Set: Prosperity
$5 Action- Look through your discard pile, reveal any number of Copper cards from it, and put them into your hand.
This card would be kinda borked at a lower price, but it's pretty bad at this one. Counting House is one of those cards that only really works if you commit wholesale to building around it...but the reward for doing so isn't often worth the setbacks. This should be run alongside copper-heavy decks, obviously, but...copper-heavy decks are going to have a dickens of a time raising the $5 to get the deck going in the first place, unless you luck out on the opening split. If you can get it started, it's a decent card to play, but you face the obvious problems of all that copper gumming up your non-CH turns and of turns early in each shuffle where it's going to be a next to useless card.
For every "lol I buy province with my 8 copper" turn, you're liable to have a couple of terminal silvers. You could run a draw engine (maybe with stuff like Warehouse to ditch the coppers before picking them back up) to cycle your deck quickly and get those coppers discarded, but if you're running a draw engine that good with spare actions to blow on counting house, there's probably something more efficient to be doing with it. And then you'll have turns with a lot of buying power going to waste, meaning that you should probably supplement with +Buy. Coppersmith is an obvious combo, but both are terminal.
It's not a truly terrible card if you play it well, but so much support is needed (+Cards, +Actions, +Buy, Coppersmith, all hitting at the same time in a deck where you have gone out of your way to pile on extra Copper) that I can't rank it any higher.
That said, I do wonder why I put it below Coppersmith. OH WELL.
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~Tommeri Uranius Bombaldi the Fourth, esq.
(aka not Krakenprophet)