🃏 2026-11-01 | A Fresh Coat of Names for 60 Cards 🎨
🧑💻 Author’s Note
👋 Hello! I took a tour through every card registered by the game and made a renaming workshop out of it.
🧭 The goal is a useful starting point for a human rewrite: capture the current names and card text, then try three very different settings without changing what the cards do.
🎭 These are brainstorming candidates, not a claim that a particular name or rules phrase has been legally cleared.
📝 This is the research and creative pass requested in issue #16.
🔎 What Counts as a Card?
📚 The registry in src/Data/Cards.purs contains 60 cards. I checked the actual registry rather than counting every helper or card dependency in the file; a card can be referenced as a requirement without becoming an additional registered card.
🖥️ The card UI displays each card’s name and numeric effects, and reveals its special or reaction description when opened. The card model is defined in src/Data/Card.purs, and the rendering behavior is in src/UI/Card.purs. The inventory below includes cost, numeric effects, and each card’s authored special/reaction text. Where there is no separate description, the compact effect notation records what the card shows.
🧾 Notation: ¢ is purchase cost; +$ is money produced; +cards, +actions, +buys, and +VP are the other displayed effects. Quoted passages are the current in-game descriptions. Card rules and behavior are not proposals to change.
🎨 Three Alternate Worlds
- ☁️ Skyward Expedition: crews, cloud ports, navigators, and salvage aboard a floating frontier.
- 🌱 Living Canopy: a forest-restoration community with seed banks, field science, and rewilding.
- 🎪 Traveling Lantern Festival: a touring celebration built by performers, makers, vendors, and stage crews.
🧩 I tried to give each setting its own resources, places, occupations, and troublemakers, while letting the card’s existing effect suggest its new role. These names are intentionally varied first drafts; a person taking one forward should tune the voice and check the whole set for consistency.
🗃️ Full Card Inventory and Name Comparison
| Current card and associated effects/text | ☁️ Skyward Expedition | 🌱 Living Canopy | 🎪 Traveling Lantern Festival |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper — cost 0¢; +$1 | Brass Rivet | Seed Coin | Brass Token |
| Silver — cost 3¢; +$2 | Moonstone | River Pearl | Moonlit Token |
| Gold — cost 6¢; +$3 | Sunstone | Canopy Amber | Gilt Pass |
| Platinum — cost 9¢; +$5 | Starsteel | Sunsteel | Star Pass |
| Estate — cost 2¢; +1 VP | Mooring Plot | Garden Plot | Market Stall |
| Duchy — cost 5¢; +3 VP | Cloud Borough | Grove Commons | Festival Ward |
| Province — cost 8¢; +6 VP | Skyward Capital | Forest Reserve | Grand Square |
| Colony — cost 11¢; +10 VP | Far-Horizon Port | Seed Sanctuary | Parade Route |
| Curse — cost 0¢; −1 VP | Storm Debt | Blight | Rainout |
| Chapel — cost 2¢; “Trash up to 4 cards from your hand” | Beacon Shrine | Seed Vault | Rehearsal Room |
| Moat — cost 2¢; +2 cards; “You may reveal this card from your hand to block attacks.” | Cloudwall | Living Hedge | Velvet Rope |
| Pawn — cost 2¢; “Choose 2 of: + $1, + 1 card, + 1 action, or +1 buy” | Deckhand | Seedling | Apprentice |
| Consolation — cost 2¢; “If you have an Estate in your hand, + $2” | Keepsake | Second Bloom | Encore Note |
| Settlers — cost 2¢; +1 card, +1 action; “Look through your discard pile. You may reveal a Copper from it and put it into your hand.” | New Arrivals | Rewilding Team | New Company |
