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[Eevee]

..literally.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201211/22/game-20121122-223104-13ce550c.html

i don't think i've ever only bought silvers, golds, provinces and duchies before. should i have deviated from this at any point?

[dondon151]

You probably would have liked a Library or two over Gold.

[Eevee]

You probably would have liked a Library or two over Gold.

My plan was to play library or tribute (and when he started trashing, definitely library), but I never drew 5 (until it was time for duchies). Bm-enabler as weak as library over gold if it's the end of a shuffle and you don't have one yet?

[dondon151]

On average, your Library will be drawing about as much $ as a Gold (if not more), and it goes through 3 cards of your deck.

[DStu]

On average, your Library will be drawing about as much $ as a Gold (if not more), and it goes through 3 cards of your deck.

I think the problem here is that you don't know that you won't get any $5s. Maybe one could have tracked the deck better, but how many Libs do you want? Probably 2. So maybe one over Gold is acceptable anyway.

But it's a bit like I saw the deck and for a second thought "A Woodcutter in T2 would not have been a mistake over BigMoney". Yes, it wouldn't, but at this point you didn't know that it will turn out to be BM-nothing, but probably thought it will be BM-Lib. Where you don't want the WC probably. And as you get all these $6s, you don't know that the next hands will be $4s, so you take the Gold in the hope that you will get the Lib next turn...

[dondon151]

I don't think that when MrEevee was buying his 4th and 5th Golds, he was banking on drawing $5 the next turn for a Library.

Your analogy doesn't hold, either. If your objective is to hit $5 for Library and/or Tribute, then Woodcutters are dead when you draw them in the same hand as those other, presumably better, Actions.

[Rabid]

Turn 12 should be library I think.
Its just before a shuffle.
No idea if its right, but I might have taken a few mid game wishing wells.

[Wingnut]

Have to say that looks... bleak

I think I like a turn 7 Library instead of Gold here. Two Libraries isn't the end of the world so if you hit five before the next reshuffle another can still be picked up.

[Morgrim7]

oh wow. Yeah, you do want at least a library. The thing is...you really didn't have much of a chance to pick up one besides turn 7.

[HiveMindEmulator]

You don't have to have exactly $5 to buy Library. By turn 5, when you buy your second Gold, your average coin value of the cards in your deck is already over $1, so Library is actually better than Gold in expected money produced. Plus it cycles more cards to let you play your Golds more often. Maybe you still want Gold on turn 5 since you figure you'll hit $5 again before the shuffle, but you surely want to take the Library on turn 7.