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[Will(ow|iam)]

This week's contest is to Design a Liaison that gives favors in a way that no official Liaison does.

Existing Liaisons

* Give the player a choice to gain favors or to do something else (Bauble, Broker)
* Give favors unconditionally on-gain and on-trash (Sycophant)
* Give favors unconditionally on-play (Underling, Contract)
* Give favors unconditionally at the start of the game (Importer)
* Trash a card and give favors if the trashed card was a treasure (Student)
* Draw cards and give favors if the drawing caused a shuffle (Emissary)
* Give favors after playing for the rest of the turn when the player gains a card (Guildmaster)

So eligible entries mustn't fit any of those descriptions. Maybe your card is a reaction. Maybe you play it and it cares what you did before you played it, or maybe it cares about something other than gaining cards afterwards. The sky's the limit (by "sky" I mean "set of existing Liaison cards").

I will be judging based on
* How fun the card looks to play
* How creative and interesting the card looks
* The most important criteria: how interesting the way it gives favors is.

I hope to judge on July 17, but I have some unknowns around that time, so y'all might get a couple extra days.

Good luck!

[segura]

Tribute is back. You can pull of funky stuff like discarding the same stuff in a deck drawing engine (e.g. two Victories to make this a Horse-Lab) and like Courtier it obviously shines with multi-type cards. I fear that it might be too weak but $3 seems too cheap.

[NoMoreFun]

Bully
Action/Attack/Liaison - $4
+$2
Each other player either spends a Favor, or gets +1 Favor and gains a Curse

[Augie279]

You weren't doing anything with that green anyway, were you? Be careful not to force a reshuffle with all that green you just discarded, though!

[JW]

Generous Village
- Action Reaction Liaison
+1 Card and +2 Actions.
You may discard a card for +1 Favor.
_____
When you discard this other than in Clean-up, you may reveal it for +1 Favor.

Notes:
It’s Underling Village, but there’s a cost to get that Favor. You should have some interesting decisions about when to discard it to itself, and you can build a deck that overdraws to discard it to itself and then redraw it in the same turn, to accumulate Favors faster.

Edit: added Reaction type per comment below.

[Augie279]

Generous Village
- Action Liaison
+1 Card and +2 Actions.
You may discard a card for +1 Favor.
_____
When you discard this other than in Clean-up, you may reveal it for +1 Favor.

Notes:
It’s Underling Village, but there’s a cost to get that Favor. You should have some interesting decisions about when to discard it to itself, and you can build a deck that overdraws itself to discard it to itself and then redraw it in the same turn, to accumulate Favors faster.

Needs the Reaction typing.

[xyz123]

Underwriter
$3
Action - Liaison

Choose one: Exile a card from your hand or +1 Favor per card type you have in Exile.



- Edited - Got rid of the +Cards and +Buy and reduced the cost to 3.

[segura]

Underwriter
$4
Action - Liaison

+2 Cards
+1 Buy

Choose one: Exile a card from your hand or +1 Favor per card type you have in Exile.

I think that this is far too strong. Also 4 jobs are too much for a card, often 3 are already dubious.

[SignError]

Underwriter
$4
Action - Liaison

+2 Cards
+1 Buy

Choose one: Exile a card from your hand or +1 Favor per card type you have in Exile.

I think that this is far too strong. Also 4 jobs are too much for a card, often 3 are already dubious.

For a concrete example, compare Underwriter to Maroon which is already a very strong $4.

[X-tra]

[faust]

Lady-in-Waiting - $5
Action/Duration/Liaison

Next time you spend a Favor, +2 Cards, +1 Buy, +$1.

Until then, when any player shuffles their deck, +1 Favor.

FAQ:
- In general, you do the effects of spending the Favor before triggering Lady-in-Waiting.
- With Island Folk, you spend the Favors after cleanup, so the cards drawn from Lady-in-Waiting are in your hand on the Island Folk turn, and you only discard Lady-in-Waiting from play during the Cleanup phase of the Island Folk turn (but it won't gain you any Favors during that turn).
- If you play Lady-in-Waiting with City-State, Lady-in-Waiting is not immediately triggered (as the Favors were spent before playing).
- If the Ally has a "Repeat as desired", Lady-in-Waiting triggers on the first Favor spent, and subsequent Favors may only be spent after resolving Lady-in-Waiting.

[4444]

2 Allies in one game?! What a gimmick! You can still only use one of them at a time, though, and grabbing a Traitor lets you control which one that is.

EDIT: Made a change to distinguish it from Underling, re: segura's comment. Old card below:

[Ethan]

Lady-in-Waiting - $5
Action/Duration/Liaison

Next time you spend a Favor, +2 Cards, +1 Buy, +$1.

Until then, when any player shuffles their deck, +1 Favor.

Does it scale with player numbers too much?

