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Let's Discuss ... / Re: empires: vp for gaining a bunch of stuff events (triumph, conquest)
« on: September 26, 2018, 11:05:20 am »
The Renaissance cards are going to bring about a renaissance in these cards. 3 renaissance cards that will be huge for this are sculptor, mountain village. and experiment. Cards like sculptor that both help you build your deck, but also allow for multiple cards to be gained in one good mega turn (especially if tactician in play).
The real beauty of sculptor for these types of engines is that rather than just gaining a card like most gainers, you gain it to your hand. So if a card that has + actions is avail on board you can just keep gaining and playing them to draw more sculptors etc.
Mountain village is also amazing for this, b/c it allows you to pull any card out of your discard pile, so if you gained cards in other ways that turn you can use them on the same turn.
I played a game the other night with triumph, stonemason (luckily from BM), charm (from BM too) Ill-gotten gains on board, sculptor and mountain village. + buys were avail too but I forget how. BUt every turn was playing the whole deck trashing down cards to get two more (trashing a gold to get two Igg's then gain all the coppers was a fun one) I think I was getting up to 14 or 15 VP per triumph by the end of that one. Getting torturer from the BM and then playing it every hand was nice. Because I either drew it, drew a sculptor and gained a MV to get it, or had a MV in hand already.
I can only imagine how many points i could have gotten had experiment been the card (well cards) that sculptor was gaining to my hand.
The real beauty of sculptor for these types of engines is that rather than just gaining a card like most gainers, you gain it to your hand. So if a card that has + actions is avail on board you can just keep gaining and playing them to draw more sculptors etc.
Mountain village is also amazing for this, b/c it allows you to pull any card out of your discard pile, so if you gained cards in other ways that turn you can use them on the same turn.
I played a game the other night with triumph, stonemason (luckily from BM), charm (from BM too) Ill-gotten gains on board, sculptor and mountain village. + buys were avail too but I forget how. BUt every turn was playing the whole deck trashing down cards to get two more (trashing a gold to get two Igg's then gain all the coppers was a fun one) I think I was getting up to 14 or 15 VP per triumph by the end of that one. Getting torturer from the BM and then playing it every hand was nice. Because I either drew it, drew a sculptor and gained a MV to get it, or had a MV in hand already.
I can only imagine how many points i could have gotten had experiment been the card (well cards) that sculptor was gaining to my hand.