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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card
« on: January 10, 2014, 05:41:57 pm »Golem into TR,Hermit, hand contains two Rats, draw contains more Rats and Golds. Playing Rats at any point means you may be forced to trash Golds, so you decide to lie and play TR into nothing and then use Hermit to trash Rats and draw, thus giving the lie away (but, if gotten away with the lie, it would have been optimal because you get to trash the Rats and draw the on-trash bonus, possibly drawing Gold to buy someting, and not risk trashing Gold, which is impossible to get away with by lying because Rats makes you reveal all Rats on no-trash option).
Why wouldn't you play the Hermit first? Then your claim of having nothing to Throne Room is more believable.
Ok, a much simpler way around this. On your turn, you reshuffle so your discard pile is empty. Then you play Throne Room, Throne Room, Smithy, hoping to draw a good action. But instead you draw Rats. With nothing in your hand you want to trash, you lie and say you have no action. Next turn, you play Hermit, and trash Rats from the discard pile, having forgotten about your lie.