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Title: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on January 07, 2016, 11:40:49 pm
New thread for a new year. Starting this off with a long-time dream:

---------- JW: turn 1 ----------
JW - plays 5 Copper
JW - uses 1 coin token
JW - buys Doctor
JW - overpays for Doctor with 3 coins
JW - looks at Overgrown Estate
JW - trashes Overgrown Estate
JW - draws Copper
JW - looks at Necropolis
JW - trashes Necropolis
JW - looks at Hovel
JW - trashes Hovel
JW - gains Doctor
JW - draws Copper
JW - shuffles deck
JW - draws Copper, Doctor, Copper, Copper
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Elanchana on January 08, 2016, 10:44:31 am
IRL game. 4 players. Most people screwing around with Knights, one with Rats/Hermit. Aimed to Inherit Highways when no one else was considering it. Finally got it going and ended up as the only person with more than two Provinces.

There was also a game where I won with 31 VP chips.

Apologies and so on.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Roadrunner7671 on January 08, 2016, 12:22:07 pm
IRL game. 4 players. Most people screwing around with Knights, one with Rats/Hermit. Aimed to Inherit Highways when no one else was considering it. Finally got it going and ended up as the only person with more than two Provinces.

There was also a game where I won with 31 VP chips.

Apologies and so on.
Screwing around? I'll have you know those Knights were incredibly tactical.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Elanchana on January 08, 2016, 12:28:49 pm
IRL game. 4 players. Most people screwing around with Knights, one with Rats/Hermit. Aimed to Inherit Highways when no one else was considering it. Finally got it going and ended up as the only person with more than two Provinces.

There was also a game where I won with 31 VP chips.

Apologies and so on.
Screwing around? I'll have you know those Knights were incredibly tactical.
That "most people" includes me!
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on February 12, 2016, 10:49:07 am
JW - plays Governor
JW - chooses to trash a card
JW - trashes Gold
JW - gains Province [the last Province]
JW - plays Swindler
Lord Bottington - reveals Province
Lord Bottington - trashes Province

JW - plays 3 Gold, 1 Silver

 
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on February 12, 2016, 10:56:45 am
JW - plays Governor
JW - chooses to trash a card
JW - trashes Gold
JW - gains Province [the last Province]
JW - plays Swindler
Lord Bottington - reveals Province
Lord Bottington - trashes Province

JW - plays 3 Gold, 1 Silver

Did you actually need that to happen to win?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: wachsmuth on February 12, 2016, 04:20:59 pm
JW - plays Governor
JW - chooses to trash a card
JW - trashes Gold
JW - gains Province [the last Province]
JW - plays Swindler
Lord Bottington - reveals Province
Lord Bottington - trashes Province

JW - plays 3 Gold, 1 Silver

Did you actually need that to happen to win?

Somewhat related: I had a game where I had just seen a forced tie. Seeing as I am doing rather poorly, I decide to go for it. It involves playing a Jester for money to get to 8 for Province. The Jester hits a Victory card, hands over a curse, and I win.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Titandrake on February 18, 2016, 10:15:31 pm
One of the better turns I've had.

---------- Titandrake: turn 6 ----------
Titandrake - plays Shanty Town
Titandrake - reveals Copper, Copper, Silver, Copper
Titandrake - draws Remake, Shanty Town
Titandrake - plays Remake
Titandrake - trashes Copper
Titandrake - trashes Copper
Titandrake - plays Shanty Town
Titandrake - reveals Copper, Silver
Titandrake - draws Remake
Titandrake - shuffles deck
Titandrake - draws Copper
Titandrake - plays Remake
Titandrake - trashes Copper
Titandrake - trashes Copper
Titandrake - buys Peddler
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: tailred on February 18, 2016, 11:45:11 pm
Here's a rarity, an empty potions pile!
(http://i.imgur.com/89B9cRI.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on February 19, 2016, 12:42:19 am
Something is terribly, terribly wrong here.  Or there is a bug in the ranking algorithm.  Or Stef's MF client is REALLY screwed up.

(http://s2.postimg.org/3x4ec4bbd/Capture.png)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on February 19, 2016, 12:56:12 am
Here's a rarity, an empty potions pile!

Did you actually need that to happen to win?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: tailred on February 19, 2016, 02:35:12 am
Something is terribly, terribly wrong here.  Or there is a bug in the ranking algorithm.  Or Stef's MF client is REALLY screwed up.

(http://s2.postimg.org/3x4ec4bbd/Capture.png)
Isn't that correct, though? The ranking's based off of mu - 3sigma IIRC, and since your sigma's lower you should be rated higher.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Tables on February 19, 2016, 01:43:02 pm
The joke is that Dingan has apparently passed Stef, and well obviously the idea of being more highly rated than Stef is ludicrous.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Elanchana on February 19, 2016, 10:51:45 pm
Me doing productive stuff with both a card I hate and a card I suck at (like a boss?) (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160218/log.0.1455830769635.txt)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: xyz123 on February 19, 2016, 10:55:42 pm
Lord Bottington's Noble Brigand attack fails in the most spectacular way.

Lord Bottington - plays Noble Brigand
xyz123 - reveals: Tunnel, Tunnel
xyz123 - discards: Tunnel, Tunnel
xyz123 - reveals reaction Tunnel
xyz123 - gains Gold
xyz123 - reveals reaction Tunnel
xyz123 - gains Gold
xyz123 - reveals reaction Trader
xyz123 - gains Silver
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Jeb on February 20, 2016, 12:06:17 am
So I had a great deck with 7 Alchemists (potion), 4 platinums, 1 gold, 4 fortresses, 1 militia, 3 expands, 1 forge... and a lead.

On a turn, I play a few alchemists and then get tripped up for some reason and play a terminal militia with no potion in play and no way to get back to the alchemists  for probably 3 hands.

My opponent has a deck with 6 nobles, 4 fortresses, 3 golems, 3 alchemists, 2 expand, 1 forge, 1 develop, 3 expands...

Over the next two turns, he takes a 14 point lead with two colonies left.


This is my hand:
Jeb - draws Fortress, Fortress, Platinum, Expand, Forge

----------------------------------------------------------

Jeb - plays Fortress
Jeb - draws Potion
Jeb - plays Fortress
Jeb - draws Expand
Jeb - plays Expand
Jeb - trashes Platinum
Jeb - gains Colony
Jeb - plays Forge
Jeb - trashes Expand, Potion
Jeb - gains Colony
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on February 25, 2016, 02:21:27 pm
Sorry, princess (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160225/log.0.1456367769807.txt)

---------- Dingan: turn 14 ----------
Dingan - plays Prince
Dingan - sets aside Prince
Dingan - sets aside Princess

...

------------ Game Over ------------
1st place: Dingan
2nd place: princess0992
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: dedicateddan on February 25, 2016, 02:50:28 pm
Something is terribly, terribly wrong here.  Or there is a bug in the ranking algorithm.  Or Stef's MF client is REALLY screwed up.

(http://s2.postimg.org/3x4ec4bbd/Capture.png)

Definite bug. Let's take the 0 off of that 10 :)

(Also: congrats)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: tailred on March 01, 2016, 10:03:07 am
(http://i.imgur.com/RBx13al.png?1)
My friend was a little drunk today.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Julle on March 01, 2016, 12:06:38 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/RBx13al.png?1)
My friend was a little drunk today.
Edge caseTM: he played ruined village with herald/golem or needed one more card in play for HoP.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on March 01, 2016, 02:47:25 pm
Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160301/log.0.1456813043407.txt)

* Opens Steward/Steward *
* Both Stewards miss first reshuffle *

"Crap, I should buy another Steward cus the other 2 are going to miss this shuffle"

---------- Dingan: turn 4 ----------
Dingan - plays 3 Copper
Dingan - buys Steward
Dingan - gains Steward
Dingan - draws Steward, Steward
Dingan - shuffles deck
Dingan - draws Steward, Silver, Estate

"F my life"

------------ Game Over ------------
Goonba - total victory points: 60
Dingan - total victory points: 0
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: faust on March 01, 2016, 02:58:07 pm
Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160301/log.0.1456813043407.txt)

* Opens Steward/Steward *
* Both Stewards miss first reshuffle *

"Crap, I should buy another Steward cus the other 2 are going to miss this shuffle"

---------- Dingan: turn 4 ----------
Dingan - plays 3 Copper
Dingan - buys Steward
Dingan - gains Steward
Dingan - draws Steward, Steward
Dingan - shuffles deck
Dingan - draws Steward, Silver, Estate

"F my life"

------------ Game Over ------------
Goonba - total victory points: 60
Dingan - total victory points: 0

Not sure why you'd pick up Silver on that board. I mean, if that Silver had been a Native Village...
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: wachsmuth on March 03, 2016, 11:51:35 am
Maybe I overbought Rabble this game...

