This was my entry for challenge #12:
Thrift Shop / Ozu
$5 - Action
+1 Action
Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck.
Put 2 cards in your hand that do not share any type or subtype.
Discard the rest.
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(Rule clarifications: As always you try to do as much as you can. So if you reveal 3 Treasures, you can put 1 in hand and have to discard the others.)
So there was a lot of confusion, what is a subtype anyway? I designed this card with Dark Ages around the corner and feared there might be more funky types and subtypes in there, so I put this in. Afterwards, I think just "type" would have sufficed. What I meant was basically "don't share any words on the bottom" so with 2 Shelters you can only keep 1.
I thought about putting "you may" in there with the "put 2 in your hand", but I didn't want to put an unnecessary "you may" in for no good reason. But I guess it doesn't sit well with a lot of people if they often can't do what the card says., so in hindsight "you may" might have been better here.
I liked this card, but hey, I designed it!
But the comments were like "often you have to discard a good card and this is frustrating".
I look at this another way: You can always keep the best of the three cards, this is great! So even if you draw "Gold-Copper-Copper" you can keep a Gold and cycle those Coppers. And this brings me to another point: there's a small cycling effect going on here. You always cycle at least one and sometimes two cards. No, it's no Warehouse, but I think it's useful.
The obvious thing to do is to compare it to Lab. Lab draws 2 blind cards, this draws at least 1 good card , but not more than one unless they are of a different type. So it's not that great in pure action engines but I thought it would be good enough in mixed decks with maybe a couple of terminals and a couple of treasure cards. The hard part was to not make it strictly better than Lab.
What do you guys think? Would this card be better with "reveal 4" or something?
Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy with 10th place! But I'd just like to know what you guys think.