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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion Limericks!
« on: April 17, 2014, 02:13:53 am »
I have fond memories of the song, I just didn't really understand it's relevance to Dominion or France. I guess I'm missing something.
there have been a couple kickstarters for it, including at least one non-exclusive license: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1423575262/dominion-storage-case
that hobby lobby case seems to be the heart of a lot of solutions for it.
Cant believe that nobody has mentioned Horn of Plenty yet. I really didn't get this card for a long time, and knowing when you can use it to set up a truly spectacular megaturn is difficult. But if you can do it, it's amazing.
They can rely on their own Masqs to pass and trash junk. You can only rely on their Masqs to pass junk. It doesn't end well.
The reason is, they are always initiating a chain of passing stuff to you, and you aren't. So while a lot of the junk does get trashed, whatever doesn't get trashed pools in your deck. I have watched this happen multiple times.
[I may have a chronic inability to rate Masq fairly though, since I played a lot of 3 and 4 player with friends IRL, and Intrigue is the first set I owned, meaning lots of multiplayer Masq, and Masq is really, really essential in 3 and 4 player, unless you want all 9 or 12 Estates for some reason.
I'll do that sometimes, right before the game is over...
I think by the weird wording "the best village for engines which you can buy, at least to have" he means independent of cost. Which I think is relatively uncontroversial.This is what I mean, yes. Obviously I think WM is a better card - it hasn't shown up yet....
If i'm not forgetting anything, there are only around 3 handsize reducers that leave you with 3 cards (Militia, Goons, Mercanary)
There's also Margrave.
And Ghost Ship. To a least extent, Cutpurse. And Torturer as well, although if your opponent is playing Masq, you probably have it too, and then Torturer is not such a great idea.
QuoteThis is a DISCRETE poll; Only creator and admins can see votes.
Could you please reverse this? In general I like to see who voted what, and this doesn't look like a particularly sensitive issue where you might want to keep such things a secret.
Quote from: PiemasterThere are some rather bland ones I dislike though, such as Duchess, Inn and Farmland and the mechanics in there don't excite me all that much.Bland ? I would say subtle.
Duchess is a $2 card, and those cards are not game-changer, obviously. But I think duchess is a particularly interesting one, I think.
Farmland is another really interesting card, that 2VP potential lead changes the dynamic of the game.
And Inn is wonderful for tactical engine plays...
You just listed four cards out of 26 that are right at the top, compared to:
Hamlet is the #2 $2 card
Menagerie is around #4-5 on the $3's
Remake, Tournament, Young Witch are the #3-5 $4 cards
Hunting Party is about #4-5 on the $5's
That's 6 cards out of 13 that are right at the top of their price brackets. Almost every expansion has some top level cards, some middling cards, and some low cards. Cornucopia just happens to have way too many top level cards. Even including the other three cards you named, it's 7/26, or barely over a quarter of the cards, in the top quarter of cards. Without that, it's 4/26 in the top 10%, which is a little high, but not really significantly so.
It also helps that cards like Wharf and Ambassador are fun and powerful, while cards like Tournament and Hunting Party are the extremely boring kind of powerful. And I don't know if you've played Hunting Party in real life, let me tell you, the whole digging for cards is not fun.