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Your opponent has opened with a saboteur and there are no other useful 3, 4 or 5 cost cards in the kingdom.
@DG: Are you sure in your case Outpost/Pearl Diver is better than Outpost/Nothing? Also, I meant for a kingdom where that opening is going to be a viable strategy on its own instead of being a counter to some other specific strategy.@verikt: I think the example you mentioned does not really work. I think there opening conspirator or caravan is better than outpost. Notice that opening outpost will hinder your ability to get to $4 cards early on quite significantly. Also obviously for your idea to work there cannot be any $2 cards better than Pearl Diver to get initially. So you really need a decent set of $3 cards that makes opening outpost worthwhile (ok... one example along this line of thought is outpost-workshop-silkroads, but the kingdom I was thinking about is a bit more interesting.)
@DG: Are you sure in your case Outpost/Pearl Diver is better than Outpost/Nothing?
Quote@DG: Are you sure in your case Outpost/Pearl Diver is better than Outpost/Nothing?Absolutely, but the real comparison is against Outpost/copper.
Quote from: timchen on November 04, 2012, 03:30:14 pm@DG: Are you sure in your case Outpost/Pearl Diver is better than Outpost/Nothing? Also, I meant for a kingdom where that opening is going to be a viable strategy on its own instead of being a counter to some other specific strategy.@verikt: I think the example you mentioned does not really work. I think there opening conspirator or caravan is better than outpost. Notice that opening outpost will hinder your ability to get to $4 cards early on quite significantly. Also obviously for your idea to work there cannot be any $2 cards better than Pearl Diver to get initially. So you really need a decent set of $3 cards that makes opening outpost worthwhile (ok... one example along this line of thought is outpost-workshop-silkroads, but the kingdom I was thinking about is a bit more interesting.) throw in lookout peddler if you feel like it. I don't think it's significant. With a minor draw like caravan or a minor trashing like lookout you have 2 chances of drawing 4 for every one of your opponents.
Quote from: timchen on November 04, 2012, 03:30:14 pm@DG: Are you sure in your case Outpost/Pearl Diver is better than Outpost/Nothing?PD is strictly better than a vanilla cantrip, and Outpost can't draw it dead, so I would say yes.
One potential concern is that one extra card makes the outpost less likely to be in your hand and will more often be hit by saboteur.