while holding hands, skipping down the sidewalk.Losing
So we have to tie every game?
The proper term is "rejoice in your shared victory."
Can you suggest one? I've tried a few, and some of them have BM options to select which ones you'd like to white/blacklist, but none of them actually implement a "virtual deck", and the rest of it (flipping up 3 cards, bottom decking the rest, etc.)My favorites are probably Governor and Envoy. My least favorite is probably Dismantle, though, frankly, I don't dislike any of them. I do like Black Market, but I only play with it when I play online -- I just haven't come up with an easy way to incorporate it IRL.
Two good options:
1) Use a randomizer app that includes a black market. That way you're only fishing for the card if someone buys it.
2) Make the Black market deck from the blue-backed placeholder cards. Sure, you'll be able to identify tell if a card in someone else's hand came from the Black Market, but that's a minor bit of info leak in exchange for much easier setup.Doesn't help those who leave out randomizers.
That's what we did in one group back when Prosperity was the latest and greatest. Of course, there weren't as many randomizers back then. These days, few people carry them around.It's literally the time it takes to find the correct divider and take/return the appropriate card, but times 30. I think you're just a lot more patient than me.Sounds like you need a better storage solution to keep it from taking so long.What's hard about it, is that it already takes a long time to setup and put away Dominion, with only 10 kingdom cards, and now this is tripling-quadrupling that time.For people who think Black Market is one of the best: how do you do the setup IRL? It sounds unusable.Just grab one copy each of 20-30 cards that aren't in the current kingdom. What's so hard about that?
(Sorry, I don't have one I can recommend. The one I use involves a suitcase-like carrying case which was originally made for cassette tapes. I'm pretty sure they don't make them anymore.)
My partner said that when he used to play with Black Market, they would use the randomizers, and only take out the cards when they were bought. This sounds less irritating, although the issue is we don't keep the randomizers on hand. I think if we were to ever buy a copy of Black Market, I'd just pack it some randomizers and just use the same ones every time.
My choices then were more so based on "cult of the new", and trying out the new cards as they came out. Black Market was rated on how it kind of was a pain in the neck to set up. And that was back when there were only 4 expansions.I did a mini-review of the first 5 here....You lost all credibility to me when you rated Governor and Stash as 5/5, but Black Market only 3/5.
https://boardgamegeek.com/article/10398721#10398721
FWIW, try to value them by how much you'll actually use them. Sure, the regular sets come with many more cards, but it wouldn't be saying much if you didn't like say, half of them.
As far as the rest of them go, Summons isn't too shabby, nor Dismantle.
You're still coming out ahead. If you couldn't play your Treasures first, Poor House either gets nullified, or would actually cause you to lose coins (assuming you weren't already at 0 coins).Poor House + Capitalism
In your Buy phase, play all of your Treasures first, THEN your Poor House(s)
Your Poor Houses are Treasures, though...
As discussed, it's dominating rather than strong.Possession more dominating than Dominate
It would be strong if your opponent built a deck worth having, but an serious and experienced player won't if Possession is on the table, preferring a horrible game to a losing one.
I guess limiting Possession to once per turn would help a bit, but I don't think it's enough to save the card.
Is it practical for you to return home? Many of us, including myself, are assuming you live within driving distance. So half an hour drive? 1 hour? 2 hours? 3 hours? Will you even have a car (I didn't my first 2 years)? Either way, are you able to return home once a semester? Once a month? Or no more than once a year?How many do you have?Sorry, should have specified, I have everything but Intrigue and Rennaissance.
I'm in the same exact situation. What I did was get a large binder and fill it with those plastic trading card holding sheets and put the dominion cards in there. It fit about 6 expansions in the space equivalent to one box, and can be easily flipped through, showing all the cards. It's easy to transport and protects them well.One person in my game group has this, and it worked out very well. Each page is a 3x3 of kingdom cards. Each pocket is deep enough to store at least 10 cards. For large piles, use a tuckbox or the larger "one row" boxes, like for Coppers, etc.
Which leads to Adventures, our own Empires, the dark of Nocturne, and a Renaissance when the light returns!it setting up the next turn does create some intrigue
Setting up the next turn creates some seaside.
