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I was looking over Steffan O' Sullivan's Fluxx Fixes page recently, checking out his ideas for new cards. I couldn't figure out the rationale behind his suggested new Goal cards, so I worked up a list of all the Keepers in the game, and counted how many Goals they were part of and what extra things they could do:
| Keeper | Goals | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| Bread | 1 | -- |
| Chocolate | 3 | -- |
| Coffee | 1 | -- |
| Cookies | 2 | -- |
| Death | 3 | -- |
| Doughnuts | 1 | -- |
| Love | 2 | Single-Keeper Goal |
| Milk | 2 | -- |
| Money | 2 | Bonus, Single-Keeper Goal |
| Peace | 2 | Single-Keeper Goal |
| Taxes | 1 | Bonus, Spoils Money's Single-Keeper Goal |
| Television | 1 | -- |
| The Brain | 2 | Bonus, Single-Keeper Goal |
| The Eye | 2 | -- |
| The Moon | 2 | -- |
| The Pyramid | 1 | -- |
| The Rocket | 1 | -- |
| The Sun | 1 | -- |
| The Toaster | 2 | -- |
| Time | 1 | Bonus |
| War | 1 | Spoils Peace's Single-Keeper Goal |
So, Chocolate and Death each contribute to two goals (one of them shared: Death by Chocolate), making them very valuable. I don't know why Steffan says The Eye is valuable; maybe he meant to write The Brain. Anyway, I don't like the new Goals he suggests. Your Brain is Toast and Tolstoy make two already powerful cards (The Brain and Peace) even more useful. Instead, I've designed some new goals that use the underutilized Keepers:
With these six new Goals, there are no more Keepers that are used by only one Goal. Time joins Death and Chocolate as a three-Goal Keeper.
I've also added Steffan's Too Many Keepers New Rule card to my deck, and I've made up Draw 2, Play 2, a single New Rule card that affects both Draw and Play. This leaves me with three blank cards to fiddle with.
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