Doesn't emptying the Silver pile seem a little excessive if it's just a Province game?
Guildhall + Beggar
Even without +Buy or other help, these two together can make for a surprisingly fast Province rush. Guildhall gives you +1 Coffers every time you gain a treasure, which means Beggar essentially reads +$6. There's probably some optimization here that I haven't figured out yet, but the basic strategy is to open Beggar-Beggar, buy Guildhall with your first $5 (which should be very easy with a Beggar play), then buy Province every time you play Beggar, and buy extra Beggars on hands without Beggars. I can usually get 7-8 Provinces in about 12 to 13 turns, and I've had a few games where I emptied Provinces by turn 10 or 11.
19 actions, 19 buys, $95.
P plays 25 Silvers and 15 Golds.
P buys and gains 8 Colonies and a King's Court.Is Artificer the only non-terminal Discard-for-Benefit card? I can't think of another.
Hamlet? Another card that has pretty good synergy with Menagerie.
Cellar, but it draws so it's not quite as great with Menagerie.
Artificer/Poor House. This seems like a killer combo. Discard hand, gain something good, play remaining Poor House for an extra $4.
I think the main problem is that it's coming out today only if Apple approves MF's programming, which doesn't seem that likely.
My impression was that Apple had approved by Friday, but it was too late to release it then. Not sure why they can't just release it on a weekend, but whatever.
Probably they want to do it at the beginning of a workday, so that they can immediately do triage in case of catastrophic failure.
It's actually happening! Philip (SCSN) and I are building the new version of Dominion Online that will go online on the first of January 2017.
* We will never be late on releasing new expansions.