I'm not sure if this is a serious submission or not. The name certainly isn't serious.
Let us talk about power level. This is Experiment with an extra Buy on top (+) and the option to Labify previous Horse factories (+).
It is more expensive (-) and a potential anti-Lab if the Horse Factories don't collide (respectively you stop going for Horse Factories) (-).
I'd try it at $3 and $4.
I ultimately decided the duration wasn't worth the extra wordiness, so this is my version for the contest now.
EDIT: Even worse, I might revise it again
I'm a bit confused how you could ever play any from your hand, since as soon as you gain it, you play it and it goes back to the Supply. So how would it ever be in your hand?
Here is my updated Horse Factory.
Thanks for the great feedback everyone!
1. I wonder what color it should be then. Is there a standard color for this?
Maybe just use the Shelters color? There isn't a single-color thing in red yet.
Thanks for the great feedback everyone!
1. I wonder what color it should be then. Is there a standard color for this?
2. Yeah it would be garbage, but you also play the one you buy. That being said, maybe it should be balanced differently, like +3 horses or something similar.
3. I'm wondering if it works well as a sort of hostelry, since I've heard that can form a good amount of draw. That being said, maybe there's some balancing that can be done.
After playing with summoning circle and seeing how well-designed it is, I'm starting to feel salty looking back on this and seeing it not even making finalist (and it's not even my card!). Part of me ponders what it would be like to have multiple people judge so that the results are more accurate.
the results are supposed to reflect what the judge values about dominion, and as a result, are accurate. The diversity in opinions is supposed to help us all grow as designers, both with the prompts and with the results - there were several cards that I thought should be actual cards this week, and not all of them made the finals list, summoning circle among them, philosopher among them. Only one of them made me keep thinking about the card when I walked away from the computer, and that was exhibit.
At the end of the day, it comes down to the whim of the judge - even if you playtest them and do like a tournament ranking, how/when you use them will influence your opinion. I full encourage you to use your own stats-based judgment methodology when you win - stats have little to do with what I like in dominion.
Having a more stats driven contest might be interesting, but its fully something I'd be uninterested in - games are supposed to be fun; feeling a deck go brr, or feeling a deck flop under the weight of hubris, or figuring out an unintuitive strategy? those are fun. One shot gainer-thinner with a drawback that takes a couple turns to proc? I'm feeling that less than some of the other entries. It's sort of one-note. Yeah it has a nice self-synergy (where one sets up the next).
Having a multijudge contest just means that new people's voices won't get heard over more established voices. Honestly the most thrilling this contest is is when a new poster with a single digit post count, who has never won before, comes up with something bonkers as a prompt and vamishes so there's no clarifying questions all week. Like, yeah stuff will get DQ'd on technicalities, but its wild to see how different enclaves of dominion fans think about the game than those of us in the discord or f.ds, and celebrating that is really what the contest is about.
tldr: the results were as accurate as they could've been, because the person who was the judge for that contest did them.
I like this card quite a bit, note that a lot of Estates imply a crappier deck. But if your buying power suffices to get a Duchy in each post game turn, this is nonetheless 4VP for $2 which is too strong.
Not necessarily. If you have enough buys, you could easily just pick up a few Estates in the last few turns. Also, in a kingdom with Exiling, you can have those Estates without the junking
Compound (Project, $5)
At the end of the game, take an extra turn per Estate you have.
This uses The Alchemist's version of Seasons, where we start in winter. To explain the debt cost, I was afraid of weird interactions possibly with cost reducers, but there are no debt cost reducers so it's good. Also, I'm doing a debt-based expansion, so debt cost seemed fun.
Since most games end before turn 15, this is usually at most a +1 card/+4 Action card with an average of about 2 actions across the game. Even in slog games that last, like, 30 turns, sure you'll have that one turn with 10 actions, but that doesn't do much so it doesn't really become oppressive. Now, if it gave cards instead of actions that would be something... but it doesn't. In fact, the main drawback seems to be the fact that even if it gives a lot of actions you need to still rely on drawing it (where with something like Port, drawing is more reliable), so I feel like it's pretty balanced.
Hope it looks interesting, too!
What is the purpose of the Debt cost? I don’t see why such a weak card should be ungainable except via buying.
Engineer is the only official cheap card with Debt cost and it has two very good reasons for it.
I thought that would have made it easier to get, not harder, hm... Does seem that way now that I think of it since +Buy is the major issue.
What is the purpose of the Debt cost? I don’t see why such a weak card should be ungainable except via buying.
Engineer is the only official cheap card with Debt cost and it has two very good reasons for it.
