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The effect is that of a cantrip Cellar. Unlike the Adventure vanilla tokens not necessarily that strong in multiples but of course you still want it on the pile of which you have most copies. I think it can get away with not being restricted to Actions as sifting during your Buy or Night phase is probably not that strong anyway.
The main reason of the Debt cost is to make this available early in Kingdoms in which it is strongest, i.e. without trashers.

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Education
Project - 10 Debt
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At the start of your turn, +$2.
At the end of your Buy phase, if you have any Debt remaining, take 2 Debt.

This card is inspired by my own status as a graduate student with loans to pay off. Yep.

Any feedback on this as an actual Project is appreciated, of course, especially concerning the upfront Debt cost.

That's a brilliant idea. With the mini-Capital effect while you are in Debt timing this well becomes anything but trivial.

[majiponi]

just throw in a Potion that, once you start to green, reads as +1 Buy +$8.

This convinced me; you’re right. Maybe it would be fine with “overpay up to $6”. Or $5.

I agree that Walpurgisnacht is overpowering without any limitation. I thought letting you have an useless Potion in hand is nice, but no reason to let you gain 2 Colonies. I'll add something to stop that. What I wanted was "Yeah! I gained 2 Possessions!" kind of thing.

Walpurgisnacht
cost P+ - Event
When you buy this, you may overpay up to $6P for it. If you do, gain 2 cards each costing the amount you overpaid.

[Fragasnap]

Discovery
Types: Event
Cost: $2
Discard a Victory card costing at least $4. If you do, remove this from the Supply and look at 4 random Kingdom cards not in the Supply. Add one's Supply pile to the Kingdom and gain up to 2 cards from it.

A one-shot event paid for by discarding a relevant Victory card.  Everybody can get copies of the card you add, but you get 1 or 2 of them then and there, in addition to deciding which one it's going to be.  Discovery will typically be triggered later, either with extra $ and an extra buy or maybe by a trailing player who needs the weirdness to try to win.  Getting that choice between 4 cards could be relevant, too.  I suppose you could rush it turn 3\4 with Island (which is thematic, I guess) and Mill (which is simply weird).

[GendoIkari]

The effect is that of a cantrip Cellar. Unlike the Adventure vanilla tokens not necessarily that strong in multiples but of course you still want it on the pile of which you have most copies. I think it can get away with not being restricted to Actions as sifting during your Buy or Night phase is probably not that strong anyway.
The main reason of the Debt cost is to make this available early in Kingdoms in which it is strongest, i.e. without trashers.

And interesting idea for a "vanilla" token, but the event seems overpriced. I think +1 card, +1 action, and + are all much stronger tokens; this event should cost less than those events. It could probably be . But the cheaper it gets, the less reason you have for giving it debt cost.

[grep]

Smeltery
Types: Project
Cost: $4*
At the start of Clean-up, you may return a Treasure card to the supply and gain a treasure card costing up to $3 more than it
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You can only buy this if you have at least 3 differently named Treasures in play
This costs extra $1 for each two Coppers in play, rounded up

[GendoIkari]

Smeltery
Types: Project
Cost: $5
At the start of Clean-up, you may return a Treasure card to the supply and gain a treasure card costing up to $3 more than it
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You can only buy this if you have at least 3 differently named Treasures in play

Where does the returned treasure come from? In hand or in play?

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The effect is that of a cantrip Cellar. Unlike the Adventure vanilla tokens not necessarily that strong in multiples but of course you still want it on the pile of which you have most copies. I think it can get away with not being restricted to Actions as sifting during your Buy or Night phase is probably not that strong anyway.
The main reason of the Debt cost is to make this available early in Kingdoms in which it is strongest, i.e. without trashers.

And interesting idea for a "vanilla" token, but the event seems overpriced. I think +1 card, +1 action, and + are all much stronger tokens; this event should cost less than those events. It could probably be . But the cheaper it gets, the less reason you have for giving it debt cost.

A cantrip Cellar would probably be too strong for $4 and slightly weak at $5. So from this perspective it is weaker than Lab/Pathfinding yet better than Peddler/Training and Village/Lost Arts*.
The decreasing benefits of playing multiple cantrip Cellars makes it weaker relatively to the other vanilla tokens.
But Debt costs make the card available when it is strongest, i.e. early on (as opposed to getting Training / Lost Arts in the middlegame).

I don't know which of these pluses and minuses weighs heavier but as is pretty similar to I leave it as this price. I also think that the Adventures tokens are a bit too centralizing and don't mind if this Event is on average only bought in every second or third Kingdom.

As you pointed out, at lower costs Debt makes less sense and or even could be too prohibitive: in non-trasher Kingdoms you want that sifter as early as possible.

*- As Lost Arts eliminates the standard matching problem of villages and terminal draw cards (which is the very reason Village and Smithy can be cheaper than two Labs) its effect is significantly stronger than that of he corresponding vanilla card, Village, so this is where this simple comparison fails.

[Aquila]

Mail Service - Project, $3+ cost.
When another player gains a card costing $5 or more, +1 Card.
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This costs $1 more per player in the game.

