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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Strictly better than....

« on: March 28, 2016, 04:29:18 pm »

The thread is about the on-play effect only.  Card cost and several other factors (already discussed in this thread) have to be ignored or else there would be no cards at all that count as "strictly better".

That's like saying "the thread is about the correlation between hanging suicides and the US spending on science only. Other factors have to be ignored or else there would be no reason to believe that hanging suicides and the US spending on science are related in a meaningful way".

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Dominion moments 2016

« on: March 28, 2016, 02:12:03 pm »

Log

I got super duper lucky to set this up.  In no way was it the best strategy.

Well, it didn't really matter because your opponent also ignored the best strategy.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM31: Untitled Mafia (Day 3)

« on: March 28, 2016, 09:39:46 am »

I also feel strongly that one of the two of them is scum, and the other one is called Witherweaver.

Interesting. Awaclus is the one person I'm willing to lose the game if he is scum.

Are you sure your not just getting confirmation bias, here?

Well, I am pretty sure that I'm not overlooking any evidence to the contrary.

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Hearthstone / Re: Wispers of the Old Gods

« on: March 28, 2016, 09:31:39 am »

Ragnaros, Lightlord
Paladin minion
(8) 8/8

At the end of your turn, heal a random friendly for 8

random friendly damaged character

Well, that makes it significantly less useless than I thought at first.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM31: Untitled Mafia (Day 3)

« on: March 28, 2016, 01:08:51 am »

I also feel strongly that one of the two of them is scum, and the other one is called Witherweaver.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: March 27, 2016, 04:02:59 pm »

2. Cost reducers - I can't think of a way to get two besides Traveling Fair, which Awa already said.

There is a cost reducer, but there is no Highways or Bridges or any of that.

It's Bridge Troll.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - F9: Survivor Quiz

« on: March 27, 2016, 02:57:22 pm »

Take with us on reward: iguanaiguana
Exile: Eevee

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: March 27, 2016, 02:55:23 pm »

You have a 1 card hand. How do you get to a 2 Province buy?

That one card is a Lost City, and when you play it, you draw another Lost City and a Hunting Grounds, and when you play them, you draw 6 Highways, and when you play them, you draw 2 more Highways and a Candlestick Maker. Then you play the Candlestick Maker for the +buy and buy two Provinces for $0 each.

You are in your buy phase. You have $5 to spend and 1 buy. How do you get to buying a Province? How about 2 Provinces?

You have 8 Highways in play and then you buy a Traveling Fair.

It is your opponent's turn. He has 1 more VP than you, and there is one Province left. He buys it... And loses. How?

He also buys a Trade to trash two Provinces from his hand.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion Cards You Love

« on: March 26, 2016, 03:56:41 am »

Village: the backbone of every engine

The backbone of every engine is payload.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: F.DS Forum Survivor Season 3 - F9: Survivor Quiz

« on: March 26, 2016, 03:28:49 am »

resting

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: March 25, 2016, 07:16:33 pm »

Keep It to RSP!

Event, $0

All other players must immediately trash all cards of the type 'Politics' from their hand, or reveal a hand without.

So I get to keep Religion and Sex cards?

Yeah, so you should buy a lot of Chapels and Sea Hags to defend yourself against this Event.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion Cards You Love

« on: March 25, 2016, 06:09:18 pm »

I like strong engine payloads and just strong cards in general. Bridge, Goons, Highway, Merchant Guild, Horn of Plenty, Cultist, Rebuild, Mountebank, Ambassador, Tournament, Wharf, etc.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion Cards You Hate

« on: March 25, 2016, 09:26:51 am »

Btw, about Rebuild, is it just me or people nowadays play way less Rebuild mirrors than say a year ago?
Maybe we became more sophisticated at playing engines or maybe Rebuild was just a tiny bit overestimated initially.
Any opinions?

It was overestimated initially and it continues to be overestimated now.

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Game Reports / Re: Engine or Money or a hybrid?

« on: March 25, 2016, 06:33:34 am »

Whenever you find yourself considering an engine/money hybrid, the answer is no.

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Dominion Articles / Re: Wandering Winder's new Swindler article

« on: March 24, 2016, 05:19:26 pm »

I don't want to start more drama, but why are these being posted? If WW wanted them here, he has lots of accounts he could use.

