Nothing gets to be on-buy anymore. It's being phased out everywhere, due to casual players not understanding the distinction between buying and gaining.
And, even for players who understand the distinction, it can be confusing how the timing of on-buy and on-gain effects differ.
Collection + StampedeYup, will make games quite stupid. Would Collection suck if on-buy?
Will the removal of Trade Route make it possible for you to design cards that add coin tokens (coffers/villagers/favors?) to Supply piles? I think that you mentioned this limitation in the The Secret History of Dominion: Guilds.
Thank you! that's exactly what I'm looking for! Making sure, the first page has all the most recent cards?
Though he didn’t say *which* fall.
Fall expansion?!?
According to the german promotional photo, Island, Native Village, and its mats are confirmed to stay.
Also one of the replacement cards is going to be an Action-Duration-Reaction, called "Piratin" (female pirate) as seen here.
The mats are also confirmed by Donald's 3rd preview post, as Island and NV still refer to them.
The three mats form a complete image. I wonder if a third of that image is removed or the two remaining mats have new art.
If a Corsair is in play, does the first played Silver or Gold by another player have any effect before it is trashed? Do you still get the $2 or $3, or is it just immediately trashed with no effect?
You get the effect after you've trashed the treasure.
I didn't realize before reading that question that Corsair uses a weird wording. There's no "when". I guess "each other player trashes the first Silver or Gold they play each turn" is supposed to be read as "when each other player plays their first Silver or Gold each turn, they first trash it"?
Sad to see Explorer go (massively undervalued card)
Adventurer would probably work with just a reduced cost; I think I'd try it at $4 (or even $3); this might make it a reasonable BM card (in engines, it's still usually worse than Moat).I think Adventurer should cost $2, no joke. It takes a lot of work to make it good, like Poor House. Arguably it takes even more work than Poor House, though the upper bound on its power is also higher. Anyway, yeah, $2. That's my unofficial official recommendation.
I've finally tried to estimate Adventurer's strength if it cost $2, playing with it in a few IRL solo games. The result was that $2-Adventurer BM takes 13 turns to get 4 Provinces on average, and 15 turns to get 5 Provinces.
(In those games, it wouldn't have mattered if it cost $3 instead, since I never happened to have a $2 turn.)
This is better than Smithy-BM, which averages 14 turns to 4 Provinces according to the Wiki. Does someone know how many turns stronger (non-Attack) BM cards need to get 4 or 5 Provinces?
I've also tried a few solo games of $2 Adventurer+Spice Merchant BM, since I expected SM to be one of the best supporting Action cards for Adventurer. But surprisingly, this strategy took slightly longer to get to 4 resp. 5 Provinces than $2 Adventurer-BM alone...
Sea Chart is another brand new card that interacts with the 2nd from the top card of your deck. I would revise to:
Sea Chart
Action - $3
+1 Action
Reveal the top card of your deck and put it in your hand. If it's a copy of a card you have in play, +1 Card
So what's the deal with the mats? Are Island and Native Village mats being re-drawn to look like they should only have 2 mats? The german promotional image/spoiler shows the other 2 mats with their original artwork. But Pirate Ship was the middle of the 3!
What surprises me the most is that now Seaside, the 3rd set, has a way to play Action cards (and Night cards) in your buy phase. I guess it's not that much of a problem rules-wise, but I've always seen that as at least a 12th set thing, potentially confusing to newer players. But I'm sure Donald knows what he's doing!