Quote
cja31415 - plays Rabble
wachsmuth - reveals Rabble, Rabble, Rabble
wachsmuth - discards: Rabble, Rabble, Rabble
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on March 03, 2016, 11:59:52 am
Maybe I overbought Rabble this game...

Quote
cja31415 - plays Rabble
wachsmuth - reveals Rabble, Rabble, Rabble
wachsmuth - discards: Rabble, Rabble, Rabble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gSQg1i_q2g
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Chris is me on March 03, 2016, 12:01:15 pm
Maybe I overbought Rabble this game...

Quote
cja31415 - plays Rabble
wachsmuth - reveals Rabble, Rabble, Rabble
wachsmuth - discards: Rabble, Rabble, Rabble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gSQg1i_q2g

A house rule my friends play with is that if you don't quote this scene when you play Rabble, the attack doesn't land. This also doubles as a way to make other players pay more attention.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: shark_bait on March 03, 2016, 12:41:37 pm
Maybe I overbought Rabble this game...

Quote
cja31415 - plays Rabble
wachsmuth - reveals Rabble, Rabble, Rabble
wachsmuth - discards: Rabble, Rabble, Rabble

Sung to the tune of David Bowie's Rebel Rebel.  ;)

Rabble, Rabble, you've drawn your best
Rabble, Rabble, your hand is a mess
Rabble, Rabble, they didn't know
And now, the game is thrown


Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Titandrake on March 07, 2016, 05:26:08 am
I'm going to be a dick and brag about a game I just played for all the wrong reasons.

It was a pretty tricky board, with lots of moving pieces and 3-piles possible from out of nowhere. In the middle of one of my long turns, I get a chat message.

Quote
Anon: ugh
Anon: so painfully slow

To which I reply

Quote
Titandrake: that's great
Titandrake: I don't really care
Titandrake: these turns are complicated

This must have struck a nerve.

Quote
Anon: you will now

I took that as an implicit threat of incoming slow play. "Oh," I think. "Well, I can't afford to indulge slow-playing. Guess I should 3-pile this turn." Which I do, winning by a few points.

Quote
Titandrake: no, I don't think I will
Anon: you idiot

Then Anon left.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Moneymodel on March 07, 2016, 04:18:41 pm
Achievement unlocked?

(http://i66.tinypic.com/2lv1m5x.png)

This board also had Murchinary. When it first came up in random, I had three shuffles without Urchins colliding despite me getting three of them (possibly four), so after ragequitting resigning, I decided to explore the kingdom against a bot, and this happened.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: dedicateddan on March 08, 2016, 09:52:28 pm
Ok, this was truly a gem

Opp: What's the point of scavenger with stashes?
Opp: Doesn't make any sense whatsoever
Me: I hope this works...
Opp: It's just with stash you're going to put them on top of the deck anyways, so why do you need scavenger too?
Opp: Good luck!
Me: Thanks!
Opp: lol gg I dont like your strategy but luck
Opp: (profanities)
Opp: (more profanities)

Log:
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160309/log.0.1457490646393.txt
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Mic Qsenoch on March 08, 2016, 10:04:31 pm
I need to automatch more often, because I really do miss these types of chat messages.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Elanchana on March 09, 2016, 01:30:21 am
Ok, this was truly a gem

Opp: What's the point of scavenger with stashes?
Opp: Doesn't make any sense whatsoever
Me: I hope this works...
Opp: It's just with stash you're going to put them on top of the deck anyways, so why do you need scavenger too?
Opp: Good luck!
Me: Thanks!
Opp: lol gg I dont like your strategy but luck
Opp: (profanities)
Opp: (more profanities)

Log:
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160309/log.0.1457490646393.txt

I think anyone would spew profanities if they got stuck on the wrong end of a cheat code Scavenger/Stash. ;D
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on March 12, 2016, 07:12:59 pm
On turn 1, I buy a Silver. My opponent buys a Noble Brigand, and hits my Silver.
Chat:
Quote
Seprix: ouch

8 Turns later:
Chat:
Quote
Opponent: ?? ??
What???
WHAT???

I didn't see him replying as I was playing at first, but then I noticed he started freaking out, so I replied:

Chat:
Quote
Seprix: You hit my Silver on T1
Opponent: wow
just wow
well, ill let you have the free win since ur such a sore loser

He quit. I was ahead by 2 Provinces. A bit weird.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: GendoIkari on March 12, 2016, 11:25:47 pm
On turn 1, I buy a Silver. My opponent buys a Noble Brigand, and hits my Silver.
Chat:
Quote
Seprix: ouch

8 Turns later:
Chat:
Quote
Opponent: ?? ??
What???
WHAT???

I didn't see him replying as I was playing at first, but then I noticed he started freaking out, so I replied:

Chat:
Quote
Seprix: You hit my Silver on T1
Opponent: wow
just wow
well, ill let you have the free win since ur such a sore loser

He quit. I was ahead by 2 Provinces. A bit weird.

Huh? I don't get it; was he doing something that didn't work because he'd stolen your Silver?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Burning Skull on March 13, 2016, 05:14:48 am
Maybe it was SCSN? He doesn't like Silvers.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: wachsmuth on March 13, 2016, 06:04:20 am
Ok, this was truly a gem

Opp: What's the point of scavenger with stashes?
Opp: Doesn't make any sense whatsoever
Me: I hope this works...
Opp: It's just with stash you're going to put them on top of the deck anyways, so why do you need scavenger too?
Opp: Good luck!
Me: Thanks!
Opp: lol gg I dont like your strategy but luck
Opp: (profanities)
Opp: (more profanities)

Log:
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160309/log.0.1457490646393.txt

I have also played this clown. He really gets very offended. In this case, he thought I had been 'very lucky' that 3 of my Cultists had collided twice, and consequently insulted me. I pointed out that he didn't buy more than 1 Cultist, and that he had actually bought Gold over Cultist early on, which was of course excused by that he'd 'hoped to hit 5' slightly afterwards. And he also thought it was 'luck' that my Grand Market engine worked out at all, and I was of course going to stall out before ending the game. And when I finally won, it was of course, luck, which he promptly pointed out to me with lots and lots of insults.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: iguanaiguana on March 13, 2016, 10:38:59 am
Ok, this was truly a gem

Opp: What's the point of scavenger with stashes?
Opp: Doesn't make any sense whatsoever
Me: I hope this works...
Opp: It's just with stash you're going to put them on top of the deck anyways, so why do you need scavenger too?
Opp: Good luck!
Me: Thanks!
Opp: lol gg I dont like your strategy but luck
Opp: (profanities)
Opp: (more profanities)

Log:
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160309/log.0.1457490646393.txt

I have also played this clown. He really gets very offended. In this case, he thought I had been 'very lucky' that 3 of my Cultists had collided twice, and consequently insulted me. I pointed out that he didn't buy more than 1 Cultist, and that he had actually bought Gold over Cultist early on, which was of course excused by that he'd 'hoped to hit 5' slightly afterwards. And he also thought it was 'luck' that my Grand Market engine worked out at all, and I was of course going to stall out before ending the game. And when I finally won, it was of course, luck, which he promptly pointed out to me with lots and lots of insults.

Oy vey, what a decline in civility on Making Fun!
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on March 13, 2016, 10:22:12 pm
On turn 1, I buy a Silver. My opponent buys a Noble Brigand, and hits my Silver.
Chat:
Quote
Seprix: ouch

8 Turns later:
Chat:
Quote
Opponent: ?? ??
What???
WHAT???

I didn't see him replying as I was playing at first, but then I noticed he started freaking out, so I replied:

Chat:
Quote
Seprix: You hit my Silver on T1
Opponent: wow
just wow
well, ill let you have the free win since ur such a sore loser

He quit. I was ahead by 2 Provinces. A bit weird.

Huh? I don't get it; was he doing something that didn't work because he'd stolen your Silver?

He just got really butthurt about me commenting that he hit my turn 1 Silver, I don't know why.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: jaybeez on March 27, 2016, 12:19:12 pm
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160327/log.0.1459094998146.txt

---------- yourbuddypal: turn 4 ----------
yourbuddypal - plays Scavenger
yourbuddypal - moves deck to discards
yourbuddypal - places Copper on top of deck
yourbuddypal - plays Silver
yourbuddypal - plays Silver
yourbuddypal - buys Grand Market
yourbuddypal - gains Grand Market
yourbuddypal - draws Copper
yourbuddypal - shuffles deck
yourbuddypal - draws Copper, Hovel, Copper, Copper
 
---------- jaybeez: turn 5 ----------
jaybeez - plays Necropolis
jaybeez - plays Smugglers
jaybeez - gains Grand Market
jaybeez - plays Scavenger
jaybeez - moves deck to discards
jaybeez - places Grand Market on top of deck
jaybeez - plays 2 Copper
jaybeez - buys Storeroom
jaybeez - gains Storeroom
jaybeez - draws Grand Market
jaybeez - shuffles deck
jaybeez - draws Copper, Copper, Storeroom, Copper
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Elanchana on March 27, 2016, 02:56:18 pm
This (http://www.twitch.tv/elatalkstoherself/v/57023442) was extremely satisfying for someone who is often terrible at playing Procession.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: iamsparticus on March 27, 2016, 11:15:10 pm
 And when I finally won, it was of course, luck, which he promptly pointed out to me with lots and lots of insults.
[/quote]

It will be great to have a blacklist again, which I assume will be a feature in the 2017 implementation.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on March 27, 2016, 11:21:39 pm
Quote
And when I finally won, it was of course, luck, which he promptly pointed out to me with lots and lots of insults.

