There's no expansion this year, though there were two promos.
There will probably be an expansion in 2020, probably earlier rather than later.
Inherited Lands
Project, $10
At the start of your turn, you may discard a Victory card to gain a Duchy.
Get a whole bunch of Duchies for the price of two! If that's what you really want.
Philanthropist
Action - $5
Reveal your hand. If it does not have more Golds than Curses, gain a Gold to your hand.
There are 15 Trusts in the pile.
A card inspired by Magpie, but without the problems I have with it. The things I don't like about Magpie are:
1. Too automatic. Magpie never hurts you. With Trust, you have to think hard about when to get it. If you get it too early, it'll basically be a delayed Gold (which might be what you want, but not always).
2. Too swingy. I always end up with 2 Magpies while my opponent gets 8. Magpie has a snowball effect where the more you have, the more you're likely to get. With Trust, the opposite is true, and in fact a Trust will blow up if it collides with another Trust.
I put the "gain a Treasure" part in a when-trash clause because I like that it enhances Rats-style tfb tricks.
I don't think this counts as a monogainer since it can gain a treasure when trashed (the closest example from the rules was Beggar, which gained as a reaction).
Merchant Village
cost $3 - Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
+1 Buy
You may play a Merchant Village from your hand.
Gain a Merchant Village.
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There are 20 copies of Merchant Village, rather than the usual 10.
This completely outclasses Market Square when there are no trashers.
QuotePhantom Village
+1 Card
+5 Actions
The player on your left names an Action. For the rest of this turn, when you play a copy of the named card, discard 2 cards.
can i choose the same choice twice (and let everyone else load up on villagers/coffers)?
Here's a simple card inspired by some of the rotating cards in Agricola. (NOTE: it is an heirloom, not a supply pile)
After Church and Captain release we have exactly 10 promos. What do you think about the kingdom made out of them?
( 3 ) Black Market, Church
( 4 ) Dismantle, Envoy, Walled Village
( 4|5 ) Sauna/Avanto
( 5 ) Stash, Governor
( 6 ) Captain
( 8 ) Prince
I still laugh at my own oldieEmpty Recycle Bin $4, Action
When you play this, trash your discard pile.
Sure, it is a weird discontinuity. But this is not unseen in the game, e.g Upgrade often prefers Estates over Coppers.
A kind of mini-Embassy with the passing mechanism from Masquerade. But unlike Masquerade you don't always want to pass the worst card (to be fair this isn't always the case with Masquerade either).
The wordiness and slow execution are obvious downsides.
It seems to me that you'd nearly always just want to pass junk. Trashing a junk card is well worth 1 Debt. And trashing an expensive card is pretty bad. Oh, and at the beginning, the worst cards in your deck are the most expensive ones (Estates or Shelters) which will create rich-get-richer stinginess.
I don' think that the delta between 1D and 2 Coffers is so tiny such that you always want to pass junk.
A kind of mini-Embassy with the passing mechanism from Masquerade. But unlike Masquerade you don't always want to pass the worst card (to be fair this isn't always the case with Masquerade either).
The wordiness and slow execution are obvious downsides.
Gift is the card that gives the player interaction.Either you play it as a Silver and discard it to the left, trash it or sift through it. Just because it lands in somebody else's deck doesn't mean that the card is interactive though. Unless you want to argue that playing it as a mere Copper to keep it and later play it as a Silver will arise often.
I think that something like this can work, but only if the decision is non-trivial.
there are definitely situations that you would play it as a copper to keep it (if you have an extra $1 you don't want to spend). I can kind of hear your other point though that the interactivity is low (though it is still present). I'll see if I can tweak this.
Guided Tour: The cards could even be used to get more fodder for guided tour. imagine trashing a $5 to get a bridge, ironworks, village, and smithy.
Bridge, Ironworks and Smithy all have the same cost so you'd only be able to gain and play one of them.
True. I missed that part. That definitely makes it weaker. Still, with a reasonable 2, 3 and 4 I think this is still a bit strong.
