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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #225 on: May 26, 2015, 03:34:06 pm »
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Counterfeit/Spoils: You're quite happy trashing the Spoils since you'd be losing it anyway.

Actually, Counterfeit trashes the Treasure after you've played it twice, and by then, Spoils has already returned itself to its pile and Counterfeit has lost track of it and it can no longer be trashed.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #226 on: May 26, 2015, 03:37:57 pm »
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Counterfeit/Spoils: You're quite happy trashing the Spoils since you'd be losing it anyway.

Actually, Counterfeit trashes the Treasure after you've played it twice, and by then, Spoils has already returned itself to its pile and Counterfeit has lost track of it and it can no longer be trashed.

Yeah, that's what he said: You're quite happy losing the Spoils since you'd be trashing it anyway. ;)
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #227 on: May 27, 2015, 05:24:37 pm »
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Counterfeit/Spoils: You're quite happy trashing the Spoils since you'd be losing it anyway.

Actually, Counterfeit trashes the Treasure after you've played it twice, and by then, Spoils has already returned itself to its pile and Counterfeit has lost track of it and it can no longer be trashed.

Ah right. Even better; you don't have to worry about the pile running out.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #228 on: May 28, 2015, 07:48:08 am »
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Mint - Platinum?
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #229 on: May 29, 2015, 01:11:08 pm »
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Mint - Platinum?
Mint-Fool's Gold and Mint-Venture are probably more what the OP was looking for. Those treasure cards actually improve if you proliferate copies of them in your deck.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #230 on: May 29, 2015, 03:21:14 pm »
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Mint - Platinum?
Mint-Fool's Gold and Mint-Venture are probably more what the OP was looking for. Those treasure cards actually improve if you proliferate copies of them in your deck.
And on a Platinum board those could get you to $9 quickly
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #231 on: May 29, 2015, 04:34:43 pm »
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On the flip side, Mine + cost reducer can get those Coppers into Platina or other fun treasures in no time flat.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #232 on: June 03, 2015, 02:20:57 pm »
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King's Court - Scheme
Lets you put the KC, Scheme, and another action back on top every turn.

Similar can be said about Thrown Room - Scheme, but doesn't let you put a third action back.

These are especially useful when there are no villages in the kingdom but you want to play multiple terminals.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #233 on: June 04, 2015, 08:26:17 am »
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These are especially useful when there are no villages in the kingdom but you want to play multiple terminals.

...like Counting House Storeroom engine :)

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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #234 on: June 04, 2015, 11:22:53 am »
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I think Cultist and Scheme have an interesting relationship. By "interesting" I'm talking the same type of interesting as Minion and Tunnel -- I often say that if these two cards' relationship was on facebook, it would be listed as "It's Complicated".

Scheme enables engines on Cultist boards where they otherwise might not be strong enough. Usually on Cultist boards the junking is too much, too fast, and you just end up playing Cultist+BM and being sad, but with Scheme you can top-deck Villages or other goodies and have an engine that's reliable enough to compete sometimes. Building that engine is very difficult, though.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #235 on: June 04, 2015, 11:24:10 am »
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I think Cultist and Scheme have an interesting relationship. By "interesting" I'm talking the same type of interesting as Minion and Tunnel -- I often say that if these two cards' relationship was on facebook, it would be listed as "It's Complicated".

Scheme enables engines on Cultist boards where they otherwise might not be strong enough. Usually on Cultist boards the junking is too much, too fast, and you just end up playing Cultist+BM and being sad, but with Scheme you can top-deck Villages or other goodies and have an engine that's reliable enough to compete sometimes. Building that engine is very difficult, though.

If you can Scheme two Cultists a turn, you're going to wreck. Sadly, you can draw Schemes dead, but if you have an extra village to burn every turn, that won't be an issue. And scheme can help with that.

I think even buying a single scheme on an off turn where you can't afford Cultist *might* be better than your second or third silver.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #236 on: June 15, 2015, 04:20:57 pm »
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Haven - Baron
Haven - Treasure Map

Haven - Anything that is bad by itself but good if you have a certain other card to pair it with
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #237 on: June 15, 2015, 05:25:25 pm »
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Haven - 2nd Terminal
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #238 on: June 15, 2015, 08:45:47 pm »
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Pathfinding + Magpie

Turns them into either an activated Menagerie or a Lab that gains you another Lab.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #239 on: June 17, 2015, 04:58:39 pm »
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Plan+Caravan
Increase and improve draw in one fell swoop.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #240 on: July 27, 2015, 02:54:13 pm »
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Cultist/Trade Route for the end game.

