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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The Dominion Cards Lists 2015 Edition: $3 cards
« on: August 28, 2016, 01:31:58 pm »Lately I've been playing a lot of games with Loan (by coincidence) and I've found that it is super underrated. Trashing a Copper with Loan is roughly as strong/possibly even stronger than trashing a Copper with a Junk Dealer.
No.
1. Loan often 'conveniently' skips all of your $5 costs.
2. If you ever use even one Treasure that is not Copper, your Loan will inevitably hit that one Treasure.
3. You have no control over what is trashed.
4. Loan becomes a liability later on, when you need one extra coin, but it triggers a bad shuffle as a result.
Loan is awful. If you have to get it, you have to get it, but that doesn't mean it is good. I'd rather wait until hitting $5 to get JD than just get Loan.
1. It skips Estates more often in the early game, which is when it matters.
2. That's just another reason to avoid buying Treasures other than Loan in the early game. But you can easily get one Silver or another Loan; the odds of hitting it are really low in the early game, which is when it matters.
3. Except it's always a Copper as long as you don't have any other Treasures.
4. It's still better to have than Chapel in that situation.
Loan is really good. I'd say it's up there with Forager and Lookout as far as $3 trashers are concerned (it's more powerful, but it can get slightly inconvenient sooner). If JD and Loan are both on the board, I think you want to get both unless you open 5/2.
