95+% cards are worse than margrave. That is really is no Argument against tragic hero.
just have them discard the action (see Villain for wording); otherwise you're going to hit someone's trusty steed / princess / followers w that and its gonna be a real feelsbad moment.
Wait, but with followers/princess/trusty steed, you can't return then to the Supply to exchange them, so it doesn't work. Although I do get your point, it can hit a really good action, like King's Court or something, I want to keep the exchanging. Maybe there is a way to fix it and keep the exchanging, I could keep trying.
95+% cards are worse than margrave. That is really is no Argument against tragic hero.
It's a bit like saying Chapel sucks because Donate exists.
, and Chapel doesn't trash itself for a Silver.
That's not how it works!
$3
Action-Duration
For the whole game, at the start of each of your turns, reveal your hand and discard all useless cards, and when you play an Action card, put it into your discard pile.
During your Buy phase, reveal your hand for a fraction of a second and announce how much money you have instead of playing treasures. If you do play your treasures, put your entire hand in play.
Tragic Hero is way too high IMO. It's priced the same as Margrave, i.e. as if being forced to trash it for a Treasure is a bonus, when that's actually a drawback IMHO (unless you're playing with Platinums + Colonies).
Precisely. I'll take a Smithy over ayellow CurseGold, thank you very much.
Blessed Village is also way overrated.
Villages IMO, and is certainly too high in this list.
Advisor's Masquerade
Action-Ruins
Cost: $0
+1 Action
Reveal the top three cards of your deck. The player to your left chooses one, and you pass it to the left. Each other player passes a card from their hand to the left. Each player puts the card passed to them into their hand.
To clarify: The exchanged Pig goes to the players' hand.
My submission:
Abomination
$2 Action - Attack - Reaction - Curse
-1VP
+2 Cards, +1 Buy. Each other player discards down to 4 cards.
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When you discard this other than during Clean-Up, you may trash this instead.
A Moat-like attacker you want to get rid of eventually. Happily, it's vulnerable to its own attack.
Bonfire of Vanities, Action - Reaction - Attack, Costs $3
+2 Cards. Trash a card from your hand.
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When another player gains a Kingdom card, you may reveal this from your hand to trash one card from that Kingdom card pile in the Supply.
Fixed the prior submission. hhelibebcnofnena said I can only submit one. So, for the purposes of the contest, I'll submit Bonfire of Vanities.
Dueling WitchAction-Reaction
Each other player gains a Curse.
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When any player gains a card (including you), you may reveal this to return a copy of that card to the supply from your hand or the top of your discard pile, then discard this.
That's not interesting, though, because each time round the loop leaves you in the same state as the previous. The Captain loops accumulate an unbounded amount of benefit.
You might as well just keep reacting to the same Attack with the same Moat, for all the good it does you.
Since Estates are now actions in the supply it opens up the inifnite Captain combos:
1. Reduce the cost of Captain
2. Inherit Captain
3. Play Estate as Captain
4. Play Captain as Estate
5. Goto 3.
It's not too rare, you only need Inheritance, Captain, and one of { Bridge, Highway, Quarry, Tournament, Ferry, Bridge Troll, or Inventor }. Previously you need four cards as it required Ferry + another cost reducer.
You can also do it with BoM, but it's not as good.
Oh boy, huge changes in rules.
As others have noted, Death Cart, Embargo and Pillage are changed, but there are many others that were untouched. Previously those three cards worked normally with BoM/Overlord/Inheritance, and were super-good with Necromancer/Captain. To avoid too much super-goodness, Donald changed them, so now they are useless with BoM/Overlord/Inheritance AND with Necromancer/Captain (except Death Cart is gimped but not useless).
The cards that were untouched: Acting Troupe, Farmers' Market, Feast, Knights, Tragic Hero, Wine Merchant, Encampment, Experiment, Island. These are all super-good with BoM/Overlord/Inheritance now (except Island) - in addition to with Necromancer/Captain.
Some cards used to be normal with Bom/Overlord/Inheritance, and useless with Necro/Captain, but are now useless with all: Mining Village, Pixie, Treasure Map, Urchin, Page, Peasant, Distant Lands, Prince (only gimped: Raze, Small Castle)
(Obv. Distant Lands and Small Castle can't be played with Inheritance, and Prince requires a lot of cost reduction)
EDIT: Knights were in the wrong list!
I got really creative this week and took the +1 Action off Seer.
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Here's my card
I just want to ask Commodore Chuckles whether this follows the rules. It doesn't technically have +action, but it is a TR variant.
I was trying to decide on the cost (between 6 and 7). I think the +card before the TR is super helpful. It pretty much prevents it from being drawn dead (like getting 3 KC and no other actions).
Royal Carriage and Crown are TR variants that (mostly) can't whiff for $5. "Cantrip or Throne Room" was an outtake for $4 when Throne Room was $3.
+1 Card Throne Room is probably fine at $5.
$5 seems way too cheap. Remember it synergizes with itself. Since most parades will be paraded it's going to be better than a lab.
Think of it this way: if you had a parade and 2 smithies in hand, would you rather have another parade or a lab (extra parade means you draw 15 cards, vs labs 11 cards).
Parade will mostly be better than crown and Royal carriage putting it at at least $6. I put it at 7 since the +card is before throning making it much easier to utilize the throning to it's full potential.
is probably the best price for it. It just feels wrong to me to price it at the same cost as King's Court.
I'm sorry but I'm afraid this doesn't completely fit with the spirit of the contest, as the +1 Action is unconditional (you can choose it every time). There needs to be some other condition on the +1 Action besides the player's choice.
Prototype
Action/Duration - $4
Gain a card costing up to $4
If this is the first time you played a Prototype this turn, and the previous turn wasn't yours, you may set that card aside on this to take an extra turn after this one, drawing only that card for your next hand.
Minor wording gripe: setting a card aside and then putting it in your hand isn't "drawing" it.
It was a way to save space compared to "draw zero cards and put the set aside card in your hand at the start of your next turn".
