Blueprint should be an attack, I think.
I don't think it should because, similarly to Masquerade, Blueprint totally wouldn't work if every other player revealed a Moat.
I played this last weekend, a friend brought it back from Gencon. It was quite the hit, all of my friends who demo'ed it at Gencon liked it enough to buy it.
It was not a hit with me, though. The building a card mechanic is meaningful about 20% of the time, but you have to fool with sleeving cards 100% of the time.
The push your luck mechanic is pretty nasty with how it combines with the scaling effect of deckbuilders. It's very common to get into an early game situation where it's definitely correct to push, but the upside of the bad push is exponential scaling that will cascade through the rest of the game, and the downside of the push is exponential unscaling that will cascade through the rest of the game. It's kinda like Dominion composed of nothing but kingdoms where Swindler/Swindler is the correct opening and you have to go for that even though you'll collide the Swindlers and Swindle an Estate a lot of the time and have to languish for the rest of the game in a dismal vortex.
Also, it's a low luck game (I'm not entirely sure yet whether to make it no luck besides setup... basically it's just a case of how many of the cards are revealed from the start of the game. I can have everything visible and make it no luck, only reveal cards at the start of the turn and make it quite reaction based, or something in between).
Sure, it can help the other team. So can flat-out guessing if you guess the wrong word. That doesn't prove that you should make no guesses. I think overall the benefits outweigh the costs. And even if the other team does not make suggestions, you should keep in mind anyway what their remaining words could be based on their clues, and act accordingly.At least to me these block guesses -> block reveals take some of it out, so I thought that'd be more fun.I hear you. But not doing them is game-theoretically suboptimal as long as we allow them.
That's false! This extra information may help your spymaster provide you with better clues, but it can also help the other side! For example, as the opposing spymaster, I once decided on a different clue because you (or gkrieg?) indicated a suspicion for a word that was one of ours! Instead of going with a clue that would cover that word, I picked a different clue to leave that option up as a trap. Can't remember if that worked out, but it was a thing.
Also, if you indicate a suspicion for something correct but an earlier guess stops the chain, that can influence the opposing guesser! For example, gkrieg's above chain of guesses was stopped by Mammoth, but he mentioned break and tag as follow-ups. Maybe faust will now avoid those words if he thinks gkrieg's reasoning makes sense.
You don't think there will be Alolan Pikachu and Pichu to match? I guess that's possible, but I think Alolan Pikachu is still more likely with the existence of Alolan Raichu. It's possible that Pikachu will be special in having both Alolan and regular forms in Alola, or maybe the regular Pikachu is earlier trailers was a red herring or an accident or something.
It's not just earlier trailers. The latest trailer (not counting the one that's leaking now) makes prominent use of Pikachu (for demonstrating Z-Moves).
I will bet you one deluxe fully trained non-legendary Pokémon that Pikachu will not have an Alola Form. It might get an additional cosplay outfit or something of that nature, but not an actual Alola Form. I mean Exeggcute doesn't have one, so it's not unprecedented that only part of an evolutionary line gets one. And I really can't imagine them wanting to mess with the look of their mascot.
I take back what I said earlier about Dark-type Persian being too close to Liepard. STAB Technician Bite is nifty, especially if Alolan Persian has a higher Attack than Persian Prime.
Fire/Ghost Marowak can still have Lightning Rod! That's pretty cool. Cursed Body is also a fun ability.
At least to me these block guesses -> block reveals take some of it out, so I thought that'd be more fun.I hear you. But not doing them is game-theoretically suboptimal as long as we allow them.
As their mascot, do you think Pikachu is more likely to get an Alolan form, or less?
New leaks suggest that the answer was "more likely".
I disagree. Regular Pikachu has been shown in trailers. Alolan Raichu does look cool, though.
As their mascot, do you think Pikachu is more likely to get an Alolan form, or less?
It's growing on me, actually.
BTW, how do alolan forms relate to their original forms? They are basically completely new pokemons, from a practical point of view, no?
Even if you disregard cost and the name of the card there are only a handful of strictly better cards.Goons over militia is a good one.
Grand Market better than Market, GM/Market better than Peddler
Festival better than Woodcutter
Stash/Royal Seal better than Silver
I can't remember the thread but those were the ones I remember
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When you buy a card costing at least $5, you may take it's price in debt. If you do, +3 VP.
Mith, are we allowed to change our ratings? After a second glance, I just realized that this doesn't allow infinite VP accumulation like I thought it did.QuoteSymposium
Types: Landmark
Once per game, at any time during the Action phase, +1 Action.
At the end of the game, if you did not use that Action, +5 VP.
I don't like this one for two reasons:
1) No way to track whether you've used the Action or not.
2) It's my belief that in about 99.9999% of games, nobody will ever use that Action because it's that unlikely that +1 Action means the difference between a Province and an Estate or between a Colony and a Duchy, which means that everbody gets +5 VP, which, since it benefits everybody equally, is as good as not being there at all.
Didn't realize how that works at first....
Play Crown, buy Stonemason, overpay 6, gain Peddler, gain BV to gain Mandarin(trashing Crown). Peddler now costs 8 and BV costs 6.
Apparently on Smogon, "wishlisting" is prohibited. So here, on this non-fascist website, is my wishlist for 1st-gen Pokémon that I hope get Alolan forms.
Butterfree
Raticate
Fearow and Dodrio (they've lived far too long in the shadow of e.g. Staraptor)
Arbok (to differentiate it from Seviper)
Nidqueen and Nidoking (ideally to differentiate them further from each other)
Parasect
Persian
Primeape
Golem (or a Mega Evolution, I'm not picky)
Farfetch'd (a Mega Evolution couldn't hold a Stick)
Dewgong (to differentiate it from Walrein)
Hypno (needs a good niche, preferably a cool new Ability that ties into Hypnosis)
Kingler (maybe just adding another type to make it more special)
Jynx
And man the rarity of pokemon is just... ugh. I'm sure that Rattata + Pidgey + Spearow + Weedle + Zubat makes up about 85% of pokemon encounters.
It varies drastically by region. I have only seen one weedle, and about 5 spearows, where I have a ton of ekans and sandshrews. I would also love to see a drowzee
My ambition is to get strong enough to join the gym closest to where I live, which is currently level 7 with 26k prestige and a cp1074 Lapras in the first slot. It's been like that for about 4 days now, I think. If I can get in there, it would probably continue to hold for a long time.