At the end game it is likely that the Ruins would have run out and some victory cards would have been bought. Cultists can no longer attack, so you can trash them with Trade Route to draw 3 cards, get a plus buy and some money.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #241 on: July 27, 2015, 06:17:49 pm »
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Treasure Trove and Spice Merchant/Moneylender/Stables

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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #242 on: July 27, 2015, 10:36:16 pm »
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2x(KC+Scavenger+Gold/Silver) gets a province every turn, and 2x(KC+Scavenger+Platinum) gets a colony every turn, both extremely consistently.

Also Storyteller+Miser makes for a ridiculous amount of draw.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #243 on: July 27, 2015, 10:37:23 pm »
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I just had a good come-from-behind with Duke-Duplicate.  It was a Colony board with strong engine potential, so no one was interested in Duchies.  When I saw I was behind, I began accumulating Duplicates with gainers (storing them on my Tavern mat), then on the last turn I used them to gain a bunch of Dukes and Duchies and make up for a 4-Colony deficit.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #244 on: July 28, 2015, 01:07:15 pm »
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I just had a good come-from-behind with Duke-Duplicate.  It was a Colony board with strong engine potential, so no one was interested in Duchies.  When I saw I was behind, I began accumulating Duplicates with gainers (storing them on my Tavern mat), then on the last turn I used them to gain a bunch of Dukes and Duchies and make up for a 4-Colony deficit.
That looks like a lot of fun. I'm gonna have to try that sometime. I guess it would prefer an engine - but maybe it could work with just a chapel? (Trim your deck to Chapel/Silver/Silver/Copper/Nothing)

Edit: upon trying it solo it seems that a "Chapel-Duplicate-Duke" so-called "golden deck" will need a little more help, at least from a village. I tried it once and started buying and playing duplicates consistently around turn 9. I don't have any numbers for how fast Duke decks need to be, but this seems a little slow. If you start adding +action and gainers, though, it can get to be scary-fast.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #245 on: July 28, 2015, 06:10:56 pm »
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Nice, I'm glad you like it.  I'm not sure a golden deck would work, though, since you need to buy (or otherwise gain) both a Duke and a Duchy on the turn you go off, so having $5 isn't enough.  Something like Remake-Ironworks-Ironworks-Duplicate-Duplicate-Village would probably work (Ironworks-ing a Duplicate and a Village if you don't draw your Village, and Remaking the Ironworkses into a Duke and a Duchy on the final turn), but that's probably too narrow to come up much outside of a constructed Kingdom (even if you count variants using other gainers).  It would be fun on a constructed Kingdom though (ideally with other non-obvious combos that were roughly equal in power).
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #246 on: July 29, 2015, 08:00:07 am »
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Right, that would be a problem, wouldn't it. Still, the combo as a general idea has style, so I'll keep an eye out for it.

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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #247 on: August 04, 2015, 12:36:24 am »
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I'm not sure if it's been said before, but I just played a game with Trader/Embargo that had interesting synergy.  My opponent Embargo'd Cultists, and I eventually discovered that buying a Cultist with Trader in hand was essentially Cultist + free Silver.  He didn't even bother buying any Traders either (basically his Embargo backfired and hurt him).  Not sure if it's good just thought it was cool.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #248 on: August 04, 2015, 01:09:52 am »
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I'm not sure if it's been said before, but I just played a game with Trader/Embargo that had interesting synergy.  My opponent Embargo'd Cultists, and I eventually discovered that buying a Cultist with Trader in hand was essentially Cultist + free Silver.  He didn't even bother buying any Traders either (basically his Embargo backfired and hurt him).  Not sure if it's good just thought it was cool.
Your opponent was a fool for not picking up a Trader, I think. While generally filling your deck with Silver isn't the greatest of things, having a Silver rather than a Curse (from Embargo) or a Ruins (from your Cultists) is going to be a decent compromise. And I suspect you'd get enough Silvers from that to play a Cultist rush, emptying Duchies, Ruins and a third pile of your choice fairly quickly.
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Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions
« Reply #249 on: August 04, 2015, 02:21:39 am »
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I'm not sure if it's been said before, but I just played a game with Trader/Embargo that had interesting synergy.  My opponent Embargo'd Cultists, and I eventually discovered that buying a Cultist with Trader in hand was essentially Cultist + free Silver.  He didn't even bother buying any Traders either (basically his Embargo backfired and hurt him).  Not sure if it's good just thought it was cool.
Your opponent was a fool for not picking up a Trader, I think. While generally filling your deck with Silver isn't the greatest of things, having a Silver rather than a Curse (from Embargo) or a Ruins (from your Cultists) is going to be a decent compromise. And I suspect you'd get enough Silvers from that to play a Cultist rush, emptying Duchies, Ruins and a third pile of your choice fairly quickly.
Yeah he opened Ironmonger instead.  Still was a cool interaction.  He didn't even buy a Cultist either (just Mountebanks, Ironmongers, and a Possession a little too late).
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