Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Dominion General Discussion => Topic started by: Nimmy on July 11, 2011, 02:54:12 pm
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There are a few cards (Cutpurse, Bureaucrat) that may require your opponent to show his hand. In a heavy trashing game, cutpurse will of course never hit copper. Do you know of any situation where you might want to buy cutpurse just to know what your opponent has in hand ? More specifically, do you have any example of an isotropic game where you saw the hand of your opponent and that did change your strategy ? Just curious.
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You might want to know if the opponent has a Curse or not for Montebank
Also, you might want to know if the opponent has a hand worth Militia'ing/Ghost Ship'ing
In a rare circumstance, you might want to know what the opponent is capable of buying next turn.
In any case, I would probably never buy a card with the intent that it let me look at my opponents' hands.
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When the opponent has envoy, it can definitely matter. Otherwise, not really.
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I haven't done it yet, but you certainly might want to know your opponent's hand before Possessing or Minioning him. If your opponent has three victory cards and two coppers, Possession will help him, not you, and you would prefer to play your Minion for money rather than for cards.
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If your opponent has 2 Coppers, Cutpurse won't cause them to reveal their hand :P
Cutpurse is never worth buying just to spy on your opponents' hands, even if it will occasionally reveal interesting information.
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You might want to know in a minion game or a possession game. Also near the end if you want to know if they can buy that last province if you take the 2nd last one.