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Title: Open Outpost/Nothing. Ignore Sea Hag or Potion/Familiar. You know you want to.
Post by: () | (_) ^/ on December 04, 2012, 04:42:32 pm
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/04/game-20121204-133818-efbc7377.html

Outpost, 2xJack, some FVs.

Opponent did something similar, except incorporated Markets, presumably for the +buy.  I think that was too slow?  Not sure, as I like +buy.
Title: Re: Open Outpost/Nothing. Ignore Sea Hag or Potion/Familiar. You know you want to.
Post by: HiveMindEmulator on December 04, 2012, 05:17:59 pm
You sure it's not better to open Jack/nothing and the Outpost at the next $5 hand? There's like no way you're going to be able to anything with your first Outpost turn besides just cycle the 3 cards.
Title: Re: Open Outpost/Nothing. Ignore Sea Hag or Potion/Familiar. You know you want to.
Post by: ftl on December 04, 2012, 05:31:17 pm
Well, if your outpost turn is 3x copper then you can buy a fishing village or a silver. Takes a little luck though. Neither of you got it.
Title: Re: Open Outpost/Nothing. Ignore Sea Hag or Potion/Familiar. You know you want to.
Post by: () | (_) ^/ on December 04, 2012, 05:37:11 pm
You sure it's not better to open Jack/nothing and the Outpost at the next $5 hand? There's like no way you're going to be able to anything with your first Outpost turn besides just cycle the 3 cards.

Nope, not sure.  But if I don't hit $3 on the Outpost turn, the cycling doesn't hurt (in my case it caused me to pass by two estates).
Title: Re: Open Outpost/Nothing. Ignore Sea Hag or Potion/Familiar. You know you want to.
Post by: Drab Emordnilap on December 04, 2012, 05:39:00 pm
You sure it's not better to open Jack/nothing and the Outpost at the next $5 hand? There's like no way you're going to be able to anything with your first Outpost turn besides just cycle the 3 cards.

Nope, not sure.  But if I don't hit $3 on the Outpost turn, the cycling doesn't hurt (in my case it caused me to pass by two estates).

But if you bought Jack first, then you would have gained a Silver (and possibly trashed an Estate) instead of just cycling 3 cards.
Title: Re: Open Outpost/Nothing. Ignore Sea Hag or Potion/Familiar. You know you want to.
Post by: HiveMindEmulator on December 04, 2012, 05:42:03 pm
But if you bought Jack first, then you would have gained a Silver (and possibly trashed an Estate) instead of just cycling 3 cards.
You will also cycle 2 cards (one from the reveal/discard, and one from the draw back up to 5).
Title: Re: Open Outpost/Nothing. Ignore Sea Hag or Potion/Familiar. You know you want to.
Post by: () | (_) ^/ on December 04, 2012, 05:43:55 pm
But if you bought Jack first, then you would have gained a Silver (and possibly trashed an Estate) instead of just cycling 3 cards.

You will also cycle 2 cards (one from the reveal/discard, and one from the draw back up to 5).

Agreed and agreed.  So I'm concluding here that Outpost wasn't bad, but Jack would be better?
Title: Re: Open Outpost/Nothing. Ignore Sea Hag or Potion/Familiar. You know you want to.
Post by: HiveMindEmulator on December 04, 2012, 06:01:15 pm
Yeah, I like your overall strategy, it's just the opening that doesn't make sense.