Doron Blake
United States
Indiana
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The most recent newsletter from Rio Grande Games mentions a second promo card called the Black Market, also to be released by BGG sometime in March. Anybody have information about this card? Or speculation?
I haven't seen anything posted about this anywhere on the forums; my apologies if it's old news...
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Günter D'Hoogh
Belgium
Wespelaar
Brabant
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I didn't even know there was a "first" promo card. Can someone tell me how/where to get it??? My wife and I love the game!
Thanks
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Gunther Schmidl
Austria
Linz
OÖ
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You can't, yet. BGG will distribute it.
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Erik D
United States
Elmhurst
New York
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yves van herp wrote: I didn't even know there was a "first" promo card. Can someone tell me how/where to get it??? My wife and I love the game!
Thanks
It's the Envoy, to be distributed by BGG, but when I'm not sure.
I forget the cost (and too lazy to look it up) but it's an action where you draw five cards, but your opponent gets to choose one for you to discard.
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Günter D'Hoogh
Belgium
Wespelaar
Brabant
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Thanks for the very fast answer guys! I will keep an eye on BGG.
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Garry Bowlin
United States
New York
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The newsletter says we have to wait until March for the promo cards! NOOOOOO!
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Günter D'Hoogh
Belgium
Wespelaar
Brabant
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Pity, would have liked got them right away!
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Vince Herman
United States
Seville
Ohio
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gsbowlin wrote: The newsletter says we have to wait until March for the promo cards! NOOOOOO!
Link?
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Carc >> BSG
United States
Topeka
Kansas
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2 promos in March instead of one in February?
February's a short month.
Hopefully the 2nd promo card isn't a preview card from Intrigue, which according to the newsletter comes out in April or May.
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dale yu
United States
Cincinnati
Ohio
If you're not part of the soultion...
You're part of the precipitate!
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ejcarter wrote: 2 promos in March instead of one in February?
February's a short month.
Hopefully the 2nd promo card isn't a preview card from Intrigue, which according to the newsletter comes out in April or May.
No - Neither Black Market nor Envoy will be part of Intrigue. They each stand alone as promotional cards.
Thanks
Dale Yu
They Might Be Developers
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Doron Blake
United States
Indiana
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VinceHerman wrote: gsbowlin wrote: The newsletter says we have to wait until March for the promo cards! NOOOOOO! Link?
Here's a link the to the RGG Newsletter.
http://www.riograndegames.com/news.html?id=14
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Envoy was for a con, and Black Market is for a magazine. Both cards are also going to be available at BGG, because Jay wanted everyone to be able to get the promos. We don't expect there to be any other promos this year.
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Julian Steindorfer
Austria
Vienna
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magazine sounds like spielbox ??
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Michael Leuchtenburg
United States
Sunderland
Massachusetts
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What are the rules for Black Market?
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Jay Tummelson
United States
Placitas
New Mexico
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The text for the card is:
Reveal the top 3 cards of the Black Market
deck. You may buy one of them immediately.
Put the unbought cards on the bottom of the
Black Market deck in any order.
(Before the game, make a Black Market deck out of
one copy of each Kingdom card not in the supply.)
Jay
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David desJardins
United States
Burlingame
California
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riogames wrote: The text for the card is:
Reveal the top 3 cards of the Black Market
deck. You may buy one of them immediately.
Put the unbought cards on the bottom of the
Black Market deck in any order.
(Before the game, make a Black Market deck out of
one copy of each Kingdom card not in the supply.)
Jay
That's an interesting mechanism but seems not so powerful. Cost 2? I would have thought it could give you a discount on the card you buy, or something like that.
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DaviddesJ wrote: riogames wrote: The text for the card is:
Reveal the top 3 cards of the Black Market
deck. You may buy one of them immediately.
Put the unbought cards on the bottom of the
Black Market deck in any order.
(Before the game, make a Black Market deck out of
one copy of each Kingdom card not in the supply.)
Jay That's an interesting mechanism but seems not so powerful. Cost 2? I would have thought it could give you a discount on the card you buy, or something like that.
It costs $3 and also has "+2 coins."
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Kevin Bourrillion
United States
Mountain View
CA
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So if you want to buy one, you play treasure cards from your hand? and/or utilize +coins from actions already played? But then you might resume playing actions again? A little weird, but...
I'm already daydreaming of using the black market to get the only Chapel in the game... hotness.
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David desJardins
United States
Burlingame
California
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donaldx wrote: It costs $3 and also has "+2 coins."
Ah, that explains it. Like a variant Woodcutter.
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Gunther Schmidl
Austria
Linz
OÖ
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This sounds like one would want to make the stack of unused cards from the blue-bordered cards, then take the appropriate one from the box as needed.
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Kirkwb
United States
Nevada
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"But then you might resume playing actions again? A little weird, but..."
One of the first rules of TCGs (which this game modeled after) is that the text on the cards can and will alter the normal rules of the game.
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Günter D'Hoogh
Belgium
Wespelaar
Brabant
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kirkwb wrote: "But then you might resume playing actions again? A little weird, but..."
One of the first rules of TCGs (which this game modeled after) is that the text on the cards can and will alter the normal rules of the game.
Indeed, and that's the beauty of it IMHO.
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Joe Casadonte
United States
King of Prussia
Pennsylvania
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gschmidl wrote: This sounds like one would want to make the stack of unused cards from the blue-bordered cards, then take the appropriate one from the box as needed.
That's exactly what I was thinking!
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Matthew M Monin
United States
Branford
Connecticut
8/8 FREE, PROTECTED
That guy
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So the Black Market can give you access to cards that aren't in the current game? What a crapshoot card that is! Love it!
-MMM
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Chris Schenck
United States
Dayton
Ohio
GO BUCKS!
Stop touching me!
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riogames wrote: (Before the game, make a Black Market deck out of
one copy of each Kingdom card not in the supply.)
I'm confused.
This means that the Black Market deck will contain a copy of each of the 15 cards that are not in the game, and no copy of the 10 cards that are in the game?
What about when the expansion comes out? If the expansion has 25 cards, then the black market deck balloons to 40 cards, making it much less likely that the card you're looking for will be available in your draw of 3 from the black market deck.
It seems odd to me that the mere existence of the expansion alters the characteristics of the black market card.
Still, an interesting card.
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