Dominion: After Dark Part 6

Here is the final four cards; basically just odds and ends.

But awesome odds and ends.

Blood Pact was one of the first cards I made, and it's been through many iterations.  Originally, all the cards with monster artwork and names like Wendigo and Zombie had an additional type called Critter.  This was used in a variety of ways, but it really overcomplicated things, so I cut it out and simplified all cards dealing with them.

Originally, Blood Pact allowed you to play a Critter from your hand twice, or something like that.  But ultimately, that was just a limited Throne Room (from vanilla Dominion), so it needed to be reworked.  I tried switching it around to make it a Reaction, so if you played a Critter later in the turn, you would gain a copy of it, but the Blood Pact itself did nothing.  That, of course, was similarly useless.

Anyway, I don't remember all the different things I tried, but ultimately I landed on this, which is like a limited Throne Room, but it gives you options, so giving the card multiple functions helps to balance out the card.

Graveyard was also there from the beginning, and it's also had a few iterations.  Originally the player simply gained an Apparition, but in my attempt to make Apparitions more rare, it got replaced with the new text.

Hunchback is quite a fun one, and like previous cards, it doesn't seem as powerful as it is.  It is a little like Kitten (from my own other expansion Dominion: Good Will), which is probably how Hunchback began.  I like Hunchback a lot more, however, because it's far more versatile.  Not only do you get to do whatever you want with a card, but you have two to choose from.

Lastly comes Voodoo Queen, which pretty much ties together every new mechanic I made.  You can gain a Charm or an Apparition, and there is a funky Reaction that can be triggered either by yourself or another player.

Next post on this will be the full rules and errata, as well as a pdf of the cards so you can print them out yourself and enjoy!