Fortress is fantastic with Trash for Benefit, but otherwise it's generally a simple village (with some defense against trash attacks).
I've found two other uses for it though.
The first is with Lookout.
If you set it up right you can use Lookout to pull Fortress into your hand. Lookout becomes:
- Look at your top three cards, put Fortress in your hand, discard a card, put one on top of your deck (then draw it with Fortress)
It's a fun little combo.
The second I found this morning:
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130828/log.516d0e09e4b082c74d7aacc1.1377703536847.txtIn a game with no +draw it's hard to build an engine. Here there was chapel though which drives in that direction. And then picking up a Forager makes sense to kill the chapel and get some +buys.
The coppers, silvers and spoils had all been trashed and Forager became a 'trash a card, +1 buy, +3$'
Pretty good - excepy by that point I had nothing left to trash.
Enter: Fortress
When I drew Fortress with Forager I could use it without losing one of my (valuable) cards.
Just a small thing I thought I'd share.
Ed