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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2013, 06:35:00 pm »
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Making an Unstoppable Alchemist Stack.

What he said  ;D
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #26 on: March 20, 2013, 06:52:45 pm »
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Making an Unstoppable Alchemist Stack.
Playing against someone who makes Unstoppable Alchemist Stacks. :D

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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #27 on: March 20, 2013, 09:00:43 pm »
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Making an Unstoppable Alchemist Stack.
Playing against someone who makes Unstoppable Alchemist Stacks. :D
Nah, turns take eight years.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #28 on: March 20, 2013, 09:13:31 pm »
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Activating 4 Treasure Maps in the same turn, with half the Curses from Sea Hag in my deck and absolutely no trashing.

I call shenanigans! Unless of course you can produce a log, that I would love to see :)

On topic, playing activated menageries. I love that moment when you have 9 unique cards in hand.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #29 on: March 20, 2013, 09:48:11 pm »
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Activating 4 Treasure Maps in the same turn, with half the Curses from Sea Hag in my deck and absolutely no trashing.

I call shenanigans! Unless of course you can produce a log, that I would love to see :)

On topic, playing activated menageries. I love that moment when you have 9 unique cards in hand.

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5921.msg153418#msg153418

Alright, so there was some trashing, but Salvager sucks at trashing curses and I never used it.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2013, 10:10:20 pm »
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Activating 4 Treasure Maps in the same turn, with half the Curses from Sea Hag in my deck and absolutely no trashing.

I call shenanigans! Unless of course you can produce a log, that I would love to see :)

On topic, playing activated menageries. I love that moment when you have 9 unique cards in hand.

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5921.msg153418#msg153418

Alright, so there was some trashing, but Salvager sucks at trashing curses and I never used it.
But that's only two activated Treasure Maps. The other two were just trashed.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #31 on: March 21, 2013, 01:44:44 pm »
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Opening Loan/Potion on a board where the only Potion card is Transmute, and winning.

King's Courting a Coppersmith.

Using Native Village to set up a Horn of Plenty megaturn.

Actually putting Scout to marginally good use in Scrying Pool games (especially those with Vineyard, too).

Menageries, always Menageries.

Vetoing Duke.  :P

And so, so much more.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #32 on: March 21, 2013, 02:26:31 pm »
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Learning that your Vault combos with your Tunnels... just not as well as it does with your opponent's Tunnels.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #33 on: March 21, 2013, 02:34:50 pm »
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Learning that your Vault combos with your Tunnels... just not as well as it does with your opponent's Tunnels.

Surely Vault would combo with your own Tunnels better than your opponent's Tunnels? Both because you have 6 cards to find a Tunnel instead of 5, and because Vault likes Gold?
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #34 on: March 21, 2013, 02:44:07 pm »
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I love how "bad cards" can be very good counters against "good cards", like thief vs chapel
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #35 on: March 21, 2013, 03:51:03 pm »
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Learning that your Vault combos with your Tunnels... just not as well as it does with your opponent's Tunnels.

Surely Vault would combo with your own Tunnels better than your opponent's Tunnels? Both because you have 6 cards to find a Tunnel instead of 5, and because Vault likes Gold?

Perhaps if Vault is the only Tunnel enabler on the board you do it anyway... but no, in my experience, it does end up helping your opponent an awful lot if he's also going Tunnels.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #36 on: March 21, 2013, 04:07:15 pm »
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I love how "bad cards" can be very good counters against "good cards", like thief vs chapel

Eh, I think this is actually a pretty mediocre example of that phenomenon.  Chapel is at its best when you're building a heavy engine that (often) gets its money from Actions and doesn't need all that many Treasure cards anyway (Vault and Fool's Gold are obvious exceptions, even I acknowledge that Thief can be a good FG counter). 

