Racetrack (Landmark)"In your deck" sounds weird: does it mean that the Horses in hand, in discard, and in other locations like exile and mats don't count? Should be simply "you have".
When scoring, +1VP per Horse in your deck.
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Setup: Add an extra Kingdom card pile to the Supply. That pile must be capable of gaining Horses.
Wow, I sure did forget to come back and clean up my entry for last week; I kept meaning to but always got myself sidetracked somehow.
Anyways...QuoteSeeds
Trash this. If you did, gain an Action card costing differently from any card you have in play onto your deck.
Treasure
$4Credit tokens are essentially like coffers. During your turn, you may return N credit tokens to the supply, to gain a card from the supply costing exactly $N. You can do this whenever you are not resolving a played card. The longer you let your Credits build up,the bigger the potential reward - but don't wait too long! For example, suppose you have built up 6 Credit tokens. You could return 4 to the supply to gain a Smithy, or return 6 to gain a Gold. There's also the question of when exactly during your turn you should gain the card - maybe you can time it to get the card you really want at exactly the right time.I like the idea of the credit tokens. However, I'm worried that Credit Note is a bit weak (it seems unlikely that you would gain more than one card per credit note in your deck most of the time).
Gaining a card via Credits does not count as a buy.
Credit Note (Treasure, $5)
+$2
+1 Credit
+1 Buy
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When you gain this, +1 Credit.Trash Heap
$5
Treasure
$1
Gain a Scrap Metal.
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While this is in play, cards cost $1 less, but not less than $0.
Scrap Metal
$0*
Treasure
+1 Card
+1 Buy
(This is not in the Supply.)
So, Trash Heap doesn't just deal in $, it gives some pieces of Scrap Metal. This Scrap Metal isn't valuable enough to give $, but it essentially acts as a +Buy token. It's a Treasure so that it is redeemable in the Buy phase. Trash Heap is a Bridge variant where the +Buy is saved, but it isn't Throneable and it's more expensive. Hopefully there's no glaring problem with these cards that I haven't picked up on.
Oh, and by the way, there are 30 Scrap Metal cards in the pile.
Is Scrap Metal supposed to return itself to its pile? You make a comparison with a +Buy token that doesn't make sense to me otherwise. Either way, this seems a bit weak to me based on comparison with Highway. The +1 Card on Scrap Metal can also make it feel pretty bad because it always draws actions dead.
Cow
$5 - Treasure
Worth $2
When you discard this from play during Clean-up, if you haven't bought any Victory cards this turn, you may put this on top of the deck.
The "no victory card" clause prevents gaining a Province per turn with 4 Cows.
Flavor: Cows are the main measure of wealth in many agricultural societies. "Cash cow" is a kind of business that generates steady profit.
Art: This "Cash Cow" sculpture is located at the entrance to the Happy Hollow park in San Jose, CA.
I feel like this encourages money strategies too much, as it seems strong in a money context and weak for other types of decks.Rai Stone
Treasure
$5
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+$3
+1 Buy
At the end of the Buy phase, if you did not buy a Victory card, gain a Curse.
Rai Stones are fascinating - they're limestone discs used by the people of Yap as a currency. They vary widely in size though, with diameters up to 4 metres, so often when they're traded it's in name only, and the object physically stays where it is. In one case, one was dropped into the ocean and was never seen again, but everyone agrees it's probably still there, so it's still traded.
I'm not completely happy with this card - thematically, I've skipped over most of the things that are interesting about rai stones and focussed on their ceremonial nature - they're primarily used for big, important transactions. I suspect something more geared towards them being cumbersome, or staying in one place, wants to be something more akin to a Project or Artefact. But it's mechanically cute, so I'll go with it for now.
This card also feels very money-ish to me.I think in this contest flavor has an important role.Tropical Fruits is a silver+ at 4, which is usually a bad idea.
I’m from Brazil, so I chose the currency to be fruits of my country. They really were one of the currencies here in barter times, at the same time of castles and knights in Europe. So, they have a similar flavor to Hinterlands expansion cards.
Here’s my entry:
QuoteTROPICAL FRUITS •• Treasure
$1
Choose one:
+1 Coffers; or
+1 Villager.
FRUIT MIX •• Treasure
+1 Buy
When you play this, it's worth $1 per different named treasure you have in play (including this).
It’s a split pile with 5 Tropical Fruits over 5 Fruit Mix.
TROPICAL FRUITS
A Copper with a chosen bonus, a Coffers or a Villagers, which has big versatility, enabling good resources control. You can choose either use payload now, save payload or save actions.
FRUIT MIX
A Bank variant which cares for treasure names and give +buy. The split pile itself has two different named treasures, so without other alternative treasures in kingdom it may worth up to $5. It may shine with these other treasures in kingdom and even sometimes be very strong with Capitalism, but it’s the same with Bank. The +Buy feature ensures you won’t lose your additional money.
With $4 in hand it’s (almost) strictly better to buy Tropical Fruits than Silver, but you still may want to buy some Silver for more diversity to Fruit Mix. Tropical Fruits being a better choice than Silver in most cases also helps to buy them fast to reveal Fruit Mix sooner.
Feedbacks are always welcome.
Fruit Mix feels very similar to Bank to me.Rice Bag
cost $4 - Treasure
+$2
Another +$1 per a Rice Bag on your Exile mat.
You may Exile this.
Japanese old currency.
This seems really strong to me, it's like a stronger Stockpile that only removes itself from your deck if you want it to. Getting both the normal effect of the card and being able to Exile it on the same turn make it relatively low-opportunity cost to scale when compared to cards like Miser and Pirate Ship, which are both terminal and require you to spend an entire play of the card just to power it up (granted, both of those cards are pretty weak).
Farrier (Treasure, $5)
+$2
+1 Buy
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While this is in play, when you buy a card, gain a Horse.
Seems very OP. It's nearly strictly better than grand market and way better than livery, which is already pretty busted on the right board. This card makes up for livery's main two weaknesses (terminal and lack of +buy) making it spammable and super strong on every board.
I would suggest maybe make it produce $1 instead of $2 and raise the price to $6.
Guild (Action-Command, $3*)What happens when I put Workshop, Transmute, Engineer?
+1 Action
Choose one: put a non-Duration Action card from your hand on your Guild mat; or play one of the Action cards on your Guild mat, leaving it there.
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During your turns, this has the same cost at the highest costing card on your Guild mat, if any.
Racetrack (Project, $2)You probably want this to say "you may exchange it for a Horse".
When you gain a card, you may gain a Horse instead.
A Horse equivalent for Trader. A good defence against junking attacks, or a useful way to use spare buys.
Also, this is way too strong. Would be more reasonable with a cost restriction, i.e. "if you gain a card costing at least $2".