[segura]

2 Allies in one game?! What a gimmick! You can still only use one of them at a time, though, and grabbing a Traitor lets you control which one that is. Originally I had it as strictly "Gain a Silver" but maybe you want to rotate Allies lots without filling your deck with silvers, and that seemed more fun.

This is not strictly better than Underling but better and cheaper.

[4est]

You can gain copies of stuff in other people's hands, but eventually you'll run out of Favors. Unless they Mooch off you and.. return the Favor.

[majiponi]

Diver
$4
Action - Liaison
+2 Cards
+1 Buy
Trash a card from your hand.
Choose one: +1 Favor per $1 it costs; or spend any number of Favors and gain a card costing up to $1 per a Favor you spent.

Withdrawn: forgot Broker.

[Gubump]

Diver
$4
Action - Liaison
+2 Cards
+1 Buy
Trash a card from your hand.
Choose one: +1 Favor per $1 it costs; or spend any number of Favors and gain a card costing up to $1 per a Favor you spent.

This is literally gaining Favors the exact same way that Broker does.

[Gubump]

[Ethan]

Tribute is back. You can pull of funky stuff like discarding the same stuff in a deck drawing engine (e.g. two Victories to make this a Horse-Lab) and like Courtier it obviously shines with multi-type cards. I fear that it might be too weak but $3 seems too cheap.

Needs Liaison type for itself.

[Gubump]

Lady-in-Waiting - $5
Action/Duration/Liaison

Next time you spend a Favor, +2 Cards, +1 Buy, +$1.

Until then, when any player shuffles their deck, +1 Favor.

FAQ:
- In general, you do the effects of spending the Favor before triggering Lady-in-Waiting.
- With Island Folk, you spend the Favors after cleanup, so the cards drawn from Lady-in-Waiting are in your hand on the Island Folk turn, and you only discard Lady-in-Waiting from play during the Cleanup phase of the Island Folk turn (but it won't gain you any Favors during that turn).
- If you play Lady-in-Waiting with City-State, Lady-in-Waiting is not immediately triggered (as the Favors were spent before playing).
- If the Ally has a "Repeat as desired", Lady-in-Waiting triggers on the first Favor spent, and subsequent Favors may only be spent after resolving Lady-in-Waiting.

The vanilla bonuses are impossible to get if the Ally is Plateau Shepherds, League of Bankers, or League of Shopkeepers, right? (Ofc, that would mean that LiW would stay in play to keep giving you Favors every time any player shuffles, forever.)

[NoMoreFun]

Lady-in-Waiting - $5
Action/Duration/Liaison

Next time you spend a Favor, +2 Cards, +1 Buy, +$1.

Until then, when any player shuffles their deck, +1 Favor.

FAQ:
- In general, you do the effects of spending the Favor before triggering Lady-in-Waiting.
- With Island Folk, you spend the Favors after cleanup, so the cards drawn from Lady-in-Waiting are in your hand on the Island Folk turn, and you only discard Lady-in-Waiting from play during the Cleanup phase of the Island Folk turn (but it won't gain you any Favors during that turn).
- If you play Lady-in-Waiting with City-State, Lady-in-Waiting is not immediately triggered (as the Favors were spent before playing).
- If the Ally has a "Repeat as desired", Lady-in-Waiting triggers on the first Favor spent, and subsequent Favors may only be spent after resolving Lady-in-Waiting.

The vanilla bonuses are impossible to get if the Ally is Plateau Shepherds, League of Bankers, or League of Shopkeepers, right? (Ofc, that would mean that LiW would stay in play to keep giving you Favors every time any player shuffles, forever.)

Seems like the case, though they're all interesting in doing so. Even Shopkeepers - the Shopkeepers +buy may be the only +buy in the Kingdom (with Lady in Waiting's inaccessible).

[anordinaryman]

I feel like this should be “when you gain this on your turn” to prevent messenger pins and just other  things.

Like it a lot even without that change

[Will(ow|iam)]

24 hour warning

[SignError]

It needs “(round down).”  See Swamp Shacks.

[Awaclus]

Even Shopkeepers - the Shopkeepers +buy may be the only +buy in the Kingdom (with Lady in Waiting's inaccessible).

I'm not sure when you would want to spend $5 and a buy on a one-shot that gives you +$1 and a buy, after first spending $5 and a buy on a terminal one-shot that does nothing besides enabling the +$1 +1 buy one-shot a few turns later.

[SignError]

Charmer
$2P - Action - Liaison

+3 Cards

You may trash a Potion from your hand for +1 Card and +4 Favors.

[NoMoreFun]

Even Shopkeepers - the Shopkeepers +buy may be the only +buy in the Kingdom (with Lady in Waiting's inaccessible).

I'm not sure when you would want to spend $5 and a buy on a one-shot that gives you +$1 and a buy, after first spending $5 and a buy on a terminal one-shot that does nothing besides enabling the +$1 +1 buy one-shot a few turns later.