Unlikely to be balanced, I just thought this was natural, like what Road Network could have been.

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Smeltery
Types: Project
Cost: $5
At the start of Clean-up, you may return a Treasure card to the supply and gain a treasure card costing up to $3 more than it
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You can only buy this if you have at least 3 differently named Treasures in play

The condition is too harsh and arguably not necessary at all.
While Mine (i.e. handgaining) might be too strong it could at least topdeck like Taxman.

[Gazbag]

Updated:

I think it wants to be difficult to get early so the potion fits, but maybe it doesn't have to be quite so expensive? To be honest it's probably completely broken or completely useless depending on the board.

Edit: Changed to return to supply and cost lowered.

Edit2: Debt cost now

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Old version 2:

[hhelibebcnofnena]

I think it wants to be difficult to get early so the potion fits, but maybe it doesn't have to be quite so expensive? To be honest it's probably completely broken or completely useless depending on the board.

Maybe add a condition preventing it from trashing if you can't gain one costing more (e.g. your only card played was an Expand).

[Freddy10]

I think it wants to be difficult to get early so the potion fits, but maybe it doesn't have to be quite so expensive? To be honest it's probably completely broken or completely useless depending on the board.

I really like the idea. Maybe exchanging them instead of remodeling them would make it less aggressive, thinking about the three pile ending

[Gazbag]

I think it wants to be difficult to get early so the potion fits, but maybe it doesn't have to be quite so expensive? To be honest it's probably completely broken or completely useless depending on the board.

Maybe add a condition preventing it from trashing if you can't gain one costing more (e.g. your only card played was an Expand).

That's my favourite part of the card!

[FlyerBeast]

Research
Types: Event
Cost: 7
Once per turn: Each other player draws until they have 6 cards in hand then discards a card. Choose a card discarded this way. You may trash any number of copies of it from play and your hand, or gain a copy of it if it isn't a Victory card.
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This costs $1 less per card discarded (by you or any other player) this turn.

An Event that gets easier to buy the more discarding Attacks (Or Moats, but shhh) you've played, but undoes their effect. I had a bit of fun coming up with an ability that antisynergises with Attacks but hopefully has a useful enough reward and some unique player interaction. Other players discarded Estates or Coppers? You can trash some junk. Discarded Actions or Treasures? You can have one. Discarded Provinces? ...Yeah, this is an early-mid-game-only Event I suppose, I'm OK with that. The 'trash from play' is pretty much only for Coppers. (An extremely untrustworthy Mint?? Good luck getting the other players to cooperate with that)

[Gazbag]

I think it wants to be difficult to get early so the potion fits, but maybe it doesn't have to be quite so expensive? To be honest it's probably completely broken or completely useless depending on the board.

I really like the idea. Maybe exchanging them instead of remodeling them would make it less aggressive, thinking about the three pile ending

Yeah that's a good point! I was hoping that you'd get it late enough in the game that it isn't a problem but maybe the piles would just empty before it  bites you in the bum too much. I'll make it return to the supply so you still get the on-gain effects. I'll also make it cost $4P because i think $6P might be a little conservative.

So here's the update:

[Commodore Chuckles]

The wording on this is very unclear. I think it's saying that during cleanup you upgrade one Action card in play (and it's not optional) but the "when" is confusing; it could be interpreted to mean that you have to upgrade all of your Action cards in play. I would reword it to something like "During cleanup, choose one Action card you have in play..."

[Gazbag]

The wording on this is very unclear. I think it's saying that during cleanup you upgrade one Action card in play (and it's not optional) but the "when" is confusing; it could be interpreted to mean that you have to upgrade all of your Action cards in play. I would reword it to something like "During cleanup, choose one Action card you have in play..."

You do upgrade all actions, I don't see how this isn't clear?

[Freddy10]

I think it wants to be difficult to get early so the potion fits, but maybe it doesn't have to be quite so expensive? To be honest it's probably completely broken or completely useless depending on the board.

I really like the idea. Maybe exchanging them instead of remodeling them would make it less aggressive, thinking about the three pile ending

Yeah that's a good point! I was hoping that you'd get it late enough in the game that it isn't a problem but maybe the piles would just empty before it  bites you in the bum too much. I'll make it return to the supply so you still get the on-gain effects. I'll also make it cost $4P because i think $6P might be a little conservative.

So here's the update:

I'd also like to point that the anti-synergy with potion is really strong: If this is the only thing with potion in the kingdom, potion becomes a dead card after you buy this and, on the other hand, if there are other cards with potion in their cost, you probably don't want this.
Also, as you said, this project is board dependent, so I think that it should be easier to get, then, if it's broken, at least you don't have bad shuffle issues. Maybe making this a debt cost card?

[hhelibebcnofnena]

The wording on this is very unclear. I think it's saying that during cleanup you upgrade one Action card in play (and it's not optional) but the "when" is confusing; it could be interpreted to mean that you have to upgrade all of your Action cards in play. I would reword it to something like "During cleanup, choose one Action card you have in play..."

You do upgrade all actions, I don't see how this isn't clear?

