Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Game Reports => Topic started by: carstimon on July 29, 2012, 03:24:09 pm
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http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/29/game-20120729-104210-ccac18c7.html
On this board:
-there's no decent virtual money (only fishing village and mandarin)
-There's no way to spam your deck with cheap action cards (No +buy etc)
-oracle helps pirate ship find treasures
I think pirate ship is unignorable.
I'd also like to discuss the following: I think pirate ship doesn't work that well, and I'll try to explain why. I don't just mean it's a weak card in 2p. The problem I find is that the pirate ship tokens have too large of a step size. In a game where you're going for provinces you will usually get up to around 4 before you need to start using it for the money. I feel like this happening is just largely unaffected by how you play it.
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hmm, I disagree - there's a fantastic nonterminal trasher (apprentice), and mandarin is nothing to sneeze at. i think ignoring pirate ship (and golem) is fine here.
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(to clarify, mandarin is worse than gold for three reasons: one, it's a terminal action; two, it can be awkward to buy, and three, you have to put a card back on your deck)
in a fishing village game, however, only point three applies, but on the flip-side you can top-deck an oracle if you get lucky.
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I'd like to try to play it. Would you buy any treasure ever? Definitely not silver, but gold? I just feel like fv/mandarin will be tough because your hands are gonna be small always. You would need a lot of oracles, and there's no +buy here.
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I'll happily take the Fishing Village + Mandarin + Oracle side of this match against Pirate Ship if you want.
Send me a gmail message when you want to play, rrenaud@gmail.com
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I'd like to try to play it. Would you buy any treasure ever? Definitely not silver, but gold? I just feel like fv/mandarin will be tough because your hands are gonna be small always. You would need a lot of oracles, and there's no +buy here.
i promised a friend i'd give him 500 dollars if i ever played online dominion again, so you should play rrenaud.
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I'd like to try to play it. Would you buy any treasure ever? Definitely not silver, but gold? I just feel like fv/mandarin will be tough because your hands are gonna be small always. You would need a lot of oracles, and there's no +buy here.
I think you have to buy two, maybe three Silvers at the start, but once you have a couple of Mandarins you likely wouldn't want to buy more. I imagine your Pirate-Shipping opponent will help trim your deck afterward, and lack of +Buy isn't that much of a problem, as your opponent will spend extra turns gaining tokens.
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With fishing village you can avoid silver completely against pirate ship I think.