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Dominion Articles / Re: Castles

« on: August 17, 2020, 08:33:08 am »

One thing I'm never sure of in Castles games is whether to trash my Estates. On a lot of boards, trashing my estates early is a very high priority, since it improves my buying power a lot. In a game with, say, Crossroads, the estates are not so bad to have in my deck, so I probably won't trash them. In a Castles game, if I knew that I will be buying Opulent Castle, I wouldn't trash my Estates. But if I keep my Estates, and my opponent ends up getting the Opulent Castle, I've been playing with an unnecessarily weak deck for a long time for no benefit except the 3VP, which is a big mistake. How do you decide whether to trash your Estates?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Menagerie Previews 1: 5 Cards

« on: March 02, 2020, 11:44:08 am »

Suppose I have a kiln in play, and a sheepdog in my hand, and play something that lets me gain a card. I can play a sheepdog, and the kiln lets me first gain another sheepdog, which I can also play, also triggering the kiln. So does this mean that playing kiln with sheepdog in my hand lets me gain the entire pile of sheepdogs? I don't even need a card that lets me gain a card to trigger this combo; it can trigger from my normal buy in the Buy phase.

ETA: Oops, this was wrong for two reasons. First the gained sheepdogs would go to the discard pile, not your hand. This could be patched if you had a watchtower in your hand. But the more serious problem is that I misread Kiln; it doesn't cause you to gain a copy of every card you play, only the next card you play. So there's no broken combo here.

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Innovation General Discussion / Re: Do they do innovation tournaments at any BG conventions?

« on: June 16, 2013, 08:03:23 am »

I run an Isotropic tournament at the World Boardgaming Championship. Two-player base only Go to www.boardgamers.org for information on the WBC (it's a great convention), and to http://boardgamers.org/yearbkex/iovpge.htm for information about the Innovation tournament in particular.