hi all, figured this would be a good move since i signed up for the dominion league!
so i've been playing online for a bit under a month and am hanging around 4600-4700 and iso level 23-24 atm. seems like a good start but i'm still missing a lot of general concepts...
LINKS TO GAME REPORTS/VIDEOS OUTSIDE THE OP:
Dominion League S09 vs. gkrieg (video)i can't always grab logs when i post questions, and this is such a case. i remember the important stuff on the board though, so here's the deal with a game from this morning:
so the relevant cards on this board (province/estates game) were plaza, tournament, young witch (w/ cellar as the bane), governor, and king's court. my thought process here was as follows -
- ENGINE ENGINE ENGINE
- without much early draw (figure you'd want to do other things with governor) and only governor for trashing, i figured cellar would be important even if it weren't the bane. with that, i didn't think young witch would be worth it since it seemed like you'd have a deck loaded with cantrips to get drawn dead.
- i didn't want any silver or gold at all. this seemed like a game where you wanted to sift through your coppers to trigger the big stuff. the opponent's governors would probably give me some silver anyway.
- tournament is its usual self, since you want cantrips & virtual money anyway. princess is the only +buy and trusty steed/followers are the only handsize increasers without king's court, soooooooo
- plazas should still be good even without early terminals since you can stockpile tokens for king's courts etc., and governor + king's court = mmmmmmmm. governor can also turn estates into engine pieces, which i figure is more important than gaining gold early.
- peddler is also on the board, but with no +buy besides princess...eh
so, long story short, i make a huge mistake opening plaza (forgot tournament was on the board for a second). cellar is my other opening buy (opponent bought young witch on turn 1). i stick to the basic idea outlined above, getting a governor at $5 and the first king's court via tokens. however, my opponent gets a bunch of silver and gold and grabs 2 provinces pretty quickly. my economy & cycling suffer greatly from getting my tournaments blocked, i have a few curses in my deck from young witch & followers, and they get all of the good prizes before i'm anywhere near a province. i ended up resigning for like the 2nd time ever (still feels weird to me coming from games where quitting early is a huge no-no).
i'm guessing i had to get young witch even with the bane being a valuable card...the draw would've helped more than it hurt, it seems. and i guess tournament meant i had to get early gold? feels wrong to me in the long run but i guess racing for the prizes is more important than smoothing things out for your king's court turns...
thank in advance for any suggestions! =)