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Pretty big difference.
Also, Magic releases like 1000+ new cards per year.
Ducat is S-tier "easier to play in real life".Note that ShuffleIT now allows you to undo the "play all treasures" button without it asking your opponent for permission. A change specifically made with Ducat in mind.
I feel like anyone else can answer this kind of question, but yes, guys, hello, you can use the Ducat +1 Coffers the turn you play it, barring edge cases.
Ducats were actual Renaissance-era coins, and are not a reference to anyone who the person who took over Goko may have once picked to make online Dominion.
Is Innovation working properly in the preview? If I gain a Witch, it will draw two cards and deal a curse, but then - even if I have extra actions and buys - I can't play actions or treasures that I draw.I dunno. It's pretty sweet in the curse battle to dole a curse out immediately without having to cycle through your deck to do so. REally same with any attack. Also great with gainers etc. Plus since its on first buy, if instead of witch you played militia, you'd get 2 more coins to buy with and the attack.
That seems to make some amount of sense, but it's far more limited of an effect than I guessed for $6.
I think Triumph is really powerful. It only takes one additional gain for it to be (generally) superior to buying a Duchy. With most engines that aren't buy-limited, it should be comparable to Province in VP with the following advantages:
- It doesn't deplete the Province pile, and so fares better against faster Province-buying strategies.
- It costs debt, so you can add an additional engine piece before greening.
- It costs less than Province.
- The Estates can be trashed for a VP loss of only one.
- On your last turn, you can use extra buys to grab a bunch of Copper and multiple Triumphs. For instance, with 15 coins and 8 buys, you could buy 4 Coppers and 4 Triumphs for 30 VP (and more with other gains)!
Not really. The bots over buy anything that trashes and play them even when they have nothing worth trashing.
Noticed it in a game. Just tried it again on sim and it's doing same thing. (load game 18825460 to see it)
When you use the priest you get you card +2 but when you trash the next card via sewer you do not get the +2 coins. Actually lost a game earlier b/c of this... but no worries unrated anyway.
This is correct. Sewer's trash is triggered on the other trash, and the second effect hasn't yet occurred as it happens after the Priest trash resolves.
+$2
Trash a card from your hand. For the rest of this turn, when you trash a card, +$2.
When you trash a card other than with this, you may trash a card from your hand.
Maybe that has already been fixed. At least when I load that game and buy&play Hermit, it doesn't get trashed for Madman.
Most of the obscure bugs are known about, and are just a much lower priority than the other work. And in most cases, what people would encounter aren’t actually bugs at all, so I don’t think this would help. They don’t have the problem of not enough things to do.
Wait, that doesn't sound right.... You only get a Madman "if you didn't buy any cards this turn", not just if you didn't buy any cards after playing Hermit.
Wait, that doesn't sound right.... You only get a Madman "if you didn't buy any cards this turn", not just if you didn't buy any cards after playing Hermit.
Wait, that doesn't sound right.... You only get a Madman "if you didn't buy any cards this turn", not just if you didn't buy any cards after playing Hermit.
I can't think of any real uses for this beyond rare edge cases, weird pile control, or maybe an unnecessarily fancy TfB strategy, but I recently discovered that you can move $3+ cost Action cards from the trash directly back to the Supply using Lurker to gain from the trash, and then exchange for Changeling. Lurker gains the card out of the trash and then Changeling exchanges it back to the Supply. Kinda neat (albeit usually not very helpful) interaction.
I'm very sure this isn't the first time anyone's noticed this, but Herald is a phenomenal Ghost Ship counter.
One test I've been doing is, randomizing a kingdom, replacing the first two cards with CM and Ducat, and seeing how often you want Candlestick Maker at all.
How often do you want Candlestick Maker at all?
Topically: to keep your Recruiters fed?
Trusty Steed, Watchtower, Conquest combo?
Butcher + Silk Merchant
Obvious and potentially useful turbo remodel variant.
Silk Merchant guarantees 5 on the first shuffle. Amass Butchers and Silk Merchants, turning some starting estates into Silk Merchants early. Maybe mill a Silk Merchant for+4 Coffers and +2 Villagers. With 1 extra token, Butcher can take Silk Merchant straight to Province in the end game. The Villagers should allow multiple-Butcher turns. There are interesting decisions around when to play Silk Merchants.
Welcome to the forum.
Yeah, but how many other users did he trash before getting here?
Counting House + Night Watchman
This is beyond neat and certainly more than potentially useful!
Bishop + Bonfire
There's a pretty fast golden deck here (faster and more reliable than the Chapel + Bishop golden deck). So, if there aren't any disruptive attacks, you might want to go for it.
Turn 1-2: Buy Bishop + Bonfire
Turn 3-4: Trash 1 Estate and exactly 3 additional cards. Usually, this comes about with one Bishop trash and two Bonfire purchases, trashing only one Copper on the second purchase. You can also get there with two Bishop trashes and one Bonfire purchase. Sometimes, this doesn't work out and you are delayed one turn.
Deck: Bishop, 2 Estates, 2 Coppers
Turn 5: Trash Estate, Buy Silver
Turn 6: Trash Estate, Buy Silver
Turn 7: Trash Copper, Buy Gold
Turn 8: Trash Copper, Buy Province
Turn 9+: Trash Province, Buy Province
Your VP after turn 8 is 14-15, then you get 5 VP per turn and end the game on turn 15 with 49-50 VP. Add 1 turn to these totals if you aren't fortunate enough to trash to a 5-card hand by turn 5.
