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« on: March 05, 2013, 02:12:10 am »
This idea may have been spotted by someone already but I thought i might bring it up anyway.
The combo works for a few reasons:
- Most obviously, trashing silvers, golds, and other treasures (like counterfeit) to boost the power of foragers is generally not worth doing, except with counterfeit. Of course, this can also work with other TFB cards such as salvager, bishop, apprentice etc. What these cards can't do is:
- Counterfeit also trashes coppers non-terminally for a decent benefit (+$3), which is better than most TFB cards which trash them one at a time for +0.
- Both Counterfeit and forager are non-terminal trashers that give you virtual coins, which means you can thin your deck quite efficiently without losing actions, and while getting buying power. Deck thinning will be useful to play foragers more often when they get to be +$3 or occasionally even $4.
- They both provide the +buys when you have enough money to get multiple foragers, or extra coppers to trash.
However, this has some elements that are not so powerful, meaning it may not be the most successful strategy on the board:
- It will be difficult to get enough buying power to get silvers and golds and then trashing them early, while building the combo at the same time.
- Counterfeits aren't always easy to pick up when you're buying foragers instead of silvers.
- If you're playing two or more foragers in a turn, you probably have a thinned deck, which makes it hard to trash cards from your hand.
Despite these negatives, I think this combo could be useful, and worth thinking about.
i just meant 3 more than trashing a copper with any other card like the ones you mentioned, but yeah you've got a point that they all give some kind of other benefit. The main point of Counterfeit in the combo is to trash higher value treasure cards.