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Rules Questions / Re: Debt

« on: June 28, 2016, 06:03:20 am »

Another question about Debt.

Players cannot just take Debt tokens for no reason.

Wine Merchant is on my Tavern mat. 4 coins are unspent. I buy Engineer. Must I pay $4 immediately? Or can I just pay $2 and discard Wine Merchant, leaving 2 debt tokens?

This is not taking Debt "for no reason." The cost of Engineer is "take 4 Debt," and you will do this regardless of how many coins you may have. The game doesn't even want to know how many coins you have, it just wants you to take the Debt. Then you have an opportunity to remove any of your Debt, but technically nothing requires you to ever actually do so. It's just that in most cases you probably want to.

In practice, many people will probably only take tokens for the Debt they can't immediately pay, but it's beneficial to remember what is actually happening.

A player removes Debt tokens in the player's Buy phase by paying $1 per Debt token to remove it; this is done after playing Treasures, but can be done both before and after buying cards.

I thought this meant to say I have to play at least 1 Treasure in Buy-phase. Incorrect?

I see what you're saying. But no, even if you don't play any treasures, things still happen "after playing Treasures". Similarly, I might tell someone "after you play all your actions, you move on to your buy phase". They get to move on to their buy phase even if they played no actions at all.

Thanks for your advice.

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Rules Questions / Re: Debt

« on: June 24, 2016, 10:51:43 am »

A player removes Debt tokens in the player's Buy phase by paying $1 per Debt token to remove it; this is done after playing Treasures, but can be done both before and after buying cards.

I thought this meant to say I have to play at least 1 Treasure in Buy-phase. Incorrect?

Another question about Debt.

Players cannot just take Debt tokens for no reason.

Wine Merchant is on my Tavern mat. 4 coins are unspent. I buy Engineer. Must I pay $4 immediately? Or can I just pay $2 and discard Wine Merchant, leaving 2 debt tokens?

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Rules Questions / Debt

« on: June 24, 2016, 09:47:49 am »

I have 4 debt tokens. I play Wine Merchant. No Treasure is in play, nor in hand. Can I remove my debt tokens?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Native Village & Bridge Troll

« on: June 22, 2016, 07:44:29 pm »

Hermit and bridge troll is a combo on its own too.

Oh, I didn't know that. You mean, "play BTs on the previous turn, play some Madmans to draw whole my deck, play 4 BT, play a few Hermits to gain Provinces", right? I think this is very hard because of two reasons.
1. To gain Madman, I need to trash Hermit, which I need to gain Province. But other players also buy Hermits to trash Estates. Can I gain enough Hermits?
2. BT costs $5 and is an Attack card. Collecting 5 BTs is hard because I have to earn $6 (without any BTs in play) from a hand full of junks (unplayable Madmans, Hermits).

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Uninteresting Moments of Dominion 2016

« on: June 22, 2016, 08:01:48 am »

I revealed Fortune when my opponent played Saboteur.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: What Card Am I?

« on: June 22, 2016, 06:52:03 am »

EDIT: Or maybe I got the question wrong. What is an "Overload"?

Oops! Misspelled! Overlord, a card from Empire. Sorry.

EDIT: I misunderstood debt payment. I thought "playing Poor House immediately removes 4 tokens, then fails to subtract $4", but that was not true.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: What Card Am I?

« on: June 22, 2016, 06:22:51 am »

New one.

I had 8 debt tokens.
I had an Overload Overlord and 4 Coppers in hand.
I only played them in this turn to pay all my debt.
However, actually, I defaulted some money.
What Action did I play using Overload Overlord?

Hint: Dark Ages

Edit: fixed wording. a little harder.

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Dominion General Discussion / Native Village & Bridge Troll

« on: June 22, 2016, 05:20:06 am »

Yesterday I met a very fun game.

Supply: Candlestick Maker, Haven, Native Village, Hermit, Jack of All Trades, Bridge Troll, Council Room, Ghost Ship, Lost City, Stables. No Shelters, no Colony/Platinum.

I wonder when "big-bridge"(NV/Bridge Troll) is strong. Only NV and BT, this combo is too weak. Workshop? Ridiculous! (You need only 4 BT, some WS.) Then, how about Hermit? Needs more help?

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Sporcle Quizzes: Name the Kingdom Cards and Events

« on: June 08, 2016, 06:03:56 am »

Just 105... I play Japanese version, so cannot spell English name like Apothecary (in Japanese, it is 薬師) without a Dictionary.
Maybe I should make Japanese version for players like Iriho.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Put it all back

« on: June 07, 2016, 10:06:02 pm »

If you buy Summon T1 on Amb, you can Ambassador things off T2, and buy Amb while ditching the two Estates. Here's what would happen:

T1: 5c
buy Summon > Ambassador
T2: 2C, 3E
play Amb, return 2E, Alms gain Amb
T3: Amb, 1E, 3C
play Amb, return 2C
Alms Encampment
T4: 3C, Amb, Enc
Enc (c, Amb), return Enc
Amb 2C, Amb 2C
Alms Enc
T5: E, C, Enc, Amb, Amb
Enc, return Enc
Amb e, Amb c
buy Overlord
T6: Overlord > Amb, return 2 Amb
T7: Overlord Enc

Only Alms needed, BoM is a mistake, Overlord can do the same thing and for free, as long as you don't need to gain anything anymore.

