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[Warfreak2]

I had a game a few days ago where I bought a Silver, only to have my opponent steal it on their first turn by buying a Noble Brigand. I thought that was ridiculous, but thinking about it I realised it was actually a 1/3 chance - there were six cards in my discard pile and two of them get revealed - which is really not ridiculously good luck.

I presume this is a thing...

[Titandrake]

Noble Brigand-BM is very good. It loses out to other very fast BM strategies (think Jack or Wharf) but absolutely smashes through other ones. As with a lot of counters, Noble Brigand added into the strategy it counters beats both.

I don't remember how many Brigands you want, but I know you want to open with it and you want at least 3 or 4.

[DG]

Three player noble brigand games with witch and no useful 3 coin cards .... lets just not talk about them.

[flies]

Noble Brigand-BM is very good. It loses out to other very fast BM strategies (think Jack or Wharf) but absolutely smashes through other ones. As with a lot of counters, Noble Brigand added into the strategy it counters beats both.

NB is a good counter to big money, if you spam it - my track record using it is pretty poor tho.  Just wanted to point out that it's not so good when your opponent(s) can avoid gold and silver, obviously.

[Watno]

if your opponent opens with silver and the board will be BM, it can definitely be good. note that it likely also delays the first play of the opponent's other opening buy by a turn.

[dondon151]

With Baker being released, now I can open NB to steal the opponent's Gold!

[Awaclus]

With Baker being released, now I can open double NB to steal the opponent's Gold!

Fixed!

EDIT: Sorry, I'm apparently slightly necroing threads. Well, that's what you get for being away for a week and then reading all the unread posts without checking the dates.

[rbruba]

I'm not sure how this even happened... NB looks at the top two cards of your deck, not your discard pile. So how on his first turn was the silver already back on top of your deck?

[WanderingWinder]

I'm not sure how this even happened... NB looks at the top two cards of your deck, not your discard pile. So how on his first turn was the silver already back on top of your deck?

At the end of his turn, he drew the remaining 5 cards. Then there are no cards in his deck, and 6 in the discard pile. NB then calls for the top two cards of the deck, and since the deck is empty, the discard gets reshuffled and put back on the deck.

[rbruba]

I'm not sure how this even happened... NB looks at the top two cards of your deck, not your discard pile. So how on his first turn was the silver already back on top of your deck?

At the end of his turn, he drew the remaining 5 cards. Then there are no cards in his deck, and 6 in the discard pile. NB then calls for the top two cards of the deck, and since the deck is empty, the discard gets reshuffled and put back on the deck.

Thanks, was not thinking about it that hard apparently!