I believe you mean in your deck?Do you have to keep the Provinces you gain? i.e., can I forge one into another?No. You must have all the Provinces in your hand by the end of the game.
Neither is all that great when it comes to tricky cards like Menagerie and Possession. For that reason, and for EC in general, it will be much easier to pick a well-defined problem. Something along the lines of optimizing Big Money + X, what sequence to buy victory cards vs money, etc.This is the kind of thing I was planning on starting with.
I just played a game with a 6 turn solution.Yeah, this is an important rule. I also had the idea to go for a level 2 City game, but that doesn't work.
Until I noticed one rule that disqualified my starting setup.Quote from: Geronimoo7 Coppers and 3 Estates in the trash
There is a niche use of the card as a opener. When you are second player with $4 in hand in your first turn and when the first player have bought a silver, you will have 2/7 chance of getting that silver and trigger a reshuffle with the initial crappy cards at the same time. It is fun to use and see it works, but when it doesn't, you are facing quite an up-hill battle. The situation improves significantly with more players though, and it helps negate the advantage of the third or the fourth player quite a bit. They still have to have $4 in their first hand though.If the first player buys a silver on his first turn and the second player buys a Noble Brigand, it triggers a reshuffle with a Silver and 5 Copper / Estate, right? So doesn't that mean there is a 2/6 chance of hitting the Silver, not 2/7?
Thanks for the suggestion, I like this better so I edited it.To be clear, define buying power as the most you would be able to spend on a single card during the buy phase of Turn 4.
(As an example, playing Lighthouse, Bridge, 3 Coppers would give you 6 buying power - $1 from Lighthouse, $2 from Bridge, and $1 from each copper.)
Strictly speaking, in that example you're only able to spend $5. How about defining it as "the listed cost of the most expensive single card you're able to buy"?
i believe just opening envoy/silver can do this.I think you can rearrange things so that you draw 3 Estates with T3 Envoy draw:
T1 - CCCCE - envoy (En)
T2 - CCCEE - silver (S)
T3 - EnCCCC, draw CCCEE discard C - gold (G)
T4 - EnSGCE, draw CCCCC discard C - $10
Doug, would you consider adding "prefer" and "prefer not" options to the automatch dropdowns? I think it's clear what should happen for any combination of options, except when at least one person says "prefer" and at least one other says "prefer not" and nobody says "require" or "prohibit" - in which case that could be handled like the current don't-care behaviors.
Lately I've been playing an alt experimenting with other game modes I don't normally play, and I'd particularly like a "prefer" option for the point tracker. i.e. I'd like to play with it, but I will play with somebody who has "prohibited" it if that's who's available.
