....what?
To re-iterate: I'm questioning the value of creating/discussing such a list, given that there's a fair amount of apples being compared with oranges in it eg Non-supply to $0 cost supply. It might be interesting to discuss, but there's probably very little to be gained from actually ordering them in any sense. Also, given that the author of this list seems to be trying to create something to fit in with all the other Best Cards list, I'm questioning some of their inclusions in it eg Copper and Curse - seeing as no other basic supply cards have been included thus far, which would alter the $6+ category significantly. That's all. Which non-supply cards are best would be useful, which ruins are the most painful and which shelter should you ditch first etc. are all valuable in their own right, but in my opinion if you just push them all together it just confuses the findings.
I think you're thinking my original post was intended to be more authoritative than it was. Certainly my post was inspired by Qvist's lists, but I was just having fun, in the full knowledge that many of the comparisons are apples and oranges.
Insofar as Qvist's official lists go, my stance is:
* The next version of the lists should have Silver, Gold, and Platinum in them, because they do compete with the kingdom cards at their price levels and because it would be informative to do so without making the lists less informative than before.
* I have no opinion about whether the basic Victory cards should appear or not. Although you can use the same justification for including them as I have for the basic Treasures, somehow they feel different, and I can't put my finger on why.
* Poor House should go on the $2 list, since that's where its competition is. But Shelters should not.
* It would be entertaining and perhaps also informative to have a separate list ranking Ruins, Shelters, Copper, and Curse, even though such a list would serve a slightly different purpose than the other lists. Why? These are all cards you'd probably rather not have, so there's that common link. Although you can't generally choose which of these you get, having an authoritative ranking would enhance our collective understanding of the game in general. That is, it could help us put in perspective the relative penalties of Cache and Death Cart, weigh Cursing attacks against Looting attacks, help prioritize trashing junk cards, and so on.
* For the same reasons, a separate list of $0* cards would be nice, too.