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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...
« on: June 12, 2014, 03:13:49 pm »The five Princes of the Bureaucrat pin.A Prince of Crossroads counters this pretty well.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...
« on: June 12, 2014, 03:08:05 pm »
The five Princes of the Bureaucrat pin.
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Most Cards in Hand Before Playing A Card
« on: June 12, 2014, 02:56:59 pm »And now throw prince into your calculations
I think its just +1.
Just like the respect he has gotten from that post so far.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...
« on: June 12, 2014, 02:51:46 pm »It conforms to the principle that $8 cards begin with the letter P.I guess I have to start calling them "Plääni" and "Pkulkukauppias" then...
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: June 12, 2014, 02:46:32 pm »So, the upgraded harem is a prince?Any idea of when the new promo will be up and running? Sounds exotic from what I've heard.
That sounds about right. I also heard it's an 'upgraded' Harem of sorts.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Dominion Moments 2014
« on: June 12, 2014, 02:41:39 pm »
What makes even better: I gave him that Ambassador. Now I regret it.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: June 12, 2014, 02:34:31 pm »Also, is anybody NOT excited by the imminent World Cup?I'm not excited either. I'm also in Finland.
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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: SheCantSayNo's Teaching & Streaming
« on: June 12, 2014, 12:29:34 pm »If you have 10 BVs and 10 Wharves then you're right, but the argument doesn't scale. If you're far removed from drawing your deck anyway (as Jerni was for the entire game), reliability is very important. You want your average turn to be at least decent. Adding more terminals (Marauder) that don't draw and produce even other cards (Spoils) that don't draw either, is really disastrous. In theory you might have enough Villages to do whatever you want, but in practice your engine ends up really sputtering, as could be seen in the video.In that specific situation, I definitely agree that buying the extra terminal was a mistake, especially since it was a Marauder. But generally, in games like that, you should be more concerned with getting as many Wharves as possible than caring about terminal collision, because Wharf is in your hand less often than most terminals, which allows you to get slightly more terminals than normally, given that those terminals are actually useful for you.
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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: SheCantSayNo's Teaching & Streaming
« on: June 12, 2014, 11:33:57 am »
In Jerni's Lesson 2, in the Border Village/Wharf game, I don't think that getting too many terminals is as much of a problem as you make it sound like. If you have ten Border Villages and ten Wharves, you can play ten Border Villages every turn, but only five Wharves, leaving you with plenty of extra actions.
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Card Idea: Pauper
« on: June 12, 2014, 10:34:14 am »I like it. It covers similar ground to Scrying Pool but it's more subdued. Would probably be ok at $4 since in order to really get it going you needFTFYcantrips, villages, and $,trashing
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Strictly better than....
« on: June 12, 2014, 10:02:00 am »Or if there are five Highways in play.Gah, meant to say Band of Misfits, not JoaT.
If the piles run out then it's not as good as the actual card.
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: MetaSkipper's Hopefully Passble Cards
« on: June 12, 2014, 09:42:10 am »You need to add, 'while this is in play', otherwise it doesn't work at all.Actually, it works. In fact, the magician himself would probably be surprised by the effectiveness.
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Strictly better than....
« on: June 12, 2014, 09:37:18 am »universal edge caseOkay, now I've seen everything.
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Introductions / Re: 4 days, 0 minutes
« on: June 11, 2014, 07:40:51 pm »
44 days, 4 hours, 4 minutes.
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Strictly better than....
« on: June 11, 2014, 07:29:05 pm »Lab>Caravan (I'm sure there's some sort of edge case here)1) You want to draw the extra card on your next turn, not now.
However Baker>Peddler is pretty solid I'm sure
2) Black Market.
There are times when you might want to trash the weaker card with Chapel but keep the stronger card in your deck for any two cards, so I guess no card is always preferable to have in hand.
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Strictly better than....
« on: June 11, 2014, 06:30:54 pm »You may put your deck into your discard pile. You have to topdeck a card.Yeah, assume all prices are equal. And just ignore Possession.
Also: Chancellor is definitely worse than Scavenger as far as I can surmise.
Edge case where you don't want to discard you r deck and your entire discard is bad cards and you're forced to put one on top.
Scavenger says "you may" so you can just take the +$2 in that edge case.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: June 11, 2014, 12:58:55 pm »I said that earlier! Well I said she was called Elizabeth.Báthory?
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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results thread
« on: June 11, 2014, 12:51:52 pm »
C4-4 (Awaclus) - C4-6 (Burning Skull): 6 - 0
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: June 11, 2014, 08:13:49 am »Did you try clicking on the blue text? Didya?No, because the cursor didn't change.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: June 11, 2014, 06:09:45 am »As a cover supervisor in schools (aka supply teacher), I've found the most frequent question I'm asked is, "Sir, what's your favourite football team." It's... interesting.I have never heard of a football team called "interesting". Are they good?
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas
« on: June 11, 2014, 05:06:00 am »Then compare it to Steward or Count.Expand is not as bad as Scout. I guess the biggest thing I've learned about it here is that its strongest use case is probably as a terminal Gold +buy when nothing else is available.Well, anything that Jack of all Trades does, Squire, Spy, Watchtower and Chapel can do better. JoaT isn't good because it gains silver, or because it self-Spies, or because it draws up to 5, or because it trashes a non-Treasure card, but because it does all of them. Similarly, Expand is good because it's much more versatile than any of the large number of cards that do something better that Expand does.
It seems like almost every time one would get an Expand, you'd be at least as happy picking up a Graverobber, Rebuild, Remodel, Wharf, or just a Gold - but only the last of these is always on the board.
It isn't that great at anything that it does. It's just an overpriced substitute for a lot of different things on most boards. So I overstated its badness, but "anything you can do we can do better" to me seems to describe most Expand play in practice.
Jack is good because it does all of those things in the same turn. Getting a Silver AND trashing an Estate/Curse AND self-spying AND drawing a card is a lot better than the case where you have to pick just one. Jack wouldn't be that great if you had to pick just one every time - actually, it would suck pretty hard. Expand makes you pick just one. If Expand let you trash 2-3 cards and gain one costing up to $3 more for each trashed, then that would be a whole other story...
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas
« on: June 11, 2014, 04:34:42 am »Expand is not as bad as Scout. I guess the biggest thing I've learned about it here is that its strongest use case is probably as a terminal Gold +buy when nothing else is available.Well, anything that Jack of all Trades does, Squire, Spy, Watchtower and Chapel can do better. JoaT isn't good because it gains silver, or because it self-Spies, or because it draws up to 5, or because it trashes a non-Treasure card, but because it does all of them. Similarly, Expand is good because it's much more versatile than any of the large number of cards that do something better that Expand does.
It seems like almost every time one would get an Expand, you'd be at least as happy picking up a Graverobber, Rebuild, Remodel, Wharf, or just a Gold - but only the last of these is always on the board.
It isn't that great at anything that it does. It's just an overpriced substitute for a lot of different things on most boards. So I overstated its badness, but "anything you can do we can do better" to me seems to describe most Expand play in practice.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: June 10, 2014, 06:24:40 pm »I can hum and whistle in tune at the same time!Oh wait, I forget.... Drummer
You are so jealous of my drumming abilities and it's hilarious.
This is true
I cannot even hum in tune.....
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: June 10, 2014, 05:49:04 pm »C-C-Combobreaker!My girlfriend and I are moving out of the basement and into a sweet ass apartment! Now I just have to pack up my CD collection:
I heard they're coming out with a way to have music on your personal computer soon. That might help.
Smartass.
The main reason I'm quoting this post however is to start a quote chain with that massive image. Let's go.
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