Cool idea, but it seems a bit cheap. Have you tried playing with it yet? I think I would buy one (but only one) of these every time.

Interesting idea, but I agree... WAY too cheap.

At that price I'd buy a fistful. Especially if you can make use of it early and then trash it later. All the benefits with very small risk.

A cool concept, but tough to balance. Stamping it with "this card cannot be trashed" would be a start (and makes sence thematically). Still probably need to bump it to a cost of 3.

Good concept but as per the other comments way too cheap

this was more conceptual, than a working card set in stone. how about -3 VPs and a cost of 3?

I was wondering about having cards with negative VP values associated with them, for example so that we could have a 1 cost card in the game but making it a "curse" seems problematic as I would assume that you could gain one of these cards in place of a normal curse card for witch and or torturer.

The same question came up here:

http://boardgamegeek.com/article/3777661

I think you'd still have to require the other players to take a regular curse when you play a witch or torturer, or at least make the choice for them of which card to take.

A friend and I made a custom set, with a card similar to this. Even costing 4, giving 3 coin and -3 points, it was still a very powerful card.

The price seems right to me - you can't Remodel it into a Duchy (5 VP swing), nor can you Mine it into Gold.