My internet broke for 2 days which was very annoying but all submissions in the meantime are ok.
Here is the updated version of my submission, and the bottom half of the 5/5 split pile that goes with it. If permissible, I would like just Birthright to be my submission:
I'm not sure I understnad the request. Are you saying you want me to treat this as if it were a 10-card pile of just Birthright? If so, of course that's permissible; I mean, you could have just not posted the fact that it's a split pile. Or do you mean something else?
No, sorry I was not more clear. The explanation is long, and I don't want to make you read it, so the TL;DR is that I am keeping the split pile, and it is up to you to decide if you want to include Legacy in the judging. But please let me know if you consider it disqualifying so I can change it.
The contest had a very specific objective, and the card I came up with is Birthright. But I think the optimal number of Birthrights available to a player is more than 1 and fewer than 10, and the only way I can think to do that is with a split pile. A split pile requires a second card, so I made one. But that card exists only to make Birthright better. I think Legacy is a marginal case (at best) for fitting the criteria of requiring a high skill level to play optimally. It certainly is not one of the best examples of it. But I do think it is a good fit on the split pile with Birthright, and the fact that they are on the same pile doesn't change the fact that (I think) Birthright does fit the criteria quite well.
Many card-shaped objects in Dominion are functionally connected to a specific card - they gain it (Reap), they trash it (Moneylender), they junk it (Witch), they count it (Fortune), they change it (Inheritance), etc. One of the ways cards are connected is when they share a split pile. Some of the cards that have been submitted have a specific relationship with Curse. Obviously Curse does not fit the criteria, so because you don't play it at all. But you wouldn't expect that judging to be applied to Curse.
Similarly, someone might have submitted something that required creating a card or other card-shaped objected (like an Artifact), that didn't get played (like an Artifact that gives +1 Buy at the start of each turn) or was relatively simple to play (like Donkey, below, a variant of Horse). Donkey might make the card being submitted better, and the fact that Donkey is fairly simple to play does not change the fact that the card that uses it might require a high skill level to play, and the simplicity of Donkey is not what would be judged (I would think).
My point/request is that in judging my submission, Legacy should only be considered to the extent that it's being on a split pile with Birthright makes Birthright a better or worse card overall. But I understand that this is not exactly the same as those other scenarios, so obviously this will be up to you.
NOT A SUBMISSION