Ha, just a few minutes ago I was filling out a form online, and when it asked my age I typed 28 without even thinking about it... I'm 30....I thought you were born April 29, 1967.
Thief
Counting House
Transmute
Coppersmith
Bureaucrat
Pirate Ship
Saboteur
Chancellor
Contraband
Philosopher's Stone
Council Room -- Lowest Win Rate With
I suppose. Surely not BM, though?
Oh definitely not. Silver is as close to strictly better for an opener to this as you can get.
Are you sure? Drawing Estate, Concubine, 3 Coppers is worth as much as Estate, Estate, Silver, 2 Coppers. With the replacing of Estates you don't have the chance to get to 6$, but you'll more surely ge to 5$. You'll never have 3 Estates, Silver and Copper. I admit that two 5$ turns are usually worse than a 6$ and a 2$, though.
another probably easy one:
you play your navigator as the last action in your turn. You dont want to discard the 5 cards. Why does the order you put them back still matter?
I suppose. Surely not BM, though?
Symmetry groups of polyhedra?
.... The Scout didn't have any effect, gameplay wise.
I still think opening with it cant be the right move…
I can pick both!
Thief – Replace “they trash one” with “they may trash one”
Your intention is probably that you can leave them their Coppers, but that's not what that sentence would mean. As written, it would mean that your opponent decides whether or not they trash a treasure (and if they decide yes, then you choose which one). So this would heavily nerf an already weak card.
Thank you. I fixed it.
Surprised Fairgrounds hasn't gone, personally... with so much variety, I would expect most strategies to involve that, since it's an easy 6VPs or more.
QuoteBut this is not super common. Generally I think Smithy is a pretty weak opening, not because it draws Estates you wouldn't otherwise draw, but because playing Smithy to draw Coppers and Estates is not one of the more useful things you can do in the early game. I guess I just interpreted the statement differently than you did.Okay, I disagree with you here. you want the smithy for later. A lot. And drawing those coppers estates, and usually the silver, is not super awesome amazing times, but what on turn 3-4 are you doing that is? I mean, sometimes there is something (chapel, ambassador, the rare CC-like shenanigans), but most often, not really.
Re: gaining back and forth infinitely: this is the situation I had in mind when I said "pretend this works". Here's a rule that's dirty but works -- when you would gain a non-snarfblat card, instead, it becomes a snarfblat card until someone gains it, and your partner gains it.
Personally, I think vanilla half harem is fine. They can't all be the best card ever.
Also, concubine.
I disagree. First of all, it's not often an either-or choice - how many $4 trashers are out there? Moreover, if the trashing is bad, or not there, then you are very often opening something like smithy-silver if you want to build an engine. Even with the trashing, trasher-smithy is not too bad of an opening, though I guess more often you want some coin-producer, whether an action or a silver."Smithy is often not your best choice on the first turn, because you have a high chance of drawing your Estates card with it."
This I think is actually correct. If there is nearly any way of trashing Estates, it's better to open with that. It says "often", not "never". Usually you're only opening Smithy if you're going something like Smithy Big Money.
But more, the reasoning there is terrible. I mean, "Smithy is often not your best choice on the first turn" is true, though you can substitute virtually any card for smithy there and be correct. But because you have a high chance of drawing your estates? Who cares! And actually, you are drawing those estates anyway...
How does the early attack compare to the early attack of a Saboteur? A lot of the things I see here is maybe knocking them off of a certain amount, but doesn't sab do something similar destroying a card of a certain amount? And we all probably know how Sab usually ranks.
I think it really depends on your other options. I wouldn't take it over a junker, but turning an opponent's $3 hand into a $2 can be devastating if there are no $2s on the board. Similarly, if there are power $4s that you want two of, forcing them into buying a Silver is nice. And those Spoils have a good chance of lining up to get you at least one Gold.
The attack is certainly better in the late game when you can destroy your opponent's Province buys, but I think it's still worthwhile in the early game.
Using Pillage to discard Copper means that you just bought a more expensive one-shot Cutpurse...
…which gains you two Spoils. So, not really.
I think it really depends on your other options. I wouldn't take it over a junker, but turning an opponent's $3 hand into a $2 can be devastating if there are no $2s on the board. Similarly, if there are power $4s that you want two of, forcing them into buying a Silver is nice. And those Spoils have a good chance of lining up to get you at least one Gold.
The attack is certainly better in the late game when you can destroy your opponent's Province buys, but I think it's still worthwhile in the early game.
So just to clarify, when you buy an IGG, your opponent would still get a curse, right? But then that means that you end up getting it instead?
You, player A, are partnered with player C against players B and D.
A buys IGG. A would gain IGG, therefore C gains it instead.
C gained IGG, triggering it's ability. A, B, and D would gain a Curse, so instead C, D, and B gain a Curse.
Oh i thought about a nice addition.QuoteHalfHarem 3$
worth 1$
1 VP
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If another player plays an Attack card you may play this card immediatly.
It stays in play until the end of your next turn.
Victory-Treasure-Reaction
That would make it a pretty good 3$ especially against discard attacks.
Should be reworded...
If another player plays an Attack card you may reveal and set this aside from your hand.
At the start of your next turn, return this to your hand.
Action-Treasure-Reaction
Putting stuff into play when it's not your turn is just confusing.
I agree but i want that you play it when you use the reaction so i would word it:
If another player plays an Attack card you may reveal and set this aside from your hand.
At the start of your next turn, play this card.
Heres a ___ but not ___ puzzle:
Villages but not terminals
Haggler but not Morgrim
Innovation but not Dominion
Peeta but not Gale
Really bad card ideas but not Decline of civility on Isotropic?
On a completely unrelated note, +1 if youre an f.ds golden oldie.
Wow I had no idea.
I suppose we are running out of Dominion card ideas?
