Hunting Dog
$4 Action - Reaction
Reveal the top two cards of your deck and put any number of them into your hand.
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When something causes you to reveal this (using the word “reveal”), you may play it.
Priced at $4 as it synergizing with itself and there are a good amount of instances that cause one to reveal their hand and thus, by accident, this too.
I believe you need to say what happens to the cards you don’t put into your hand. “And discard the rest” is simplest and I like the synergy of this card triggering both “reveal” and “discard” reactions. I believe that works better than “put the rest back in any order” for this particular card.
I also think this is a little on the strong side, though I don’t know how to change it, so it might just be strong. I’m basing this on how easy/often I get cultist chains running— at $4 it’s a lot easier to do so. It might just be good being a stronger $4
You are correct, it's definitely a stronger $4!
I'd be worried for it to be too strong, if it allows to discard by choice too. Happy to get more opinions on this!
In regards to it as-is needing to specify what happens to them: Generally no (e.g. see Piazza and Wishing Well), but as this reveals 2 cards, I believe it should indeed, given all other cards revealing more than one and giving you a choice do tell you what to do with the rest.
I will adjust this in the next version; as I said I'd appreciate further feedback regarding the option to discard the ones not put into hand.
Both the cards you refer to only reveal one card, thus they don’t have to specify “put the rest back in any order.” The only order for 1 card is the same as it was before.
Cards that can reveal multiple have to specify — is it the same order they were originally in (no dominion card does that) or is it any order you choose?
In general, putting the cards back is a stronger option with drawing because, unless you have a draw-to-x engine (which is an anti synergy with this card anyway), drawing is equivalent to discarding; however, putting back on top allows you to save cards for future turn, or prevent terminal drawing dead. The additional flexibility would make this stronger overall.
So, for your card, in most cases “discard the rest”
is actually weaker than “put back in any order.”