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[jonts26]

You can overpay Potions, but not $0:
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/991269/can-you-overpay-by-s0-or-potion

Common sense wins.

[LastFootnote]

MG will be a bad card most of the time and go unbought.

I think this might belong in the bold predictions thread. 

Although it's certainly possible that Merchant Guild will be underpowered in the absence of other Guilds cards. Every set should have a card like that, right? Scout, Outpost, Transmute, Contraband, Harvest, Cache, Rats. It's a tradition!

[Watno]

Rats work good with many non guilds cards, like upgrade, develop and remake.

[ftl]

Merchant Guild could work pretty well as your first $5 if you're aiming to build an engine out of cheap components. Like, if you're building a Village/Smithy engine (with Vanilla Village and Smithy, costing $3 and $4 respectively) this might be a reasonable thing to pick up in the early game for $5, if you're expecting to have a bunch of midgame turns when you're, say, spending $6 to buy 2xVillage or $8 to buy 2xSmithy.

Yes, on second thought, that seems like a very valid use case. Could speed up engine building by a good bit.

[LastFootnote]

Rats work good with many non guilds cards, like upgrade, develop and remake.

Do you think Procession is a better example?

Also i assume you can spend coin tokens on the same buy phase you get them and may(?) use a token to overpay for the card you got it for.

No, you can't. You can only cash in Coin tokens when you could play Treasure cards, a.k.a. before you buy any cards.

[jbrecken]

It will be nigh impossible to play Taxman without singing.

[Warfreak2]

♫ The millions I make, they're stressing me out, 'cause it's so damn hard to keep them away from the Taxman... ♪

[ConMan]

♫ It's one for you, nineteen for me ... ♪

[Schneau]

Taxman, like Bureaucrat, will usually be played to put Silvers on top of your deck.

[ConMan]

I agree with usually, but I suspect that it will be most useful on many boards for top-decking Gold.

[sudgy]

Merchant Guild will get confused with Market Square, like Mint and Mine (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=8449.msg256098#msg256098)

[Julle]

Merchant Guild will get confused with Market Square, like Mint and Mine (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=8449.msg256098#msg256098)

And merchant ship!

[brokoli]

MG will be a bad card most of the time and go unbought.

I think this might belong in the bold predictions thread. 

Although it's certainly possible that Merchant Guild will be underpowered in the absence of other Guilds cards. Every set should have a card like that, right? Scout, Outpost, Transmute, Contraband, Harvest, Cache, Rats. It's a tradition!

You are lucky we are not in the dominion card list thread, because comparing scoute and transmute to outpost and harvest is absolutely criminal.

[brokoli]

And I'm pretty sure the closer card to Merchant guild is... outpost exactly. Outpost is sometimes really awesome, I think Merchant guild will be more or less the same kind of card (with coppersmith too).

[shMerker]

MG will be a bad card most of the time and go unbought.

I think this might belong in the bold predictions thread. 

Although it's certainly possible that Merchant Guild will be underpowered in the absence of other Guilds cards. Every set should have a card like that, right? Scout, Outpost, Transmute, Contraband, Harvest, Cache, Rats. It's a tradition!

I don't see how that could really be the case. Merchant Guild might have some synergies with Guilds cards, but all it really wants you to do is play a lot of them, and every set has cards that help with that.

[StrongRhino]

Merchant Guild will get confused with Market Square, like Mint and Mine (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=8449.msg256098#msg256098)

And merchant ship!

Maybe if Merchant Ship wasn't orange...

[LastFootnote]

Merchant Guild will get confused with Market Square, like Mint and Mine (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=8449.msg256098#msg256098)

And merchant ship!

Maybe if Merchant Ship wasn't orange...

...and Market Square wasn't blue.

[Lhurgoyf]

Merchant Guild will get confused with Market Square, like Mint and Mine (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=8449.msg256098#msg256098)

And merchant ship!

Maybe if Merchant Ship wasn't orange...

...and Market Square wasn't blue.

And wouldn't cost $3 unlike the other two which cost $5


Candlestick Maker can make those 20 Copper hands from Counting House so much more useful (non-terminal +buy).

[NoMoreFun]

The predictable uses of Stonemason's play effect:
Copper, Curse, Ruins->Nothing
Gold->Duchy/Duchy, Silver->Estate/Estate, (Platinum->Province/Province)
Estate, Shelter->Copper/Copper if there's something like Spice Merchant on the board, or if simulators here prove it's a good idea.

[Stealth Tomato]

Estate, Shelter->Copper/Copper if there's something like Spice Merchant on the board, or if simulators here prove it's a good idea.

It's not. There's a reason you almost always Ambassador 2 Copper over 1 Estate, even when you're giving up a Silver buy to do it.

[WanderingWinder]

Estate, Shelter->Copper/Copper if there's something like Spice Merchant on the board, or if simulators here prove it's a good idea.

It's not. There's a reason you almost always Ambassador 2 Copper over 1 Estate, even when you're giving up a Silver buy to do it.

A lot of that is because you are in an ambassador war, and flinging more now means tighter control to not get flooded later. Of course, this turning estate into two coppers as proposed above is terribly for (almost all) engines (more stop cards, little benefit), probably mildly good for a decent number of slogs, and bad but not the worst thing ever for big money.

[Awaclus]

Stonemasoning an Estate is a decent boost in the early game economy, but will hurt in the late game. It might be worth it if there's a $5 that you want to spam and that doesn't have a particularly strong anti-synergy with Coppers (perhaps Hunting Party? You're probably getting Stonemason anyway for double HPs) and it's totally worth it in an Apothecary deck.

[ycz6]

Rats work good with many non guilds cards, like upgrade, develop and remake.

That's not a prediction.

[PitzerMike]

Masterpiece will combo well with Feodum.