It will be great to have a blacklist again, which I assume will be a feature in the 2017 implementation.

Why? People raging on the internet is hilarious and petty. Plus you get to show off a funny story and get some free upvotes. What's not to like?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on March 28, 2016, 01:55:14 pm
Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160327/log.0.1459105088866.txt)

I got super duper lucky to set this up.  In no way was it the best strategy.  But once it was set up, it was pretty cool.

---------- Dingan: turn 21 ----------
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Scavenger
Dingan - moves deck to discards
Dingan - places Estate on top of deck
Dingan - places King's Court on top of deck
Dingan - places King's Court on top of deck
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Scavenger
Dingan - places Scavenger on top of deck
Dingan - places Scavenger on top of deck
Dingan - places Trade Route on top of deck
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Trade Route
Dingan - plays Trade Route
Dingan - plays Trade Route

---------- Dingan: turn 22 ----------
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Scavenger
Dingan - moves deck to discards
Dingan - places Estate on top of deck
Dingan - places King's Court on top of deck
Dingan - places King's Court on top of deck
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Scavenger
Dingan - places Scavenger on top of deck
Dingan - places Scavenger on top of deck
Dingan - places Trade Route on top of deck
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Trade Route
Dingan - plays Trade Route
Dingan - plays Trade Route

---------- Dingan: turn 23 ----------
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Scavenger
Dingan - moves deck to discards
Dingan - places Estate on top of deck
Dingan - places King's Court on top of deck
Dingan - places King's Court on top of deck
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Scavenger
Dingan - places Scavenger on top of deck
Dingan - places Scavenger on top of deck
Dingan - places Trade Route on top of deck
Dingan - plays King's Court
Dingan - plays Trade Route
Dingan - plays Trade Route
Dingan - plays Trade Route
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on March 28, 2016, 02:12:03 pm
Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160327/log.0.1459105088866.txt)

I got super duper lucky to set this up.  In no way was it the best strategy.

Well, it didn't really matter because your opponent also ignored the best strategy.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: xyz123 on March 28, 2016, 02:41:55 pm
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160327/log.0.1459090515671.txt

I know it is a bot game but had I achieved two things.

1) On turn 13 I bought 6 provinces to end the game.

2) Turn 12 was more interesting though. I gained Followers, Trusty Steed and Princess on this turn despite only having a single Province. I drew it 3 times.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on March 28, 2016, 08:37:11 pm
Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160327/log.0.1459105088866.txt)

I got super duper lucky to set this up.  In no way was it the best strategy.

Well, it didn't really matter because your opponent also ignored the best strategy.

Out of curiosity, what would that be? KC KC Scavenger Scavenger is a free province a turn.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: gkrieg13 on March 28, 2016, 10:19:26 pm
Just kings court scavenger silver is enough to get you a province every turn. Until they collide
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on March 29, 2016, 06:13:20 am
Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160327/log.0.1459105088866.txt)

I got super duper lucky to set this up.  In no way was it the best strategy.

Well, it didn't really matter because your opponent also ignored the best strategy.

Out of curiosity, what would that be? KC KC Scavenger Scavenger is a free province a turn.

Something like this: http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160329/log.0.1459245959885.txt

With slightly better shuffles, I could have gotten 7 Provinces in 15 turns, but since all of my 3 King's Courts collided once, I only got 6 Provinces and one Duchy. It could have been worse if I hadn't gotten a KC in my next hand after the collision by pure luck though, and my early shuffles were 5/5 bretty good so all in all, I think this is only slightly better than what you would normally expect when you go for KC/Scavenger.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: ponnuki on March 30, 2016, 04:18:13 pm
My opponent just played two King's Courted Possessions in one turn. I still won the game, because he forsaked starting to green in those 6 turns he got to play with my cards, giving me the chance to do so in the 3 Possession turns I got after it, going from 1-0 behind to 65-1 ahead (Colony game).
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on March 30, 2016, 04:43:56 pm
I had an opponent who kept complaining about shuffle luck the whole time, and I told him to calm down. He said he was fine, but then went ballistic on me, telling me it was just luck which was why I won. Sure. And when he wins, it's obviously not luck.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: assemble_me on March 30, 2016, 05:07:31 pm
When Mine into Adventurer beats Procession/Fortress:

http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160317/log.0.1458246091735.txt

also as saved stream:

https://www.twitch.tv/assemble_me/v/56618442 (starting at 1:08:45) - the chat was not convinced it was correct. Anyways, it felt pretty good :D
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: LastFootnote on March 30, 2016, 05:14:09 pm
I had an opponent who kept complaining about shuffle luck the whole time, and I told him to calm down. He said he was fine, but then went ballistic on me, telling me it was just luck which was why I won. Sure. And when he wins, it's obviously not luck.

I don't think that qualifies as one of 2016's best Dominion moments. Sorry.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on March 30, 2016, 05:26:55 pm
I had an opponent who kept complaining about shuffle luck the whole time, and I told him to calm down. He said he was fine, but then went ballistic on me, telling me it was just luck which was why I won. Sure. And when he wins, it's obviously not luck.

I don't think that qualifies as one of 2016's best Dominion moments. Sorry.

Sure it does. You just have to squint. It looks a lot more impressive when you squint.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: dedicateddan on March 31, 2016, 05:09:41 am
How long until I realize that the silver pile is empty?  :D

Bonus commentary on tricky engines

Video here:
https://www.twitch.tv/danbrooks/v/57741594
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on April 08, 2016, 04:17:58 pm
Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160407/log.0.1460070983440.txt)

---------- Dingan: turn 16 ----------
Dingan - plays Prince
Dingan - sets aside Prince
Dingan - sets aside Margrave

and later...

---------- Dingan: turn 17 ----------
Dingan - plays Armory
Dingan - gains Prince
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: AdrianHealey on April 08, 2016, 07:29:00 pm
You already won at that point, so that was just bragging
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Titandrake on April 09, 2016, 12:22:12 am
Somehow, this is the first time I've seen this interaction. Haggler + Mandarin on gain lets me guarantee hitting $8 next turn for the win.

---------- Titandrake: turn 15 ----------
Titandrake - plays Haggler
Titandrake - plays 2 Gold, 1 Silver
Titandrake - buys Province
Titandrake - gains Mandarin
Titandrake - places Gold on top of deck
Titandrake - places Silver on top of deck
Titandrake - places Gold on top of deck
Titandrake - gains Province
...
Titandrake - draws Gold, Silver, Gold, Copper, Province
 
---------- Titandrake: turn 16 ----------
Titandrake - plays 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Copper
Titandrake - buys Province
Titandrake - gains Province
Titandrake - shuffles deck
Titandrake - draws Estate, Copper, Province, Gold, Gold
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on April 12, 2016, 02:25:52 am
In an IRL game, I had Trader in hand and bought Messenger, gaining a Curse. My two opponents weren't so lucky.

Edit: as pointed out below, this interaction wasn't handled correctly. My opponents shouldn't have gained anything. Gaining a Silver while giving your opponents nothing is still useful, but it's weaker than gaining a Silver while your opponents gain a Curse.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Accatitippi on April 12, 2016, 05:23:41 am
In an IRL game, I had Trader in hand and bought Messenger, gaining a Curse. My two opponents weren't so lucky.

This is wrong, I believe. They can't gain a copy of the card you gained, because you didn't gain it. (completely incidentally, you gained a card there, but it was due to another effect - trader's - so it's not affected by messenger).
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Aleimon Thimble on April 12, 2016, 06:15:10 am
Yeah, this is just basic Blue Dog Rule stuff. It does work with Watchtower though!
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on April 12, 2016, 10:23:10 am

This is wrong, I believe. They can't gain a copy of the card you gained, because you didn't gain it. (completely incidentally, you gained a card there, but it was due to another effect - trader's - so it's not affected by messenger).

