not to entirely hijack the discussion, but this is related to something else i wanted to post about. that being how to play remake/steward and establishing trashing priority. of course it will vary some depending on the 4/5 cards available and overall strategy, but some guidelines might be useful for those who can crunch the numbers and run a sim or two.You generally want to trash the estates to boost your buying power, but in rare circumstances, trashing the coppers first is defensible.
im thinking especially of:
steward, 4 copper - gold or trash two copper
remake, 2 copper, 2 estates - you are likely not buying anything this turn, so do you trash two copper and thin the deck so you can cycle the remake a little quicker, or boost your buying power by getting two silver? or one of each?
i guess you can throw upgrade into the discussion as well.
OP: I retract my statement about opening Ambassador/Ambassador, although I would still recommend you glance at my game, as I feel I played it rather well, even if I did not have twoFrom skimming the game, your play seemed fine. Your opponent, however, was buying a menagerie on turn 3 and buying steward over ambassador and then never trashing with the steward. The main reason to go for double ambassador is because you're assuming the other person is getting ambassadors as well and ambassador snowballs pretty hard once you start to fall behind. If they don't, I guess one might be better? I don't know, that situation does not come up very frequently for me.
Treasure Map gets vetoed a lot, actually. It's definitely not just random in my experience.I'm always a little insulted when my opponent vetoes treasure map on a board where clearly any halfway decent player is not going to buy treasure map.
For what it's worth: I play in "veto mode: don't care" mode because I literally don't care: if you want to veto cards, that's great for you, but except for this week when I've been trying to make sure not to veto the one Hinterlands card there, I always click the "veto random card" link myself. So don't read too much into others' veto choices
I corrected it just as you were postingDepends on what you would buy instead and what your deck looks like, I imagine. I suspect that usually, trash silver=>+3 silver is better, though.
Another question...is it better to trash a Silver and gain 3, or trash a Copper and gain a Silver during your Buy Phase?
I don't care for tribute either, it's usually too random for my taste. I was largely responding to the "what if I mill good cards" argument; I've seen it too many times in M:tG, and it's a bit of pet peeve of mine.I used to dislike both Harvest and Tribute. Harvest seems like it could easily skip your best cardsWithout any information on where in your deck your best cards are, it's as likely to get you closer to them as it is to mill them.
True. I guess, after further thought, I just found it boring. I didn't really consider the cycling benefit, and would prefer action cards to give more than just $. My point was, I didn't like it, but having used it a couple of times now, it's growing on me. Still not convinced on Tribute though.
I used to dislike both Harvest and Tribute. Harvest seems like it could easily skip your best cardsasdf
While I still disagree with the comparison with Witch makes the card bad. A Fishing Village is better than Village, period.I have bought village over fishing village. It is very rare(and quite possibly was incorrect), but it can happen. Being strictly worse is not a good thing.
Oh. I didn't look at the graphs at all, just at the scores at the top.Both those games seem fine to me. In the first one, you have 6*6+2*6+3+3*1+5*-1=36+12+3+3-5=49, and allfail has 5*12+6*1+3*2+2*1+1*2-1=60+6+6+2+2+1-1=76 points in the second one.
Don't know if this it what mith meant, but in the first game, the mith's graph for score clearly exceeds 50, and in the code you haveCode: [Select]"scores": {for the last turn, and
"Noquar": 43,
"mith": 49
},
"label": "mith-turn-27"
},Code: [Select]"scores": {for game-end.
"Noquar": 43,
"mith": 55
},
"label": "end-game"
}
Mercury:It's a treasure.
Um...Militia? This card is just about strictly worse, and MUCH worse. They get to pick 4 cards out of 6 instead of 3 out of 5? And if they have more than 5 they don't even discard down to 4? Cool name though.
This card would have supplemental rule clarification (like other cards sometimes do), which would explain that piles do not have to have equal number of cards, there must be at least one card in the pile (or it isn't pile)I'm pretty sure Fact or Fiction lets you split 5-0, not that I have any idea why anyone would want to.