Oh, Great! With Events, shortened! I will find a way without Empire.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Put it all back

« on: June 07, 2016, 08:44:06 pm »

Kingdom: Encampment, Ambassador, Baker, Band of Misfits

T1: hand: 5C
buy BoM
T2: hand: 2C, 3E
use a coin token
buy Ambassador
T3: hand: Amb, 3E, C
play Amb to return 2E
T4: hand: BoM, 4C
play BoM as Amb to return 2C
buy Enc
T5: hand: 2C, Enc, Amb, BoM
play Enc to draw C, E, return Enc
play Amb to return E
play BoM as Amb to return 2C
T6: hand: 2C, BoM, Amb
play Amb to return 2C
T7: hand: BoM, Amb
play BoM as Amb to return Amb
T8: hand: BoM
play BoM as Enc, return BoM

Can it be shorten?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Post your Promo Fan Card Idea - brainstorm topic

« on: June 07, 2016, 07:01:56 pm »

Sylvan
cost $3 - Action
+1 Action
+3 Cards
Choose one twice:
put a card from your hand on top of your deck;
or each other player draws a card.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Negative vanilla boni and split piles

« on: June 07, 2016, 06:46:14 pm »

Commue
Types: Action
Cost: $5
-1 Buy
Gain a card costing up to 5 and put it on top of your deck.

What is -1 Buy? Can I gain 7 Duchies when I
King's Court-King's Court-Commue-Commue-Woodcutter?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Negative vanilla boni and split piles

« on: June 07, 2016, 05:57:58 am »

Boomtown
Types: Action
Cost: $4
Reveal cards from the top of your deck until you reveal an Action card. Discard the other cards and play the revealed Action card.

Similar to Sage. Is it worth cost4?

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: June 04, 2016, 06:09:03 am »

Uh, buy Villa, which has the +Card Token on it. Play it drawing a Fortress?

Hey, that's another solution.

My second solution is buy Bonfire, trashing a Cultist, and drawing a Fortress.

Very similar to mine. Trashing 2 Rats to draw 2 Rats.Buy Doctor, overpaying $2, trashing 2 Rats, drawing Squire and Bank. Buy Villa. Play it. Play Squire to choose +2 Buys. Play Bank to earn extra $16. Buy 4 Farmlands.(In Action phase) call Royal Carriage to replay Horse Trader 3 times.Haggler is in play. Buy Farmland, resolving Haggler's effect first, gain Villa, putting it into your hand. Trash Villa to gain Farmland. Do this again.

*No Borrow, no Baker, no Ferry, no cost reduction, no durations, no Duplicate.

You mean, no coin token, right?

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Rules Questions / Re: Inheritance, Throne Room, and self-trashing Actions

« on: June 02, 2016, 10:58:25 am »

I inherited Feast.
What happens when I Throned Estates?
It is not an Action when I try to play Estates on the second time. Nothing happens? Or client freezes and I lose the game?

You can't trash in second play, but gain.

Throne Room (and co) remember what it plays; also if the Acton is not in play anymore.

Even though Throne Room remembers what it played, it just remembers the name, doesn't it? Does it remember the ability, too?

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Rules Questions / Inheritance, Throne Room, and self-trashing Actions

« on: June 02, 2016, 01:39:28 am »

I inherited Feast.
What happens when I Throned Estates?
It is not an Action when I try to play Estates on the second time. Nothing happens? Or client freezes and I lose the game?

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: What Card Am I?

« on: May 31, 2016, 11:32:56 pm »

I have another one.

City Quarter?

Oh, I didn't know Empire cards, that's another!

Mine was buying 4 Lost Cities in the Possession turn. I draw 4 cards before the cleanup, only to discard them. Very sad.

Another.

I'll let you play additional 3 Actions. I am not white.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: What Card Am I?

« on: May 31, 2016, 06:26:18 pm »

I can let you draw 4 cards without spending an Action. Who am I?

Tribute, revealing two Victory cards, at least one of which is also an Action card.

Tribute spends an action when you play it.

Oh, I meant it is non-terminal. So Tribute is ok.

Some answers I prepared:
Cellar (I didn't say "Do not discard or trash anything."), Scout, Tribute, Minion, Madman, Apprentice, Crossloads, Storyteller

Of course, 2 Expeditions are ok, Summoning Hunting Ground is ok. Envoy doesn't let you "draw" technically, so as Native Village, Scrying Pool. Trashing Rats is great.

I have another one.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: What Card Am I?

« on: May 31, 2016, 06:36:11 am »

I can let you draw 4 cards without spending an Action. Who am I?

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: May 30, 2016, 07:37:30 pm »

New one.

Gain a Goons while resolving a University. 7 different answers exist.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: May 28, 2016, 06:47:26 pm »

For the record, how much should Will Smith cost if it were a real card?  I started at <4> and quickly bumped it up to <6>, but I don't have any experience with these cards.  The general rule seems to be that they need to cost a lot, so maybe as much as <8>?

It doesn't let you draw 3 cards on this turn, right? Then, it should cost 4 or <5>. Usually weaker than Haunted Woods.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: May 25, 2016, 07:32:34 pm »

The ruins pile is empty?

You reveal Trader with an empty Silver pile for the Ruins. Since Trader is a when-would-gain reaction, the Ruins never visit the pile, and since there are no Silvers left, Death Cart is never covered up.

Great!

Another quiz. Mr. Hirotashi first posted in twitter.

Discard your Wine Merchant from play.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: May 22, 2016, 07:35:07 pm »

Grand Harem
Victory-Treasure
Cost: $9

$3
--------
6VP
You may not buy this card if you have any Copper in play.

This is "really bad cards" thread. This card is not too bad. Works in Prosperity or Empire.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: How to balance a reverse Merchants' Guild in multiplayer

« on: May 22, 2016, 06:41:06 am »

How about gaining a Copper in hand non-mandatory? This works in multiplayer games!