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Title: let's discuss guilds cards: butcher
Post by: schadd on January 01, 2017, 01:54:13 am

(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/e/ed/Butcher.jpg)
his drudgery was symbolically represented in the amount of times you had to click the coin token button

  this is a strong and fun card. it is generally good whenever you have cards that you would like to not have and instead have a different and perhaps (but not necessarily) more expensive card. in terms of brute force, it only produces $2, and thus isn't typically a good sole payload (other than perhaps milling provinces), which makes it more interesting. butcher is neat and goodcool.


-isn't butcher such a cool guy? (yes)
-isn't it so fun when you have some sort of deck that finagles butcher as its payload in conjunction with something else? (yes)
-isn't its interaction with other coin token things (both thematically and otherwise) the funnest thing? (yes)
Title: Re: let's discuss guilds cards: butcher
Post by: weety4 on January 03, 2017, 02:56:14 am
It is my favourite Remodel variant.
Also, 2 Coin tokens isn't that bad in itself given that 3 Coin tokens would probably be too much for a 5$.
Title: Re: let's discuss guilds cards: butcher
Post by: Chris is me on January 03, 2017, 09:57:15 am
Butcher is so clutch. Among the coolest cards in dominion! Very often useful and it feels great anytime you do something cool with it. Almost a must-buy.
Title: Re: let's discuss guilds cards: butcher
Post by: markusin on January 03, 2017, 01:11:04 pm
Butcher is so clutch. Among the coolest cards in dominion! Very often useful and it feels great anytime you do something cool with it. Almost a must-buy.

It's rare that you can go wrong with at least one Butcher. It can even do fun stuff like turn a Province into another Province while giving me coin tokens to help buy another Province on the same turn.
Title: Re: let's discuss guilds cards: butcher
Post by: Chappy7 on April 18, 2017, 01:55:25 pm
The card is great, but the poor butcher's head is pretty strange.
Title: Re: let's discuss guilds cards: butcher
Post by: pingpongsam on April 18, 2017, 03:36:48 pm
It amazes me how many people fail to realize you can trash without spending the coins that turn. Too many people use it like a Remodel/Farmland (which it is fine for that but is usually better for collecting coins for later).
Title: Re: let's discuss guilds cards: butcher
Post by: Burning Skull on April 18, 2017, 06:25:29 pm
trashing copper into copper is also popular
Title: Re: let's discuss guilds cards: butcher
Post by: Shvegait on April 18, 2017, 06:50:11 pm
It amazes me how many people fail to realize you can trash without spending the coins that turn. Too many people use it like a Remodel/Farmland (which it is fine for that but is usually better for collecting coins for later).

If you trash a card, you must gain a card, though. Trashing a Copper and gaining a Copper doesn't usually make sense, since that's a -$1. Better not to trash a card at all then, and I agree that is something people fail to realize you can do.