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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Most overvalued Dominion Cards according to Councilroom stats. Surprising!
« on: July 30, 2013, 03:58:37 pm »1. Silver: pct.=87.8%, win rate with=.98, win rate wo=1.13. Interestingly, those situations where silver is not bought does much better than when silver is bought. What does this mean? I guess, think twice about buying silver if there are other good options available. Perhaps it is generally better to buy two kingdom cards then buying that silver on your first two turns. Does anybody else have a better interpretation of this?
My interpretation is that Silver usually a good buy, but if you can spot those relatively rare instances in which Silver is unnecessary, then you are more likely to win. Alternatively, the games in which one doesn't buy Silver may correspond disproportionately to games where one receives at 5/2 open, thereby gaining a key $5 card without opening Silver.
Silver buys also sometimes indicate that a player has failed to hit a key $5 on their second shuffle, which can also spell doom for them.
