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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Dominion Expansion Bracket
« on: April 26, 2016, 10:13:41 am »
Adventures
Greetings and welcome to the forum!Thanks for leaving that to the professional, Roadrunner.
We've been getting a lot of new people recently, which is just fantabulous. It's not my job to tell you to check out the Forum Games and Dominion League, so I won't tell you to check out the Forum Games and Dominion League.
Thief just never shines. Only some Big Money-type games were people trash down, maybe. Rats actually combos decently with almost all TfB. Not that you want the Rats all the time, but when it shines, it's really good. There is no way Thief, Navigator, Feast and Scout can compete, as they all suffer from the same problem that they never really shine (except for that one game were SCSN bought 10 Navigators).Rats is already way too high, it's a deck-destroying trap card on more than 9 out of 10 boards. Should definitely be bottom tier. I voted it second-to-last myself, just above Scout.
I don't think how good a card is when you randomly add it to a deck is a good measure of the goodness of a card. You buy Rats when you shouldn't and you definitely play the card from your hand too often. Doesn't make Rats worse than Thief and Spy. Rats has its place, Thief just really doesn't.
Every card has its place. Thief is good in some games with strong trashing but no virtual money. I think Rats is more situational than Thief, it is generally weaker and shines on a smaller amount of boards. I don't think I've actually bought Rats more than a couple of times in my life, and I don't think I've EVER been glad about buying it, nor have I regretted not buying it (then again, of course I didn't play Dark Ages half as much as Base...).
Before people come out and show me games where they dominated with Rats: I know they exist, I just acknowledged every card has its place, I'm just saying that Rats is worse than almost all other cards in general.
I haven't got it there. (Now, my vote doesn't count for much, as this is weighted, but hey) (And I wasn't the one with Fortune Teller on #1, because Fortune Teller sucks)By the way, what card do you think will be first?
Masquerade, of course.
I mean seriously there are near uncountable numbers of possible Dominion games, is it that implausible that someone might buy a Navigator as an early game accelerator planning to build a Herald engine later?Yes.