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Re: Card Strategy: Wharf
« Reply #25 on: September 13, 2011, 12:59:11 pm »
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I think Wharf helps money strategies compared to engine strategies more than smithy helps money strategies compared to its engine strategies.

That's quite easy to disagree with. The extra buy help engine strategies where you need many cheap cards for engine building. The extra cards drawn at the start of a new turn helps bring together engine card combinations. This is particularly true of king's courts and thrones such as when a king's court x wharf will draw you an 11 card hand next turn. From those 11 cards you can often construct the kings's court x king's court combination that will win the game (if king's court x wharf hasn't done that already).


Enlarged hand size improves engine based strategies, trashing strategies, and decision strategies far more than it improves treasure strategies. The difficulty is enlarging the hand size without using all your actions and the wharf can (partially) do that through the duration effect. The smithy will always consume actions when it improves the hand size which makes it ideal for a money strategy. There's a separate argument to say that the baseline wharf + treasure deck is so good that it's rarely improved, however even that's not true.

If you're not convinced, can you do this this smithies? http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110217-185017-8fb9815b.html
I don't think your argument is counter to WW's statement. It is quite clear that wharf helps engine strategies more than smithy helps engine strategies. And it helps money strategies more than smithy helps money strategies. It also may help engine strategies more than it helps money strategies, but that is also unrelated to the claim. The question is: in which of these areas is the improvement granted by wharf as compared to smithy greater: money strategies, or engine strategies. I'm not sure that's a useful question to answer, but the statement appears to claim that the answer is money strategies...
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