🪄 2026-11-01 | Another Re-theming Attempt: Three Arcane Decks ✨
🧑💻 Author’s Note
👋 Hello again! The last post tried three very different settings; this follow-up takes a more focused, magical direction.
🧭 I used the vocabulary from issue #18 as the shared foundation, then drafted three complete name sets for the game’s 60 cards.
🎭 These are brainstorming options, not a claim that any name has been legally cleared. Card effects, costs, and values stay exactly as they are.
📜 The Shared Vocabulary
| Current term | Proposed term |
|---|---|
| Actions | Casts |
| Buys | Runes |
| Treasures | Willpower |
| Victory Points | Followers |
| Cards / Draw | Scrolls |
| Action Cards | Spells |
| Treasure Cards | Focus Cards |
| Victory Cards | Follower Cards |
| Copper / Silver / Gold | Spark / Surge / Torrent |
| Estate / Duchy / Province | Apprentice / Scholar / Arch-Mage |
✨ Each set below keeps those requested names and terms. The three directions are Embercraft, The Grand Academy, and Starweave: elemental, scholarly, and celestial takes on the same arcane world.
🃏 Three Sets of Card Names
| Current card | 🔥 Embercraft | 📚 The Grand Academy | 🌌 Starweave |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper | Spark | Spark | Spark |
| Silver | Surge | Surge | Surge |
| Gold | Torrent | Torrent | Torrent |
| Platinum | Aetherium | Grand Catalyst | Supernova |
| Estate | Apprentice | Apprentice | Apprentice |
| Duchy | Scholar | Scholar | Scholar |
| Province | Arch-Mage | Arch-Mage | Arch-Mage |
| Colony | Eternal Conclave | Founders’ Assembly | Celestial Dominion |
| Curse | Ashen Oath | Forbidden Thesis | Black Comet |
| Chapel | Purification Rite | Restoration Archive | Cleansing Star |
| Moat | Flame Ward | Warding Seminar | Astral Veil |
| Pawn | Familiar | Junior Adept | Starling |
| Consolation | Ember’s Favor | Alumni Grant | Lucky Star |
| Settlers | First Circle | Apprentices’ Cohort | Dawn Colony |
| Courtyard | Inner Sanctum | Practice Court | Observatory |
| Lurker | Void Snatcher | Forbidden Librarian | Shadow Comet |
| Cellar | Ember Vault | Stacks Below | Dark Matter Vault |
| Secret Chamber | Hidden Rune | Sealed Scriptorium | Umbra Chamber |
| Great Hall | Hall of Embers | Grand Lecture Hall | Celestial Forum |
| Village | Flame Confluence | Student Commons | Star Nexus |
| Wood Cutter | Flame Forger | Runecrafter | Comet Smith |
| Steward | Ritual Keeper | Dean | Astral Regent |
| Harbinger | Flame Herald | Archivist | Dawnstar Herald |
| Workshop | Elemental Forge | Spellcraft Lab | Nebula Foundry |
| Oasis | Spirit Well | Quiet Study | Lunar Spring |
| Mill | Ember Mill | Copyist’s Wheel | Starwheel |
| Goldfish | Lucky Salamander | Chance Apprentice | Comet Carp |
| Baron | Flame Baron | Provost | Meteor Lord |
| Monument | Pyre Obelisk | Founder’s Spire | Star Monument |
| Smithy | Firebrand Forge | Enchantment Lab | Stellar Forge |
| Worker’s Village | Cinderhands’ Hamlet | Adepts’ Quarter | Starfarers’ Camp |
| Militia | Ashguard | Spell Wardens | Meteor Guard |
| Money Lender | Mana Broker | Rune Banker | Stardust Broker |
| Armory | Elemental Arsenal | Relic Repository | Constellation Arsenal |
| Remodel | Reforge | Rebinding | Stellar Recasting |
| Innkeeper | Ember Host | Faculty Steward | Comet Waystation |
| Catpurse | Flame Rat | Rune Scavenger | Star Thief |
| Spice Merchant | Ember Alchemist | Elixir Alchemist | Nebula Apothecary |
| Bazaar | Market of Cinders | Grand Arcanum | Star Bazaar |
| Festival | Flame Revel | Arcane Convocation | Meteor Shower |
| Laboratory | Pyromancy Lab | Grand Observatory | Astral Laboratory |
| Market | Fire Market | Spell Exchange | Starmarket |
| Witch | Hexflame Witch | Hexweaver | Moon Hexer |
| Council Room | Conclave of Flame | Council of Mages | Astral Conclave |
| Scholar | Fire Sage | Grand Librarian | Star Seer |
| Torturer | Agony Weaver | Mind-Binder | Eclipse Tormentor |
| Mountebank | Ashen Charlatan | Rune Grifter | Nebula Swindler |
| Margrave | Ember Marshal | High Magister | Comet Marshal |
| Hunting Lodge | Phoenix Eyrie | Wizard’s Retreat | Starwatch Lodge |
| Old Witch | Cinder Hag | Witch of the Black Tome | Crone of Eclipses |
| Junk Dealer | Ash Scrapper | Spell Salvager | Meteor Picker |
| Stables | Drake Stables | Familiar Kennels | Comet Stables |
| Trading Post | Cinder Exchange | Rune Exchange | Star Trader |
| Mine | Fireheart Mine | Crystal Mine | Asteroid Mine |
| Counting House | Ember Treasury | Spell Ledger | Starcount Vault |
| Harem | Ember Court | Arcane Court | Celestial Court |
| Nobles | Flame Nobility | High Faculty | Starborn Court |
| Artisan | Ember Artisan | Rune Artisan | Astral Artisan |
| Altar | Sacrificial Pyre | Transmutation Altar | Star Shrine |
| Expand | Fan the Flames | Masterwork | Starbirth |
🧭 Choosing a Direction
- 🔥 Embercraft leans into elemental power, forging, and flame-touched places.
- 📚 The Grand Academy makes the game feel like a school of magic, with archives, faculty, and research.
- 🌌 Starweave draws on constellations, cosmic forces, and celestial landmarks.
- 🪄 The shared vocabulary makes the rules feel like one game across all three. A later pass could pick a favorite direction, smooth out any names that feel too similar, and check how the mapped terms read in the interface.
✍️ Signed
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📅 November 1, 2026
🏠 For bagrounds.org