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[scott_pilgrim]

Recreate seems VERY weak when compared to Upgrade.  Lose +1 Card / +1 Action and the loss of flexibility (ie. 5 --> Gold) for the top-decking and the $1 price reduction?

I'd say it needs at least a vanilla bonus -->  I'd try either +1 Action, or $1 / $2.  My guess is making it non-terminal should be a good start.

The problem (?) with making it non-terminal is that as long as you have a cantrip in hand, the top-decking is almost as good as the gaining in hand was on the old version.  (Although you do end up with 1 less card in hand.)  I put a question mark after "problem" in that sentence because maybe that's not a problem.  But it's something we've never seen before on a Dominion card, and I would assume that it's just because non-terminal flexible top-deck gaining is something that DXV found to be too powerful to ever work right.  Or maybe it was just such a specific thing that he never ended up making a card that did that.  I would think +$2 would be the better vanilla bonus though.  (I had suggested having the silver-gaining option to gain to hand, but I think just adding +$2 is actually better since it encourages gaining actions instead.)  Or, you could just playtest it both ways and see what happens.

[eHalcyon]

The Silver gaining is the biggest problem with Recreate. Cards don't need to provide a backup to make copper trashing stronger. Keep the original sans silver gain and it'll probably be fine and more interesting as a usually wreak but situational mind blowing card, like Develop.