Goons + doctor
Play a bunch of goons buy a bunch of copper doctor trash it. This requires you too draw your deck.
Transmogrify + Rats
Trash your starting cards (and curses/ruins) with Rats, and turn Rats into 5-cost cards with Transmogrify.
I just played a game with this recently. It's a lot like Upgrade + Rats, but without the pile-emptying degenerate strategies. Transmogrify is a little slower to play, but it puts the 5-cost card right into your 6-card hand. It's especially strong with situational 5-cost cards. This strategy can be a little dangerous with other sources of card draw; you need the Rats to be in your starting hand to trash them. I believe this is one of the most powerful Rat synergies.
As for the comic, I guess I'm the kind of person who tries to associate as much possible with people who share my interests in the first place. Does that make me an asshole? Possibly.
Only if you also try to demean others who are different from you!
WW, I assume what makes CSM useful is that you can save up tokens to get Gardens, and never have to bother with Silvers.
I get that. I just don't think it's very good. You open CSM/CSM, you probably get 3 more on turns 3 and 4, you finish them out on turn 7 or so, at which point you have something like 11 coppers, 10 CSM and your 3 estates, right? And then, you don't want to waste any tokens, so if you have $3 or more from just coppers, you get a Gardens, and other than that... estate? Eventually you take your plunge and buy out the Gardens, and the Estates, I suppose. It probably takes, oh, 21 turns, from the start, and you get all the Gardens, CSMs, Estates, and... I'm not sure how many coppers. Probably you have 4 or 5 point Gardens. Let's say you can get to 5. That gives you enough points to equal out all the Provinces. Hooray. On the other hand, most anything respectable can actually empty the Provinces in that amount of time, so I remain pretty unconvinced.
Choose, gain, choose, gain.
So how does this compare to when we thought doubleJack was hot stuff?
Jack defends against attacks (and sustains greening) so double jack was seen as a universal solution. Gear won't do that.
Inheritance+Bridge Troll:The problem is that bridge troll doesn't help you hit 7.
Have a Bridge Troll in Play.
Inherit Bridge Troll.
Get multiple Pseudo-Bridge Trolls (estates) at no cost.
In an enginey context (Draw, +actions), it explodes.
I'll be playing two matches this weekend. One at 7 PM tonight against jpgerber and another at 4 PM tomorrow versus mumposaur.
7PM was one hour ago. As in - feel free to specify a timezone.
I doubt a lot of people would vote for me, but I'm definitely interested and most likely available for providing commentary, so you could add me to the list.
