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Dominion Articles / Re: fast start with tournament into rebuild
« on: December 19, 2012, 11:42:39 am »Hmm, I don't know about that mega-turn ending. From my experience Duchies are often the bottleneck in Rebuild games. They are usually gone first and then there's no point in Duchy gainers any more.
That's totally true. Getting the Duchies out of the game is also a great defense against an opponent running a Rebuild. If you see your opponent buying estates and you know they're going to become duchies, reduce the duchies to zero and those estates become nothings. I also encountered how awesome Counts can be for getting all the Duchies. Count doesn't do much to reduce other pile sizes though, but Tourney Rebuild helps you focus on Provinces. The thing is Tourney Province is a pretty swingy setup to begin with, the kind of thing that "snowballs," so anything that gives you the edge in the snowballing is really beneficial. But if your opponent is doing the same thing you might as well consider it to be a really fast, really boring game that depends completely on luck. I almost want to give myself a -1 now that I realize that this is a swingy luck based combo at heart.