Patch Notes
MK13
'Resolution'
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Patch Objectives
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Increase Replayability
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Increase Variance: making each new game feel very different from the last
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Reduce Snowball Effect
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Greater Streamlining of Cards, more focused intention with design
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General Changes
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Sewer Cards now combined into a SINGLE DECK rather than split into 3 parts.
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Reworked Round/Turn Structure:
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At the start of each Round, all players simultaneously take their Income from The Pot.
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Then, the first player begins their Turn, followed by the player on their left in a clockwise manner.
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In each Turn, a player gets to take up to 3 Actions.
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Possible Actions (in any order and quantity):
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Buy 1 Cheese from The Sewer
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Buy 1 Card from The Sewer
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Use 1 Red Card (including Flushing The Sewer)
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Sell 1 Grey Card (Bundle)
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Sell All Blue Cards (Pipes)
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Take First Player Marker (this means that on the next Round, you get to start first)
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Reworked Starting Scenario: All players now start the game with a Flush Card, 5 Coins and 3 Cheese. Players collect these BEFORE the first 3 Cards in The Sewer are turned face-up.
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Colour Streamlining: The game now only has 6 Colours of Cards: Green, Blue, Red, Purple, Yellow and Grey. Flush Cards as well as Shared Paradise and Mutual Destruction are now Red Cards.
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Green Cards
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Green Cards Income boost re-balanced from +2/+5/+8 to +3/+5/+7.
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Bonus Bonanza cost reduced to 1 Green Cheese.
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In The Sewer, there are now a total of 20 Green Cards:
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5x +3 Income, 1 Green Cheese Cards
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5x +5 Income, 2 Green Cheese Cards
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5x +7 Income, 3 Green Cheese Cards
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5x Bonus Bonanza Cards, costing 1 Green Cheese.
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Blue Cards
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Naming for Blue Cards are now separated into Pipes and Penthouse Pipes; Pipes being counted as a single unit, while Penthouse Pipes being counted as 2 units.
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In The Sewer, there are now a total of 20 Blue Cards:
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10x Pipes, 1 Blue Cheese Cards
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5x Pipes, 2 Blue Cheese Cards
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5x Penthouse Pipes, 3 Blue Cheese Cards
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Red Cards
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Red Cards re-conceptualised as Opportunities, rather than hiring the Mafia to do jobs for you. This means that it incorporates a wider spectrum of Actions, and moves away from being purely detrimental for other players to include other neutral or beneficial opportunities.
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All Red Cards now cost 1 Action to use. Buying the Card counts as 1 Action, and subsequently using the Card counts as another. For Premonition and Scavenge, the entire process of executing the Cards are considered as a single Action.
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Added a new Red Card: Insurance.
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Blocks 1 Snatch, SUPER Snatch, Rat-keteer, Sabotage being used against you OR Love Your Neighbour Day, Property Tax or Income Tax.
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Using up Insurance does not count as 1 Action for the owner, since it gets used up when it is not their Turn.
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Added a new Red Card: Sewer Sweep.
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Use this Card to Buy all current face-up Cards in The Sewer for Free. Counts as 2 Actions.
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Costs 3 Red Cheese.
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Added Flush as a Red Card
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Flush can only be used on your Turn, and counts as 1 Action.
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Flush colour changed to Red instead of Brown.
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The back of the Flush that players start the game with will now be Player Turn Possible Actions.
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Flush now gives +2 Income instead of +1.
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Flush now costs 1 Red Cheese instead of 3 Coins.
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Added Shared Serenity as a Red Card
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Name change from Shared Paradise. Effect unchanged, except that it does not have to be used immediately.
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Now costs 1 Red Cheese instead of 1 Coin.
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Added Dual Destruction as a Red Card
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Name change from Mutual Destruction.
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Effect changed from 'Pick a player. You and that player both discard all your Cards. Immediate Effect.' to 'Pick a player. You and that player both discard 3 Cards of your choosing.'
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Does not have to be used immediately.
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Now costs 3 Red Cheese instead of 1 Coin.
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Snatch now costs 1 Red Cheese consistently.
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SUPER Snatch now costs 2 Red Cheese consistently.
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Rat-keteer now steals 5/10 Coins from the richest player. If there is a tie, you get to choose which player to take the coins from. Cost 1/2 Red Cheese.
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Sabotage reverted to: ‘Pick a player. That player discards 1 Card of your choosing.’ Cost 1 Red Cheese.
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Premonition buffed to look at the top 5 Cards of the Sewer Deck instead of 3 always, and cost 2 Red Cheese consistently.
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Event Cards
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Reduced number of Event Cards, now a total of 10 in the Sewer Deck.
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Property Tax increased to 3 Coins per Pipe, 7 Coins per Penthouse Pipe.
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In The Sewer, there are now a total of 10 Yellow Cards:
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1 Flood
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1 Charity
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1 Is that.. Cake??
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1 Inflation
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1 Property Tax
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1 Income Tax
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1 Love Your Neighbour Day
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1 Free Money
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2 Sewer Surprise
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Purple Cards
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Cheese Connoisseur rework: You may buy 2 Cheese with a single Action.
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Military Major protection clarification:
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Immune from SUPER Snatch, Sabotage, Disrupt, Dual Destruction and Love Your Neighbour Day. On Love Your Neighbour Day, the owner of the card still gets to take a card from the player on their left, but the player on their right cannot take any card from them.
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Cards that affect Coins and Cheese such as Rat-keteer and Snatch can still affect the Military Major.
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Added a new Purple Card: Turn Tycoon.
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You may take up to 4 Actions per turn.
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Grey Cards
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Selling 1 Bundle constitutes as 1 Action.
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New Sewer Composition (Total 95 Cards + 5 Starter Flush Cards = 100 Sewer Cards)
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20 Green Cards
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5x +3 Income, 1 Green Cheese Cards
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5x +5 Income, 2 Green Cheese Cards
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5x +7 Income, 3 Green Cheese Cards
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5x Bonus Bonanza Cards, costing 1 Green Cheese.
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20 Blue Cards
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10x Pipes, 1 Blue Cheese Cards
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5x Pipes, 2 Blue Cheese Cards
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5x Penthouse Pipes, 3 Blue Cheese Cards
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20 Red Cards
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1 Shared Serenity
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1 Rat-keteer (5)
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2 Flush
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2 Insurance
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2 Snatch
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2 Sabotage
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2 Premonition
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2 SUPER Snatch
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1 Rat-keteer (10)
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2 Disrupt
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1 Scavenge
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1 Dual Destruction
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1 Sewer Sweep
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16 Purple Cards
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Green Gangster
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Blue Boss
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Red Ruffian
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Investment Ingenieur
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Asset Alpha
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Strategy Sensei
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Salary Scrambler
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Property Procurer
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Power Prowler
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Purple Partisan
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Military Major
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Sewer Superintendent
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Event Executive
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Bundle Brawler
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Cheese Connoisseur
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Turn Tycoon
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10 Yellow Cards
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Flood
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Charity
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Free Money
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Is that.. Cake??
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Love Your Neighbour Day
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Income Tax
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Property Tax
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Inflation
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2 Sewer Surprise
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9 Grey Cards
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Investment
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Asset
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Mafia
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Career
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Bundle
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All Trades
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Cheese
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Lightweight
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Poor Rats
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