Conquering - A New Mechanic.

[menace64]

Conquering.
When a card with culture X has more Y culture tokens on it than any other culture token, it is conquered.

So, as an example:
When Noble Leaders has more tokens on it than tokens, it is considered conquered.

What does conquering do? Well, it's rather heinous... A conquered card cannot use it's game text, and can be spotted as a conquered card. However, you can only conquer cards that have tokens on them already.

•Grond, Weapon of the Dark Lord
Artifact • Support Area
To play, spot 3 minions (or 5 Orcs).
Shadow: Exert 2 Orcs (or a Troll) to conquer a Free Peoples condition with a token.
Regroup: If you can spot 3 conquered Free Peoples cards, discard 2 minions (or Grond) to discard 4 cards at random from the Free Peoples player's hand.

Like it?

[sickofpalantirs]

it certainly opens up interesting possibilities...
like possibly M64 is spending too much time thinking up new card mechanics

[MR. Lurtzy]

So, how do you plan on gettting the tokens on the cards, eh?

[lem0nhead]

Nice mechanic, grond needs a bit of work, i reckon the taking advantage of conquered cards bit could be better but generally cool idea. Shame you never actually use any of your new mechanics or card ideas in a DC set. Theyre just hit and run thoughts....

[Thranduil]

It's fun, but what if you're opponent doesn't have any token cards? I would suggest you can conquer any condition and as part of defence against it in the context of a DC set you could have Free Peoples cards which add tokens to cards that aren't supposed to have them.

Thranduil

[DáinIronfoot]

Yeah, I'd be curious to see how you get Shadow tokens on those conditions as well. But it seems a fun idea, especially if you could come up with a way (as Thran suggested) of conquering token-less cards as well.