I live in England now, and I've found a website that's selling the Mayday sleeves in groups of 500 for £8.50, which could get me 3,000 sleeves for £56; that's significantly cheaper than anywhere else I've seen.I used Mayday brand sleeves before, around 2009-ish time period. They came in packs of 100 or 50, depending on if you wanted "standard thickness" or "premium thickness". They were roughly $2.25 per pack of 100 or $2.50 for the pack of 50. Fantasy Flight Games' sleeves only come in "premium" thickness respectively. Probably ditto for the Ultra Pros. Others like "penny sleeves" are standard thickness.
What concerns me is that the ratings for Mayday sleeves seem abysmal overall. Lots of people are saying they don't shuffle well,As someone who's a poor shuffler, I found they shuffle BETTER. However, that's b/c I use "pile shuffling" where you separate the deck into 2, and "smush" them back together. As opposed to what they do at casinos, "flicking them" into the same pile with their thumbs
some are the wrong size,I have gotten some that were a bit too tight. Out of every 50, 0 to 2. Average 0.85 per pack or so. When you sleeve your set, account for this by making sure you have an extra pack's worth to compensate for any defects.
some crack at the corners,I personally don't recall encountering this. That said, some of the corners on them premiums were a more deadly combo of rigid and SHARP
and some come with creases that make them unusable.I personally don't recall encountering this either.
Admittedly, there are a few positive reviews, so it could just be the classic case of the vocal minority flooding the Internet with criticism while millions of satisfied customers forget to comment.FWIW, I've ran into both camps...
I also find it disturbing that the guy is on the cover twice.That's what makes it so... Intriguing! :x
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Hmm, looks like someone over at Rio Grande Games decided it was okay to use the likeness of two of our cast members (Aileen Cairns and Curt Foy) for their Dominion: Intrigue game without asking NJRF!
While imitation IS the greatest form of flattery, we have costumers who spent weeks custom-designing these costumes, actors who spend months working to become these characters, and photographers like Anja Mutschin who graciously come out and take amazing pictures like this one because they love our faire and want to help us grow. Meanwhile, our fan base are the people who play these games- So we truly appreciate the flattery, Rio Grande Games, and are ready to start negotiations...
Depends on the audience as well... I'd reckon your "typical" Dom player still subscribes to the "when in doubt, Treasure is generally safe bet" mentality. They may not be interested in the "hard core" level of strategy discussions and analysis that frequent this and other Dom. sites.Gold, when not gained, is a shiny curse and something you want to avoid buying when building any form of engine.
This is hyperbole and should not be taken literally.
Why would it be hyperbole? If your goal is to build an engine every stop card is an obstacle you need to come around in some way. Of course you need some economy but if you are dependent on Gold to get that maybe that is a sign that engine is not the right call after all. On this board there was plenty of options that was better than Gold for the deck OP tried to build. Early Golds, as with Skulk or Wedding, is another story but buying Gold on an earlyis so rarely the right call for the engine that I wouldn't say my statement is hyperbole at all. Rather I'm wrong, but how in that case?
Very... revealing...Is there a list of cards with 'reveal' on the wiki yet?
There is now! http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Reveal
Crypt. After 20 games, maybe I can finally figure that card out.
Yes.You mean like the Alchemy 2nd edition version?I guess you could always house rule it that Debt goes to the Possessor, while all the good things (VP, Coffers, Villagers) go to the Possessed.Any board with coin tokens or villagers: always spend all of your opponent's tokens so they can never do anything.I understand that post-Empires rule change but previously Possession was much more fun as there were such soft counters in the presence of Coin and VP token gaining cards.
But if we found it, it'd be just a City!This reminds me that I lost one of my Fishing VillagesI lost a whole City! Has anyone seen my Lost City?
I guess you could always house rule it that Debt goes to the Possessor, while all the good things (VP, Coffers, Villagers) go to the Possessed.Any board with coin tokens or villagers: always spend all of your opponent's tokens so they can never do anything.I understand that post-Empires rule change but previously Possession was much more fun as there were such soft counters in the presence of Coin and VP token gaining cards.
Tribute!There's probably a better way to do "get a benefit based on how good the deck of the player to your left is". Or a better way to do extra turns.And they're known as Smugglers and Outpost, respectively.
