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From nothing to infinity
« on: December 18, 2016, 04:01:10 pm »
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This is not terribly difficult, but I thought it might be fun.


At the start of your buy phase, you have not played any cards this turn, you don't have any cards in your hand, you don't have any $ and you only have 1 action and 1 buy.

1. Generate an arbitrarily large number of +$ this turn.
2. Generate an arbitrarily large number of +buys this turn.
3. Generate an arbitrarily large number of +actions this turn.
4. Generate an arbitrarily large number of +cards this turn.

Rules: There are two players and you get to control the actions of both players. You get to decide the kingdom using the suggested rules (i.e. 0-2 Events/Landmarks), but the described scenario must be possible in your kingdom somehow. You get to decide the contents of the Black Market deck using the Isotropic/MF rules if you choose to use it in your solution. You get to decide the exact game state, including the order of every player's draw pile and the Black Market deck, at the start of the puzzle, but you don't get to decide any shuffle luck you might have during the puzzle. All correct answers are correct, but you get bonus points for figuring out the solution I had in mind.
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Re: From nothing to infinity
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2016, 04:56:53 pm »
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Almsing a Villa with +1 Card on it that draws a Herald that hits a Herald that hits a Herald that hits a Herald... sounds like it could be part of one solution.
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Re: From nothing to infinity
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2016, 05:04:05 pm »
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Start with the +1 Card token on Villa and 9 Royal Carriages and 8 Duplicates on your Tavern mat.

Alms for Villa. Call 8 Duplicates.

Play 9 Villas. Call Royal Carriage 9 times. You now have 18 Buys, $18, and a lot of Actions. But, most importantly, you've drawn 18 cards.

Go to this thread: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15366.0
and pick one to use that has no shuffle luck needed, starts with 18 cards or fewer in hand, one or fewer Events, and uses at most 7 different Kingdom cards.

I like Majiponi's:
Fewer cards I have found to loop infinitely.
6 cards, no Event
Kingdom: Overlord, Lurker, Raze, Watchtower, Crown, Mandarin
Setup: trash Mandarin
Deck: 5 Overlord, 2 Watchtower

You have 2 Overlord and Watchtower in your hand.

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Watchtower
---- play Watchtower
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord)
---- play Overload as Watchtower

Now you have 5 Overlord and Watchtower in your hand.

LOOP FROM HERE

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord)
---- play Overload as an Action costing up to $5
-- play Overload as Watchtower

LOOP END

Use Band of Misfits and Ferry instead of Overlord to make this more practical.
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Re: From nothing to infinity
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2016, 05:05:13 pm »
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Almsing a Villa with +1 Card on it that draws a Herald that hits a Herald that hits a Herald that hits a Herald... sounds like it could be part of one solution.
It can also just draw a Scrying Pool and then you can do any of your infinity solutions.
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Re: From nothing to infinity
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2016, 05:43:54 pm »
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Start with the +1 Card token on Villa and 9 Royal Carriages and 8 Duplicates on your Tavern mat.

Alms for Villa. Call 8 Duplicates.

Play 9 Villas. Call Royal Carriage 9 times. You now have 18 Buys, $18, and a lot of Actions. But, most importantly, you've drawn 18 cards.

Go to this thread: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15366.0
and pick one to use that has no shuffle luck needed, starts with 18 cards or fewer in hand, one or fewer Events, and uses at most 7 different Kingdom cards.

I like Majiponi's:
Fewer cards I have found to loop infinitely.
6 cards, no Event
Kingdom: Overlord, Lurker, Raze, Watchtower, Crown, Mandarin
Setup: trash Mandarin
Deck: 5 Overlord, 2 Watchtower

You have 2 Overlord and Watchtower in your hand.

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Watchtower
---- play Watchtower
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord)
---- play Overload as Watchtower

Now you have 5 Overlord and Watchtower in your hand.

LOOP FROM HERE

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord)
---- play Overload as an Action costing up to $5
-- play Overload as Watchtower

LOOP END

Use Band of Misfits and Ferry instead of Overlord to make this more practical.

Actually you need the solution to have 0 Events and at most 6 different Kingdom cards, since there needs to be a way to get the +1 card token on Villa (which is presumably Pathfinding) and there needs to be a way to start your buy phase with no cards in hand on a turn where you didn't play anything (which is presumably Torturer), so majiponi's solution is the only one in that thread that works, but for the most part, your solution is correct. It is, however, not the solution I had in mind (the main difference is that I don't use the +1 card token).
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Re: From nothing to infinity
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2016, 08:46:29 pm »
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Probably unnecessary to have both Royal Carriage and Duplicate here, you could cut one and use Teacher for the +Card.

