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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Dominion Scavenger is Back
« on: April 02, 2020, 08:14:26 am »
I don't know about the site itself, but AFAIK the access of the site to the Dominion Online database of results has been temporarily cancelled. With the recent slowdowns, it turned out that some of the querries were taking  a large toll on the database server.

The intention is to restore access once the situation has stabilized. When exactly that is, is unclear at the moment.

Thanks for the info!

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Dominion Scavenger is Back
« on: March 31, 2020, 05:30:21 pm »
I've been out for a while and the site seems to be down now. Is it just temporary, or is there any new alternative?

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Looking forward to the results (especially how people rate Ways).
And thanks for the work you've put into these card lists!

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Dominion League / Re: Season 31 - Signups
« on: November 25, 2018, 10:55:05 am »
@Jimmmy8763
Returning to the league, I played in Season 29 in D6 division and finished 1st.
Timezone: Europe/Berlin

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I already shared this on the reddit thread and I'm gonna share here too. I've also added some new charts since yesterday.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1jJC2C3MhJ2OBMRyq-EOP20zuR_2taSh3
Explanation of Violin Plots

Re:research

Most duration cards are great for reliability, starting with extra stuff next turn is strong.

Research is getting above average ratings, which I believe is due to the heuristic that 1 mega turn is better than 2 okay turns. It's a non-terminal trasher, that you can get in your opening shuffle. That alone should give it a good rating. The rest of the game-play will be determined by what else is in the kingdom, and skilled play. I feel like it's a high-skill card because blindly trashing good cards can easily backfire, as you say. Cards can miss shuffle, not enough +actions next turn, not enough +buys next turn.

I'm also surprised by Flag Bearer. It's got slightly below average rating, but has a huge variation in opinion though. Which I think stems from how people rate cards. Using Adam's criteria, I feel like it's a "support card in most decks" by itself (7) but "is almost never ignorable" (9). If you don't play with it, you're allowing your opponent a huge advantage for $4 and a card slot. I leaned on the low side at 7 because you don't want to be the first to buy it. That still makes it "above average". I'm very curious to play games with it to see how the fight over artifacts plays out.

First I was also surprised by Flag Bearer. I mean it's a card that you have to buy if your opponent has the flag, cannot ignore it. But as you said you never want to be the first to buy it. The second player who gets it almost always get more value from it. That way optimally nobody should buy it on most boards.
The only cases I can think of when it's reasonable to buy it is:
1. You think your opponent misplays and doesn't contest the flag
2. You are ahead and can afford the money, buys, trashes to contest the flag, much more than your opponent

So I think it's going to end up as a win more card, and I would not rate it high anymore.

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Tournaments and Events / Re: Renaissance: The Tournament
« on: September 26, 2018, 10:35:41 am »
In! if still possible.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Results
« on: January 28, 2018, 05:04:55 pm »
C2: Jimmmy 4 - 2 SmokeyRivers

I'll be back next season

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I consider Upgrade about the same level as Junk Dealer, so I think its place is well deserved in Top10, although Junk Dealer at #2 is a bit surprising.
Btw Sentry might just be better than both of them with being optional, and trashing 2 from the DECK.

Replace being so high is just another proof of Remodel is heavily underrated in the 4$ section.

Edit: Also I expect Cursed Village to rise in the future. Usually it's a Lost City, but I think most of the times its better than LC, and only rarely worse.

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My experience with nocturne tells that it really lowers action density in your deck (nights, treasure gainers), so the high rises for all the Villages, Throne room, and especially Procession has a strange timing. Maybe its just the fact, that people are just realizing by how much engines are better than money?

