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Dominion => Puzzles and Challenges => Topic started by: jonts26 on December 03, 2011, 05:26:03 pm

Title: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: jonts26 on December 03, 2011, 05:26:03 pm: Inspired by this thread: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=1088.msg17400#msg17400

When would you buy a feast with more than 4 coin to spend?

I can think of several, but I'm sure there are more.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: DG on December 03, 2011, 05:42:21 pm: There are some obscure treasury strategies where you buy feasts without surrendering the treasuries and then convert feasts to green cards in later turns. Highways also open up possible tricks where you buy cheap feasts and then trash the feasts for big vp cards later. I have also won games by trashing a feast for a city during my turn and getting the city benefits before my opponent, so it only needs an extra step of arch cunning to plan that a turn beforehand, perhaps using a watchtower to put the feasts on deck.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: Saucery on December 03, 2011, 06:09:53 pm: embargoed 5, fairgrounds, cost-based trashing (develop, governor, forge), highway/feast -> grand market combo, working around the trash effect of mint
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: Elyv on December 03, 2011, 06:16:37 pm: You think you can TR or KC it next turn, or you're trying to 3-pile.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: WrathOfGlod on December 03, 2011, 07:41:58 pm: When you really want a second turn duchy but Donald X. yells at you.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: Tydude on December 03, 2011, 09:37:30 pm: Everything else has been contrabanded. :P

EDIT: On Fangz note below, Fairgrounds too.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: Fangz on December 04, 2011, 10:19:20 am: Vineyards.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: jomini on December 09, 2011, 03:33:02 pm: Here's the first 10 I see:

1. I want a feast so in the future I can play village -> feast (empty city pile) -> mass activated city spam of doom. On my turn. Also, I might also want to avoid activating cities by buying the last city before my opponent's turn.
2. I'm pretty sure I will be able to TR/KC it in the future for better reward.
3. Fairgrounds
4. Vineyards
5. I have 2 buys and I really need exactly one of something else (e.g. I need get cross roads for +actions and will later turn the feast into a second council room).
6. I can play 3 highways before playing the playing it for a province later.
7. I need 4 coin feed for farmland (e.g. duchies bought out, I hit 5 coin so I buy a feast so I can trash it later with farmland to get another farmland).
10. I have a big (draw the whole deck) scrying pool engine, there are no better actions left to buy, and I don't want kill my engine with duchies just yet.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: Tahtweasel on December 29, 2011, 01:08:38 pm: I have played a colony game with King's Court, Highway, Feast, various powerful draw cards, and no +buy. Believe it or not, the correct strategy was to King's Court your feasts into stuff.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: WanderingWinder on December 29, 2011, 01:17:20 pm: Quote from: Tahtweasel on December 29, 2011, 01:08:38 pm
I have played a colony game with King's Court, Highway, Feast, various powerful draw cards, and no +buy. Believe it or not, the correct strategy was to King's Court your feasts into stuff.
KC/Feast is awesome, but without seeing the board, I'm not sure I do believe it, 'cause I imagine it could be rather sloooooow.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: jotheonah on May 04, 2012, 11:39:48 am: I can see doing it if many of those coins were Talismans.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: Boldot on May 04, 2012, 12:36:27 pm: Bit of a longshot, but you want to use it as fodder for forge, since you have either other $4's you want to trash, or some combination of $7. Maybe a $5 for plats?
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: dondon151 on May 04, 2012, 12:51:18 pm: Quote from: WanderingWinder on December 29, 2011, 01:17:20 pm
KC/Feast is awesome, but without seeing the board, I'm not sure I do believe it, 'cause I imagine it could be rather sloooooow.

Nothing with KC and drawing cards is slow.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: Morgrim7 on May 05, 2012, 12:08:30 pm: Want to gain Mint, don't want to trash my Platinum
Next turn will be able to KC-KC-Bridgex3 need Feast to gain last Colony.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: ycz6 on May 08, 2012, 01:41:32 am: This seems like the most obvious answer to me...?

I have multiple buys.
Title: Re: Exception to the Rule, Part 5
Post by: Axxle on May 08, 2012, 02:14:16 am: Quote from: ycz6 on May 08, 2012, 01:41:32 am
This seems like the most obvious answer to me...?

I have multiple buys.
lucky i was between beer sips!