| Courtyard — cost 2¢; +3 cards; “Put a card from your hand onto your deck.” | Observation Deck | Sun Court | Festival Courtyard |
| Lurker — cost 2¢; +1 action; “Trash an action card from the supply or gain an action card from the trash.” | Cloud Stalker | Underbrush Stalker | Shadow Puppeteer |
| Cellar — cost 2¢; +1 action; “Discard N cards, then draw N cards.” | Cargo Hold | Root Cellar | Prop Basement |
| Secret Chamber — cost 2¢; “Move 2 cards from your hand to the top of your deck.” Reaction: “When another player plays an Attack card, you may reveal this from your hand. If you do, +2 Cards, then put 2 cards from your hand on top of your deck.” | Hidden Berth | Buried Hollow | Costume Change |
| Great Hall — cost 3¢; +1 card, +1 action, +1 VP | Navigation Deck | Community Greenhouse | Main Tent |
| Village — cost 3¢; +1 card, +2 actions | Crew Quarters | Seedling Nursery | Backstage Crew |
| Wood Cutter — cost 3¢; +1 buy, +$2 | Rigging Crew | Canopy Keeper | Set Carpenter |
| Steward — cost 3¢; “Choose 1: + 2 cards, + $2, or trash 2 cards from your hand” | Quartermaster | Groundskeeper | Stage Manager |
| Harbinger — cost 3¢; +1 card, +1 action; “Look through your discard pile. You may put a card from it onto your deck.” | Signal Keeper | Dawn Scout | Stage Caller |
| Workshop — cost 3¢; “Gain a card costing up to 4.” | Fabrication Bay | Propagation Shed | Set Shop |
| Oasis — cost 3¢; +1 card, +1 action, +$1; “Discard a card.” | Cloudwell | Spring Clearing | Green Room |
| Mill — cost 4¢; +1 VP; “You may discard 2 cards, for +$2” | Windmill | Waterwheel | Pressroom |
| Goldfish — cost 4¢; +1 buy; “50% chance to gain a gold to your hand” | Lucky Find | Sunfish | Lucky Raffle |
| Baron — cost 4¢; +1 buy; “You may discard an estate for + $4. If you don’t, gain an Estate.” | Cargo Broker | Orchard Keeper | Box Office Chief |
| Monument — cost 4¢; +$2, +1 VP | Beacon Tower | Old-Growth Landmark | Grand Marquee |
| Smithy — cost 4¢; +3 cards | Engine Forge | Tool Shed | Prop Forge |
| Worker’s Village — cost 4¢; +1 card, +2 actions, +1 buy | Dockworkers’ Hamlet | Reforesters’ Camp | Stagehands’ Row |
| Militia — cost 4¢; +$2; “Each other player discards down to 3 cards” | Boarding Patrol | Ranger Patrol | Door Crew |
| Money Lender — cost 4¢; “You may trash a copper from your hand for + $3” | Credit Broker | Seed Banker | Ticket Broker |
| Armory — cost 4¢; “Gain a card onto your deck costing up to 4.” | Gear Locker | Tool Cache | Prop Cabinet |
| Remodel — cost 4¢; “Trash a card from your hand. Gain a card costing up to 2 more than it.” | Refit | Regenerate | Set Revision |
| Innkeeper — cost 4¢; +1 action; “Choose one: +1 Card; or +3 Cards, then discard 3 cards; or +5 Cards, then discard 6 cards.” | Dockside Host | Trail Lodge | Touring Host |
| Catpurse — cost 4¢; +$2; “Each other player discards a Copper.” | Pickpocket | Squirrel Thief | Pickpocket Act |
| Spice Merchant — cost 4¢; “You may trash a Treasure from your hand to choose one: +2 Cards and +1 Action; or +1 Buy and +$2” | Galley Trader | Herb Grower | Concessions Vendor |
| Bazaar — cost 5¢; +1 card, +2 actions, +$1 | Sky Exchange | Growers’ Market | Artisan Arcade |
| Festival — cost 5¢; +2 actions, +1 buy, +$2 | Launch Celebration | Harvest Fair | Opening Night |
| Laboratory — cost 5¢; +2 cards, +1 action | Sky Lab | Soil Lab | Effects Studio |
