Duke



The duke is able to take 3 coins from the treasury. This action cannot be blocked.

It is also able to block players from taking foreign aid.

Specifics
When a player attempts to take a tax, any player may challenge them. If a player is correctly challenged, they lose an influence and will not keep the 3 coins they got from taxing. If a player is incorrectly challenged and reveals the duke, they will shuffle it back into the court deck and draw a new face-down card to replace it. The challenger will lose an influence for being wrong. The original player gets to keep the 3 coins they got from taxing.

Whenever a player attempts to take foreign aid, any player can claim to have the duke and block them. If nobody challenges the duke claim, then original player's turn ends and they do not receive any coins. If someone challenges them correctly, the player who claimed duke loses an influence and the player who took foreign aid gets to keep their 2 coins. However, if someone challenges the duke incorrectly, then the player who challenged them loses an influence and the player who took foreign aid does not get to keep the 2 coins they took.





