And now for today's installment of But How Does This Combo With Scout?
Unfortunately, Scout does not combo with Doctor. Sorry, friends. This is deeply surprising and unfortunate, breaking a streak of combos that began with Cultist, Sage, and Feodum in the original Dark Ages previews and continued up until yesterday with Baker. But unlike Ruined Market, or Pillage, or Squire, Doctor just doesn't combo with Scout. Why?
Scout is too strong. Sorry.
When you play Scout, you draw all your Estates into your hand, so you can't trash them with Doctor! Scout is just too good at sifting and drawing for you to worry too much about trashing.
Doctor has to give you some reward for overpaying for it, to entice you to buy it. Ha, that's truly hilarious! With Scout, you commonly overpay for it by $6 or $7 money just to make sure you win the Scout split. No extra benefit necessary.
So instead of suggesting a Doctor/Scout combo, let me just take this opportunity to tell you all about a different combo, Scout/Scout. Which is now a possible opening thanks to Baker! Imagine that, on whatever percentage of boards that Baker and Scout are both present, the game is over on Turn 2.