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[LTaco]

Weekly Design Contest #222: Take Five



For this week's contest, design a card or card-shaped thing that has +5 Cards or a functionally equivalent wording in its text. You may incorporate any official components or mechanics. Your entry must encompass only a single card or card-shaped thing.

Functionally equivalent here means, it behaves exactly as +5 Cards would. That is, the number of cards drawn is exactly five, always and every time, except, of course, when not enough cards are in the deck and discard pile to be drawn. An example would be Guide with its "draw 5 cards" clause. Thus drawing up to X cards or looking at more than 5 cards an choosing 5 to put in hand are not permitted. Also not allowed is splitting the draw, i.e having multiple + Cards all adding up to +5 Cards. On that note, don't try anything cheeky like splitting higher + Cards into one +5 Cards and something else, without a very good reason.
That isn't to say, the hand size must always be affected in the same way as by a plain +5 Cards. You may include discarding, trashing, playing of cards from hand etc. The +5 Cards may be nested in a choose or conditional clause etc.


Although plain text entries will be accepted, I encourage you to submit your cards as images with card-art.

The contest will close some time on Thursday next week. I plan to post the judgment on the same day. I am aiming for a turnaround time for this week's contest of 7 days, thus the time you have to submit your entries is not quite that.

[BryGuy]

Retracted

                                                     

Fury Gremlin • $4 • Action
Return two Hand cards to the Supply.
Choose one to gain: a Silver; or a card costing exactly the returned card's cost sum in $.

Savage Cyclops • $7 • Action
+5 Cards
+2 Actions
Choose one: discard a Victory costing $3 to $6; or discard two Victory cards; or return this to its pile for +2 Coffers.

Here is a split pile to mitigate the second card's acquisition.

                                                     

[segura]

I don’t see the mitigation. Sure, min-forging two cards into a $7 is a possibility but giving up a $3 and a $4 respectively a $2 and a $5 (and above all the chance to play them in this turn) is always a steep price.

So yeah, the interaction in this split pile is a bit low.

I’d simply run with a straightforward Duchy interaction (make it simpler, you don’t need that Coffers thing). Might still be too strong (you draw far more than with Encampment) but then again it is a $7.

[fika monster]

WITHDRAWED

Untitled action
5$ action

+5 cards
Each other player may discard 4 cards to draw 4 cards

[LTaco]

                                                     

                                                     

Unfortunately your entry consists of more than one card and thus isn't eligible for this contest.

[Augie279]

Crumbling City
Action - $5
+2 Actions
Discard your hand. +5 Cards.
You may discard your hand for +5 Cards.

Don't like your hand? You get two chances to swap it out! Do like it, and it's the only Village on the board? Uh, sorry, but that's not my problem.

[JW]

Earl
- Action
+5 Cards and +1 Buy.
Discard, revealed: one Gold, or two Silvers, or three cards. If you discarded at least two Actions, +1 Action. You may trash one Treasure discarded.

Notes: Inspired by Pooka, Marquis, and Witch’s Hut. It’s versatile and will probably generate interesting choices about what to discard, whether to get it early to use as a Copper trasher, and whether to gain Golds to increase its drawing potential.

[LibraryAdventurer]

I finally came up with a card for last week's contest.
Is enough drawback for this?

Miscounting Viscount
- Action
Take .
Choose one: +5 Cards, Gain an Action card costing up to , or trash up to 3 cards from your hand or discard pile.

Or should it cost $5? Which version is better balanced?

Miscounting Viscount
- Action
Take .
Choose one: +5 Cards, Gain an Action card costing up to , or trash up to 3 cards from your hand or discard pile.

EDIT: For now, I'm going with the one that costs $5 as my entry.

[BryGuy]

Retracted

                                                     

                                                     

Forest Centaur • $7 • Action
Choose one: Discard a Gold; or take @4.
Choose one: +5 Cards; or gain two Horses and Exile two Silvers.
Choose one: +1 Action; or +1 Buy.
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This costs $2 less if you have at least two Silvers in play.

