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[BryGuy]

I was wondering if anyone could direct me to card backs not readily available on dominionstrategy.com...Landscape. Specifically the one that are not there Events, Landmarks, States, Ways, and Traits. Otherwise, would anyone be willing to design these?

[J410]

Those cards just have regular backs in my box of Dominion.

[enfynet]

The only landscape cards with different backs, iirc, are Boons and Hexes. The rest are designed to be chosen at random so have the generic back.

[GendoIkari]

My memory vaguely says that when landscapes were first added (Adventures), the intention was to have the backs printed in landscape, but there was some sort of production mix-up that caused them to not be. Then it was decided that it worked out fine that way because they worked along with the randomizer deck. Am I right?

[Donald X.]

My memory vaguely says that when landscapes were first added (Adventures), the intention was to have the backs printed in landscape, but there was some sort of production mix-up that caused them to not be. Then it was decided that it worked out fine that way because they worked along with the randomizer deck. Am I right?

No. Events did get the wrong back; they were supposed to have the randomizer back, the expectation being that you'd shuffle them in with other randomizers. They got the regular back instead so we've stuck with that. It doesn't so much matter for shuffling that deck, because well the randomizer deck is just to give you a way to pick out cards, there's no way to cheat with it. These days I think people prefer to keep Events (and Landmarks and Ways and Projects) separate, so they can always have 2 or something. So a different back for all of those (not including Allies as they're always paired with Liaisons) would have been fine. But here we are.

[Donald X.]

The only landscape cards with different backs, iirc, are Boons and Hexes. The rest are designed to be chosen at random so have the generic back.

https://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/File:Ally-back.jpg

[GendoIkari]

My memory vaguely says that when landscapes were first added (Adventures), the intention was to have the backs printed in landscape, but there was some sort of production mix-up that caused them to not be. Then it was decided that it worked out fine that way because they worked along with the randomizer deck. Am I right?

No. Events did get the wrong back; they were supposed to have the randomizer back, the expectation being that you'd shuffle them in with other randomizers. They got the regular back instead so we've stuck with that. It doesn't so much matter for shuffling that deck, because well the randomizer deck is just to give you a way to pick out cards, there's no way to cheat with it. These days I think people prefer to keep Events (and Landmarks and Ways and Projects) separate, so they can always have 2 or something. So a different back for all of those (not including Allies as they're always paired with Liaisons) would have been fine. But here we are.

Ah, that's right... so I was sort of half right; I knew there was something like that.

[enfynet]

The only landscape cards with different backs, iirc, are Boons and Hexes. The rest are designed to be chosen at random so have the generic back.

https://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/File:Ally-back.jpg

Ah right, because of Liaisons they need to be identifiable. We just used those Friday and I already forgot. Shows how much I look at the back of the cards!