It's a double trading post. And trading post is not a bad card.
It's a double trading post. And trading post is not a bad card.
Not quite. Double Trading Post would let you trash 4 cards.
In that regard, in Smithy-BM, would you rather buy a Gold or trash 2 Coppers for Silvers if you draw $7 and cannot or do not want to trash Estates?if I've calculated correctly, the money density after "trashing 2 coppers for 2 silvers vs. buying 1 gold" is almost equal (with a slight edge for the gold), but once you can trash even one estate with this, Trading is clearly better. If there is at least a small engine component to your deck, I also would always Trade.
Well, let's start with 3 Estates, 7 Coppers, 1 Silver and 1 Smithy and say you draw to $7 on T3 after playing Smithy, exactly 7 Coppers in hand.
Now let's take Smithy in consideration, here my math will get wonky.
With Gold, you have a deck of 13 cards, but you do have Smithy, so you can have a hand of 5 regular cards and another of 5, one of which is Smithy that draws the last 3. So effectively you have a 2 hand deck.
With the Coppers -> Silvers, you end up with 11 cards, but it takes less than 2 hands to go through them, starting with a Smithy hand (5 + 3 = 8 cards seen), you have just 3 cards left that we can count as 3/5th hand; it's probably slightly more since you can redraw the Smithy in this hand and go through faster.
Gold: $7 + $2 + $3 = $12 per 2 hands = $6 / hand
2 Silvers - 2 Coppers: $5 + $6 = $11 per 1 3/5 hands = $6.875 / hand
This gives a significant edge to the Silvers.
Still, taking into account Smithy makes the math wonky, so I hope I didn't make any glaring mistakes. But the gist is that a smaller deck is just worth it to rapidly increase spending power per hand.
Player 1
Turns: 1000000
Avg money / turn: 5.400541
Lowest money: 2
Highest money: 9
Money: 2, % of turns: 2.4031
Money: 3, % of turns: 12.0471
Money: 4, % of turns: 17.7718
Money: 5, % of turns: 18.6778
Money: 6, % of turns: 20.0394
Money: 7, % of turns: 19.0958
Money: 8, % of turns: 8.9616
Money: 9, % of turns: 1.0034
Player 1
Turns: 1000000
Avg money / turn: 5.461457
Lowest money: 2
Highest money: 9
Money: 2, % of turns: 1.8627
Money: 3, % of turns: 7.426
Money: 4, % of turns: 16.2274
Money: 5, % of turns: 24.2917
Money: 6, % of turns: 25.1625
Money: 7, % of turns: 17.8867
Money: 8, % of turns: 6.6947
Money: 9, % of turns: 0.4483