It just doesn't seem that good if you do it to all your actions and it's not optional. Because that means all your best cards become one-shots. Say there's no Actions. Then you're now paying for an Lab which is really an Experiment, when normally you can pay for 2 of them. Your cheaper cards get a bit better as they progress, but you still only get a few turns with them. If you want any engine to be effective, I think you need huge amounts of +buy and just to keep your actions around, and if that's available in big enough quantities your deck, it's probably time to green anyway. Maybe I'm missing something, but that's just how it seems to me.

[Commodore Chuckles]

The wording on this is very unclear. I think it's saying that during cleanup you upgrade one Action card in play (and it's not optional) but the "when" is confusing; it could be interpreted to mean that you have to upgrade all of your Action cards in play. I would reword it to something like "During cleanup, choose one Action card you have in play..."

You do upgrade all actions, I don't see how this isn't clear?

It just doesn't seem that good if you do it to all your actions and it's not optional. Because that means all your best cards become one-shots. Say there's no Actions. Then you're now paying for an Lab which is really an Experiment, when normally you can pay for 2 of them. Your cheaper cards get a bit better as they progress, but you still only get a few turns with them. If you want any engine to be effective, I think you need huge amounts of +buy and just to keep your actions around, and if that's available in big enough quantities your deck, it's probably time to green anyway. Maybe I'm missing something, but that's just how it seems to me.

Yes, that's exactly why I was confused. If you have to upgrade everything then I'm not sure it's ever worth buying. Even if the board is particularly favorable, you're gonna be running out of cards real fast. And most of the time the board won't be particularly favorable, due to price gaps and other things.

[Erick648]

The effect is that of a cantrip Cellar. Unlike the Adventure vanilla tokens not necessarily that strong in multiples but of course you still want it on the pile of which you have most copies. I think it can get away with not being restricted to Actions as sifting during your Buy or Night phase is probably not that strong anyway.
The main reason of the Debt cost is to make this available early in Kingdoms in which it is strongest, i.e. without trashers.

And interesting idea for a "vanilla" token, but the event seems overpriced. I think +1 card, +1 action, and + are all much stronger tokens; this event should cost less than those events. It could probably be . But the cheaper it gets, the less reason you have for giving it debt cost.

A cantrip Cellar would probably be too strong for $4 and slightly weak at $5. So from this perspective it is weaker than Lab/Pathfinding yet better than Peddler/Training and Village/Lost Arts*.
The decreasing benefits of playing multiple cantrip Cellars makes it weaker relatively to the other vanilla tokens.
But Debt costs make the card available when it is strongest, i.e. early on (as opposed to getting Training / Lost Arts in the middlegame).

I don't know which of these pluses and minuses weighs heavier but as is pretty similar to I leave it as this price. I also think that the Adventures tokens are a bit too centralizing and don't mind if this Event is on average only bought in every second or third Kingdom.

As you pointed out, at lower costs Debt makes less sense and or even could be too prohibitive: in non-trasher Kingdoms you want that sifter as early as possible.

*- As Lost Arts eliminates the standard matching problem of villages and terminal draw cards (which is the very reason Village and Smithy can be cheaper than two Labs) its effect is significantly stronger than that of he corresponding vanilla card, Village, so this is where this simple comparison fails.

Interestingly, I've had an identical event that I've been using for the past couple years that costs .  It seems to work okay.  Not a star, but still worth considering, with the potential to be very useful in the right deck.

[Gazbag]

The wording on this is very unclear. I think it's saying that during cleanup you upgrade one Action card in play (and it's not optional) but the "when" is confusing; it could be interpreted to mean that you have to upgrade all of your Action cards in play. I would reword it to something like "During cleanup, choose one Action card you have in play..."

You do upgrade all actions, I don't see how this isn't clear?

It just doesn't seem that good if you do it to all your actions and it's not optional. Because that means all your best cards become one-shots. Say there's no Actions. Then you're now paying for an Lab which is really an Experiment, when normally you can pay for 2 of them. Your cheaper cards get a bit better as they progress, but you still only get a few turns with them. If you want any engine to be effective, I think you need huge amounts of +buy and just to keep your actions around, and if that's available in big enough quantities your deck, it's probably time to green anyway. Maybe I'm missing something, but that's just how it seems to me.

I just thought it was a cool idea, personally I'm fine with a landscape being a bit situational.

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The problem is that the Project is expensive yet only useful for a few turns. Once you are out of villages your engine collapses.
That is not situational but pretty much always the case.
Even in the best case scenario, i.e. no price gaps, decent $2s and $3s, it is only four turns until that Patrician kamikazes himself.

I think that due to the expensive price this Project could get away with being non-mandatory. While it is mandatory you have no control at all. Another option is to not restrict the gained cards to Actions, then all those $5s could at least Upgrade themselves into Gold.

[Asper]

Darn. The two ideas I had for this round ended up as a simple trash-for-benefit Event and a Project with an ongoing condition, respectively. I don't want to submit my old stuff, so apparently I'll sit back and watch. It's a cool challenge.