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Dominion Articles / Re: Request: Philosopher's Stone
« on: April 30, 2012, 09:37:05 pm »One situation I've found for Pstone that is very powerful is on IGG boards
open Potion Silver
buy 2 or 3 Pstones, and as many IGG as you can get, always take extra coppers every time you play IGG, and even if you loose the curse war, when ur both rushing the duchy's pretty much every time you get a hand with Pstone, boom Province. which should more then make up for a possible extra curse or 2 if your opponent opens silver/silver.
Someone mentioned this on the previous page, but I'm skeptical. I threw together a quick-and-dirty IGG bot that options Potion / Silver and prefers PStone over IGG until it has at least two PStones. It loses badly to straight IGG, roughly 2:1. The simulator doesn't take Coppers unless it needs them, but my gut says taking extra Coppers doesn't help the situation much. Taking unnecessary Copper is sub-optimal in IGG, so it may even make things worse for PStone.
That said, I'd be happy to be proven wrong.