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It looks delightful and that hook (no suit until you declare it) makes the game, in my mind. That's when I started exploring other modern trick-takers and really, my interest in them is directly informed by their various hooks. Ghosts of Christmas has you playing three tricks at once, and the lead card in the following trick is impacted by the winner of the last trick, even if it wasn't led first. It's crazy, and I'm excited to try it out. In Potato Man, you're specifically not following the suit. You must play a colour that nobody else has played. So many clever ideas that just put a little spin on the core idea.
I'm sure, at some point, designers will start rehashing ideas and the freshness will wear off, but right now it's an interesting little space.