For doing it without +Card, you could overbuy Doctor on the second buy, trashing a Cultist(from Black Market) and drawing a Scrying Pool(also from Black Market) and then Scrying Pool for X Actions. And Mandarin in Majiponi's solution could also be from Black Market.
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Re: From nothing to infinity
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2016, 09:25:00 pm »
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Here's my take, totally convoluted, but I think it technically works:

Events: Alms, Bonfire
Kingdom: Villa, Torturer, King's Court, Lurker, Peasant, Watchtower, Lighthouse, Ambassador, Tribute (10th card can be anything)

Opponent has +1 Action token on Torturer (from Teacher) and plays 3 Torturers and a Lighthouse. You discard your entire hand, which was 5 Lurkers.

After drawing 5 cards, your opponent has exactly 2 cards in his deck: A Copper and an Estate.
(Their hand is 3 Torturers, Lighthouse, Ambassador. Teacher is on their Tavern mat.)

You have your +1 Card token on Villa, your +1 Coin token on Lurker, and +1 Buy token on King's Court. Teacher is on the Tavern mat.

The trash contains these cards: King's Court x5, Tribute x2, Watchtower, Ambassador, Villa, Lurker x5
Your deck contains these cards in this order (starting with the top): Watchtower, Villa, King's Court x5, Tribute x2, Watchtower, Ambassador, Villa, Lurker x5 (the Lurkers start in your discard pile).

There are 2 empty supply piles (King's Court and Lurker) so the game hasn't ended. There are 7 Villas in the Supply.

Start of 1st Buy phase:
Alms for Villa.

Return to Action phase:
Play Villa (Draw Watchtower)
You now have 3 Actions, 1 Coin, 1 Buy.

loop:
Watchtower (Draw Villa, King's Court x5; -1 action)

King's Court (-1 action, +1 buy)
-King's Court (+3 buys)
--King's Court (+3 buys)
---King's Court (+3 buys)
----King's Court (+3 buys)
-----Villa (draw Tribute x2, Watchtower; +6 actions, +3 coins, +3 buys)
-----Tribute (draw Ambassador, Villa, Lurker x4; +6 coins) [because opponent reveals Estate and Copper every time]
-----Tribute (draw Lurker; +6 coins)
----Lurker (gain Lurker x3; reveal Watchtower to topdeck; +4 actions, +3 coins)
----Lurker (gain Lurker x2, Villa; topdeck; +3 actions, +3 coins)
---Lurker (gain Ambassador, Watchtower, Tribute; topdeck; +3 actions, +3 coins)
---Lurker (gain Tribute, King's Court x2; topdeck; +3 actions, +3 coins)
--Lurker (gain King's Court x3; topdeck; +3 actions, +3 coins)
--Ambassador (return Villa to Supply, opponent doesn't gain it because of Lighthouse)

hand at this point: Watchtower

buy Bonfire (-3 coins; -1 buy), trash King's Court, trash King's Court
buy Bonfire (-3 coins; -1 buy), trash King's Court, trash King's Court
buy Bonfire (-3 coins; -1 buy), trash King's Court, trash Villa
buy Bonfire (-3 coins; -1 buy), trash Tribute, trash Tribute
buy Bonfire (-3 coins; -1 buy), trash Lurker, trash Lurker
buy Bonfire (-3 coins; -1 buy), trash Lurker, trash Lurker
buy Bonfire (-3 coins; -1 buy), trash Lurker, trash Watchtower
buy Bonfire (-3 coins; -1 buy), trash Ambassador
buy Villa (+1 action; -4 coins; -1 buy), topdeck it with Watchtower for no real reason but to keep the loop the same every time

ending hand: Watchtower
ending deck: Villa, King's Court x5, Tribute x2, Watchtower, Ambassador, Villa, Lurker x5  [i.e. same as deck at the start of the loop]
ending trash: King's Court x5, Tribute x2, Watchtower, Ambassador, Villa, Lurker x5  [i.e. same as trash at the start of the loop]

Each time you get +23 actions, +16 buys, +30 coins
But you have to spend 2 actions, 9 buys and 28 coins.

end net result of the loop: +21 actions, +7 buys, +2 coins

repeat loop
« Last Edit: December 19, 2016, 12:23:14 am by Shvegait »
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Re: From nothing to infinity
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2016, 03:18:48 am »
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For doing it without +Card, you could overbuy Doctor on the second buy, trashing a Cultist(from Black Market) and drawing a Scrying Pool(also from Black Market) and then Scrying Pool for X Actions. And Mandarin in Majiponi's solution could also be from Black Market.

That was my solution.
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Re: From nothing to infinity
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2017, 02:53:00 am »
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No +1 Card token answer

Your opponent played 3 Torture, Enchantress.

Use 4 Coin tokens to buy Villa.
Play Villa to draw Watchtower
« Last Edit: January 06, 2017, 08:47:42 am by majiponi »
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