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[JThorne]

Seems to me the Capital+Crypt deck, in reality, will be a little messier to set up than I described. I was just reducing it to the bare minimum apples-with-apples comparison to highlight the pretty substantial deck-thinning effect of leaving so many cards on the table between turns.

The reality is that you'll probably have one or two Silvers or $2 action or whatever for early economy as you're trashing. Even if you buy Capital first, a single Capital/Silver/Silver turn buys two Crypts and then you're in business, paying off the debt quickly and buying engine parts two at a time. If you buy Crypt/Capital first, a Capital/Silver/Silver/Crypt lets you get another Crypt/Capital with no debt, and every pair you buy adds two cards that won't increase your deck size because they're staying on the table every turn, eliminating the need to buy more draw along with it. By comparison, every time you buy Gold, you have to buy more actions/draw to get it in hand, slowing down the Gold version by comparison.

[teamlyle]

Herald + Ruins: Get the Ruins off the top of your deck, and your Heralds become Villages, Labs, Peddlers, or Market Squares.

[faust]

Monastery/Banquet

Play 3 Coppers, buy Banquet. Gain a $5 and trash two extra Coppers for a net +/-0.

[Cave-o-sapien]

Hireling/Changeling

This is a rhyming duo. Changeling can always turn into a Hireling that you have already played. If you have a Silver gainer or Magpie or something to gain more Changelings, you can really start exploding.

I can confirm this is fun and effective.

[William Howard Taft]

Thief/Heirlooms

Thief is way more fun when you can steal Magic Lamps, Pastures, Goats, etc. Just be careful about trashing your opponent's Haunted Mirror.

[Cave-o-sapien]

Thief/Heirlooms

Thief is way more fun when you can steal Magic Lamps, Pastures, Goats, etc. Just be careful about trashing your opponent's Haunted Mirror.

Would Heirlooms be any different if Thief (or a Thief-like card) was still a "live" card?

For example, Donald has stated that Cursed Gold is priced as it is to allow it to be trashed by Knights (and presumably others) while other heirlooms were specifically priced to avoid those attacks.

I think the only change to Pasture was that once it cost $4. Some of the Heirlooms dropped below $3 to dodge War and some Knight-family attacks.

[William Howard Taft]

I think it's cool that heirlooms are really hard to steal and impossible to recover once they've been trashed. Cursed Gold is the only one that can return from the grave to bring misfortune to someone new.

[markusin]

I think it's cool that heirlooms are really hard to steal and impossible to recover once they've been trashed. Cursed Gold is the only one that can return from the grave to bring misfortune to someone new.

Lucky Coin also costs $4.

[Awaclus]

I think it's cool that heirlooms are really hard to steal and impossible to recover once they've been trashed. Cursed Gold is the only one that can return from the grave to bring misfortune to someone new.

Lucky Coin also costs $4.

Yeah, it can also return from the grave to bring misfortune to someone new.

[Awaclus]

Den of Sin + Haggler

Example game with 6 Provinces in 11 turns (feat. Goat): 9268484

A tactically bought Den of Sin can help you hit an early $8 with Haggler, and then gaining Den of Sins with Haggler while greening can maintain that momentum for the entire short duration of the game.

[markusin]

I think it's cool that heirlooms are really hard to steal and impossible to recover once they've been trashed. Cursed Gold is the only one that can return from the grave to bring misfortune to someone new.

Lucky Coin also costs $4.

Yeah, it can also return from the grave to bring misfortune to someone new.

A rogue who is despicable enough to take someone's lucky coin deserves it.

[trivialknot]

In a game today I went for Cobbler so I could gain Cemetery and trash down.  When I did it, I realized... I can trash the Cemetery too!  It should work with other gain-to-hand stuff as well.

In another game, we found a neat Faithful Hound/Raider interaction.  I was playing a Faithful Hound/Storeroom deck, but my opponent countered it by playing multiple Raiders.  He didn't have Faithful Hounds in play so I had to discard Storerooms.

