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Game Reports / Re: A Cautionary Tale: Skipping the Witch

« on: June 15, 2011, 06:34:04 pm »

There are exactly two cards whose presence makes skipping the curse attacks plausible, and possibly even a good idea: Ambassador and Masquerade.

Oh there are plenty more than that. All the trashing cards can let you skip cursing attacks in the right kingdoms. I wouldn't even rule out remodel even though it is usually the worst possible solution to curses.

If there's a trasher and a curse-giver, my default assumption is that it's best to get both- for example, I'd rather get Upgrade *and* Witch rather than just one or the other (probably one Witch first, then a few Upgrades).  But sure, there are certainly other cases where if just the right set of kingdom cards come up, skipping the cursegiver is a good move.  Say if Fishing Village is the Bane, or you get the 5/2 split on a board with Vault/Grand Market, or other such things.  But these seem all to be very conditional in a way that the mere presence of Ambassador or Masquerade isn't.

And getting a Remodel to deal with curses strikes me as a desperation move unlikely to succeed.

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Game Reports / Re: A Cautionary Tale: Skipping the Witch

« on: June 15, 2011, 02:23:06 am »

There are exactly two cards whose presence makes skipping the curse attacks plausible, and possibly even a good idea: Ambassador and Masquerade.  In completely unrelated news, Ambasssador and Masquerade are the two cards that let you give your junk (Curses, for example) to other players in the process of getting rid of said junk.

Okay, there's one other example: a well-optimized Gardens rush strategy would probably be able to pass on the curse-givers, especially if it's only one person going Gardens in a multi-player game.

By the way, this is one of many reasons my opinion of Masquerade has basically been constantly rising ever since I started playing on Isotropic.  It absolutely deserved Steward's spot on the Best $3 Cards list.

And unsurprisingly, what you just listed are also a large percentage of the strategies you can consider skipping chapel for.

Quite true.  Funny how that works!

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Game Reports / Re: A Cautionary Tale: Skipping the Witch

« on: June 15, 2011, 12:00:10 am »

There are exactly two cards whose presence makes skipping the curse attacks plausible, and possibly even a good idea: Ambassador and Masquerade.  In completely unrelated news, Ambasssador and Masquerade are the two cards that let you give your junk (Curses, for example) to other players in the process of getting rid of said junk.

Okay, there's one other example: a well-optimized Gardens rush strategy would probably be able to pass on the curse-givers, especially if it's only one person going Gardens in a multi-player game.

By the way, this is one of many reasons my opinion of Masquerade has basically been constantly rising ever since I started playing on Isotropic.  It absolutely deserved Steward's spot on the Best $3 Cards list.

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Other Games / Re: What other games do you enjoy playing?

« on: June 14, 2011, 09:38:32 pm »

I used to play starcraft a lot.  It was basically my religion in high school.

Before I switched to Dominion, I was pretty good at Race for the Galaxy.  I definitely recommend RftG if you have a competitive friend and Dominion is feeling stale.

I met rrenaud on TeamLiquid, back when it was a Brood War site rather than a SC2 site.

I also played RftG, but never quite was at rrenaud's level, who won back-to-back-to-back WBC RFTG championships.

The other main games I play are Twilight Struggle and Tichu.  I think Twilight Struggle is the greatest game ever made, in fact.

I'm also a big Twilight Struggle fan; I think it's probably the second-greatest game ever though I don't get to play it much these days.  Although I mostly play Euros and their ilk (Puerto Rico, Agricola, Acquire, Age of Steam, etc.) the top spot for me has to go to good old Scrabble.  Recently, the vast majority of my gaming time has been going to Isotropic and Scrabble with my gf.

I used to play starcraft a lot.  It was basically my religion in high school.

Before I switched to Dominion, I was pretty good at Race for the Galaxy.  I definitely recommend RftG if you have a competitive friend and Dominion is feeling stale.

Also a big fan of this one.  One of my gaming friends has gotten tired of Dominion and prefers 7 Wonders now, whereas I've gone in the opposite direction.  Fortunately we both like RTFG, so we play that a bunch.  (Not that I hate 7 Wonders, just that I think it is way less interesting and strategic than Dominion or RTFG.)

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best/Worst Openings discussion

« on: June 14, 2011, 01:15:44 pm »

Also, trashing is key - all level 6+ openings include trashing!

Mountebank/Lighthouse begs to differ. Other than that, if you can call Ambassador trashing (not really a stretch), then you're right. Also your point is well taken.
Also, why is Witch/Lighthouse so low?

Well, I'd expect it to be worse than Mountebank/Lighthouse because you run the risk of drawing the Lighthouse dead from the Witch.  In general, if you actually buy anything with your $2, Mountebank will be superior for that reason.

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Game Reports / Re: Ambassador vs Chapel?

« on: June 13, 2011, 12:40:00 am »

Here's a game where I opened with 5/2 against a 4/3 on an Ambassador board.  I went for Horse Traders/Chapel, hopeing to deflect his Ambassadors and trash down into a Warehouse/Conspirator deck, but as you can see it was quite unsuccessful.

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110531-080957-ee6ea144.html

Is it just generally true that Chapel is always going to lose to Ambassador? What situations can Chapel's superior trashing power beat Ambassador's attack?

Well, I'd certainly prefer Chapel in Possession games...