Oops! That interaction is not as strong as I thought. Good to know.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Aleimon Thimble on April 12, 2016, 10:39:39 am
I guess it can still be useful if you want to gain an extra Silver, but don't want to give your opponent(s) anything.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on April 13, 2016, 05:44:36 pm
Nicholas Tran - draws Silver, Develop, Ambassador, Possession, Potion

---------- Seprix: turn 20 ----------
Seprix - duration Lighthouse
Seprix - plays Possession

---------- Nicholas Tran: turn 20 [possessed] ----------
Nicholas Tran - plays Ambassador
Nicholas Tran - reveals Possession
Nicholas Tran - returns Possession to the Supply
Seprix - gains Possession
 
---------- Nicholas Tran: turn 20 ----------
<resigns>

TL;DR I sent the opponent's only Possession via Ambassador (on a lucky collision for me, not for him) back into the pile on my first Possession play, he immediately resigned.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on April 13, 2016, 06:38:53 pm
Nicholas Tran - draws Silver, Develop, Ambassador, Possession, Potion

---------- Seprix: turn 20 ----------
Seprix - duration Lighthouse
Seprix - plays Possession

---------- Nicholas Tran: turn 20 [possessed] ----------
Nicholas Tran - plays Ambassador
Nicholas Tran - reveals Possession
Nicholas Tran - returns Possession to the Supply
Seprix - gains Possession
 
---------- Nicholas Tran: turn 20 ----------
<resigns>

TL;DR I sent the opponent's only Possession via Ambassador (on a lucky collision for me, not for him) back into the pile on my first Possession play, he immediately resigned.

Purely speculating, but sounds like your opponent should have Develop'ed away their Ambassador(s) once they were thin.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on April 13, 2016, 06:47:42 pm
Nicholas Tran - draws Silver, Develop, Ambassador, Possession, Potion

---------- Seprix: turn 20 ----------
Seprix - duration Lighthouse
Seprix - plays Possession

---------- Nicholas Tran: turn 20 [possessed] ----------
Nicholas Tran - plays Ambassador
Nicholas Tran - reveals Possession
Nicholas Tran - returns Possession to the Supply
Seprix - gains Possession
 
---------- Nicholas Tran: turn 20 ----------
<resigns>

TL;DR I sent the opponent's only Possession via Ambassador (on a lucky collision for me, not for him) back into the pile on my first Possession play, he immediately resigned.

Purely speculating, but sounds like your opponent should have Develop'ed away their Ambassador(s) once they were thin.

Absolutely. I don't know if he had Ambassador collisions, and he pretty much never was thin, but he had Lighthouse up every turn pretty much, so he couldn't have been that junked.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: faust on April 14, 2016, 06:44:46 pm
Sometimes, you need to gain a Scout to win the game...

---------- faust: turn 13 ----------
[...]
faust - plays Workshop
faust - gains Scout
faust - plays Remodel
faust - trashes Gold
faust - gains Province
faust - plays Tactician
faust - discards: Province, Copper, Province
faust - shuffles deck
faust - draws Tactician, Farming Village, Province, Gold, Mint
 
---------- faust: turn 14 ----------
faust - duration Tactician
faust - draws Remodel, Farming Village, Scout, Farming Village, Province
faust - plays Farming Village
faust - reveals Remodel
faust - places Remodel in hand
faust - plays Farming Village
faust - reveals Workshop
faust - places Workshop in hand
faust - plays Farming Village
faust - reveals Farming Village
faust - places Farming Village in hand
faust - plays Farming Village
faust - reveals Farming Village
faust - places Farming Village in hand
faust - plays Mint
faust - reveals Gold
faust - gains Gold
faust - plays Scout
faust - reveals: Farming Village, Province, Copper
faust - shuffles deck
faust - reveals: Gold
faust - places cards in hand:  Province
faust - places Farming Village on top of deck
faust - places Copper on top of deck
faust - places Gold on top of deck
faust - plays Farming Village
faust - reveals Gold
faust - places Gold in hand
faust - plays Remodel
faust - trashes Gold
faust - gains Province
faust - plays Remodel
faust - trashes Gold
faust - gains Province
faust - plays Workshop
faust - gains Estate
faust - draws Copper, Farming Village
faust - shuffles deck
faust - draws Province, Province, Workshop

------------ Game Over ------------
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Deadlock39 on April 15, 2016, 09:01:30 am
If you had not gained Scout,  you would have had that Farming Village that was on top of your deck in your hand instead of Scout.  It would have discarded Province and drawn the Copper. Playing your second Farming Village would shuffle your deck.  If the Gold was the only thing in your discard, it would either draw it, or discard the Province again and draw it.

As best I can tell here, Scout is not better than nothing (but Farming Village is better than Village).
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: faust on April 15, 2016, 09:23:11 am
If you had not gained Scout,  you would have had that Farming Village that was on top of your deck in your hand instead of Scout.  It would have discarded Province and drawn the Copper. Playing your second Farming Village would shuffle your deck.  If the Gold was the only thing in your discard, it would either draw it, or discard the Province again and draw it.

As best I can tell here, Scout is not better than nothing (but Farming Village is better than Village).

I guess you're right with how it has played out, but suppose I would have drawn one Province more for my starting hand. Then I could not have drawn the Gold with the additional FV, but could have still gotten it with Scout... and any situation where I have fewer Provinces in hand lets me draw the Gold either way. So I think gaining Scout was the right choice, since it guaranteed me to double Province, which gaining FV would not have.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Accatitippi on April 22, 2016, 05:14:57 am
---------- Accatitippi: turn 19 ----------
Accatitippi - plays Stonemason
Accatitippi - trashes Province
Accatitippi - gains Estate
Accatitippi - gains Estate

Accatitippi - plays 2 Copper
Accatitippi - buys Estate
Accatitippi - gains Estate
Accatitippi - draws Ironmonger, Province
Accatitippi - shuffles deck
Accatitippi - draws Curse, Copper, Copper
 
------------ Game Over ------------
Accatitippi - total victory points: 14
kiliana - total victory points: 13

I don't always mill Provinces, but when I do, I like to make sure that they are thoroughly milled.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: ced on April 22, 2016, 08:39:07 am
Quote
ced - plays 7 Copper, 1 Silver
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - buys Masterpiece
ced - overpays for Masterpiece with 21 coins
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Silver
ced - applied Watchtower to place Silver on top of the deck
ced - gains Masterpiece
ced - applied Watchtower to trash Masterpiece
ced - trashes Masterpiece
ced - draws Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver

My magnum opus.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: shark_bait on April 22, 2016, 10:24:43 am

Quote
ced - plays 7 Copper, 1 Silver
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils

Am I the only one that thinks that a deck drawing 7 Copper, 1 Silver, and 5 Spoils can do better than 1 Province for 4 consecutive turns?  ;)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: ced on April 22, 2016, 10:34:52 am

Quote
ced - plays 7 Copper, 1 Silver
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils

Am I the only one that thinks that a deck drawing 7 Copper, 1 Silver, and 5 Spoils can do better than 1 Province for 4 consecutive turns?  ;)

You'd think so normally, but the draw was Madman and the only +buy was Ruined Market.

Edit: Kingdom (http://gokosalvager.com/kingdomvisualize?logurl=http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160417/log.0.1460898475669.txt&width=100&submit=Search) and Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160417/log.0.1460898475669.txt)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Chris is me on April 22, 2016, 10:48:18 am
The best dominion moment of 2016 is going to be when Adventures comes out online.

Or maybe when MF updates us with an ETA for Adventures.

Or maybe when MF finally shuts down having never released Adventures in the first place.

(Well, I guess there's Empires, but we are guaranteed to be waiting 6 months for that online)

I really want Adventures and I'm growing impatient that every card was allegedly implemented more or less properly a week ago and we haven't even heard anything since.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: shark_bait on April 22, 2016, 10:49:27 am

Quote
ced - plays 7 Copper, 1 Silver
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils
ced - plays Spoils

Am I the only one that thinks that a deck drawing 7 Copper, 1 Silver, and 5 Spoils can do better than 1 Province for 4 consecutive turns?  ;)

You'd think so normally, but the draw was Madman and the only +buy was Ruined Market.

Edit: Kingdom (http://gokosalvager.com/kingdomvisualize?logurl=http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160417/log.0.1460898475669.txt&width=100&submit=Search) and Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160417/log.0.1460898475669.txt)

:)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Infthitbox on April 25, 2016, 02:44:06 pm
---------- Beigeman: turn 14 ----------
[...]
Beigeman - plays 3 Potion



---------- Infthitbox: turn 15 ----------
[..]
Infthitbox - plays Doctor
Infthitbox - names Province
Infthitbox - reveals: Province, Province, Gold
Infthitbox - trashes Province, Province
Infthitbox - places Gold on top of deck


---------- Infthitbox: turn 19 ----------
[...]
Infthitbox - plays Doctor
Infthitbox - names Province
Infthitbox - reveals: Gold, Province, Swindler
Infthitbox - trashes Province
Infthitbox - places Gold on top of deck
Infthitbox - places Swindler on top of deck




------------ Game Over ------------
Infthitbox - cards: 3 Cartographer, 2 Swindler, 2 Fortress, 1 Doctor, 3 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Copper, 5 Province
Infthitbox - total victory points: 30
Infthitbox - turns: 21


Log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160423/log.0.1461433746435.txt)
Kingdom (http://gokosalvager.com/kingdomvisualize?logurl=http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160423/log.0.1461433746435.txt&width=100&submit=Search)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: PolarTimeSD on April 25, 2016, 03:12:25 pm
Nicholas Tran - draws Silver, Develop, Ambassador, Possession, Potion

---------- Seprix: turn 20 ----------
Seprix - duration Lighthouse
Seprix - plays Possession

---------- Nicholas Tran: turn 20 [possessed] ----------
Nicholas Tran - plays Ambassador
Nicholas Tran - reveals Possession
Nicholas Tran - returns Possession to the Supply
Seprix - gains Possession
 
---------- Nicholas Tran: turn 20 ----------
<resigns>

TL;DR I sent the opponent's only Possession via Ambassador (on a lucky collision for me, not for him) back into the pile on my first Possession play, he immediately resigned.

