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Dominion: Guilds Previews / Re: Card Photos
« on: June 13, 2013, 02:26:16 pm »Plaza -- simple village variant for the theme. The Treasure discard is necessary so as not to make it superior to Bazaar. This may be a tricky card to use optimally. Villages want to be in engines. Many engines will want to trash away all the Coppers; discarding the few high quality treasures in the deck would not be worth just one coin token. But the drawback is ameliorated if you can draw the treasure back again.
Ah, this is a good point. In a strong enough engine, you'll be able to draw back that Silver or Gold you discarded, while keeping the coin token.
Similar to Stables in that respect. Although I'm not sure Plaza and Stables would mesh well.
Stables nets you an extra card, though, while Plaza decreases your hand size by one. So Plaza requires a full drawing engine to support it, while Stables is itself part of that drawing engine.
I'm not sure what your point is here. Are you suggesting the cards do work well together? Certainly they have complimentary effects, but as they both rely on discarding the same resource (treasure cards), they have a fair amount of anti-synergy. Or was your comment in response to my suggestion that the cards are similar? Obviously they do different things (as you said, they have nearly opposite effects), but they are similar in the respect that they become much much better once you can reliably draw your deck. Your point is well taken that Stables actually contributes to that goal much more directly, whereas Plaza provides other benefits (actions, coin smoothing). I guess the point then is that Stables is a better single-card engine while Plaza is a better component for a wide variety of multi-card engines.