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[JW]

Weekly Design Contest #226: The Count!

In honor of my four-year-old, whose favorite Sesame Street character is The Count: design a card or landscape that generally requires counting something.

Examples include Gardens, Vineyard, Marquis, Magnate, Menagerie, Forge (when you trash multiple cards; Remodel alone wouldn't fit the spirit), Philosopher’s Stone (though your card should be quicker to resolve than this IRL), etc.

Your submission can have up to two card-shaped things if desired, such as an Heirloom/kingdom card, or card with an artifact, but not a whole traveler line.

Entries must be submitted by 5:00 PM UTC on Tuesday August 6. I'll try to have results posted by that Thursday.

[emtzalex]

"Who's your favorite TV vampire."
"The one from Sesame Street."
"I don't think he counts."
"I can assure you he does."

[NoMoreFun]

Party
Action - <5>
+2 Cards
You may take +<1> for +1 Action per <> you have

Edit: Changed cost to debt

[anordinaryman]

Combine
Action | $5
Trash two cards from your hand. Gain a card that costs up to the total cost in $ of the trashed cards.

[segura]

Party
Action - $2
+1 Card
+$1
+<1>, then +1 Action per <> you have

Why this mess with Coins and Debt instead of simply: "+1 Action per Party you player this turn"?

[Augie279]

Party
Action - $2
+1 Card
+$1
+<1>, then +1 Action per <> you have

Why this mess with Coins and Debt instead of simply: "+1 Action per Party you player this turn"?

You could theoretically save Debt for a future turn to pile up a lot of Actions? It's not much of a use, but it is a use.

[BryGuy]

                                                     

                                                     

Cattle • $4 • Treasure
Choose one: +$2;
or +1 Buy and trash this for +$1 per token on the Ranch mat, but minimum $2,
and if the Ranch mat has less than six token, add two tokens.

Ranch • Mat
When you add your first token to this on your turn, +1 Coffers and +1 Villager.

Here is my entry - a Treasure that counts the tokens on the Ranch mat. The only way to get tokens on the Ranch mat is to sacrifice a Cattle. Since one player's sacrifice benefits all, you can use these as expensive Silvers until you are ready to sacrifice them.

                                                     

[X-tra]

I'm open to discussing the cost of this card. Though in my mind, it should absolutely cost a certain amount of Debt.

Yes, it can gain (one) Province per turn if you work hard enough for it. It's a feature, not a bug.

[NoMoreFun]

Party
Action - $2
+1 Card
+$1
+<1>, then +1 Action per <> you have

Why this mess with Coins and Debt instead of simply: "+1 Action per Party you player this turn"?

Interactions with other debt cards and a few fun synergies like Fortune, Capital City and Storyteller.

[4est]

Gondor calls for aid!

You can get unbounded terminal draw, but lighting the Beacons takes time (though it's faster when you're under attack). Note: Each player has their own Beacon mat; I'll maybe mock one up later.

[binbag420]

https://imgur.com/a/rQlG913

Edit: For some reason I can’t see the image on my phone unless I click the Imgr link, so i’ll add the text here in case anyone can’t see it either:

Frontier (Landmark)

After the game ends, there's an extra round of turns during which you can't buy Victory cards, and get +1VP per card in your hand at Clean-up.

[Holger]

Gondor calls for aid!

You can get unbounded terminal draw, but lighting the Beacons takes time (though it's faster when you're under attack). Note: Each player has their own Beacon mat; I'll maybe mock one up later.

It takes a lot of time indeed: The first twelve plays can at best draw 36 cards (adding 6 tokens to draw 6*6 cards), like twelve Smithies but heavily delayed. With 16 plays you can draw up to 8*8=64  cards, like 16 (heavily delayed) Hunting Grounds.

So you have to go all in for this pile, and try to prolong the game as far as possible...

[segura]

You cannot apply such simple additive logic. Build-up cards are usually undervalued.

[fika monster]

Redacted. figured out a card i like more



v2

Racketeer
$5 Action - Attack - Duration

At the start of your next turn, +1 Card, +3 Actions.

Until then, at the start of each other players Cleanup phase, they count the Action card they have the most copies of in play and exiles a copy of it that they would discard from play.
(If its a tie, then they choose.)

Edit: Clarified the wording and tried to make it match improve. added art.

[fika monster]

An Ally: Benefactor

Edit: Changed wording and now just Action cards are affected.

At the start of your your turn, you may spend 1 or more Favors to play an Action card from your hand twice, that costs exactly $1 per Favor./quote]

[segura]

[Tiago]

I can't think of any wording better than this; please suggest one!

[segura]

This wording is confusing. Do you perhaps mean: "+2 Coffers unless you have more copies of Town Square in play than you bought this turn."

[fika monster]

I feel like it should give more options, even if the options are bad.

Suggestions for what they could be: put that a card from your hand onto your deck(or maybe it could be “set it aside for next turn”?);gain a spoils; gain a will o wisps (this option is probably too good)  ; discard the top card of your deck and look through your discard pile, putting a card from it onto your deck.


Idk if these are good ideas but i just feel that you will have more then 3 differently named cards in your hand a lot of the time

[X-tra]

So what? Nothing stops you from picking the same option multiple times.

[segura]

I feel like it should give more options, even if the options are bad.

Suggestions for what they could be: put that a card from your hand onto your deck(or maybe it could be “set it aside for next turn”?);gain a spoils; gain a will o wisps (this option is probably too good)  ; discard the top card of your deck and look through your discard pile, putting a card from it onto your deck.


Idk if these are good ideas but i just feel that you will have more then 3 differently named cards in your hand a lot of the time

All these ideas have merit but would make my card for too wordy.

[JW]

Approximately 24-hour warning for submissions.

[JW]

To clarify, can the same option be picked multiple times?

[JW]

I tried.

I agree with segura that it is confusing. It’s not clear to me what the card is intended to do. 

[segura]

To clarify, can the same option be picked multiple times?

Yes. Is there perhaps a clearer wording?