Purely speculating, but sounds like your opponent should have Develop'ed away their Ambassador(s) once they were thin.

Absolutely. I don't know if he had Ambassador collisions, and he pretty much never was thin, but he had Lighthouse up every turn pretty much, so he couldn't have been that junked.

I'm just learning the game. I mostly resigned because you were sorta a jerk in chat :(
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on April 25, 2016, 03:15:39 pm
I'm just learning the game. I mostly resigned because you were sorta a jerk in chat :(

I remember saying that what happened to you on that turn sucked and I felt bad. I don't remember saying anything rude.

Welcome to the forums at any rate.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: ehunt on April 26, 2016, 06:30:58 pm
My magnum opus.

my favorite part is that you trash the masterpiece, just in case the game lasts long enough for you to have anything but silver in your hand
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on April 27, 2016, 08:04:00 pm
Friends of my fiancée invited us over to their house for lunch. I saw base set Dominion on their shelf so I got them Seaside as thanks. My fiancée called me a Dominion evangelist. ;D
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: J Reggie on May 03, 2016, 03:14:17 am
My magnum opus.

Not quite as impressive, but this happened:

Quote
J Reggie - buys Raid
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - buys Raid
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver
J Reggie - gains Silver

And here's the unprettified log: https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160503/log.0.1462258272350.txt
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Accatitippi on May 07, 2016, 03:34:59 am
---------- Accatitippi: turn 10 ----------
Accatitippi - plays Page
Accatitippi - draws Copper
Accatitippi - plays Champion
Accatitippi - plays Saboteur
Riphia - shuffles deck
Riphia - reveals Copper, Copper, Copper, Page, Page, Champion
Riphia - trashes Champion

Opponent resigns.
I feel like a huge jerk, even more so since it was only a 25% chance. (he had 4 3+ cards in his deck and one in his hand)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: wachsmuth on May 07, 2016, 06:06:27 am
---------- Accatitippi: turn 10 ----------
Accatitippi - plays Page
Accatitippi - draws Copper
Accatitippi - plays Champion
Accatitippi - plays Saboteur
Riphia - shuffles deck
Riphia - reveals Copper, Copper, Copper, Page, Page, Champion
Riphia - trashes Champion

Opponent resigns.
I feel like a huge jerk, even more so since it was only a 25% chance. (he had 4 3+ cards in his deck and one in his hand)

In an effort to catch up, my opponent gains a Rogue trying to steal my Teacher. I smuggle it, and the next turn this happens:

wachsmuth   plays Disciple
wachsmuth   plays Rogue
wachsmuth   gains Minion
wachsmuth   plays Rogue
Kyle Mullins   reveals: Disciple, Necropolis
Kyle Mullins   trashes Disciple
Kyle Mullins   discards Necropolis
wachsmuth   gains Rogue
wachsmuth   plays Wandering Minstrel
wachsmuth   draws Rogue
wachsmuth   draws Copper
wachsmuth   shuffles deck
wachsmuth   reveals: Copper, Loan, Overgrown Estate
wachsmuth   discards: Copper, Loan, Overgrown Estate
wachsmuth   plays Rogue
wachsmuth   gains Disciple
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on May 09, 2016, 03:42:27 pm
Doctor-Fortress combo!

JW   plays Haggler
JW   plays Black Market
JW   reveals Fortune Teller, Herbalist, Stash
JW   plays 2 Silver, 2 Copper
JW   buys Stash
JW   gains Fortress
JW   gains Stash
JW   places Fortune Teller on bottom of the Black Market deck
JW   places Herbalist on bottom of the Black Market deck
JW   plays Doctor
JW   names Fortress
JW   places Stashes at locations: 1
JW   shuffles deck
JW   reveals: Stash, Fortress
JW   trashes Fortress
JW   places Stash on top of deck
JW   plays Fortress
JW   draws Stash
JW   plays Stash

[Later in the same game]

JW   plays Doctor
JW   names Fortress
JW   reveals: Fortress, Fortress, Stash
JW   trashes Fortress, Fortress
JW   applies the 'when you trash ability' of Fortress
JW   applies the 'when you trash ability' of Fortress
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: GendoIkari on May 09, 2016, 03:45:00 pm
My best Dominion moment of 2016 was reading the Empires previews.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JThorne on May 13, 2016, 02:07:52 pm
3P IRL game.

Plan on Page --> Candlestick Maker (Warrior-proof) --> Double Page buys --> cycle like crazy --> buy more Pages, trash all starting cards, lock opponents out of Travelers by grabbing all Warriors and upgrading only one of them to Champion. Put Pathfinding on Page. Final build:

...8 Pages, 4 Warriors, three Platinums, three Silvers leftover from Treasure Hunters. Draw whole deck repeatedly, trashing literally every 3-4 cost card in opponents' decks along the way, play one Candlestick Maker for exactly $22 and two buys, buy double Colonies...five turns in a row.

One opponent was attempting Page buys with Forager (not Warrior-proof) and the other was attempting Pathfinding/City chains. Final score: 106 - 20 - 0.

That said, I made a huge mistake in a 4P IRL game yesterday:

Excellent engine parts (Smithy, Journeyman, Plaza, Count) but not a single extra buy. No junking. Harem. Played a boring Smithy-BM, won by a few points, apologized for being boring.

However, I saw it too late: Highway, Count, Ball. Derp! The Kingdom could easily have supported a very thin deck playing 4 Highways and Balling two Provinces a turn, no double-buy required. I've got to remember that Ball says "a card" and not "an action card" like so many Events do.

(One more: Highway/Prince-Embassy. Wow! Only won by two points over opponent who got Highway/Prince-Journeyman.)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: AJD on May 14, 2016, 03:23:02 am
This evening my friend opened 4/3 and got Masterpiece(+Silver)/Silver. Strategically, of course, it's generally a bad move to buy Masterpiece for 4, but it worked out lucky for her: she drew $6 each on turns 3 and 4, and when she finally drew her Shelters on turn 5 she drew them with the Altar she had just bought.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: rspeer on May 14, 2016, 05:00:48 am
Playing fully random, I got an amazing board where I scored Fairgrounds for 12 points each.

https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160514/log.0.1463215879107.txt

Kingdom: Stonemason (bane), Black Market, Great Hall, Village, Conspirator, Moneylender, Talisman, Counterfeit, Junk Dealer, Witch, Fairgrounds
Extra supply piles: Potion, Ruins
Extra non-supply piles: Black Market, Spoils

My opponent was strangely cooperative, letting me get 7 of the fairgrounds and even Marauding me so I didn't have to waste too much time buying ruins. Oh, and he also cooperated by not resigning like 20 turns earlier. I ended with 32 distinct cards in my 55-card deck.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Titandrake on May 16, 2016, 07:34:48 pm
---------- Titandrake: turn 9 ----------
Titandrake - plays Remake
Titandrake - trashes Copper
Titandrake - trashes Silver
Titandrake - gains Death Cart
Titandrake - reveals reaction Trader
Titandrake - gains Silver
Titandrake - reveals reaction Trader
Titandrake - gains Silver
Titandrake - buys Alms
Titandrake - gains Death Cart
Titandrake - reveals reaction Trader
Titandrake - gains Silver
Titandrake - reveals reaction Trader
Titandrake - gains Silver

http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160516/log.0.1463440737488.txt
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Limetime on May 17, 2016, 09:07:03 pm
All colony + province in 9 turns.
E. Honda has the log below.
In case if you don't want to look at the log it was traveling fair, counting house, bank.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: E.Honda on May 17, 2016, 10:57:18 pm
All colony + province in 9 turns.
Log tomorrow.

Here it is. That was really nicely done :)

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15459.0
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Elanchana on May 17, 2016, 11:41:56 pm
Some time ago I had a game where I did more trolling than possibly any other time in my entire life.

