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Is it ever worthwhile to buy trashers on a Donate board?

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JacquesTheBard:
Dominion is full of glorious edge-cases. Obviously I can see picking up cards that give benefits other than trashing. Getting Steward for draw, for example. I can also see the addition of trash for benefit cards. Maybe a single trasher to activate Market Squares mid-turn. But cards where thinning is the whole point, like Chapel? They're borderline obsolete.

terminalCopper:
Against junk attacks, you want a trasher to avoid getting 8 debt on a regular basis.

aku_chi:
There are plenty of cases where you want a trasher in a Donate kingdom if there is junking or the trasher does something else for you.  I've played Donate games where Trader or Bishop played a big role after Donating.  I played one Donate game where I got a Forager just for the +buy (so I had to keep some junk around to gain multiple cards per turn post-Donate).

The Chapel case is certainly more edgecasey.  Maybe you're setting up some kind of Chapel + Tomb payload or golden deck, maybe with Fortresses.  I thought about Beggar first, but then I realized that if there are any villages, Donate would be better for the trashing: a deck of 3 Villages and 4 Beggars would generate 12 VP per turn until the Coppers run out.

faust:
There's definitely a case for Chapel > Donate on a Alms board.

ackmondual:

--- Quote from: JacquesTheBard on July 11, 2017, 03:49:12 pm ---Dominion is full of glorious edge-cases. Obviously I can see picking up cards that give benefits other than trashing. Getting Steward for draw, for example. I can also see the addition of trash for benefit cards. Maybe a single trasher to activate Market Squares mid-turn. But cards where thinning is the whole point, like Chapel? They're borderline obsolete.

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There actually are cases to get 2 Chapels, so why not?

Trashing cards to get VP from Tomb. 
Buying Estates to get VP from Battlefield, then trash those. 
TfB trashers.
Buying Copper to get VP from Basilica or Labyrinth

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