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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Which is the card you hate the most?
« on: June 19, 2011, 10:31:05 am »
Philosopher's Stone counts your deck and discard. I have yet to play with it irl, but my idea was that if anyone wanted to buy it, you would just need to keep a tally of how many total cards were in their deck (adding or subtracting one any time they gained or trashed a card). Then when they play PS, you just have to take this total number and subtract the number of cards they have in hand and in play. I don't know how well this would actually work in practice, but I think it could work.
My least favorite card is definitely Saboteur. As with all of these cards, I think our opinions usually come down to personal experience.
I think my perspective just comes from having bad luck and negative experiences with it (more than the other cards that can cause the same type of experiences). I know I have lost a few games to players who bought one or two in the game and got lucky destroying my best cards instead of all the silvers I tried to block it with. I know it is a bad card in this context and it is always frustrating to lose a game you probably statistically should have won.
I also had a bad experience with it once when I was getting beat pretty handily by an opponent who had successfully built an engine that drew his whole deck each hand. He ended up buying a Saboteur, and started blowing up my deck as he cruised to victory. I may have brought this upon myself because I can't remember if I made the first move in buying one in a last ditch effort to get lucky, but still felt like an unnecessary course of action when he had the game in hand.
My least favorite card is definitely Saboteur. As with all of these cards, I think our opinions usually come down to personal experience.
I think my perspective just comes from having bad luck and negative experiences with it (more than the other cards that can cause the same type of experiences). I know I have lost a few games to players who bought one or two in the game and got lucky destroying my best cards instead of all the silvers I tried to block it with. I know it is a bad card in this context and it is always frustrating to lose a game you probably statistically should have won.
I also had a bad experience with it once when I was getting beat pretty handily by an opponent who had successfully built an engine that drew his whole deck each hand. He ended up buying a Saboteur, and started blowing up my deck as he cruised to victory. I may have brought this upon myself because I can't remember if I made the first move in buying one in a last ditch effort to get lucky, but still felt like an unnecessary course of action when he had the game in hand.