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[[Image:Followers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Followers]], a Prize card.]] | [[Image:Followers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Followers]], a Prize card.]] | ||
'''Prizes''' are a [[card type]] from [[Cornucopia]]. The Prizes are five differently-named unique cards that are not in the [[supply]], | '''Prizes''' are a [[card type]] from [[Cornucopia]]. The Prizes are five differently-named unique cards that are not in the [[supply]], and can only be gained by playing a {{Card|Tournament}}. | ||
== List of Prizes == | == List of Prizes == | ||
* {{Card|Bag of Gold}} | * {{Card|Bag of Gold}} | ||
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* If you are using the [[Promo|promotional card]] {{Card|Black Market}}, do not put Prizes in the Black Market deck. | * If you are using the [[Promo|promotional card]] {{Card|Black Market}}, do not put Prizes in the Black Market deck. | ||
* Even though Prizes cannot be bought, they have a cost of {{Cost|0}}, which matters for cards like {{Card|Remake}}. | * Even though Prizes cannot be bought, they have a cost of {{Cost|0}}, which matters for cards like {{Card|Remake}}. | ||
== Strategy == | |||
''For discussion of Prizes, refer to the [[Tournament#Strategy|Tournament strategy section]].'' | |||
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== Trivia == | == Trivia == |
Revision as of 20:20, 22 January 2022
Prizes are a card type from Cornucopia. The Prizes are five differently-named unique cards that are not in the supply, and can only be gained by playing a Tournament.
List of Prizes
Official Rules
- There are five Prizes: Bag of Gold, Diadem, Followers, Princess, and Trusty Steed.
- These are cards which are never part of the Supply.
- If the Prizes run out, that does not count towards the game end condition.
- The Prizes may not be bought, or gained via cards like Horn of Plenty; they may only be gained via the card Tournament, or via cards that directly provide a way to gain them (such as Lurker from second edition Intrigue, which can gain Actions from the trash).
- Ambassador (from Dominion: Seaside) cannot return Prizes to their pile.
- Trashed Prizes go to the trash pile, like other cards; they do not return to the Prize pile.
- If you are using the promotional card Black Market, do not put Prizes in the Black Market deck.
- Even though Prizes cannot be bought, they have a cost of Remake. , which matters for cards like
Strategy
For discussion of Prizes, refer to the Tournament strategy section.
Trivia
In other languages
- Czech: Odměna
- Dutch: Prijs
- Finnish: Palkinto
- German: Preis
- Polish: Nagroda
- Russian: Трофей (pron. trofyey, lit. trophy)
Secret History
The Prizes wanted to be cards that I wasn't "wasting" as Prizes. Cards that I couldn't do normally, because they were too hard to price well, or were too powerful in multiples, or too narrow. You don't always have extra actions for Diadem, but you can just take another Prize instead; it's not a whole unused pile.
The first set of Prizes was less exciting, and people complained and I excitified them. Bag of Gold originally did not give +1 Action. Princess only made VP cards cheaper. Trusty Steed gave you +2 Cards and + , no choice. Diadem went unchanged, look at that. And in place of Followers I had a VP-Action card. It didn't work out because, you know, you buy VP cards later in the game, for the points they're worth. I just couldn't make a VP prize exciting enough without making it too good. It couldn't be something you built your deck around, because you might not get it and at most got one. Something like Harem or Nobles just wasn't going to look pretty next to the other Prizes, because part of what you "paid for" was the 2 VP. Anyway Followers, who doesn't like Followers.
Diadem started in the large version of Alchemy long ago, as an Action: "+ . Return this to your hand." It was a cute combo with Villages, but useless without them. I then tried some "choose one" versions, which solved the problem of it sometimes being dead, but didn't make the actions-to-money part any better. I eventually gave up on it, and well here it is at last.
Followers meanwhile started out as a Goons in Prosperity. I tried a bunch of "choose one" cards in that slot, and then tried this attack-two-ways, profit-the-opposite-ways thing. It was the same except it cost and gave you a VP token instead of an Estate. It was too strong. An Estate is obv. a lot worse than a VP token, and being a Prize means it doesn't get to hit you that often or early either.
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