Waiting until you have 3 Golds gives you (10x50.000.000)Code: [Select]37: 3 4 4 4 5 8 4 6 7 10 5 5 9 6 8 5 5 12 10 6 3 5 7 7 12 5 5 14 7 6 7 6 5 7 7 5 93 early Golds followed by 2 early Provinces. Overall, they all get 6-7 Provinces quite quickly, followed by long sequences of 7s until you get the last.
37: 5 2 5 4 5 6 5 7 6 6 10 9 1 11 12 4 4 7 5 12 5 5 5 7 10 7 7 7 6 6 7 7 7 8 6 7 12
37: 3 4 5 5 5 4 8 5 5 9 8 5 5 4 11 12 6 9 12 4 5 6 10 9 6 5 7 7 7 6 7 7 13 6 7 4 8
38: 4 3 5 5 5 7 5 5 7 10 9 5 5 6 8 10 6 4 12 5 9 7 6 7 7 10 5 6 7 15 7 4 7 7 7 6 3 10
39: 5 2 5 4 2 6 9 5 2 7 10 8 7 5 5 9 12 2 7 5 10 2 10 3 7 7 4 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 7 5 9 11
37: 3 4 2 5 6 5 3 7 8 5 8 9 5 8 12 1 4 5 11 7 5 7 7 3 7 13 6 4 6 7 12 7 7 7 7 6 8
38: 3 4 5 4 5 7 4 5 9 7 6 8 8 10 5 4 13 7 5 4 5 10 3 7 6 7 11 5 7 7 7 6 7 14 7 7 3 14
37: 4 3 4 3 5 5 5 5 7 8 10 5 5 5 12 9 10 8 5 8 5 7 6 6 5 11 5 12 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10
37: 3 4 5 5 3 7 5 8 6 10 8 2 9 9 3 5 7 5 5 7 8 7 4 6 7 11 7 7 7 7 6 7 12 7 6 7 10
38: 5 2 4 4 5 4 5 7 5 9 7 5 3 9 8 10 6 9 5 4 10 8 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 13 6 6 6 5 7 10
I think a good starting point would be to run a bot with simple buy rules for a ton of simulations and go from there.
This probably requires you to get the average worth of cards in your deck over the magical 5/8 = 1.6, since otherwise you can probably go through a shuffle with all $7 hands. Once you are over 1.6, you are guaranteed at least one Province during one time through your deck. Of course, with worst shuffle luck your hand might be 5 Golds, and the rest of your hands being awful. So, it might end up being only one Province per shuffle with worst shuffle luck.
In addition, every Province buy decreases the average card strength. The question becomes: is it going to be faster to exceed that average, or to hit that average, buy a Province, buy a Gold, etc.?
The Province will decrease average value, but all your subpar hands during that shuffle will probably be used to buy more Silver, which should balance out or even push it in your favour when you reshuffle... right?
This probably requires you to get the average worth of cards in your deck over the magical 5/8 = 1.6, since otherwise you can probably go through a shuffle with all $7 hands. Once you are over 1.6, you are guaranteed at least one Province during one time through your deck. Of course, with worst shuffle luck your hand might be 5 Golds, and the rest of your hands being awful. So, it might end up being only one Province per shuffle with worst shuffle luck.
Unfortunately I will be out of town that weekend. Wish I could come. Shiloh does a fantastic job at organizing!
theory has mad piano skills. You should hear him play Vanessa Carlton ;P.
Have only KC-KC-Moat-Moat-Moat? But I guess that fails with Masq...
That doesn't ensure you get it every turn.
Getting all Provinces with pure BM with worst-case shuffling luck sounds very unpleasant. So many 5's and 7's.
I'm really excited for the card I submitted, which means it sucks and everyone will hate it.
QuoteQuestion for everyone: in YN vs. blueblimp game 1, would you rather open Amb/Amb, Amb/Silver, or Amb/Feast?
Ambassador/warehouse. This isn't without some problems though. You will need to tailor your deck development to the play of your opponent and it's pretty hard to predict the exact steps needed to get that grand market monster deck started.
At first I was inclined to agree with DG, but now I think I want to try to hit $5 earlier.
I'm tempted by double tact, inn, amb, vault instead of the wharves route you're taking here.
It will be worse in the end (can't profit from platinum) but stronger at the start (easier Grand Markets).
Strong starts tend to be more important. Maybe I can even transverge into a wharf strategy from there using salvagers.
That means I need three cards costing $5 before my deck is flooded with crap by an opponent hitting ambassador heavy with ambassador/warehouse.
I think it's doable. Getting the first Tactician will somehat provide for the rest. I don't need a really small deck, because tact+vault can handle quite some coppers/estates.
So now my plan would be to start Silver/Ambassador, and the next round hope for Tactician/-, or maybe Warehouse/Salvager if I don't hit $5.
Really tricky question though, and if this was a predesigned kingdom for a tournament I'd want to playtest this set a lot.
I'd tell another chemistry joke here, but all the good ones argon. Oh wait:
What's a pirate's favorite amino acid? Arrrrginine!
There appears to be a missing link.
