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Dominion: Dark Ages Previews / Re: What is your favorite Dark Ages card ?
« on: September 04, 2012, 06:44:41 pm »
Band of misfits makes me feel smart every time I play it.
I don't think it's the JSON parsing; seems more likely to be the way it renders the chat string in the window. Probably creates a new div and then sets its innerHTML to the chat text (which will cause scripts to run).
Band of Misfits would be pretty strong here.
Is it significant that Market Square's reaction triggers on 'When one of your cards is trashed' rather than 'When you trash a card'?
Maybe not the intention, but I think this wording will help alleviate confusion from people playing Swindler. "I played Swindler and trashed your card, so I can reveal Market Square now, right?" Nope, not right.
Essentially:
Play Throne Room.
Choose a card. (What card? BoM.)
Play that card twice. (What card? BoM-as-Feast.)
vs.
Play Throne Room.
Choose a card. (What card? BoM.)
Play that card twice. (What card? BoM-as-Feast.)
Play the chosen card. (BoM-as-Feast)
Reevaluate the status of the chosen card.
Play the chosen card. (BoM)
Scenario 1 looks like Throne Room... simple and direct.
Scenario 2 adds in a lot more that isn't simply or directly on Throne Room.
But (and now I'm repeating a point from another thread), then I think that Procession-BoM should gain a card costing one more than the card BoM pretends to be, not one more than the BoM itself. Why would Procession suddenly see BoM for what it really is when it enters the trash if Throne Room doesn't?
Unfortunately, I don't think it holds water. Good observation, but the problem is that Round 2 of the TR does not specify that the card has to remain in play, just that the card had to have been the one selected for play. In this case, TR selected a BoM-as-Feast, not just a BoM simply, and thus the effects of its Feastiness must be what happens during TR2.
Not sure what you mean there. TR-Card is a general case, but what is that Card? In this case, it is Feast. And the second time, when TR plays "it", "it" still refers to Feast.
I sort of feel like BoM throne rooms itself. When you play it, the instruction is to play it (again) as a different card. It stays in play, turns into a different card, and I play it again (from in play).
This is incorrect though. As discussed earlier in the thread, BoM's mimicry is not an on-play effect. That is, you don't play BoM and then subsequently play it as something else. Rather, it's very first play is already as something else -- it mimics another card before being played.
Therefore, when you play TR-BoM, TR has no idea that the card being throned was, is, or will be a BoM. It just sees it as a Feast (or whatever you choose). You don't actually play TR-BoM, you play TR-Feast, with the peculiarity that the Feast you are playing is really a BoM in disguise.
I agree with most of this, but when Throne Room plays a card that's in the trash, it can't move it to play, because it has lost track of it. So step "1.3" is not quite right, in my opinion, since "it moves from trash to in play" doesn't happen.
Tactishanty Town is a lot of fun to say.