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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Question about 'trash' cards
« on: February 10, 2014, 06:36:00 pm »I dunno, being able to forge other forges into Province without a dependency on Shelter/Poor House would be a pretty big change. It might be dominant. Maybe maybe not.
Expand can do even better: it can Expand itself into a Platinum, and doesn't need a $2 card in hand, but it is still not a dominant card. I really don't see this as overpowered; you don't buy a $6/$7 card just to TfB it anyway, in my experience.* And forging into Provinces is already possible in Shelter games.
Another "fix" for Forge would be to keep the price, but replace the "exactly" by "up to" - this would greatly improve its flexibility...
*Edge case: Border Village.
But the "up to" would make it too good I think. I can trash all kinds of things in the end game with no penalty and just pick up Provinces.
Maybe you're right, I'm not sure. But this only works if the other (preferably non-green) cards in hand together cost at least $8; and you may get a Province out of playing them instead of trashing them as well.
And Expand is also very likely to give you a Province in the end game, you just need any $5+ card in hand, and you can still play the other cards to maybe gain another green card.