In Province games,
Salvagers and
Peddlers make quite a nifty combo.
(c) Copyright for these images belongs to Rio Grande Games obviously, but I linked to the scans on diehrstraits.com.
Mid game, you can use the +Buy from the Salvagers to buy an extra Peddler (with lowered cost).
In the end game, you can trash these Peddlers for free Provinces (you get +8$ for a trashed Peddler).
Salvager is well known for it's possibility to trash Provinces for other Provinces while you're ahead, rushing the pile down. It synergizes perfectly with Peddler for this same purpose.
This combo works best with:
- Cantrips (villages) to lower the cost of the Peddlers and to enable you to play multiple Salvagers if needed (be careful with Mining Village, because trashing it causes it to no longer be "in play")
- Province games (I wonder if a Province rush would work in Colony games)
- Smaller decks: If you're cursed and coppered to death by Mountebanks, it's obviously harder to draw your Salvagers and Peddlers together and to chain enough actions to lower the Peddler costs
- Possibly another +Buy card to get more Peddlers, like Wharf
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Worker's Village gets its own entry in this list, since it's a cantrip and gives a +Buy!!!
Most players will have figured this combination out for themselves, but I didn't see an actual topic about it (nor a blog entry on Dominionstrategy.com), so I made one for the beginners.
Message to Geronimoo: I fear that your simulator doesn't actually handle Salvagers well for this combo. I've seen it trash an Estate rather than a Peddler in the end game.
