Some Dominion cards are better than others, there's no doubt about that, but that's not what I'm interested in.
Where one card may excel in its mechanics or price to action ratio, another may have beautiful art and a third may be the best thematic fit. Surely, there must be a card that does all three exceptionally well.
I would like to find out what our users think is the best designed Dominion card. Qvist has asked you what the best card at each price was, but I'm more interested in other aspects of the card.
Which card scores the highest average on these criteria:
- Mechanics (they're important, but not the be all end all)
- Art (no love for Harem, I'm afraid)
- Thematic fit (does the card do what you would expect a card with such a name to do)
- Expansion fit (does the card symbolize the thought behind its expansion well)
- Simplicity (not that a card needs to have only vanilla effects, just that you can understand it quickly enough)
These are highly subjective questions and what I would like from you is to nominate a bunch of cards.
To nominate a card, you must mention it here (possibly with your reasoning for picking it) and it must be supported by at least one two users.Once 5 nominees are in, I will add them to the poll (if it allows me to do so) and you can vote for it.
As more expansions come out, I will possibly edit the poll continuously and you are able to change your vote anytime.
I will kick things off by nominating
Horn of Plenty. It's the title card of the set and symbolizes it well. The more you diversify, the more you will get out of it. I like the still life art on the card. It may be slightly more difficult than your run of the mill vanilla cards, but I'm willing to let it go. As far as actual gameplay I think it can often make for very fun games because you can always play it (except for Loan) as you don't need actions for it. I like how it encourages you to make use of the entire kingdom to get good use out of it. No longer those Pearl Divers and Spies are useless!
So if you think Horn of Plenty is a top notch designed card, support my vote by saying "+1 for Horn of Plenty" or something similar. If you think Horn of Plenty is awfully designed, just propose another card. It's not possible to "downvote" a card once it's on the list.
You are restricted to three nominations and this includes supports.The current nominees are:
I don't have an image of the new Silver from the base cards set. If anyone has it, please post.