If something that can easily gain Actions or $5s is in the kingdom but no +buy maybe? Very very edge casey but so are some official cards

[Will(ow|iam)]

Contest closed. Judging soon.

[Will(ow|iam)]

Segura's entry

Fox
$4 Night [- Liaison]
Reveal the top 2 cards of your deck. For each revealed type, if it is
Action, +1 Villager
Treasure, +1 Coffers
Victory, gain a Horse
each other type, +1 Favor

Creative and interesting: We've seen "random bonus" cards before, but never during night phase. These particular bonuses work well in night phase. 8/10
Fun to play: You get a random bonus during night phase. You can't rely on any particular bonus, but the bonuses it gives are really good. I feel like I have a hard time figuring out when to put it into my deck. 6/10.
Gives favors interestingly: 10/20.
Total:24/40

NoMoreFun's entry:

Bully
$4 Action - Attack - Liaison
+$2
Each other player either spends a Favor, or gets +1 Favor and gains a Curse

Creative and interesting: An attack that targets other players' favors is nifty, and this is a cool way to do it! 9/10.
Fun to play: It's basically always worth saving a favor to avoid gaining a curse, so this really amounts to "Each other player gains half a curse", and the Ally doesn't matter. 1/10.
Gives favors interestingly:8/20
Total: 18/40

Augie279's entry:

Land Grant
$5 Action - Liaison
You may gain an Estate. Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. You may discard any revealed Victory cards for +1 Favor each. Put the rest into your hand.

Creative and interesting: 2/10. It's mostly Smithy
Fun to play: 6/10. I mean, Smithy is fun to play, and this is more fun than Smithy, but it's nothing special.
Gives favors interestingly: 10/20
Total: 18/40

JW's Entry:

Generous Village
$4 Action - Reaction - Liaison
+1 Card
+2 Actions.
You may discard a card for +1 Favor.
_____
When you discard this other than in Clean-up, you may reveal it for +1 Favor.

Creative and Interesting: Borrows a lot from Plaza, but the self synergy is really cool. 7/10.
Fun to play: 8/10
Gives favors interestingly: 16/20
Total: 31/40

xyz123's entry:

Underwriter
$3 Action - Liaison
Choose one: Exile a card from your hand or +1 Favor per card type you have in Exile.

Creative and Interesting: 10/10. A terminal exiler liaison!
Fun to play: 7/10. Miser vibes.
Gives favors interestingly: 20/20.
Total: 37/40

X-tra's entry:

Mansion
$3 Action - Liaison
+$1
You may play a silver from your hand for +2 Favors
--
When you gain this, reveal your hand and trash the coppers

Fun to play: 10/10. Lots of interesting choices when playing it.
Creative and interesting: 9/10.
Gives favors interestingly: 18/20
Total: 37/40

faust's entry:

Lady in Waiting
$5 Action - Duration - Liaison
Next time you spend a favor, +2 Cards, +1 Buy, +$1
Until then, when any player shuffles their deck, +1 Favor

Fun to play: 4/10. It kinda gives an extra use for favors, which makes it play too similarly for different Allies for my tastes. Also kills Shopkeepers. Aside from that, it seems really cool.
Creative and interesting: 10/10
Gives favors interestingly: 10/20
Total: 24/40

4444's entry:

Traitor
$2 Action - Liaison
+1 Action
+$1
You may rotate the Allies. If you do, +1 Favor.
--
Setup: Include an additional Ally underneath the first. (Only the visible Ally may be used)

Creative and interesting: 10/10.
Fun to play: 3/10. Seems too strong and centralizing. I think you'll rotate the Allies too rarely.
Gives favors interestingly: 20/20.
Total: 33/40

4est's entry:

Mooch
$3 Action - Liaison
The player to your left reveals their hand. You may pay them 1 favor to gain a copy of a non-victory card in their hand.

Creative and interesting: 10/10
Fun to play: 0/10. Really swingy often doing nothing, adding an extra use for favors, guh.
Gives favors interestingly: 2/20.
Total: 12/20.

Gubump's entry:

Noble City
$4 Action - Liaison
+1 Card
+2 Actions
--
When you gain this, +1 Favor per 3 Action cards you have in play.

Creative and interesting: 3/10
Fun to play: 4/10
Gives favors interestingly: 8/20
Total: 15/20

SignError's entry:

Charmer
$2P Action - Liaison
+3 Cards
You may trash a Potion from your hand for +1 Card and +4 Favors

Creative and interesting: 4/10
Fun to play: 4/10
Gives favors interestingly: 18/20
Total: 26/40

Winner: Underwriter by xyz123
Runner up: Mansion by X-tra

[xyz123]

Thanks 

I will have a think and come up with the next competition.