Hamlet+Buy or not +Buy: that is the question,
whether 'tis safer for the turn to keep
that extra Copper's worth of buying power,
or to discard a card one might have played
to feed one's running engine. +Card, +Action—
no more, and with +Action thus we play
a cantrip, like a Page or like a Pawn
that passes through our hand nonterminally
as though it never were. Discard, +Action—
+Action, like a Village! There's the role
that gives this card its value in an engine!
For who would bear the pain of twice discarding—
the Torturer's rack, Militia's fierce assault—
but for the hope that added buys and actions
will let us overcome our weakened hand
and draw our deck, and clear the final pile?
Analysis doth paralyze us all,
and that which promises a Worker's Village
is crippled when we cannot bear to discard;
and engine decks with insufficient draw
in this regard their handsize cannot risk,
and lose their source of actions.