But I can't remember if it was this one (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160506/log.0.1462505695936.txt), this one (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160515/log.0.1463289512480.txt), or this one (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160508/log.0.1462734073482.txt). I know it involved me using Artificer and needlessly prolonging the game by midturn gaining cards instead of buying them like a normal person.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: E.Honda on May 18, 2016, 09:34:28 pm
Turn 7 Champion is nice :D

---------- E.Honda: turn 7 ----------
E.Honda - plays Herald
E.Honda - draws Treasure Hunter
E.Honda - reveals: Champion
E.Honda - plays Champion

http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160518/log.0.1463582236952.txt
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: gkrieg13 on May 18, 2016, 10:38:20 pm
All colony + province in 9 turns.
E. Honda has the log below.
In case if you don't want to look at the log it was traveling fair, counting house, bank.

I like how one bank essentially counts as fortune here
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: jsh357 on May 31, 2016, 07:54:38 pm
I'm sure many of you have encountered a player named Dominion cartel. He's pretty good at the game when he isn't just hitting buttons, but starts shouting in the chat almost every game about how he has bad luck and you are beating him by getting lucky. Any attempt to rationalize just leads to him driving the chat to further depths of insanity.

Well, today I managed to have a rational discussion with him by simply buttering him up, letting him know I was aware of his handiwork. He explained to me that he has been trolling because he thinks Goko/MF ruined Dominion online and now just wants to watch the world burn. I gave him some hope that the next one may be better, and it seemed to ease his heart.

Then he resigned the game and told me I won purely by getting lucky draws.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on May 31, 2016, 10:29:15 pm
I'm sure many of you have encountered a player named Dominion cartel. He's pretty good at the game when he isn't just hitting buttons, but starts shouting in the chat almost every game about how he has bad luck and you are beating him by getting lucky. Any attempt to rationalize just leads to him driving the chat to further depths of insanity.

Well, today I managed to have a rational discussion with him by simply buttering him up, letting him know I was aware of his handiwork. He explained to me that he has been trolling because he thinks Goko/MF ruined Dominion online and now just wants to watch the world burn. I gave him some hope that the next one may be better, and it seemed to ease his heart.

Then he resigned the game and told me I won purely by getting lucky draws.

I love Dominion Cartel.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Miked on June 03, 2016, 04:40:01 am
Killer turn 14, props to my opponent for not resigning and letting me have a bit of fun!

Mikey the great - plays Warrior
Mikey the great - draws Wharf, Highway
Karstas - reveals: Champion
Karstas - trashes Champion

http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160523/log.0.1464015767931.txt
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on June 03, 2016, 10:50:39 am
Killer turn 14, props to my opponent for not resigning and letting me have a bit of fun!

Mikey the great - plays Warrior
Mikey the great - draws Wharf, Highway
Karstas - reveals: Champion
Karstas - trashes Champion

http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160523/log.0.1464015767931.txt

I've gotten my Champion trashed before, in a deck of over 45 cards. That is easily resignable.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on June 10, 2016, 03:53:37 pm
http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160610/log.0.1465534585095.txt

---------- Dingan: turn 14 ----------
Dingan - buys Expedition
Dingan - buys Expedition
Dingan - buys Expedition
Dingan - buys Expedition
Dingan - buys Expedition
Dingan - buys Expedition
Dingan - buys Expedition
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: jsh357 on June 15, 2016, 11:19:37 am
That turn 15 though:
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160615/log.0.1466003929704.txt
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: mail-mi on June 15, 2016, 03:46:57 pm
That turn 15 though:
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160615/log.0.1466003929704.txt

Paging Roadrunner...
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Roadrunner7671 on June 15, 2016, 04:04:56 pm
That turn 15 though:
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160615/log.0.1466003929704.txt

Paging Roadrunner...
Roadrunner is here. What am I checking out today?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: mail-mi on June 15, 2016, 06:23:15 pm
That turn 15 though:
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160615/log.0.1466003929704.txt

Paging Roadrunner...
Roadrunner is here. What am I checking out today?

A high-level player using scout to activate their engine.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: faust on June 22, 2016, 10:20:10 am
Travelling Fair is all the +buy I need (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160622/log.0.1466604993282.txt)

faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province

Oh, and I love love love Inheritance. So many people out there still don't get its true power. This was a Shelters board, and Inheritance was dominating.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on June 22, 2016, 11:29:11 am
Travelling Fair is all the +buy I need (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160622/log.0.1466604993282.txt)

faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Travelling Fair
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province
faust - buys Province
faust - gains Province

Oh, and I love love love Inheritance. So many people out there still don't get its true power. This was a Shelters board, and Inheritance was dominating.

Yes, Estate as Highway is probably the overall best plausible Inheritance target (sorry King's Court), with Ironmonger in the top 3.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: ben_king on July 06, 2016, 04:04:34 pm
In an IRL game last night, I got 5 Colonies in 11 turns.

Turn 1 -- buy Feodum
Turn 2 -- buy Donate
Turn 3 -- pay off Debt
Turn 4 -- buy Gold
Turn 5 -- buy Platinum
Turn 6 -- buy Colony
Turn 7 -- buy Colony
Turn 8 -- buy Vault
Turn 9 -- buy Colony
Turn 10 -- buy Colony
Turn 11 -- buy Colony
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on August 09, 2016, 11:37:55 am
I was playing Lord Bottington - my fiancee grabbed my phone, changed her name on it to "Lord Bottington" and texted "BAHAHAHA, I'm going to beat you!"  But alas for Lord Bottington, it was not so.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on August 09, 2016, 06:42:55 pm
I was playing Lord Bottington - my fiancee grabbed my phone, changed her name on it to "Lord Bottington" and texted "BAHAHAHA, I'm going to beat you!"  But alas for Lord Bottington, it was not so.

Why aren't you married yet?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on August 10, 2016, 12:57:46 pm
I was playing Lord Bottington - my fiancee grabbed my phone, changed her name on it to "Lord Bottington" and texted "BAHAHAHA, I'm going to beat you!"  But alas for Lord Bottington, it was not so.

Why aren't you married yet?

To Lord Bottington or the fiancee?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on September 26, 2016, 01:39:18 am
The second editions of the base set and Intrigue were announced right before I was going to buy the base set for a friend with a birthday in October!
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on October 07, 2016, 06:19:59 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/zxHtE5q.jpg)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Jasoba on October 07, 2016, 10:08:33 pm
5/2 + baker + borrow into a 7$doctor trashing 3 estates and a copper!
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on October 18, 2016, 07:49:45 pm
Seprix plays Throne Room
Seprix plays Herald
Seprix draws Copper
Seprix reveals Counting House
Seprix plays Counting House
Seprix puts 5 Coppers in hand
Seprix draws Copper
Seprix reveals Royal Blacksmith
Seprix plays Royal Blacksmith, discards 7 Coppers
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Chris is me on October 18, 2016, 11:48:55 pm
Seprix plays Throne Room
Seprix plays Herald
Seprix draws Copper
Seprix reveals Counting House
Seprix plays Counting House
Seprix puts 5 Coppers in hand
Seprix draws Copper
Seprix reveals Royal Blacksmith
Seprix plays Royal Blacksmith, discards 7 Coppers

Quit bragging about being a beta tester already :P
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: LibraryAdventurer on October 19, 2016, 12:05:09 am
Seprix plays Throne Room
Seprix plays Herald
Seprix draws Copper
Seprix reveals Counting House
Seprix plays Counting House
Seprix puts 5 Coppers in hand
Seprix draws Copper
Seprix reveals Royal Blacksmith
Seprix plays Royal Blacksmith, discards 7 Coppers

Quit bragging about being a beta tester already :P
Who said he was playing online?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: E.Honda on October 19, 2016, 02:21:35 pm
E.Honda - plays Governor
E.Honda - chooses to trash a card
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - gains Province
E.Honda - plays Governor
E.Honda - chooses to trash a card
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - gains Province
E.Honda - plays Governor
E.Honda - chooses to trash a card
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - gains Province
E.Honda - plays Governor
E.Honda - chooses to trash a card
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - gains Province
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: J Reggie on October 27, 2016, 12:43:00 am
J Reggie - plays Lookout
J Reggie - trashes Platinum
J Reggie - discards Platinum
J Reggie - places Platinum on top of deck

log (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20161027/log.0.1477543129311.txt)

I still won though. 
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JThorne on October 27, 2016, 09:18:56 pm
IRL 4P game. I was invited to a game night with players who have <50 games experience, so they're still learning. I have all the cards.

I always brief them on all of the cards before the veto round, explaining all of the different strategies possible. We had a very interesting set of cards, but sadly, they decided it was just too much to keep track of (all they are comfortable doing are weak engines that single-province or double-province if they get lucky.)

I've played megaturns against them with Highway or HoP. I've played multi-Province engines. I've played Triple-Gear BM. I've played Distand Lands rushes. I've played decks designed to maximize landmark points (boy are there some unskippable landmarks) and I've played brutal attack-machines like a deck-drawing Catapult engine (a better curser than I expected) and the classic Champion/Page/Page/Page/Warrior/Warrior/Warrior/Sorry your deck is mostly gone sequence. I've always told them it was a thing ahead of time.

