The real appeal of The Cabbage Merchant is how easily those Food tokens can turn into a viable resource engine that'll allow you to ramp, draw cards, and lead you to all your combo lines simultaneously: Academy Manufactor turns each Food into a Food, Clue, and Treasure
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This is one of the cards that truly evokes the feel of a Judge foil to me because when I look at it I am reminded of the crucial role that judges play in balancing our game
These extra mechanics, while having the potential to produce great flashes of synergy, do ever so slightly muddy the waters around what exactly the decks winstate is supposed to be
There is a token sub-theme since you create so many Clue tokens that allow you to gain extra advantage from them