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« on: April 19, 2016, 11:25:15 pm »
I think the general thing with Alchemist is it's slow to get the Potion and then accumulate a big stack of Alchemists, so whatever you're building toward had better be worth it. Otherwise, you're down 5-0 in Provinces with a deck that can reliably single-Province every turn. Whoops.
At first, we bought the hell out of Alchemists. It's a Lab that you can topdeck every turn! Holy crap, let's buy all of these! But then I learned about opportunity cost and suddenly a lot of other things seemed better. I still think they're pretty powerful, but there are plenty of boards with other draw or where going out of your way for the Potion is too much trouble for them to be worth it.
Alchemy is a wonderful set, btw. I know this board is the last place where people are going to be crapping on the "black sheep" Dominion set, but man, there are three of my all-time super-favorite cards here; I genuinely look forward to their discussion topics here. (If we haven't gotten bored by then.)
Potions provide an intriguing extra decision point to the buy process, and I'm still quite impressed that (Transmute aside), Potion cards can all hold their own when they're the only thing Potion-related on the board.
