hello everyone, i've been thinking about making comparison threads to help us better gauge the strength of different cards/strategies. this one occurred to me after a recent game where i tried the latter and got destroyed by the former. this was with one of the $5 Smithy variants, Journeyman or Catacombs i think.
basically, i've heard Wandering Winder (IIRC) argue that any decent terminal draw-BM strat should beat a Minion stack if there's no other support for the Minions. "support" in this case means other virtual coin or any trashing. the argument is that your deck will choke on green in a hurry and you won't be able to play enough of those Minions for money, but now i'm not so sure.
i think in the BM seat, you may have to green even earlier than normal so the Minion player won't have time to get all 10 of them. in the game i mentioned, my opponent got all 10 and hardly had a problem reaching $8. that still sounds so sketchy though, and it really makes me question that advice.
any thoughts?