So here is my entry, a Count variant for a Menagerie meets Empire set.

                                                     

[NoMoreFun]

Grandstand
Action - $5
You may discard an Action for +5 cards

[BryGuy]

I finally came up with a card for last week's contest.
Is enough drawback for this?

Miscounting Viscount
- Action
Take .
Choose one: +5 Cards, Gain an Action card costing up to , or trash up to 3 cards from your hand or discard pile.

Or should it cost $5? Which version is better balanced?

Miscounting Viscount
- Action
Take .
Choose one: +5 Cards, Gain an Action card costing up to , or trash up to 3 cards from your hand or discard pile.

I'm not sure on balance, but i don't see myself buying the first version, but i'd buy the second version.

[4est]

Many desire to be King, but only one may rule.

[D782802859]

[silverspawn]

[segura]

Silversmithy • $5 • Action
+5 Cards
Trash this unless you trash a Silver from your hand.

[infangthief]

Curator
$4 Action

+5 Cards
+1 Buy
Reveal your hand. Put the Victory and Action cards onto your deck in any order.

[infangthief]

I like it, but there is already an official event with the same name...

[anordinaryman]

Heroic Blacksmith | Action | $4
+5 Cards
Reveal your hand, discard the Treasures and Heroic Blacksmiths.
-
When you gain this, gain a Treasure and a Copper.

Trying to take a Royal Blacksmith-esque card and make it different enough to coexist with it.

It's a much cheaper cost, but the drawback is a lot steeper, forcing you to discard ALL treasures and other Noble Blacksmiths. And it comes with an on-gain "penalty." What will be fun is trying to make the penalty actually work for you. Perhaps you buy the Heroic Blacksmith as a cheap Platinum, planning to trash it for benefit later. Or perhaps you really don't need treasures at all, and you treat this like a big sifter to get to your actions, and accept the annoying Copper and Treasure as cards to sift away or trash later.

I'm open to feedback, specifically whether it's necessary to "gain a Copper" with the treasure. I'd consider making it at $5 and not having it self-discard or having it gain a copper. Lots of ways to iterate this, let me know if you have strong opinions.

[silverspawn]

I like it, but there is already an official event with the same name...

oh damn, I actually even checked for this before choosing the name. But I think I searched for "pathfinder" and then decided to go with "pathfinding" instead.

Will figure out a new name

[HorazVitae]

Collector
+5 Cards
Reveal your hand. Discard all but one of each diferently named card.
$4 Action

Still trying to design a night card that has the +5 cards, but this will do, in case i don't find a solution i like.

EDIT: reworded for accountability and as per the suggestion of carnival's wording.

[BryGuy]

                                                     

                                                     

Planning Table • $5 • Action
+5 Cards
Set-aside five Hand cards, discarding up to two and putting the rest onto your Deck's top.

So here is one of my dozen other ideas.

[BryGuy]

Collector
+5 Cards
Discard all extra copies of any card in your hand beyond the first.
$4 Action

Still trying to design a night card that has the +5 cards, but this will do, in case i don't find a solution i like.

Should there be a "reveal Hand" in there somewhere, for accountability? Carnival may provide inspiration for your card's text.

[grep]

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Arsenic Smith
$5 - Action

Gain a Curse.
+5 Cards
Reveal your hand. If you have revealed a Curse, trash this.


Trivia: Highly toxic arsenic ore was used to produce quality bronze

[silverspawn]

I like it, but there is already an official event with the same name...

oh damn, I actually even checked for this before choosing the name. But I think I searched for "pathfinder" and then decided to go with "pathfinding" instead.

Will figure out a new name

well, no reason to make it complicated. I just changed "Pathfinding" back to "Pathfinder"

[HorazVitae]

Should there be a "reveal Hand" in there somewhere, for accountability?

Oh yeah true, forgot about that, ty.