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[AJD]

The kind of thing that happens when you're trying to end the game on piles:

You play a Feast.
... You trash the Feast.
... You gain a Feast.

I was just amused enough by that that I wanted to post it.

[guided]

I've done it to power up a City stack before, or yes, end the game.

[theory]

Donald X. once told me about the worst opening he'd ever seen in Dominion.

In someone's first game, on his first turn, he played two Coppers.  He thought carefully for a while and took an Estate.

Everyone chimed in at this point.  "Oh, it's too early for that."  "Oh, you want to buy Victory cards later in the game" etc. etc.

Chagrined, on his next turn, he played five Coppers.  After thinking even more carefully, he took a ... Feast.

[guided]

"I want a Witch, just not quite yet."

[Voltgloss]

I expect that Feast was Duchy-bound.  They told him to get his victory cards later in the game.  And that's exactly what he was doing.

[AJD]

I've done it to power up a City stack before, or yes, end the game.

Both of those were involved here, actually! The City and Curse stacks were both empty, and most of the Feasts were gone as well because they'd been getting traded in for Cities. My opponent had more Cities than me, but also more Curses, and I had two Provinces already. So I thought about taking a Duchy with that Feast (and when I had picked up the Feast, it had been with the intention of getting a Margrave), but instead I decided to bet that I could deplete the last two or three Feasts before my opponent was able to catch up to me in Provinces.