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− | + | An '''emulator''' allows you to play a card not in your deck—in effect, they allow you to "emulate" the effects of other cards. Many are also [[Command]]s. Emulator cards provide extra flexibility and reliability to the deck: when you draw such a card, you get to choose from the effects of whichever other cards would be the most beneficial for you on this particular turn. Because of this flexibility, most emulators restrict what you can play, such as by only playing cards from the Supply up to a certain cost. So if you need expensive cards, you'll have to buy them straight out. Emptying a [[Supply]] pile can severely weaken emulators because there's one less card they can copy. | |
− | + | ==List of emulators== | |
+ | * {{Debt|8}}: {{Card|Overlord}}—emulates a card in the Supply costing up to {{cost|5}} | ||
+ | * {{Cost|4}}: {{Card|Necromancer}}—emulates a card in the [[trash]] | ||
+ | * {{Cost|5}}: {{Card|Band of Misfits}}—emulates a card in the Supply costing up to {{cost|4}} | ||
+ | * {{Cost|6}}: {{Card|Captain}}—emulates two cards in the Supply costing up to {{cost|4}} | ||
+ | * {{Cost|7}}: {{Event|Inheritance}}—causes your {{card|Estate}}s to emulate a card from the Supply costing up to {{cost|4}} | ||
+ | * {{Cost|8}}: {{card|Prince}}—emulates a card costing up to {{cost|4}} set aside from your hand, every turn for the rest of the game. | ||
− | + | {{Event|Way of the Mouse}} mechanically resembles an emulator, in that its effect is to play a set-aside card, "leaving it there", but unlike a proper emulator it does not allow the player to choose during the game what card is to be emulated. | |
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==Tracking Rules== | ==Tracking Rules== | ||
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* If you {{Card|Throne Room|Throne}} an {{Card|Overlord}}, and the {{Card|Overlord}} plays a {{Card|Wharf}}, the {{Card|Throne Room}} will not stay in play. | * If you {{Card|Throne Room|Throne}} an {{Card|Overlord}}, and the {{Card|Overlord}} plays a {{Card|Wharf}}, the {{Card|Throne Room}} will not stay in play. | ||
− | ==Rules complications with | + | ==Rules complications with emulators== |
− | Early | + | Early emulators—prior versions of Band of Misfits, Inheritance, and Overlord—acted by actually changing the identity or abilities of the emulating card. Thus when you played a Band of Misfits, for example, it "became" a copy of whatever card it was emulating until it left play, and was counted as such for the purposes of such cards as {{card|Horn of Plenty}}. [[Donald X.]] had expressed dissatisfaction with this state of affairs because it involved "shapeshifting": two copies of the same card in different locations (e.g., a Band of Misfits in play and one in the trash, or an Inherited Estate in your deck and one in an opponent's deck) might have different names and/or abilities. This led to the [[Dominion 2019 Errata and Rules Tweaks]] that altered these to work like the later emulators. |
− | The later | + | The later emulators ({{Card|Necromancer}} and {{Card|Captain}}) work in a different way: technically, instead of "becoming" the emulated card, they just cause the emulated card to be played without entering the play area (i.e., "leaving it there"). Certain of these cards are not allowed to emulate [[Duration]] cards, to avoid confusion caused by Duration cards being played with nothing left in play to track them. New tracking rules were added to allow some of these later-style emulators to track Duration cards (either playing them or playing a card that plays them multiple times). |
− | Later | + | Later emulators are more effective at playing [[one-shot]]s than earlier ones: if you play an {{Card|Experiment}} with {{Card|Captain}} nothing returns to the [[Supply]], whereas older versions of {{Card|Band of Misfits}} that played an {{Card|Experiment}} would. On the other hand, earlier emulators are more effective with cards that have a [[Triggered_effects#While cards are in play|"while this is in play"]] ability, such as {{Card|Highway}}, or a [[Triggered effects#Discarding from play|"when you discard this from play"]] ability, like {{Card|Herbalist}}; with later emulators, the emulated card is never put into play those abilities are never triggered. For these reasons, certain one-shots were given errata to have some of their effects contingent on trashing. |
− | The | + | The Command type was added to certain emulators ({{Card|Band of Misfits}}, {{Card|Captain}} and {{Card|Overlord}}) to prevent strange loops that could happen if they could (or were forced to) play each other. |
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
− | {{CardImage| | + | {{CardImage|Overlord}}{{CardImage|Necromancer}}{{CardImage|Band of Misfits}}{{CardImage|Captain}} |
<br>{{LandscapeImage|Inheritance}}{{LandscapeImage|Way of the Mouse}} | <br>{{LandscapeImage|Inheritance}}{{LandscapeImage|Way of the Mouse}} | ||
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− | Sometimes fun cards make it out because of how fun they are, despite issues. There are some examples! Band of Misfits left {{Set|Dark Ages}} due to its rules issues; it came back because people missed it. People liked it when it came out, and often it's not tricky. The | + | Sometimes fun cards make it out because of how fun they are, despite issues. There are some examples! {{Card|Band of Misfits}} left {{Set|Dark Ages}} due to its rules issues; it came back because people missed it. People liked it when it came out, and often it's not tricky. The original version was a mistake, but I'm not sure that the tweaked version is. It's not the kind of thing I want to do lots of, but it's fun. |
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | ||
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg874639#msg874639 Interview with Donald X.] | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg874639#msg874639 Interview with Donald X.] |