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I think nocturne cards could be higher.
-Necromancer just has too many synergies.
-Conclave is a great opener along with a terminal 3 cost. Turn 3/4 you can hit 5$ and already have a village (conclave), for the case your 5cost is also a
terminal.
-Cemetery is super great with gainers, alms, trash for benefits. Other than that its still okay, and people would buy it endgame just for the 2VP for 4$
-Skulk gives economy early, but it might not be better than #52
-Bard: I think its pretty weak

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Lookout is the other kind of good in which it has one use and reliably does it all the time. I'll almost never skip lookout. Obviously donate makes it redundant, and maybe chapel does too, but its non-terminal nature means pairing it with ambassador/masquerade/steward is useful, whereas those three don't play nice a lot of the time. Lookout/Ambassador is a devastating opening. The only reason I skip lookout is donate/chapel or some mad rush game. For me, lookout is #3 and shares the "S-tier" with ambassador and masquerade.

Lookout is really good but is it so much better than Forager, and Loan? Neither of them takes up an action. Loan gives +1 coin, but cannot trash estates. Forager gives +buy, +0/1 coin early game, but can only trash from hand, and also useful later in the game. Lookout gives only a little cycling, but can trash everything and not from hand. In my opinion, not so much difference in strength between them. Although I'd put Loan a bit higher on the list.
Actually Monastery as a 2 cost can really compete with those above.

I also think that Fishing Village is overrated but especially Enchantress. The attack usually does almost nothing.
Doctor seems really underrated here, along with Menagerie, and the falling Watchtower.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Results
« on: January 11, 2018, 02:16:40 pm »
C2: Jimmmy 4 - 2 mikechike

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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Results
« on: December 27, 2017, 05:25:41 pm »
C2

Jimmmy 5 - 1 Micha1980

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Dominion League / Re: Season 24 - Results
« on: November 26, 2017, 04:42:17 am »
I'm in for next season!

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I would open temple+silver on 4-3 to try to get an archive early. Archive really helps cycling, and you can buy CQ earlier.
After that I would go for at least 1 more archive, 1-2 patricians/settlers on 2$ turns (actually neither of them are good here), and maybe 1 sacrifice, farmers market.
I don't think engineer and advance is good enough here to justify buying a lot of FM early just for the +buy.
With archives, you can add CQ pretty early, and after that add more FM and CQ , and advance your 2$ cards into maybe Crowns or Emporiums.

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Is it okay to buy Possession?
« on: November 06, 2017, 10:59:54 am »
I meet more and more people on Dominion Online who just gets mad if I buy Possession. Someone just outright blacklisted me for buying one.
I have to ask if there is a common consensus of banning possession every game? (I know how controversial the card is.)
If there is not, then please at least say something at the beginning of the game, like "can we play without possession?". That would be really useful to prevent misunderstandings.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 24 - Results
« on: October 30, 2017, 05:41:42 pm »
C1   Micha1980 5-1 Jimmmy

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Dominion League / Re: Season 24 - Results
« on: October 23, 2017, 03:11:59 pm »
C1: Jimmmy 3-3 Gazbag

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Tournaments and Events / Re: World Cup 2018 Interest Thread & Discussion
« on: October 21, 2017, 03:52:27 am »
I find this a good opportunity to ask it here. Is there is any Hungarian player in the community?
Although I doubt I find enough for a semi-competitive team.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 23 - Results
« on: September 09, 2017, 10:09:40 am »
D4 Jimmmy 5 - 1 kamikazepig

I'm in for next season

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Dominion League / Re: Season 23 - Results
« on: August 20, 2017, 04:18:19 pm »
D4: Jimmmy 4 - 2 benedettosoxfan

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Dominion League / Re: Season 23 - Results
« on: August 19, 2017, 03:22:09 pm »
D4
Jimmmy 5 - 1 RICHARDNIXON

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Dominion League / Re: Season 23 - Results
« on: August 07, 2017, 04:22:00 pm »
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Jimmmy 4 - Chaos 2

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Dominion League / Re: Season 22 - Results
« on: July 15, 2017, 09:08:39 am »
I'm also returning for next season.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 22 - Results
« on: July 04, 2017, 07:38:21 am »
D3: bouchon 4 - 2 Jimmmy

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