They're here: http://www.livestream.com/wanderingwinderEmail or DropBox them to me and I'll upload them when I get back from work.
When and if they'll get up on the dominionstrategy youtube will be up to theory. But it's not quite 4 AM where he is yet, so I wouldn't expect anything.
Comparing Fortune Teller to Bureaucrat seems interesting, as both are terminal actions that sorta do the same things (giving you $2 and topdecking the opponent's green), but obviously go about them in quite different ways. Fortune Teller gives you +$2 right away; Bureaucrat gives you a Silver in your next draw. And Fortune Teller digs through the opponent's deck for a green, while Bureaucrat hits them again with a green they already have in hand.1) Because the attack does hurt more if you're putting stuff from your hand onto your deck, by slowing your cycling.
That said, Bureaucrat "must" be better than Fortune Teller because it costs $4 instead of $3. Discussion so far in this thread seems to agree with that conclusion. Yet Bureaucrat does have some inarguable drawbacks - it doesn't increase your buying power in the turn you actually play it (unless you sneak it into the middle of a +Actions/+Cards run), and if your opponent isn't holding green its attack has no effect. So what is it about how Bureacrat does things that makes it better than Fortune Teller? Is it that important to have a card breeding Silvers without you having to buy them (and if so, why are things like Workshop and Explorer looked down upon)? Is it that much more effective to hit your opponent twice with a green they already have in hand, despite the risk your attack may whiff if their green is all in their deck?
Note that I, too, consider Bureaucrat to be more useful than Fortune Teller, though I'm having a difficult time exactly articulating why, and would be curious to hear other folks' thoughts.
"1 card more" is also the difference between Smithy and Moat.And then there's Oracle at 21... wow. Yeah, the attack isn't the best in the world, but man it feels good when you can discard your opponent's Witch and Gold. But that's not even the best part of the card. +2 cards isn't great, no, but you've got a fair bit of control over what those 2 cards will be. And if you discard the first two, you've just got yourself 4 cards worth of cycling. For $3. With an attack included. Early game I often discard 2 Coppers and draw Copper, Estate instead simply because that gets me to the Gold that I just bought even quicker. I mean, I didn't have Oracle in my top 10 or anything... but there is no way it's the 6th worst $3 card.
I agree completely.
I mean, compare it to Smithy. It draws one card more, but Oracle can draw selectively to some extend (so it somewhat favors quality over quantity). This is of course weaker, but it costs less and has a decent attack as added bonus.
It's not a game dominating card (though Oracle/Money is not bad at all), but way better than #21.
However, I've not voted here, so I'm not in a position to complain. Fortune Teller and Woodcutter would have been also quite low on my list, simply because something has to be there and most other cards are just a bit better.
If we're going with events, then perhaps the most famous is the Pawnee Harvest Festival.Having just watched this episode, I remembered this quote and came back to upvote it.
EDIT: (...which was known for its Curse.)
I tend to forget that Chapel limits you to trashing four cards. Of course, it doesn't often matter.Same here. OTOH, you have moments like this: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=1143.msg18903#msg18903
Game 7: olneyce 36 – 19 FirstSo, is Develop/Random $4 on a Scheme/Mountebank or Scheme/Witch board worth the 65% risk or so that they don't collide? Or was this an anomaly?
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/29/game-20111229-115627-927fa68e.html
Key cards: Witch, Develop, Scheme, Adventurer, Stash
I buy Explorer, Adventurer, Develop, Thief, and Stash. In the final game of the fifth round of the tournament. And win. Yay for weak cards! I open Develop/Spice Merchant and First comments that Develop is terrible for trashing. I then immediately Develop my Spice Merchant into a Witch and Scheme. Which lets me dish out two curses before the second reshuffle. I won the curse race 7/3 thanks to my Schemed Witches. At that point, since there was absolutely no engine potential, it was simply a matter of accumulating money and getting it all together into one hand. Stash is obviously helpful there, as is Adventurer and (to a lesser extent) Thief.
