I just use a dominion card as my facebook profile picture, and change it once every week
Alternatively, you can play to run piles out under the right circumstances.
I'm always looking to try out new sets of 10 that aren't completely random. This is one my group and I did recently, just for fun, of course:
Coppersmith
King's Court
Goons
Council Room
Counting House
Chancellor
Worker's Village
Bridge
Bank
Cellar
I should note that even with this array of cards, it was still sometimes better not to rely on copper. What are some of your favorite/interesting/fun sets?
This one got me thinking...how hard would it be to set up a
Village/Chancellor/Counting House combo, and get 8 coppers in your hand frequently...
Edit: just tried it. I got 2 Prov. on turns 11 and 12, but then not again until 22 and 23. Perhaps I could tweak it a little to make it more optimal.
There's plenty of humor on the internet, and I actually quite like you guys's suggestions. I just wanted to say that I don't think they should actually be put on the list.But guys, the point of this is to define terms that people actually use all the time for new players who are trying to figure out what's going on here. Your new definitions may be cute, but they don't fall under this umbrella... at least yet. If you can get people to start using them all the time, more power to ya.
I forgot that "no humor allowed on the internet" rule.
That's fine, but actually even if you took your approach to the extreme, nobody would play each other. The higher-level players also want to improve, and they would think there's more chance of them doing that by playing up than down. Thus, nobody wants to play down, and so nobody plays.
About improving, I think your argument is pretty good, but I actually also learn quite a bit from playing really really weak players. I also think that looking for something you've never seen before is the wrong approach to trying to approve 90% of the time in this game. Most of the most powerful strategies are actually pretty simple.
I really, really, really, really, really wish there was a constraint for automatch that was something like, "Only players between Level X and Y." I almost always decline low level games because I have far more to lose than gain by playing them. The only card I refuse to play with is Possession for reasons I don't think I need to explain. If I'm getting too many of them, I'll leave the queue and simply propose a game (which people are less likely to accept, it would seem).Actually your possession declines aren't obvious to me - I don't get why people dislike the card more than your average alchemy card, curse-giver, or masquerade, really - but then, a lot of people feel the same way you do, so there must be something that I just don't understand. But also I don't think declining low-levels is all that great either. If I'm automatching, I always hit accept, unless the guy has not accepted a couple times and I'm trying to move on and get matched with someone else. If I care about levels, I go with the proposal system that was all we had and seemed to work well for so long. If your logic for 'what you have to lose' against 'what you have to gain' were followed by everyone (to an extreme), nobody would play, because the higher person always has more to lose. To a less extreme extent, it would simply make everybody play against those near them, but that degrades the experience somewhat for everyone. We all started at level 0. And if the rating system works like it should, it actually shouldn't matter who you play against, you'll expect to get the same rating adjustment (0) out of everything.
By the way, what's your cut-off for 'low level games'?
Also, I want to make clear that I'm not trying to say that you are at all wrong in what your doing, just that I don't think it's the best policy.
I believe they were intended to mark an empty pile, as I still use them for.
Donald has said that the Randomizer cards were originally meant to mark empty piles, which is why the basic Treasure and Victory cards have them in the original box. Though, using the blank cards is certainly viable. I normally use cards from the Trash or even just a Copper (since they very rarely run out).
Blank cards are, I believe, meant for customization. A lot of games do that.
Between the period when Cornucopia was announced and when Cornucopia hit the stores, I toyed with the idea of using the blank cards to represent various Cornucopia cards so I could play with them before I bought them. My schedule never allowed me to do that, and Isotropic provided that fix anyway. I may do that for the next expansion.
Have you tried Sea Hag/Sea Hag or Witch/Witch?
Jester's a weak attack, and it's not really worth designing a deck around consistently using it to give out a curse. There are already other attacks that consistently give out curses! The great thing about Jester (especially in 3p and 4p games) is that you can use it to gain good cards yourself, with little to no risk of helping your opponents if no cards you want are revealed.
I work in a University Library. Pretty decent combo right there.
Village Idiot
$0
Action
+1 Card, +1 Action
A Round for the House
$2
Action-Attack
Discard a copper. If you do, all other players must slam a shot.
Love the Village Idiot! Perfect.
And I think the Round for the House should inspire a whole expansion for the college-aged drinking Dominion subset.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Race for the Galaxy yet, that's the game I see compared to Dominion most often. You know, on the Internet and stuff. It's got a similar style of indirect interaction and "powering up" as Dominion, and it's even got some of the same people on its staff.