Counting House vs. Mountebank is my personal favorite example.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #37 on: March 21, 2013, 04:14:11 pm »
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Making an Unstoppable Alchemist Stack.
Playing against someone who makes Unstoppable Alchemist Stacks. :D
Nah, turns take eight years.
Alchemists resolve a lot faster than, say, Scrying Pools or Apothecaries.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #38 on: March 22, 2013, 03:21:32 pm »
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KC-Council Room, twice in the same hand, getting to spend 20+ coins, and having your opponent miss all of his actions with his hand and extra draws.

That was an awesome game.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2013, 03:58:17 pm »
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Alchemists resolve a lot faster than, say, Scrying Pools or Apothecaries.

But scrying pool and apothecary are interesting and fun :P
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2013, 04:00:49 pm »
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Anything with Scrying Pool or Vineyards. 

Counting House, Warehouse, Worker's Village, Colony.

Building an Engine when it doesn't look like it should work, and being behind the whole game till the last turn.

Opening Loan/Potion on a board where the only Potion card is Transmute, and winning.

Do you have the log for this Transmute/Loan board?  That sounds pretty fun.

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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2013, 04:08:21 pm »
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Alchemists resolve a lot faster than, say, Scrying Pools or Apothecaries.

But scrying pool and apothecary are interesting and fun :P

I was responding to Morgrim's assertions that Alchemist stack turns take 8 years. Nothing to do with Alchemists being more or less fun than cards that take longer to resolve.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2013, 06:21:05 pm »
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Activating 4 Treasure Maps in the same turn, with half the Curses from Sea Hag in my deck and absolutely no trashing.
You just won the lottery.

I love ending the game with a rush when my opponent forgot that Curses and Ruins count as piles.

I also love the how many setups have totally different strategies, but the win percentage is almost the same for each player. Everyone plays to their strength and still can win games.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #43 on: March 23, 2013, 04:11:16 am »
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Anything with Scrying Pool or Vineyards. 

Counting House, Warehouse, Worker's Village, Colony.

Building an Engine when it doesn't look like it should work, and being behind the whole game till the last turn.

Opening Loan/Potion on a board where the only Potion card is Transmute, and winning.

Do you have the log for this Transmute/Loan board?  That sounds pretty fun.



http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120502-193341-e59ced52.html

I know I've pulled it off at least one other time, but can't find the link at the moment.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #44 on: March 25, 2013, 08:35:25 am »
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A high-octane deck engine that came out of nowhere.  Not my own but my opponent's.  Makes me want to get better. 
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #45 on: July 22, 2013, 05:34:20 pm »
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In a 2-player Colony game, I once pulled off:

Madman
Madman
Madman
King's Court
King's Court
Bridge
Bridge
Bridge
King's Court
Bridge
King's Court
Goons.

So, to recap (or make sense of this mess): Madman x3 gives me 26 cards in hand and 4 actions
Action 1: KC-KC-Bridge-Bridge-Bridge
Action 2: KC-Bridge
Action 3: KC-Goons

By the time the dust settled, I had 16 buys, every card on the board was free, and my buys gave me an additional 16 VP in tokens
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #46 on: July 22, 2013, 07:42:30 pm »
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Making an Unstoppable Alchemist Stack.
Playing against someone who makes Unstoppable Alchemist Stacks. :D

Possessing someone who makes Unstoppable Alchemist Stacks.

Actually, i don't care. What i really love are games where everybody goes for a different strategy and it's still an exciting race.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #47 on: July 22, 2013, 09:43:56 pm »
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Outplaying my opponent in the endgame and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #48 on: July 23, 2013, 12:37:39 am »
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Megaturns. So very satisfying pulling one off.
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Re: What I love about Dominion is...
« Reply #49 on: July 23, 2013, 01:46:05 am »
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Megaturns. So very satisfying pulling one off.

I remember a game that had engine components + KC + Bridge.  I played a Worker's Village (after drawing a bunch of other stuff), and realized I needed to draw a single Bridge...  I did, KC-KC-B-B-B, and bought all the Provinces (and my opponent hadn't heard of the combo and was pretty surprised).

And my first time pulling off Hermit+Market Square was pretty good too.
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