| Market — cost 5¢; +1 card, +1 action, +1 buy, +$1 | Trading Port | Forest Exchange | Ticket Exchange |
| Witch — cost 5¢; +2 cards; “Each other player gains a Curse.” | Tempest Caller | Blight Weaver | Illusionist |
| Council Room — cost 5¢; +4 cards, +1 buy; “Each other player draws a card.” | Flight Council | Stewardship Circle | Producers’ Table |
| Scholar — cost 5¢; “Discard your hand and draw 7 cards” | Star Cartographer | Field Ecologist | Playwright |
| Torturer — cost 5¢; +3 cards; “Each other player either discards 2 cards or gains a Curse to their hand, their choice. (They may pick an option they can’t do.)” | Interrogator | Thorn Keeper | Rival Act |
| Mountebank — cost 5¢; +$2; “Each other player may discard a Curse. If they don’t, they gain a Curse and a Copper.” | Grift Pilot | Traveling Pitcher | Street Hawker |
| Margrave — cost 5¢; +3 cards, +1 buy; “Each other player draws a card, then discards down to 3 cards in hand.” | Air Marshal | Forest Warden | Parade Marshal |
| Hunting Lodge — cost 5¢; +1 card, +2 actions; “You may discard your hand for +5 Cards” | Falconer’s Loft | Ranger’s Cabin | Costume Tent |
| Old Witch — cost 5¢; +3 cards; “Each other player gains a Curse and may trash a Curse from their hand.” | Tempest Hag | Briar Hag | Fortune Teller |
| Junk Dealer — cost 5¢; +1 card, +1 action, +$1; “Trash a card from your hand.” | Salvager | Compost Maker | Prop Recycler |
| Stables — cost 5¢; “You may discard a treasure for +3 Cards and +1 Action.” | Hangar | Wildlife Haven | Animal Tent |
| Trading Post — cost 5¢; “Trash 2 cards from your hand. If you did, gain a Silver to your hand.” | Exchange Dock | Seed Exchange | Merch Booth |
| Mine — cost 5¢; “You may trash a Treasure card from your hand. Gain a Treasure card to your hand costing up to $3 more than it.” | Aether Quarry | Stone Quarry | Found Object Hunt |
| Counting House — cost 5¢; “Look through your discard pile. Reveal any number of Copper from it and put them into your hand.” | Cargo Ledger | Seed Registry | Box Office Ledger |
| Harem — cost 6¢; +$2, +2 VP | Gem Cache | Pollinator Garden | Costume Vault |
| Nobles — cost 6¢; +2 VP; “Choose one: +3 cards or +2 actions” | Sky Captains | Grove Council | Headliners |
| Artisan — cost 6¢; “Gain a card to your hand costing up to 5. Put a card from your hand onto your deck.” | Shipwright | Garden Crafter | Scenic Artist |
| Altar — cost 6¢; “Trash a card from your hand. Gain a card costing up to 5.” | Scrap Furnace | Compost Circle | Makeover Booth |
| Expand — cost 7¢; “Trash a card from your hand. Gain a card costing up to 3 more than it.” | Full Refit | Rewilding | Bigger Production |
🧠 A Few Naming Choices
- 🔩 Resources and points become things people would value in that setting: ship materials and ports, seeds and protected places, or tokens and festival venues.
- 🧰 Utility cards become workers and workspaces, like a quartermaster, a groundskeeper, or a stage manager.
- 🌩️ Attacks and reactions become setting-appropriate disruptions and defenses: storms and patrols, blight and hedges, or rival acts and a velvet rope.
- 🪄 Odd effects get an evocative role, not a literal translation. For example, probabilistic Goldfish might be a lucky raffle at the festival; it is only a naming prompt, not a rewrite of the effect.
✍️ Signed
🤖 Built with care by GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
📅 November 1, 2026
🏠 For bagrounds.org