Everyone is Wandering Winder.

Explaining the jokes makes them funnier.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion Cards You Hate

« on: March 24, 2016, 02:30:30 pm »

I think Rebuild is fine. Rebuild games are not that difficult, but it is far more skippable than people think (perhaps you only go for it about 90-93% of the time), quite often the other strategy can actually beat Rebuild, and even when it can't, Rebuild games aren't that boring. I mean, there are still far more decisions involved than there are in, say, Smithy variant/BM, and some of the decisions can be quite interesting and sometimes even counterintuitive.

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Hearthstone / Re: Wispers of the Old Gods

« on: March 24, 2016, 01:15:55 pm »

So we've got N'Zoth's First Mate, a 1/1 for (1) for Warrior that equips you a 1/3 weapon.  Seems pretty neat.

And then Faceless Shambler, a 1/1 with Taunt for (4) that gains the stats of a friendly minion you choose.  Seems... meh?

First Mate seems to fit the Upgrade slot, depending on what you are trying to do.

Faceless Shambler needs to be better than Sen'jin on average to run...if you are dropping it on T4, I don't see that ever working out for you.  Maybe in Dragon Priest?  But really, you are playing it late in a control deck.

Maybe Coin out Eerie Statue turn 3?

No, because you don't have an Eerie Statue in your deck ever for any reason.

Faceless Shambler doesn't seem playable in Constructed at all, and probably super weak but not the worst thing ever on Arena. I mean, sometimes you have to pick stuff like Booty Bay Bodyguard anyway, and this doesn't seem to compare too unfavorably with BBB.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Secret Hitler II - Signups open!

« on: March 24, 2016, 01:09:54 pm »

I might be interested in playing this with f.dsers on TTS some time, but it seems to take a lot of time for what it is as a forum game so I think I have to pass.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM31: Untitled Mafia (Day 3)

« on: March 24, 2016, 03:38:57 am »

Um. I'm confused. Awaclus said that he's a friendly neighbor. That just means he can send people messages saying that he is town.
Anyone can receive them. Only Awaclus is basically confirmed as an IC now. Not the people he targets.

I haven't targeted WW. But Haddock did and I received that result when Haddock died.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Today I Learned...

« on: March 23, 2016, 03:29:53 pm »

I played one game with Witch before I realized that you're only supposed to have 10 Curses in the supply when it's a two player game.

I think it counts, because that one game took a very long time.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM31: Untitled Mafia (Day 3)

« on: March 23, 2016, 02:14:41 pm »

Here's my reasoning:

The simplest explanation for the lack of NK N1 is that chairs doctored Haddock, a claimed cop, and that he was the target.  Then, N2, IG got the result that Awa wasn't targeted because PPS didn't really target him.

This would be a pretty good hypothesis, but the only problem I have with it that it doesn't assume that Ichi is scum.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM31: Untitled Mafia (Day 3)

« on: March 23, 2016, 01:59:54 pm »

Well, it was clearly not roleblock because my night action got through.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Hunting Party question

« on: March 23, 2016, 11:11:18 am »

Hunting Party + terminal silver is not a very good strategy on its own. Hunting Party is a great card for other purposes, though.

Also,

What I would say is not to get too concerned with "I got X provinces in Y turns" but rather ask what the optimal strategy for a certain board is.

This. It doesn't matter if you got to 5 Provinces in 14 tuns because the game doesn't end when you have 5 Provinces nor does it end when it's turn 14. Your strategy should be able to end the game when you have more points than your opponent does, and "X Provinces in Y turns" only takes into account one of the aspects (your ability to gain points) and ignores the rest (your ability to have control over when the game ends, your opponent's ability to have control over when the game ends and your opponent's ability to gain points), so it's not really a very good way to evaluate strategies, other than pure BM against other pure BM because in those match-ups, both players have a similar (i.e. almost nonexistent) amount of pile control anyway.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Kill your deck

« on: March 22, 2016, 08:19:25 pm »

Well, then I can do it by the end of turn 1!

This is funny because 1! = 1.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III

« on: March 22, 2016, 12:18:20 pm »

I have Street Fighter V now. Never played it, so It'll obviously suck.

I fixed your typo for you.