There are more games of type 3 than you think. You're both (1) very far to the Big Money end of the BM/Engine spectrum, and (2) on the extreme right tail of the talent distribution. You turn a lot of games into type 1 where most players would be playing type 3.so possession games essentially falls into 3 cases.
1. Too slow
In the majority of games possession is simply too slow to have an effect on game play, in these types of games, aside from serving as a trap, possession is a card spot wasted (though, to be fair, no worse than, say, transmute or thief, or Forge, and being a trap does lead to the interesting problem of determiinng WHEN possession is a trap)
2. fast enough to be worth buying but not completely game warping
These games possession is psychologically frustrating (in that people dislike the feeling of a good hand being stolen even more than they dislike the feeling of a good hand being discarded (i.e. I personally can still get irritated when my opponents minion hits my dream hand and gives me 2 coppers and 2 estates). Aside from the psychological frustration is the inevitable swinginess, on both sides, of how valuable the card is (it can range, from gaining a colony and you opponent losing that hand, too essentially helpful).
Beyond that it is game warping in an interesting, and difficult to play manner, Green too hard and your opponent(s) will crush you, Green too soft and your opponent will reap the benefit of your deck AS well as that of ones own. In these games Posession leads to frustrations involving swinginess but, at least in my opinion, leads to enough game benefit to be a worthwhile card.
3. games where possession is completely and utterly dominant
In any game where you can ramp up to >1 possession per turn relatively early the card changes the game beyond recognition, having a deck which can buy green becomes a BAD thing. People attempt to trash there economy to the point where they can no longer buy even estates, the game becomes silly. Worse, with good play on both sides, the game devolves into the behind player daring to buy enough coppers to gain an estate, and getting further behind for it. While some people may find this game play enjoyable, these types of games are, for the vast majority of players, degenerate in an unsatisfying way, these games also are as close as dominion gets to stalemates, where neither player wants to buy any cards.
The amount of games of type 3 (which are in some sense, analogous to KC/goons/masq pins but MUCH easier to pull off) compared to type 2 as well as the irritatingness of the increased swinginess in type 2 games is the primary issue that Possession suffers.
Analysis is more or less spot on except... there's very very few games of type 3. Also, this is one of the great arguments for allowing anytime resigning.
I'd recommend going for a more Menagerie fueled engine. The Horse Traders/Fishing Village/Watchtower combo looks very appealing on paper, but it to pull it off successfully and have an extra action after playing Watchtower, you need to start with at least 3+ actions. Fishing Village/Horse Traders/Menagerie will be much easier and more reliable.Agreed 100%. Monument is spectacularly strong with Fishing Village and Menagerie.
I'd probably try to play a game with only 1 Gold/Platinum as to not screw up the menagerie, and then just run with the engine components while throwing in a few Monuments for VP support.
Yeah, Coppersmith is obviously a mistake; I was playing against a real-life friend and felt like having a bit of fun, and after that Lighthouse opening I figured Coppersmith was the best of the $4s.Bureaucrat was the best of the $4s.
But as you don't start getting gardens till turn 14, how do you intend to get decent VP against the opponent who just buys gardens to deny them to you, or the traditional workshopplay that starts getting garden much earlier?
Here's a more traditional way of playing workshop-gardens, played up to turn 14. I just ran this once, but try it yourself.
Note that by Turn 14, I have 6 gardens. Thats when your deck starts acquiring gardens.
Admittedly in a two player game, it won't quite work like that, as I'll be helping you run the workshops down. But regardless, I'll have more gardens than you by the end of the game, and thats what counts.
A level 21 calling a level 22 a "noob" is just priceless.I've been called "lucky" for winning against someone 1,793 spots below me on the isotropic leaderboard. It was a board that had Witch, and he didn't buy Witch.
That said, WW is right, two or three Goons would have been better there.
Feast/Feast would be fun.That sounds like one of the worst openings I've ever heard of, for virtually any set.
Pretty much any time you see the wording "while this is in play" it's code for "KC and Throne Room don't work on this." See also: Highway and Princess vs. Bridge.Also, Haggler.
What's wrong with that kingdom? It looks interesting enough to me. Definitely not the "worst" kingdom I would think of. This one is just asking for a Scrying Pool deck. Once you are drawing a lot of your deck, Secret Chamber can be used for money.Yes, there exists a strategy for the board I created - a strategy that encourages people to both (a) play an attack card repeatedly and (b) purchase Secret Chamber.
Voila.
