Even funnier, I think according to Council Room Curse/Curse was not the worst opening.
That literally does not make any sense. Maybe if I knew the kingdom it might make more sense.
Just a though experiment...
If your starting estates were worth 2VP would still chapel them? What if they were worth 2.5VP? or 3VP? Obviously it would depend on the board, but in an average game at what point would you not trash them?
I believe that trashing is essentially the same decision as 'not buying'. In a big money game the simulations show that you shouldn't buy a duchy if you are going to draw it more than once. You shouldn't buy an estate if you have more than a 50/50 chance of drawing it. You could set up similar simulations for tunnel quite easily but it will fall into a similar range.
Those stats ignore end game competition, of course.
Crown is... uh, there's an xmas song that goes "[...] new king born today", but this is for Easter. Do I remember correctly that there's a wreath of thorns involved in his execution?
Sacred Grove?
Moneylender is Judas, yeah?
Procession? They're chronological, so it's not the condemned carrying their crosses to the place of execution...
- Are there any cards you can compare it to? Maybe some Throne Room variants?How about Festival? Costs $1 more, gives +Buy, getting two actions is unconditional.
This has now got me thinking about edge cases: Conclave plays a card at once, before it's finished resolving. Is there some useful hack you can do with that? The best I can think of is using Conclave to play a Royal Carriage then immediately calling the Royal Carriage on the Conclave.
The law of large numbers disagrees with you. Dominion is partly so skill-dependent because you draw a larger amount of cards than in other deckbuilders and a far larger amount that in any tableaubuilder.Well, this only works if the long game time corresponds to a high number of random events, which isn't really the case for Terraforming Mars.Let's do the maths: you get 10 cards in setup, 4 cards per generation which leads under the assumption of an average game length of 13 generations to an average amount of 58 cards you can invest into. If that is too small a number for you, the drafting variant increases that average number to 118.
As you often do not get the cards that match the starting cooperation you chose some players feel as if the game is more luck-dependent than it actually is.
I don't think the total number of cards you see is nearly as relevant as when you see them.
Let's say you have the following card:
+2 Cards
+1 Action
Gain a Curse onto your deck.
How much do you think that should cost? My initial thought is, but that might be too expensive. Is gaining the Curse onto your deck too much of a penalty? Does this seem like a card you would ever buy?
Energy seems pretty damn useless - it was essentially another source of heat, delayed by a turn, and that's it.
It also really didn't feel like the player who played best won - our winner was the person who kept having to be reminded the whole game to add to production, not resource pool.
This article only discusses the Castle pile as if 8 cards are it in. While it’s fine to write an article only discussing Castles in the context of two player games, you should be more explicit about this in the introduction. I couldn’t even tell you which Castles there are two copies of in 3 plus player games!
Baker?
