokens in any order, so Archaeologist is actually strictly better than that.)
Don't we usually say you have 48 hours to start the next contest?
Why? Sure, in a 2P games you have less options and the other player can simply play money to make Emissary pointless. But as it stands the card looks extremely strong: even a petty Pearl Diver makes Emissary better than DoubleLab.
Based on my card Delegate (submitted for the Command-type contest). Based on the playtesting results from Delegate, I think it would be safe to say that Emissary works great with 3 or 4 players, but is unbalanced at other player numbers.
in one of their opening hands.
Traveling Fair $4
Action
Refer to the noted results. For each time you rolled a...
1, +1 Card
2, +1 Action
3, +$1
4, +1 Buy
5, +1 VP
6, You may trash a card from your hand
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Setup: Roll three six-sided dice and note the results.
An attempt to make a card that varies based on something other than mucking around with piles. There's tracking issues, and also cost issues, but hey, maybe it's okay to get a cheap Laboratory every 216 or so games.