[cascadestyler]

Masterpiece / Annex

A weak card and a weak event combine for some serious points as long as you have two buys. One point per coin (plus a little bit of debt) is incredible value in a province game, and you never need more than two buys.

would someone explain this to me? 
why are you filling your deck with silver, and what cards are you shuffling into your deck and why?

I absolutely meant Triumph, not Annex. Sorry for the confusion.

[Gazbag]

Watchtower/Trader + Cursed Gold

Trash those pesky Curses with Watchtower or Trade them for Silvers which can fuel your Pookas!

[Awaclus]

Masterpiece / Annex

A weak card and a weak event combine for some serious points as long as you have two buys. One point per coin (plus a little bit of debt) is incredible value in a province game, and you never need more than two buys.

would someone explain this to me? 
why are you filling your deck with silver, and what cards are you shuffling into your deck and why?

I absolutely meant Triumph, not Annex. Sorry for the confusion.

Triumph is not a weak event though, it's one of the strongest card-shaped things in the game.

[markusin]

Masterpiece / Annex

A weak card and a weak event combine for some serious points as long as you have two buys. One point per coin (plus a little bit of debt) is incredible value in a province game, and you never need more than two buys.

would someone explain this to me? 
why are you filling your deck with silver, and what cards are you shuffling into your deck and why?

I absolutely meant Triumph, not Annex. Sorry for the confusion.

Triumph is not a weak event though, it's one of the strongest card-shaped things in the game.

I also think Triumph is very strong/relevant (and have even seen the aforementioned Masterpiece/Triumph combo), but it's easy to forget about it and sometimes there are no extra gains, making it only marginally useful.

There was a discussion about Triumph and other Empires cards here: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17973.0

[faust]

Lurker / Rats

Nothing exciting, but it's nice that Lurker can always be a cantrip when you don't have 2 in hand.

[William Howard Taft]

Counterfeit + Idol

Play Idol #1 - Accept a Boon
Play Counterfeit
Play Idol #2 twice and trash it - Everyone takes 2 Curses
Play Idol #3 - Everyone takes another Curse

[William Howard Taft]

Another fun Nocturne/Dark Ages combo: Knights + Necromancer

Undead Knights are relentless. They can't be killed and have no allegiance to anyone.

[wachsmuth]

Fool + Band of Misfits/Overlord

Not a spectacular combo, but Fool is often a card you don't particularly want to buy or have in your deck - after all once you have Lost in the Woods, it does nothing. Using Band of Misfits or Overlord to play it, you'll never draw a Fool dead.

[William Howard Taft]

Changeling + Potion Cards is madness. You can trash your potion nice and early and keep gaining Familiars, Alchemists, Possessions, etc.

[Gazbag]

Kinda obvious but Patrol is really nice in Shepherd games - the Pasture makes Patrol's scout part a bit better and Shepherd discards victories so your Patrols can suck them back up.

[ackmondual]

Kinda obvious but Patrol is really nice in Shepherd games - the Pasture makes Patrol's scout part a bit better and Shepherd discards victories so your Patrols can suck them back up.

Almost enough to bring back Scout

[Chris is me]

Kinda obvious but Patrol is really nice in Shepherd games - the Pasture makes Patrol's scout part a bit better and Shepherd discards victories so your Patrols can suck them back up.

Almost enough to bring back Scout

Somehow, this would be a far better combo with Scout than with Patrol.

[weesh]

My friend won last night with a ghost/counsel room deck. 
(He used exorcist to turn 5$ actions into ghosts)

With the massive draw actions as his only actions, the ghost never missed, and he would draw into another ghost for the next turn almost guaranteed.  The Multiple +Buy on the counsel room was highly relevant in a deck full of gold. 

If you draw all of your ghosts, we learned not to play one of them, so you would be able to draw it the next turn.

It was one of those "shuffle twice per turn decks"