So...the kingdom. I pointed out that Feodum was on the board and that Page upgraded to Treasure Hunter could gain a ton of Silver and make a Feodum rush possible. They vetoed Page (see above, mostly.) There was Counterfeit in the kingdom, and Capital. I pointed out that if you counterfeit a Capital, you get $12, two buys and no debt! Counterfeit two and you get $26 and a bunch of buys; enough for two Provinces and two Capitals, or three Provinces on the last turn. They vetoed Capital. Nothing tricky or interesting could be allowed to stand. I did explain that Rebuild was a monolithic strategy and how to play it (buy a few and hammer the Duchies) but no one vetoed it. Rebuild it is, then. Especially because the only draw was Envoy, making an engine extremely difficult.

The Event was Banquet. Yeah, the copper hurts, but opening with two Rebuilds is nice, and then Counterfeit to help hit $5 and trim some copper. Also, buying Duchies with a hand of 5 copper is a thing.

But I like to try to show them new ways to win when I can. I looked hard at the board and thought...when am I going to get this chance again? I had to try it.

Banquet more Rebuilds. On $4, I bought a Stonemason and two Settlers. Cute in a deck full of stupid Copper. Bought some Duchies and rebuilt them into Provinces like you're supposed to, but...

Stonemason an Estate into two Coppers. They looked a bit confused. I had Counterfeits, right?

Counterfeit for $4 and two buys. Banquet a Rebuild, use the extra buy on a Copper. Now they were super confused.

Counterfeit for $6 and two buys. Banquet a Copper, Banquet another Copper, gaining 6 Coppers altogether. Two other piles were already empty.

My left-hand opponent put down his cards and said "Wait...are you....?"

then he looked down at the Landmark.

Tower.

It was too late. I piled out the Copper on my next turn. Ended up with 20+ Coppers.

I swear I warned them. I pointed out that with Feodum and Treasure Hunter, the game could have piled out Silvers for massive Tower points. I even mentioned the Banquet/Copper possibility, but until you see it with your own eyes, I guess the idea of being beaten by Copper just seems insane.

So there it is. A Copper rush. Awesome! (Yes, they could absolutely have stopped me by emptying another pile if they had seen it three or four turns earlier, but it was soooo worth the risk.)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: McGarnacle on October 28, 2016, 12:53:24 pm
I love piling out.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on November 08, 2016, 02:52:53 am
-----------Turn 13-----------
Seprix plays Gold, Silver, 3 Coppers
Seprix buys Inheritance
Seprix inherits Sir Martin
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: E.Honda on November 10, 2016, 03:28:07 pm
E.Honda - plays Governor
E.Honda - chooses to trash a card
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - gains Province
E.Honda - plays Governor
E.Honda - chooses to trash a card
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - gains Province
E.Honda - plays Governor
E.Honda - chooses to trash a card
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - gains Province
E.Honda - plays Governor
E.Honda - chooses to trash a card
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - gains Province

E.Honda - plays Butcher
E.Honda - receives 2 coin tokens
E.Honda - trashes Copper
E.Honda - uses 1 coin token
E.Honda - uses 1 coin token
E.Honda - uses 1 coin token
E.Honda - uses 1 coin token
E.Honda - uses 1 coin token
E.Honda - uses 1 coin token
E.Honda - uses 1 coin token
E.Honda - uses 1 coin token
E.Honda - gains Province

it's the trash coppers into provinces weeks :D
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: BBL on November 11, 2016, 04:31:35 am
No, it's the week of unexpected province gains. :P

---------- Villager Bot: turn 22 ----------
Villager Bot - plays Port
Villager Bot - draws Duchy
Villager Bot - plays Port
Villager Bot - draws Copper
Villager Bot - plays Cultist
Villager Bot - draws Duchy, Port
Villager Bot - plays Port
Villager Bot - draws Throne Room
Villager Bot - plays Throne Room
Villager Bot - plays Swindler
TeDeO - reveals Province
TeDeO - trashes Province
TeDeO - gains Province
Villager Bot - plays Swindler
TeDeO - reveals Peddler
TeDeO - trashes Peddler
TeDeO - gains Province

Villager Bot - plays 1 Copper
Villager Bot - buys Duchy
Villager Bot - gains Duchy
Villager Bot - draws Gold, Throne Room, Copper, Estate, Peddler

(It's not a bug, the Peddler pile was empty)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: E.Honda on November 18, 2016, 07:34:27 pm
E.Honda - plays Disciple
E.Honda - plays Artificer
E.Honda - draws Silver
E.Honda - discards Silver
E.Honda - gains Province
E.Honda - plays Artificer
E.Honda - draws Province
E.Honda - discards Province
E.Honda - gains Province
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: faust on December 03, 2016, 05:15:25 pm
faust - plays Artificer
faust - draws Nobles
faust - discards Distant Lands
faust - discards Distant Lands
faust - discards Nobles
faust - discards Nobles
faust - gains Scout
faust - plays Bazaar
faust - draws Scout
[...]
faust - plays Scout
faust - shuffles deck
faust - reveals: Nobles, Distant Lands, Distant Lands, Nobles
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on December 15, 2016, 10:57:43 am
Turn 20 - JW
J plays 5 Golds.
J buys a Dominate.
J gains a Province.
J gets 9 VP.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: SettingFraming on December 15, 2016, 11:08:23 am
Turn 20 - JW
J plays 5 Golds.
J buys a Dominate.
J gains a Province.
J gets 9 VP.

I can only hope that you were playing pure BM and got lucky out of your mind.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: allanfieldhouse on December 15, 2016, 01:37:24 pm
Turn 20 - JW
J plays 5 Golds.
J buys a Dominate.
J gains a Province.
J gets 9 VP.

You sure that's not a "2017 moment"?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on February 07, 2017, 02:11:46 pm
Turn 1 - Awaclus
A plays 5 Coppers.
A buys a Summon.
A gains an Ambassador.
A sets an Ambassador aside.

This is probably one of the strongest if not the strongest opening you can possibly make, especially as 1st player (which I was).
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on February 07, 2017, 02:26:50 pm
Turn 1 - Awaclus
A plays 5 Coppers.
A buys a Summon.
A gains an Ambassador.
A sets an Ambassador aside.

This is probably one of the strongest if not the strongest opening you can possibly make, especially as 1st player (which I was).

Not a best Dominion moment (which should be something fantastical and not likely to happen), but your statement is correct.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on February 07, 2017, 02:35:24 pm
Turn 1 - Awaclus
A plays 5 Coppers.
A buys a Summon.
A gains an Ambassador.
A sets an Ambassador aside.

This is probably one of the strongest if not the strongest opening you can possibly make, especially as 1st player (which I was).

Not a best Dominion moment (which should be something fantastical and not likely to happen), but your statement is correct.

It's a 2-piece combination requiring a 5/2 (not 2/5) opening. That's something fantastical and not likely to happen.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on February 07, 2017, 02:42:07 pm
Turn 1 - Awaclus
A plays 5 Coppers.
A buys a Summon.
A gains an Ambassador.
A sets an Ambassador aside.

This is probably one of the strongest if not the strongest opening you can possibly make, especially as 1st player (which I was).

Not a best Dominion moment (which should be something fantastical and not likely to happen), but your statement is correct.

It's a 2-piece combination requiring a 5/2 (not 2/5) opening. That's something fantastical and not likely to happen.

Not likely to happen, yes. Fantastical, no.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on February 07, 2017, 02:46:29 pm
When Awaclus posts something constructive and the thread devolves into pointless minutia anyway. If only there was a "Worst Uninteresting Moments 2017" thread to post it in.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: ThetaSigma12 on February 07, 2017, 02:50:09 pm
You know, we should drop all these stupid modifiers and just have a "Dominion Moments" thread.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: markusin on February 07, 2017, 02:54:15 pm
When Awaclus posts something constructive and the thread devolves into pointless minutia anyway. If only there was a "Worst Uninteresting Moments 2017" thread to post it in.

*Cough* "Best Dominion moments 2016" thread *cough* *cough* not pointless minutia *cough*.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on February 07, 2017, 02:56:44 pm
Turn 1 - Awaclus
A plays 5 Coppers.
A buys a Summon.
A gains an Ambassador.
A sets an Ambassador aside.

This is probably one of the strongest if not the strongest opening you can possibly make, especially as 1st player (which I was).

Not a best Dominion moment (which should be something fantastical and not likely to happen), but your statement is correct.

It's a 2-piece combination requiring a 5/2 (not 2/5) opening. That's something fantastical and not likely to happen.

Not likely to happen, yes. Fantastical, no.

