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[schadd]

ohp. uh, steve, can you move me to the left a bit? i'd hate to land on that thing

dominion has always rewarded you for being able to do specific things, perhaps following in the footsteps of magic and also every game. even in the case of something like, for example, peddler, the thing that it rewards you for (playing actions) is only so specific and explicit, and buying peddlers helps you with the goal of playing a bunch of action cards. windfall seems like a little bit less of dominion's bonus-if-you-do-this-thing-you-were-already-gonna-do and more of magic's jump-through-these-hoops-and-then-get-huge sort of thing, although that's arguable; you do generally want to try to draw your deck. but i dunno—this is more explicit of a goal set by a card-shaped thing than we've seen, generally. it rewards engines and of course donate, pretty clearly. 3 is quite a few golds, and clearly you were able to draw all of your entire deck already so drawing it +3 should be manageable.


-is this a departure from most dominion rewards? or am i deluding myself
-does the game take a turn after you start getting windfalls? do you go from trying to draw your deck to slamming provinces and hoping for the best after the first or second one? or is it the same hold-out-until-the-green we usually see?
-did it have to be golds? what problems occur with "...gain three cards costing up to 5"?


note the vote! roll with the poll! s out

[Seprix]

ohp. uh, steve, can you move me to the left a bit? i'd hate to land on that thing

You mean to the right. Your left is her right.

Windfall is a great way to instaboost payload.

[Chris is me]

It's kind of cool how you basically add a Province worth of treasure payload at once with this card, which makes some engines with limited but present +Buy / payload work. But it sure is a little weird, the kind of decks that do this don't generally need a bunch of Gold.

[schadd]

ohp. uh, steve, can you move me to the left a bit? i'd hate to land on that thing

You mean to the right. Your left is her right.

Windfall is a great way to instaboost payload.

she was facing a different way when she said it. you usually spin a bit on ropes

[ConMan]

Hard mode: Have $15 and 3 Buys. Buy Windfall, gain Golds. Buy Cultist and trash with Watchtower, draw the Golds. Buy Windfall again.

[werothegreat]

windfall seems like a little bit less of dominion's bonus-if-you-do-this-thing-you-were-already-gonna-do and more of magic's jump-through-these-hoops-and-then-get-huge sort of thing, although that's arguable; you do generally want to try to draw your deck. but i dunno—this is more explicit of a goal set by a card-shaped thing than we've seen, generally.

This is pretty close to Treasure Map in this respect, honestly

[trivialknot]

Windfall seems like it would be useful in the same way that Treasure Map is useful when you're drawing your deck.

I just played a game where I bought two Treasure Maps (no +Buy, so I wasted two whole turns!), then when I played them I immediately bought a victory card, taking 4 VP from Aqueduct.  That particular tactic would not have worked with Windfall, but I would have gladly bought Windfall were it available.