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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Strictly Better
« on: July 02, 2019, 06:28:55 pm »
Originally posted to the other thread but I see this one is more appropriate:
Weird exception time: You're playing Governor and you need to remodel the Village into a Duchy.
If we were to insist that "strictly better" must mean "always better", it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to find any examples. Is Gold "strictly better" than Silver? Not if you're playing Duchy.
Strictly better makes only sense for something like Mining Village > Village as there is no instance (somebody could probably construct a weird exception) in which the former is worse than the latter.
There can be instances where Mining Village is equal to Village, because you will never use the optional trash ability. However, because the optional trash ability is optional, Mining Village can never be worse than Village. And if it could, as you point out, it wouldn't be strictly better anymore.
Weird exception time: You're playing Governor and you need to remodel the Village into a Duchy.
If we were to insist that "strictly better" must mean "always better", it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to find any examples. Is Gold "strictly better" than Silver? Not if you're playing Duchy.