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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Single Strategy Board?

« on: January 27, 2013, 06:36:52 pm »

The useful cards here are Vault and Margrave.  Vault will be severely hampered by Margrave, so that leaves Margrave as the main card you want to play.  Against discard attacks, having a thin deck is no real advantage, so I think I like BM-Margrave here.  Without the Margraves I like Vault-BM.  Neither of them requires Chapel, which slows you down early for too little advantage later on.

Makes sense. I pretty much go for Chapel 95% of the time, so I should try and ease back a bit.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Single Strategy Board?

« on: January 27, 2013, 06:33:34 pm »

I would be surprised if the warehouse and cartogs add anything to a chapelled deck. Your deck should be fairly thin to start with, and any bonus from playing your margs more should be offset by drawing your extra actions dead.

So the ideal deck would have a couple of Margraves, Chapel, and a few silver/golds? I had one Margrave, one Warehouse, and one Cartographer. Thanks for the input; we kind of play in a hermetically sealed bubble against ourselves, so it's cool to get ideas of how to play better.

No, I think you should probably have only one Margrave if you have Chapel. In a post-Chapel deck, your terminal draws will collide a lot if you have more than one: let's say your deck is 2 Coppers, 3 Silvers, one Gold, 2 Margraves and one Chapel - I think this scenario sounds pretty realistic. No matter how your deck is shuffled, your second Margrave will always either collide with your first one or miss the reshuffle. In other words, if you have two Margraves, you are playing one of them per each reshuffle, which is also the case if you have only one. But if you had another Silver instead of the second Margrave, your worst possible hand would be improved from $8 to $10 (which can be relevant when you want a second Gold before greening) and your best possible hand would be improved from $11 to $13 (which is very relevant).

Getting the second Margrave is timely when you have about 16 cards in your deck, but that will take a while if you go for the Chapel.

Cool - that makes sense!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Single Strategy Board?

« on: January 27, 2013, 05:02:26 pm »

I would be surprised if the warehouse and cartogs add anything to a chapelled deck. Your deck should be fairly thin to start with, and any bonus from playing your margs more should be offset by drawing your extra actions dead.

So the ideal deck would have a couple of Margraves, Chapel, and a few silver/golds? I had one Margrave, one Warehouse, and one Cartographer. Thanks for the input; we kind of play in a hermetically sealed bubble against ourselves, so it's cool to get ideas of how to play better.

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Dominion General Discussion / Single Strategy Board?

« on: January 27, 2013, 04:43:24 pm »

I played this set IRL against my wife - we only have four of the sets. Often we like to play the same board a couple of times to see if we can find anything we missed the first time. But on this board it only seemed to us like there was one viable strategy -

2s - Chapel, Duchess, Moat
3s- Warehouse
4s - Salvager
5s - Cartographer, Contraband, Margrave, Vault
6s - Adventurer

We both did almost exactly the same thing - opening Chapel/Silver, and building around Margrave with Cartographer and Warehouse to help with cycling. Is there anything we missed?

Neither of us have ever played against a really experienced player, so I was interested in learning if we were missing something, or if this is just a weak-ish board without many options?

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Rules Questions / Feast and Bishop Interaction

« on: January 08, 2012, 06:54:33 pm »

Hi - first time poster, I just play at home with my wife. I've been reading the forum, and googling for the answer to this, but with no answer, so I wanted to ask. If my wife plays Bishop, and I have a Feast, if I trash the Feast through their Bishop, do I get the benefit from the Feast (gaining a card worth 5)?

I'm assuming there's something in the general rules against it, eg. only benefiting from an action on your turn, but I wanted to double check. Thanks for your help!