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Rules Questions / Re: Black Market + Ambassador = ?

« on: June 21, 2011, 11:17:55 pm »

I tried it in solitaire, it says that the card can't be returned to the supply.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201106/21/game-20110621-201648-bab34bb5.html

Edit: Same story with tournament prizes.

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Game Reports / Re: The Apothecary/Warehouse combo

« on: June 20, 2011, 11:18:53 am »

I've been crushed a couple of times by people who open with a potion just for apothecary. The card is amazing early, and helps stop chains from stalling out later.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Max Points From Green Cards

« on: June 19, 2011, 02:47:24 am »

Elyv -- close, but we've got you beat!

With rogerclee's modification, I get up to 930. Is that enough?

Edit: Oh I see you've answered that in the OP now.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Max Points From Green Cards

« on: June 18, 2011, 10:19:38 pm »

There are 9 Kingdom victory cards. A spread normally has only 10 cards in it.

I can only find 8, not sure what I'm missing.
I can get 909 points.

Kingdom: King's Court, Harem, Nobles, Fairgrounds, Duke, Bridge, Island, Gardens, Black Market, Great Hall(bane), Vineyard
BM decK: Young Witch, Tournament, 23 other actions that give +actions/+cards/+buy

Points:
163 from Colony/Province/Duchy/Estate(including starting 3)
56 for Harem/Nobles/Island/Great Hall
64 for Dukes
216 for Vineyards(83 actions)
160 for Fairgrounds(50 unique cards)
256 for Gardens(158+35+94+30+3 curses=320 cards)
-3 curses
909 total

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: Decline of civility on isotropic?

« on: June 17, 2011, 05:45:52 pm »

I like to start games with hi hf; that way, I can be polite, but without the inconvenience of pretending that I want my opponent to get lucky.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Which is the card you hate the most?

« on: June 17, 2011, 12:00:19 pm »

I voted other because I hate tournament, but I can understand the frustration at possession; it's just not fun when the other person takes 4 turns in a row. I feel like possession would be a lot less hated if it had the outpost wording to prevent things like a king's courted possession.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Does Horse Traders too effectively counter Minion?

« on: June 17, 2011, 12:32:55 am »

I've had a few games where horse traders/village/minion outperformed minion only.

I'd expect it to, it's not hard to make a minion engine get above 8, and the extra buy from horse traders helps there.

158

Dominion General Discussion / Re: Using Steward's +2 coin early

« on: June 16, 2011, 09:01:41 pm »

I almost always trash, I'd usually rather get two bad cards out of my deck than put one good one in. If there are no 2s worth buying, I guess I might get +2 in the 4 copper + steward hand, but I think I'd still probably trash.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: General Deck Compositions

« on: June 15, 2011, 05:08:25 pm »

I'll leave your last question, about trashing treasure on $7 hands, to someone with more insight.

I guess I'll give it a shot.

What 7s are there? I might avoid trashing coppers if there's a King's Court, but the other 7s are not spectacular in Chapel decks; Forge can be tricky to use, Expand is pretty slow, and you usually don't have a lot of treasure so bank is often a gold at best.
What 5s are there? If there's a good 5 I'll probably trash both coppers; if not, probably only one of them so I can buy a gold.

I wouldn't trash the silver unless I had a lot of gold in my deck and/or my deck was really good.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Is the point counter cheating?

« on: June 14, 2011, 07:37:23 pm »

How would you tell if your opponent is using the point counter? The built-in one doesn't give any indication of when you're looking at it, and the browser extension shows the current point count on the screen to the player running it. (!status is there so the other player can see it.)

I've never used it, so I didn't realize that.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Is the point counter cheating?

« on: June 14, 2011, 07:32:00 pm »

I never use it, but don't care if my opponents do. That said, even the ones with the point counter usually don't use it, oddly.

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Other Games / Re: What other games do you enjoy playing?

« on: June 14, 2011, 04:10:17 pm »

I don't really play a lot of games these days; mostly, I play chess, Magic, and Dominion.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Beginner Game Flow + Strategy

« on: June 13, 2011, 05:04:44 pm »

1) Be disciplined about your terminal actions. Having a hand with two smithies and no villages is kind of like having a 4 card hand. In general, if there's no villages in the game, I try to have no more than 2 terminal actions in my deck.

2) On the other hand, make sure that when you buy a village you have a good reason to do so. One of the classic mistakes is buying a village in one of the first two turns, since it gives your deck absolutely no extra buying power before the next shuffle. A deck with 5 villages, 7 coppers, and 3 estates can buy exactly the same things as a deck with 7 coppers and 3 estates.

3)Dominion is largely a game about improving your deck. There's two ways of doing that: Taking out bad cards, and putting in good ones. In other words, not only should you not be buying coppers and estates(barring something like Gardens or the game being almost over), you should be looking for ways to remove them from your deck! For example, Chapel is an amazing card that should almost always be bought in one of the first two turns, since it can get rid of all those terrible coppers and estates! Just make sure you don't accidentally trash so many coppers that you can't buy a silver, though.