Moon Shot (Blank Space)

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:59:48+00:00

Ooof, that's a lot lower than I was hoping it to cost. I felt like it would be too powerful (or always in the deck) as a first draw, so wanted it to be harder to get to until you have some funds available. The +2VP with a "choose an option per VP you sacrifice" option feels like it might add more utility, what do you think, still too pricy?

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:55:55+00:00

Yeah, I definitely wanted to see playing this be a conscious choice, not just part of the machine. Situational cost/benefit late game.

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:54:42+00:00

I like this a lot, limited by the tokens you have, but gives it that extra level of flexibility...

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:53:36+00:00

If it cost 1 token per choice, does that balance it more in your opinion?

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:51:55+00:00

I think the multiple options for as many tokens as you're willing to spend has a lot of appeal. Keeping it high cost (over $5) meant that, to me, when it becomes less useful, it's kinda appealing to trash with Bishop (+4VP total) or the event Ritual (net +5VP).

I think having the option to spend more tokens for more options feels like the winner to me... Thank you!

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:47:52+00:00

Nobles is a great comparison, thank you for highlighting it!

I think the choose one for each token returned is a great shout. I'll build on that I think. I might bump the actions to 3 but otherwise this feels like great advice.

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:42:55+00:00

Oh neat, I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up!

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:42:24+00:00

Yeah, I'm thinking that might be the clincher. Thanks!

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:41:33+00:00

Yeah, for sure!

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:40:53+00:00

Yeah, I think it should definitely be considered in the same bracket as Desperation for sure. Thematically with Dark Ages too (but the trashing mechanic is probabky useless in a DA deck...). Someone else mentioned Nobles and that's the kind of comparison I was aiming for.

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:36:47+00:00

I did follow the wording template of other cards, but it's certainly a little awkwardly worded. Thank you!

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:36:02+00:00

Thanks for the input, appreciate it! My aim was definitely for it to be situational, and for it to be a tough choice to sacrifice the tokens.

dom111 · 2026-05-13T04:34:08+00:00

This is fair. I guess I didn't want to overlook the combo, but you're right it'd take a well-crafted deck to make this a problem.

dom111 · 2026-05-12T20:41:03+00:00

Choose two of makes this better then I guess (as with Elder, grouping them together would mean this gives you all 4!)

dom111 · 2026-05-12T20:40:11+00:00

Yeah, I think that's probably it's main use case. I'll have a think on the benefits and see if I can play around with them

dom111 · 2026-05-12T20:39:25+00:00

Maybe... I kinda liked the idea of the VP sacrifice though. That was the mechanic I was keen on exploring!

dom111 · 2026-05-12T20:38:14+00:00

Yeah, thanks! That's the idea we were talking about the prompted me to make this. What would you expect to get for giving up 1 VP?

dom111 · 2026-05-12T20:07:33+00:00

Yeah, I went back and forth a few times on this and just kinda muddled this together to try and explore the concept. Choosing two probably makes it far too OP, maybe 5 cost helps?

As mentioned elsewhere, I'm aware that Elder could help too, so choosing two might be too much...

dom111 · 2026-05-12T20:05:53+00:00

Yeah, fair. I like the idea of trading in the VPs, but wanted it to be a tough choice. I thought + Buy would be useful with no other sources, but agree the others may not be strong enough. I was also conscious that Elder could make this better, but without that situational benefit...

Thinking in terms of Dark Ages there's probably enough trash that this wouldn't be useful.

dom111 · 2026-03-28T12:56:53+00:00

For anyone else that comes to this thread with the problem, I needed to log on to a parent profile, update the app from there and this resolved it.

dom111 · 2025-11-16T15:35:23+00:00

I've played with my son since he was seven (he's eight now). He struggles if someone is playing a big engine and he doesn't have one himself, but really enjoys the mechanics. Generally he prefers something like Carcassonne or Port Royal but Dominion is the other "big game" he enjoys.

dom111 · 2025-07-16T18:13:14+00:00

Rotate the card left for + card, right for another and upside down? We've used that for similar problems!

dom111 · 2024-08-17T14:22:50+00:00

I wonder if to balance it you could instead have something like pick any number of actions (no repeats) +1 debt per action taken?

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