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[faust]

4/3 is very tough. I used 2nd Edition.

I just assumed that "before Adventures" is a chronological thing.

[faust]

It is necessary that I announce "My buy phase starts now." Why?

[LaLight]

It is necessary that I announce "My buy phase starts now." Why?

Crown and hand full of Treasures.

[faust]

It is necessary that I announce "My buy phase starts now." Why?

Crown and hand full of Treasures.

It's not really necessary then: It will be obvious that you started our buy phase. Otherwise it would also be necessar to say it before you play your first Copper.

[LaLight]

It is necessary that I announce "My buy phase starts now." Why?

Crown and hand full of Treasures.

It's not really necessary then: It will be obvious that you started our buy phase. Otherwise it would also be necessar to say it before you play your first Copper.

But I may want to play it as an action (Peddler)

[faust]

It is necessary that I announce "My buy phase starts now." Why?

Crown and hand full of Treasures.

It's not really necessary then: It will be obvious that you started our buy phase. Otherwise it would also be necessar to say it before you play your first Copper.

But I may want to play it as an action (Peddler)

You cannot "play it as an Action". It always is an action, regardless of whether you played it in your buy phase or your action phase,and it will always count for Peddler.

[Ghacob]

It is necessary that I announce "My buy phase starts now." Why?

Crown and hand full of Treasures.

It's not really necessary then: It will be obvious that you started our buy phase. Otherwise it would also be necessar to say it before you play your first Copper.

But I may want to play it as an action (Peddler)

You cannot "play it as an Action". It always is an action, regardless of whether you played it in your buy phase or your action phase,and it will always count for Peddler.

Crown, Champion, Diadem?

[Mic Qsenoch]

I'm not sure if this fits your intention (you could say a lot of things rather than the thing about the buy phase to communicate the intention here):

Play Storyteller as last action when you have the -1 coin token (and no other virtual coin), but don't want to play any Treasures for drawing. It's slightly ambiguous how the Treasures are being used in this instance without some verbal clue, though it becomes apparent after the treasures are played.

Could also just be Storyteller with an empty deck.

[Mic Qsenoch]

I'm not sure if this fits your intention (you could say a lot of things rather than the thing about the buy phase to communicate the intention here):

Play Storyteller as last action when you have the -1 coin token (and no other virtual coin), but don't want to play any Treasures for drawing. It's slightly ambiguous how the Treasures are being used in this instance without some verbal clue, though it becomes apparent after the treasures are played.

Could also just be Storyteller with an empty deck.

A similar ambiguity can be made with an empty Black Market deck and the desire to use HoPs to gain Peddlers (assuming that playing a BM when the market is empty still lets you play treasures).

[singletee]

It is necessary that I announce "My buy phase starts now." Why?

You are about to play Crown and you have your +Card token on Crown.

The phase you are in becomes evident after you play the first non-Crown in the chain. With the token, you gain new information after each play of Crown, so you must declare your phase in order to account to the other players that you decided what phase you were in before getting the new information.

Example: My hand is (Crown, Abandoned Mine). If I draw a Gold off the +Card token, I would prefer to Crown that, but I have to make the decision before playing Crown.

[ephesos]

It is necessary that I announce "My buy phase starts now." Why?

You are about to play Crown and you have your +Card token on Crown.

The phase you are in becomes evident after you play the first non-Crown in the chain. With the token, you gain new information after each play of Crown, so you must declare your phase in order to account to the other players that you decided what phase you were in before getting the new information.

Example: My hand is (Crown, Abandoned Mine). If I draw a Gold off the +Card token, I would prefer to Crown that, but I have to make the decision before playing Crown.

Similarly, Crown HoP for Rocks.

[singletee]

I play a Treasure during my Action phase. Black Market, Storyteller, and Crown are not in the game. How did I do it?

[ConMan]

I play a Treasure during my Action phase. Black Market, Storyteller, and Crown are not in the game. How did I do it?

Hmm. I've come up with two ways to have a Treasure in play in my Action phase, but so far no way to play one other than the three mentioned.

[AdrianHealey]

I play a Treasure during my Action phase. Black Market, Storyteller, and Crown are not in the game. How did I do it?

Coin of the realm gets called from the tavern mat, so that's not it.

[ConMan]

I play a Treasure during my Action phase. Black Market, Storyteller, and Crown are not in the game. How did I do it?

Coin of the realm gets called from the tavern mat, so that's not it.

That was one of my two. The other is buying Villa.

On a related vein, Inheriting Crown will make my Estates Treasures, but I can't do that if Crown isn't available in the first place.

[faust]

I play a Treasure during my Action phase. Black Market, Storyteller, and Crown are not in the game. How did I do it?

Counterfeit on HoP, gaining Villa. The second time HoP is played is during your Action phase.

[ConMan]

I play a Treasure during my Action phase. Black Market, Storyteller, and Crown are not in the game. How did I do it?

Counterfeit on HoP, gaining Villa. The second time HoP is played is during your Action phase.

Oooooooooh. Nice. So I was even partway there!

[Seprix]

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

[singletee]

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

You buy the 40th Silver, getting 40 points from Tower.

[ThetaSigma12]

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

Things like wall only count when scoring, so you could buy an estate and win with 1 point and your opponent has 45 cards in their deck.

[navical]

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

Things like wall only count when scoring, so you could buy an estate and win with 1 point and your opponent has 45 cards in their deck.

No Victory cards are worth anything until the end of the game (and the rulebooks say this explicitly for Kingdom Victory cards), so you're not only being pedantic and unhelpful, you're also wrong. "You are down 30-0 in VP" can only mean "if we scored now, you'd be down 30-0 in VP", in which case, things like Tower and Wall must be applied too.

[J Reggie]

All of your opponent's points came from temple, but they only have one. You buy a Duchy with a bunch of Hagglers in play and gain a Temple and a bunch of other things for the 3-pile.

[Seprix]

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

Things like wall only count when scoring, so you could buy an estate and win with 1 point and your opponent has 45 cards in their deck.

No Victory cards are worth anything until the end of the game (and the rulebooks say this explicitly for Kingdom Victory cards), so you're not only being pedantic and unhelpful, you're also wrong. "You are down 30-0 in VP" can only mean "if we scored now, you'd be down 30-0 in VP", in which case, things like Tower and Wall must be applied too.

You're the one being pedantic and unhelpful. You know exactly what I mean.

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

You buy the 40th Silver, getting 40 points from Tower.

There's more solutions than Tower, but good find!

All of your opponent's points came from temple, but they only have one. You buy a Duchy with a bunch of Hagglers in play and gain a Temple and a bunch of other things for the 3-pile.

While true, it's also kind of unrealistic and not the solution I was looking for..

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

Things like wall only count when scoring, so you could buy an estate and win with 1 point and your opponent has 45 cards in their deck.

It's the Island/Silk Road clause. I pulled that stunt before, and everybody got very angry. Always assume if the game ended immediately, and that is the current score, Wall or not.

[faust]

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

Assuming 3+ players: buy Duchy, call 10 Duplicates.

For two players, you can still buy Duchy, call 7 Duplicates, and have a Duke and a Silk Road in our deck, or something similar.

[Seprix]

You are down 30 - 0 in VP. It is your turn, and your buy phase. You have no durations or cost reductions in play, and you have only 1 buy. With your 1 buy, you 3-pile and win the game. How?

Assuming 3+ players: buy Duchy, call 10 Duplicates.

For two players, you can still buy Duchy, call 7 Duplicates, and have a Duke and a Silk Road in our deck, or something similar.

Okay, let's add another clause of no Reserves in play.