Pillage is often not all that great.
QuotePastoral LandsThat was a Monument which you can get some vps without using an Action. Terrible!
cost 4 - Treasure - Victory
Take a Pastoral token. You can't buy cards in this turn.
Worth 1 vp for a Pastoral token you have.
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I got super duper lucky to set this up. In no way was it the best strategy.
Well, it didn't really matter because your opponent also ignored the best strategy.
And when I finally won, it was of course, luck, which he promptly pointed out to me with lots and lots of insults.
It will be great to have a blacklist again, which I assume will be a feature in the 2017 implementation.
I had an intricate engine consisting of festival, artificer, library, and distant lands that enabled me to gain and play multiple distant lands within the same turn. A relatively new player crushed me with Treasure Trove, it is a very powerful card.
...impossibru?
2. Cost reducers - I can't think of a way to get two besides Traveling Fair, which Awa already said.
There is a cost reducer, but there is no Highways or Bridges or any of that.
No Highway and no Bridge? So of what's left, Ferry and Quarry only affect Actions, so... Princess? But that's only used once. I no gets it. And you said buy the Provinces so that means you can't do stuff like Farmland tricks or whatev.
Some simple easy puzzles:
You have a 1 card hand. How do you get to a 2 Province buy?
18$ Pirate Ship and Travelling Fair is on the board.
2. Cost reducers - I can't think of a way to get two besides Traveling Fair, which Awa already said.
There is a cost reducer, but there is no Highways or Bridges or any of that.
It's Bridge Troll.
So basically, Moneylender/Spice Merchant and Treasure Trove is going to be a legit hard strategy to beat?
The moneylender and spice merchant are too fancy. Just get big drawing cards and play BIG money.
So don't throw little darts, throw bombs.
Based on that avatar, I think DG has that idea covered.
2. Cost reducers - I can't think of a way to get two besides Traveling Fair, which Awa already said.
Nice solution, now try no highways.You are in your buy phase. You have $5 to spend and 1 buy. How do you get to buying a Province? How about 2 Provinces?
You have 8 Highways in play and then you buy a Traveling Fair.
So basically, Moneylender/Spice Merchant and Treasure Trove is going to be a legit hard strategy to beat?
The moneylender and spice merchant are too fancy. Just get big drawing cards and play BIG money.
Treasure Trove is one of the best cards of the set, and probably the best Big Money card since Embassy. If it weren't for Gear, I would say it's the best Big Money card ever. The presence of Treasure Trove alone is enough to make you really reconsider weak engines.
It took me many games to see the value of this card, where I would build a complex, thin engine over a long period of time but my partner would just buy a few Wharves and Treasure Troves and wipe the floor with me.
It's really nothing like Cache or Hoard honestly. Cache is a Gold that gives you two Coppers when you buy it, this is a Silver that gives you a Gold and a Copper on play, which is far far far far better. Hoard only gives you a Gold when you buy a Victory card, so it's the same "gold plus dud" thing except it doesn't happen every time like Treasure Trove and even Copper isn't a dud in BM. The Copper is a feature, not a bug - A Gold and a Copper is better than two Silvers for producing $8 hands consistently, and Copper helps smooth out Victory card disruption.
You actually want as many of these as you can get your hands on in BM I think (skipping it mainly to get more terminal draw or Duchy) as there's really no such thing as too much free gold in those cases. Even the slightest bit of Copper trashing (Moneylender, Spice Merchant, Forager, even Upgrade) does wonders for this card.
There's a bit of a prejudice against Treasure in high level Dominion play, and while it is somewhat warranted, you need to be prepared for the resurgence of money strategies when Adventures comes online or you're going to get crushed.
Ironmonger, Herald and princed shenanigans are lovely engine playground, but I don't think there is time for these guys. Example given, we get two Embassys and two HG for draw, and a nomad camp for + buy, we will need at least four fishing villages to support these. And if our opponent gives us two silver, we are already at $17. Time to green; also, whenever I have a bad move (quite likely with that many stop cards), i prefer to increase draw or get a reliable village instead of speculative stuff like ironmonger or herald.