How is it not fantastical?
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Beyond Awesome on February 07, 2017, 03:26:13 pm
Sounds pretty fantastical to me
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: singletee on February 07, 2017, 03:28:09 pm
It's very strong. I've seen it done three times in games I've played. None were constructed kingdoms.
versus bot (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160915/log.0.1473973098581.txt) - versus Rabid (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160911/log.0.1473606723562.txt) - versus bot (http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160609/log.0.1465448821770.txt)

Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Seprix on February 07, 2017, 03:41:20 pm
Sounds pretty fantastical to me

Is it as dazzling to the eye as buying out all 8 Provinces in one turn? Or is it a hilarious blunder of immense proportions? This is what I mean by fantastical.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on February 07, 2017, 04:43:18 pm
Is it as dazzling to the eye as buying out all 8 Provinces in one turn? Or is it a hilarious blunder of immense proportions? This is what I mean by fantastical.

No, but I think it's more fantastical than

I had an opponent who kept complaining about shuffle luck the whole time, and I told him to calm down. He said he was fine, but then went ballistic on me, telling me it was just luck which was why I won. Sure. And when he wins, it's obviously not luck.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: markusin on February 07, 2017, 05:06:00 pm
Is it as dazzling to the eye as buying out all 8 Provinces in one turn? Or is it a hilarious blunder of immense proportions? This is what I mean by fantastical.

No, but I think it's more fantastical than

I had an opponent who kept complaining about shuffle luck the whole time, and I told him to calm down. He said he was fine, but then went ballistic on me, telling me it was just luck which was why I won. Sure. And when he wins, it's obviously not luck.

Because the latter is more common?

Zing!
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Dingan on February 07, 2017, 07:54:54 pm
The thought process of a lurker:

- "Oh man, that was so awesome, maybe I'll even post about it!"
- *reads this thread*
- "nevermind"

 :'(
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: faust on February 08, 2017, 04:30:22 am
The thought process of a lurker:

- "Oh man, that was so awesome, maybe I'll even post about it!"
- *reads this thread*
- "nevermind"

 :'(
The thought process of a Lurker:

- "Oh man, look at that card. It's so cool, I'm going to trash it!"
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: E.Honda on February 10, 2017, 12:47:36 pm
Sounds pretty fantastical to me

Is it as dazzling to the eye as buying out all 8 Provinces in one turn? Or is it a hilarious blunder of immense proportions? This is what I mean by fantastical.

Let me present to you 8 Provinces, 8 Duchies, 8 Estates and 8 Curses in one turn:

E buys a Province.
E gains a Curse.
E gains a Province.
E buys a Province.
E gains a Curse.
E gains a Province.
E buys a Province.
E gains a Curse.
E gains a Province.
E buys a Province.
E gains a Curse.
E gains a Province.
E buys a Province.
E gains a Curse.
E gains a Province.
E buys a Province.
E gains a Curse.
E gains a Province.
E buys a Province.
E gains a Curse.
E gains a Province.
E buys a Province.
E gains a Curse.
E gains a Province.
E buys and gains 8 Estates and 8 Duchies.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on February 24, 2017, 05:25:19 am
A buys and gains 10 Curses.
A buys a Doctor.
A shuffles their deck.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A looks at a Curse.
A trashes a Curse.
A gains a Doctor.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: SinisterHologram on April 07, 2017, 01:57:38 pm
I'm sure many of you have encountered a player named Dominion cartel. He's pretty good at the game when he isn't just hitting buttons, but starts shouting in the chat almost every game about how he has bad luck and you are beating him by getting lucky. Any attempt to rationalize just leads to him driving the chat to further depths of insanity.

Well, today I managed to have a rational discussion with him by simply buttering him up, letting him know I was aware of his handiwork. He explained to me that he has been trolling because he thinks Goko/MF ruined Dominion online and now just wants to watch the world burn. I gave him some hope that the next one may be better, and it seemed to ease his heart.

Then he resigned the game and told me I won purely by getting lucky draws.

Yes, this just happened to me. It is very unpleasant to play with him.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: JW on April 09, 2017, 02:01:43 am
J plays an Ambassador.
J returns 2 Curses to the Curse pile.
Z gains a Curse.
J plays an Ambassador.
J returns 2 Curses to the Curse pile.
Z gains a Curse.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Titandrake on April 18, 2017, 05:12:56 am
You know, we should drop all these stupid modifiers and just have a "Dominion Moments" thread.

Could we actually do this? There are 3-4 threads with different modifiers for silly reasons, as far as I can remember, and they've all converged into the same kind of stuff.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: faust on April 18, 2017, 07:17:11 am
You know, we should drop all these stupid modifiers and just have a "Dominion Moments" thread.

Could we actually do this? There are 3-4 threads with different modifiers for silly reasons, as far as I can remember, and they've all converged into the same kind of stuff.
Just be happy that there is no "neat and potentially useful Dominion moments" thread.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: LaLight on April 18, 2017, 07:27:51 am
You know, we should drop all these stupid modifiers and just have a "Dominion Moments" thread.

Could we actually do this? There are 3-4 threads with different modifiers for silly reasons, as far as I can remember, and they've all converged into the same kind of stuff.
Just be happy that there is no "neat and potentially useful Dominion moments" thread.

"In the game you found them in."
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: J Reggie on April 20, 2017, 01:30:35 pm
You know, we should drop all these stupid modifiers and just have a "Dominion Moments" thread.

(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on April 27, 2017, 04:32:03 am
FFS.

(http://i7.aijaa.com/b/00840/14374869.jpg)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: GendoIkari on April 27, 2017, 10:08:54 am
FFS.

(http://i7.aijaa.com/b/00840/14374869.jpg)

Wait, what? Is this some time into the game, after you've played a Highway? How unlucky this is depends heavily on how many Coppers you've already trashed. It's not uncommon to open Silver/Moneylender and end up drawing Moneylender, Silver, Estate x3, and that's much worse than having it happen later.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: aku_chi on April 27, 2017, 11:57:43 am
It's not uncommon to open Silver/Moneylender and end up drawing Moneylender, Silver, Estate x3

Actually, there's only a 1/792 chance of drawing Moneylender, Silver, Estate x3 on turn 3 or 4 after opening with Silver/Moneylender.

(If I've done my math correctly: 12 choose 7 / 7 choose 7)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: TrojH on April 27, 2017, 12:05:38 pm
FFS.

(http://i7.aijaa.com/b/00840/14374869.jpg)

Wait, what? Is this some time into the game, after you've played a Highway? How unlucky this is depends heavily on how many Coppers you've already trashed. It's not uncommon to open Silver/Moneylender and end up drawing Moneylender, Silver, Estate x3, and that's much worse than having it happen later.

Turn 3, after a Baker token, I'm guessing.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: GendoIkari on April 27, 2017, 12:37:57 pm
FFS.

(http://i7.aijaa.com/b/00840/14374869.jpg)

Wait, what? Is this some time into the game, after you've played a Highway? How unlucky this is depends heavily on how many Coppers you've already trashed. It's not uncommon to open Silver/Moneylender and end up drawing Moneylender, Silver, Estate x3, and that's much worse than having it happen later.

Turn 3, after a Baker token, I'm guessing.

No, look at the costs of all the cards; they're reduced by 1.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: GendoIkari on April 27, 2017, 12:40:19 pm
It's not uncommon to open Silver/Moneylender and end up drawing Moneylender, Silver, Estate x3

Actually, there's only a 1/792 chance of drawing Moneylender, Silver, Estate x3 on turn 3 or 4 after opening with Silver/Moneylender.

(If I've done my math correctly: 12 choose 7 / 7 choose 7)

I think you over complicated it, it's also just 12 choose 5, or 12 choose 7. But uncommon was clearly the wrong word. I guess I meant not unheard of.
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Awaclus on April 27, 2017, 12:45:09 pm
It was turn 11, and the costs are lowered because I took the screenshot on my opponent's turn and he had a Bridge. Yes, I had trashed like 3 Coppers already, but I also had a bunch of Scrying Pools and City Quarters and other Actions so my expectations to cycle through at least some of my deck, connect the Potion with at least $2 and connect the Moneylender with a Copper should have been pretty good (I mean, that's how it worked out for my opponent). Instead, I skipped the trashing that shuffle, I skipped the Scrying Pool gain that shuffle, and I skipped just one entire turn in general, putting me perhaps two-ish turns behind my opponent in terms of tempo and permanently behind in terms of the Scrying Pool split.

I guess I meant not unheard of.

Yeah and I'm still salty about that too.

(http://i9.aijaa.com/b/00790/14375107.jpg)
Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: markusin on April 27, 2017, 01:26:13 pm
Cross post from way back in the Homage to the Best Card thread:

In any case, I just realized that Young Witch could probably be a reasonable proxy for Disaster Girl.

...

(http://i.imgur.com/1mdukKx.jpg)

Title: Re: Best Dominion moments 2016
Post by: Jack Rudd on April 27, 2017, 02:30:52 pm
Winning a game thanks to an early Transmute buy.

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