The real question is, would Roadrunner buy two of these over an actual Scout.Ha ha, please. You think a petty event is anything compared to Scout? Scouting Party forces you to discard any juicy cards on top of your deck. Scouting Party is played in your buy phase, and it costs two coins each time!
Just because it has the word Scout in it doesn't mean it's automatically excellentWell, at least that's right ;D
So now for the fun stuff [...]
1. Rebuild.
So now for the fun stuff [...]
1. Rebuild.
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3. Deck control for Chouse decks. Dump the coppers, setup Hamlet/ChouseX2
5. Being really mean after your last Possession turn (double Pillage for $2, joy; pretty much nothing but dead draw for $4).
Setting up the next hand and controlling the reshuffle with a Counting House deck really is amazing. I recently played a Kingdom with Counting House, Beggar and Scouting Party. After the second reshuffle, every turn was CH, province, scouting party enough times to force the reshuffle before drawing (with all the copper still in play) and put the other CH on top.
But I do have to point out a couple of problem quotes:Quote3. Deck control for Chouse decks. Dump the coppers, setup Hamlet/ChouseX2
5. Being really mean after your last Possession turn (double Pillage for $2, joy; pretty much nothing but dead draw for $4).
Playing multiple Scouting Parties doesn't let you set up more than 2 cards on top of the deck. When you play the second one, you're looking at the top five cards, which include the two you just put back! You can't set up 3-card combos, and you can't stack 4 cards on a Possession turn.QuoteSure you can, just track your deck. You can drastically increase the odds because you know the cards you put back. If you have just one card you want to retain, you can use a second Sparty will relative safety. Knowing the last few cards on your deck goes a long way. Is it absolute? No. But you choose to take the second Sparty or not so you can get some very nice odds going. As far as Possession, again the point is that you choose to go for the second Sparty, this means that you can go past killer hands like Minion x4 until you do set up some nice dead draw. You need insanely high component density to get around worst 2 of 7 + 3 random.
Another thought: Scouting Party isn't even that good. I pmayed an IRL game with liopoli and some non-forum user (who was pretty good). They both bought Scouting Party pretty much every turn, and seeing as the board was a Witch/Cultist/Trader/Save/Colony game, their buying power really suffered.
In the version that I remember, I never bought Scouting Party and tied Liopoli.
But this does not compare favorably to Scout.
Another thought: Scouting Party isn't even that good. I pmayed an IRL game with liopoli and some non-forum user (who was pretty good). They both bought Scouting Party pretty much every turn, and seeing as the board was a Witch/Cultist/Trader/Save/Colony game, their buying power really suffered.
In the version that I remember, I never bought Scouting Party and tied Liopoli.
But this does not compare favorably to Scout.
I have no idea why Roadrunner hates a card that's called Scout, is actually good, and hat I've bought every time it's appeared online at least once a game. You're basically paying to cycle faster, and that's fantastic. I love skipping 3 green cards with this in the late game too.If you have $2 with no Pearl Divers or stuff, or if you hit $7 and want a Festival, then Scouting Party is usually a bit better than nothing. But cycling is overrated (ask Chancellor) and discarding three cards that might be good isn't great.
cycling is overrated
cycling is overrated (ask Chancellor)
I have no idea why Roadrunner hates a card that's called Scout, is actually good, and hat I've bought every time it's appeared online at least once a game. You're basically paying to cycle faster, and that's fantastic. I love skipping 3 green cards with this in the late game too.If you have $2 with no Pearl Divers or stuff, or if you hit $7 and want a Festival, then Scouting Party is usually a bit better than nothing. But cycling is overrated (ask Chancellor) and discarding three cards that might be good isn't great.
The problem with Chancellor is twofold, it's terminal and it can appear on the bottom of your deck when the discard is pretty useless.I have no idea why Roadrunner hates a card that's called Scout, is actually good, and hat I've bought every time it's appeared online at least once a game. You're basically paying to cycle faster, and that's fantastic. I love skipping 3 green cards with this in the late game too.If you have $2 with no Pearl Divers or stuff, or if you hit $7 and want a Festival, then Scouting Party is usually a bit better than nothing. But cycling is overrated (ask Chancellor) and discarding three cards that might be good isn't great.
IF YOU'VE DRAWN YOUR DECK WHY WOULD YOU BUY A SCOUTING PARTY?I have no idea why Roadrunner hates a card that's called Scout, is actually good, and hat I've bought every time it's appeared online at least once a game. You're basically paying to cycle faster, and that's fantastic. I love skipping 3 green cards with this in the late game too.If you have $2 with no Pearl Divers or stuff, or if you hit $7 and want a Festival, then Scouting Party is usually a bit better than nothing. But cycling is overrated (ask Chancellor) and discarding three cards that might be good isn't great.
Lol. If there are no tokens involved or you've drawn your deck, there is literally no reason to take Pearl Diver over Scouting Party. And discarding three good cards is perfectly fine aslong as you topdeck the two best cards that start your next turn.
Lol. If there are no tokens involved or you've drawn your deck, there is literally no reason to take Pearl Diver over Scouting Party. And discarding three good cards is perfectly fine aslong as you topdeck the two best cards that start your next turn.
IF YOU'VE DRAWN YOUR DECK WHY WOULD YOU BUY A SCOUTING PARTY?I have no idea why Roadrunner hates a card that's called Scout, is actually good, and hat I've bought every time it's appeared online at least once a game. You're basically paying to cycle faster, and that's fantastic. I love skipping 3 green cards with this in the late game too.If you have $2 with no Pearl Divers or stuff, or if you hit $7 and want a Festival, then Scouting Party is usually a bit better than nothing. But cycling is overrated (ask Chancellor) and discarding three cards that might be good isn't great.
Lol. If there are no tokens involved or you've drawn your deck, there is literally no reason to take Pearl Diver over Scouting Party. And discarding three good cards is perfectly fine aslong as you topdeck the two best cards that start your next turn.
Stop trolling guys.
IF YOU'VE DRAWN YOUR DECK WHY WOULD YOU BUY A SCOUTING PARTY?
IF YOU'VE DRAWN YOUR DECK WHY WOULD YOU BUY A SCOUTING PARTY?
You bought 3 victory cards and 2 actions first and want to make sure you draw the actions.
IF YOU'VE DRAWN YOUR DECK WHY WOULD YOU BUY A SCOUTING PARTY?
You bought 3 victory cards and 2 actions first and want to make sure you draw the actions.
Also pretty nice if bought/gained any 4 cards and want to seed one of them for next turn