I am not a fan of adding the ability to also play Treasures.; that is messy for several reasons and likely makes the card too good.How about making it able to play Treasure? Then it combines a weaker King's Court and a weaker King's Cache.
And there should be a non-Duration clause.
The problem with playing Treasures is that it wouldn't require an Action to play a Treasure. So instead of it becoming a weaker King's Cache, it actually becomes stronger, because now you can double-play Spoils without moving them back to the Supply.
What is the point of drawing while buying? This only matters with Villa, Cavalry and Launch.QuoteMixing BowlThis could be useful in a Kingdom where there are at least one split pile or where opponent's strategy replies upon ordering thier deck.
$4 Event
+1 Buy
Rotate all Kingdom piles twice.
Each player who does not discard a card rotates their deck twice. If all other players discard a card, +1 Card.
+1 Villager
Looks pretty automatic (and auto-win-ish) in 3/4 and 5/2.
BalanceA shorter text which is functionally the same would be: „When scoring, 4 VP per pair of Brother and Sister you have.“
Landmark
When scoring, 4VP per brother or sister you have, whichever is fewer (if it's a tie, count either).
You cannot separate the setup and play effect unless Potion is in the Kingdom.I really like this but fear that it might be too good (of course you can always argue that power level is not that relevant in the case of Ways).
It is better than Sheep as it grants 3 Coins as well as access to two otherwise unavailable cards.
It is worse than Sheep as you can only use the Coins for buying these very two cards.
I feel like it falls into the Shaman or Baker category where the "Setup"/"In Games Using This" clause is more important than the effect. There's always a chance that it just kills at least one of the piles because you don't want to be using a terminal action to play it.
Poacher is a Peddler that can degrade into an Oasis later whereas this is a Peddler that sucks to open with (because it is only a Copper after the first shuffle and thus does not help you to hit 5) but is then fine.
Sometimes a mule is a good horse, and sometimes it's just a mule.
I think this is fine at $4. Sure, you can get cheap Actions to make Swineherd shine. But you might also draw into that splitter or that strong $5 which you don’t want to play as Peddler in that very moment.Usually Peddler variants cost $5. How do you justify this costing less?
Command cards, respectively non-Command restrictions like on Inheritance, have been introduced to avoid loops. Loops are not an issue in and of themselves, but when combined with something like Training you can get infinite Coins.does this quailify:I think the wording of Inheritance was debated for quite a long time and is the best compromise to get. Your wording does not really work for me: "Played as if it were that Action card" just means you can play it during your Action phase, following its instructions. But Duchy has no instructions. So the way I parse this, it just means "you can now play Duchies, but they don't do anything". You don't change what happens upon playing, only the rules for when they can be played.
Prosperous Duke $2+
project
Put an action card costing the amount overpaid under your project cube. Duchies can be played as if it were that action card.
It has other wording then Inheritance, but i think this is cleaner.
And if this were to work, technically it would have to involve some sort of shapeshifting - the instructions of the set-aside card now need to be on Duchy somehow.
I suggest just using the existing wording.
I did not participate in any of those discussions. And if you ask my opinion: Inheritence is written like it is for an computer program. Store info, make them refence that info.
Meanwhile humans would not have an problem with just: "play it like some other card". At least, if you not have to ignore current text that is on it. I found many people struggling with ways.
I really like this. The Throne Room with a buff as the baseline is fine but nothing to write home about. Where this really shines is as an alt-VP card. You nearly always have Provinces and with this you might want to keep an Estate around. But with a lot of VPs on the Duchy pile you want a midgame Duchy and timing it well is obviously the tricky thing.
I don’t get this argument. You gotta play 3 Villages, Hand of Midas and two $5s to produce 10 Coins. That is only one Coin more than you get via 3 Golds and 3 Golds is not particularly exciting.How come this doesnt have +1 buy?
Well I don't think there's a rule that cards that produce a lot of $ must give you a buy. It would be much stronger if it had a buy, but stronger isn't better!
This feels like it's strong enough to be bought reasonably often without the buy (like mb one of three games), and if that's true, it's just a question of how strong you want the card to be. For sth that nukes other cards and just makes them into $, having a weaker effect seems preferable to me.
Also I kinda like that midas can only make money and nothing else
