Events are easy-mode
Put Seaway, Pathfinding and Lost Arts on Poor House.
Deck is 10 Poor Houses, 1 Crossroads (assume we trash our Chapel with a self-removing trasher like Ratcatcher).
Buy 2 Colonies and 2 Islands. Then on every subsequent turn, Island away the two Colonies and buy 2 Colonies and 2 Islands again.
Is it possible to open ferry/inheritance?
Can somebody explain why Fairgrounds is a great card to me? I must be missing something. If anything, my tendency is to rank victory cards higher than the average around here (I ranked Tunnel, Gardens, and Duke all significantly higher than average), but Fairgrounds has never stood out to me - especially amid the stiff competition of the 6+ cost cards.
My thoughts on Fairgrounds: with just a little effort, it's worth 4 VP in an engine. 4 VP for 6 coins is pretty good, but nothing special. With a lot of effort, Fairgrounds can be worth 6 VP. 6 VP for 6 coins is very good, but not quite as good as Duke (which can be 6+ VP for 5 coins with similar effort). As another pile of substantial VP, Fairgrounds slants the game in favor of engines (like Vineyards, Distant Lands, and (IMO) Gardens). However, in engine mirrors, 3-pile endings are pretty common (especially in 3+ player games), so Fairgrounds might hardly be purchased. The best environment for Fairgrounds is a kingdom with a lot of interchangeable engine parts, but such kingdoms aren't common.
What am I missing?
What? If you don't get Grand Markets, I am getting all 10 and winning quickly.Moral of the story: Yellow cards are bad; never get them. He had $18 in cantrip money, most of his copper, and still decided that 4 golds and 2 platina were a good idea. Also Gardens were silly too. Not sure I'm convinced by the potion cards... I want to play a wharf every turn ASAP, and if I get potion that takes a while. I'd open masq/silver, and not consider getting potion until I have a wharf or two.
Thats terrible advice, there are no villages so you are playing wharf-bm which isn't thing with colonies.
Problem here is that you didn't buy any nonpotion cards, you were overdrawing your deck without payload. Potion/masq is correct opening but you should buy silver on turn 3, that is with apothecaries enough to buy platinum, Turn 6 should be wharf instead alchemist as you really need +buy. Then get second wharf and get more alchemist/platinums, until you could double-colony.
Grand market here looks just too slow.
Log or it didn't happen. That approach makes you grand market idiot like original opponent. So show log where you get ten grand markets and enough victory points to win. You have 16-17 turns until I end game by pilediving all colonies, here are example games.
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20151128/log.0.1448747055772.txt
https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20151128/log.0.1448746722857.txt
transmogrify / guide use the transmorgify at the start of your turn to trash and then call guide to draw a new hand of five cards. works best with multiple transmogrifies on your tavern mat.
At the start of my turn, my hand consists of five copies of the same card and nothing else. My draw and discard piles are empty and I have no duration/mat/prince/etc cards in play. At the end of my turn, I can guarantee that I will have two more Provinces than when I started. What card is in my hand?
(this is probably too easy)
Having a Scout is better than having nothing.
Oh man Warf lost the #1 non-attack spot... what is the world coming to?
Our tiebreaker
Disclaimer: I am not trying to offend Elestan.
BUT WHAT AN AWFUL BOARD!!! There was a nice Border Village/Chapel/Bridge/Coucil Room engine. Ben went for it. What did I do? I did stupid Ironworks/Gardens! Ben helped me three pile the Market Squares, I had support with Travelling Fair, and I won. The game sucked though. Apparently it's the same board (with one modification) every year.
Is there an engine that will beat IW-G on this board? Anybody want to try to simulate it?
The primary purpose of that kingdom is to produce an extremely short game, so that I don't keep everyone standing around waiting for the tiebreaker to finish. Two-player games of it take about five minutes, and the five-player game took about 15.
I'll probably have to mix it up some for next year...it's been publicized enough here that the f.ds people would have an unfair advantage if I use it again.QuoteIt was an awesome event. Totally worth the drive that I slept through.
Thanks! I hope your mom still takes you next year, even knowing that it'll be a late night.
I'm most surprised that Swamp Hag is higher than Soothsayer.
Swamp hag can be brutal, especially when you pile them up
Swamp Hag is only more brutal than Witch/Sea Hag/Mountebank/Young Witch/Soothsayer if your opponent buys more than one card. And it can be less brutal if your opponent forgoes buying, or just buys an Event. I do like Swamp Hag a lot, I just think Soothsayer is stronger.
I'm also incredibly surprised that Haunted Woods is as high as it is. It's Attack is basically Bureaucrat, and while its next-turn draw is super awesome, it does nothing the turn you play it.
In a trashed down engine embassy practically is journeyman is better in engines and so is rabble, and catacombs.
Artificer needs to be higher.
I had it at 6. I'll probably regret that but I don't yet.
I don't think Top 10 is at all unreasonable for Artificer. It's criminally underrated on this list. It's one of the most reliable and fastest ways to pick up key engine pieces right when you need them, and with decent draw it can even be a great late game VP gainer. Worst case it's a $5 Peddler which isn't too bad itself. Very, very good card.
A 5$ peddler is not great- see Treasury. The on gain-effect is probably decent but I don't think it's close to the strength of the top 10cards (except maybe in Pool games)
Artificer needs to be higher.
I had it at 6. I'll probably regret that but I don't yet.
