Cactus Game Design Message Boards

Covenant of Love
4/3 Multi Covenant
-May be activated on your Good Dominant in territory or Land of Redemption-
Place cards an opponent discards from your hand or deck here instead. During draw phase you may draw one fewer card to return one card here to hand. If deactivated, randomly discard half contents (rounded up) to shuffle the rest into deck. Cannot be negated.
~Deuteronomy 7:9

Thieves' Curse
4/2 Green Covenant OR 2/4 Brown Curse (think Abijam)
If an opponent uses a card they do not own, return that card to its owner's hand instead. Cannot be negated.
~Zechariah 5:3

Nettles and Thistles
-/- Black Curse
Once per turn, after a deck is shuffled, you may have its owner reveal the top two cards. You may add one revealed card (except a Dominant or Lost Soul) to your hand. Limit twice per game. Cannot be interrupted.
~Isaiah 34:13

i really like the last two, but im kinda confused on the first. cool cards though! nice job!

So the first one is basically this: If a card is discarded from your hand or deck it gets placed on the Covenant instead. Then, when you are drawing 3 during your draw phase, you can choose to draw 2 instead and take your third card from among the cards on the Covenant. It's basically a way to get cards back that would otherwise be discarded.

For Covenant of Love, it would need to be cards discarded by an opponent otherwise I could use Gates of Hell until the card I wanted to draw got placed there.

It would be an interesting mechanic to be able to forego your draw phase in order to search your deck for any one card.

For Thieves' Curse, would "use" include choose the blocker/rescuer attempts like with Ehud? I think this is a really cool way to counter side battles too.

For Covenant of Love, it's creative and I see where you're going with it but I feel like given it being multi-brigade and given the apparent/evident tie-in to the Love card of the Fruit of the Spirit, perhaps something related to conversion or brigades would be a better fit. Maybe you would be able to change a character's brigade or something like that to allow for some combos or to protect against the Punisher lost soul, I'm not sure. I would just like to see it used more often than just for protecting against deck or hand discard. 

Great job, though! I definitely wouldn't want the Nettles and Thistles card played against me