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[yuma]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

[J Reggie]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Pizza

I like it when my opponent overpays for Herald and then realizes they only have a Curse in their discard.  That happened the other day.

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

This is about the best village, and of all the Throne Rooms, Royal Carriage is probably the worst village because you can't call it on Royal Carriage.  I'd say as a card it's better than Squire though. 

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

Fortress is part of Bishop/Fortress, which is so satisfying. 

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

My Dominion group came up with a dirty joke having to do with Wandering Minstrel and one of its functions (besides being a village), and that's all I can think of when I play the card now.  That doesn't have anything to do with this, though, I just think Lost City is funner. 

25 Border Village
27 Golem

Golem is annoyingly expensive, Border Village is just expensive.  Not to say I hate potions, but Golem is a bit much for a village. 

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

One of my favorite cards in all of Dominion, how could I not vote for it?

[Roadrunner7671]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

[papadjango]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

[liopoil]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

[Witherweaver]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

Dude, you chose everything that doesn't combo as well with Watchtower.  Who even are you?

[Chris is me]

I wish I had gotten my vote in yesterday as I would have broken half the ties differently

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

I think the seeding is all kinds of fucked up for this bracket if (1) Crossroads, a terrible Village, is the 3 seed and (2) 1v3 is an eigthfinals matchup. Anyhow this isn't even close.

5 Herald
8 Plaza

Herald is definitely a better card, but in terms of being a Village, I like Plaza more, because those Coin tokens are super nice and you aren't necessarily forced to play Actions you didn't want to play.

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

Oh come on, why isn't this RC versus Throne Room? Then it wouldn't even be close. RC is the better card, but Throne Room is way better at being a Village. In this case, Squire is better at being a village than RC, even though Squire isn't a great village and RC is an excellent card all around.

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

Fortress is a fun gimmick when you get to use it, but too often it is just a $4 Village. Fishing Village is nearly always powerful, even if you don't need all of the Actions it gives you. Two turns of +Action is too good.

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

This is bending my "what's better at being a Village" rule a bit, and also bending my "Don't vote for what is essentially a $4 Village" rule as well, but Ironmonger is rare among Villages in that it is pretty good in the early game and it sifts a little. Shanty Town can be good early game too, but oftentimes that lack of draw really hurts.

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

Lost City is super great, but without trashing you would really prefer Wandering Minstrel. It has a dramatic effect on reliability of engines and allows you to fire several turns before you're supposed to be able to fire. The cheaper cost and lack of giving your opponents a boost helps too. Not that Lost City is bad, this is just a tragic matchup.

25 Border Village
27 Golem

Okay Golem is cool but it is not very reliable at being a Village and it has that awkward thing where it becomes shitty when your deck is empty like Ironmonger does - but you have less control of your draw with it. Border Village is a better Village, I love picking them up. Especially when you can trash them.

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

City is cool, but it is pretty bad at actually being a Village. COTR is a double Village that you only use when you need it. Fuckin' sweet if you ask me.

[Seprix]

Actually, it's about favorite +Action cards in Dominion.

[Witherweaver]

I think the seeding is all kinds of fucked up for this bracket if (1) Crossroads, a terrible Village, is the 3 seed and (2) 1v3 is an eigthfinals matchup. Anyhow this isn't even close.

That's not really how seeding works.  The original enumeration 1, 2, ... that Donald gave isn't the same as the seed number, because those would have matches something like 1vN, ...,  (N-1)v2

So, Crossroads was seeded pretty low

[tripwire]

Round 2:

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

Crossroads wins because it leads to unique deck considerations. It's not simply "more villages = more terminal actions", it's "I can play three terminal actions, what are they going to be?" Also, sometimes you can use it for draw. KC's potential swinginess makes it feel bad sometimes, despite feeling absolutely amazing when it works.

5 Herald
8 Plaza

I like both but overbuy tricks on Herald are more interesting to me than discard tricks on Plaza.

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

I like how squire might play so differently in different kingdoms.

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

Tough one for me.

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

Feels weird that a card I didn't vote for last round beats one that I did vote for. Oh well.

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

[eHalcyon]

I guess you quoted and modified my post because you are mostly voting the same as me?  But leaving it in a quote makes it confusing.  I'd suggest editing to remove the quote tags, lest your votes be skipped.

[liopoil]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

Dude, you chose everything that doesn't combo as well with Watchtower.  Who even are you?

1. All villages combo with Watchtower, even the ones I chose.
2. CoTR combos with Watchtower way more than City.
3. Maybe I like Watchtower because it makes cards which I otherwise don't like so much awesome?

[Witherweaver]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

Dude, you chose everything that doesn't combo as well with Watchtower.  Who even are you?

1. All villages combo with Watchtower, even the ones I chose.
2. CoTR combos with Watchtower way more than City.
3. Maybe I like Watchtower because it makes cards which I otherwise don't like so much awesome?

You may need Watchtower to help you empty out a pile without junking your deck to upgrade Cities~

[LastFootnote]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

Close call between Herald and Plaza. Herald is maybe a little too strong and it's full of text, but it's a fun deck to build and the overpay is something I'd like to get better at using. Hmm, in retrospect, it would be easier to use if the pile didn't get bought out instantly.

I've been growing fonder of Shanty Town lately.

[Polk5440]

I don't even.... What is happening?

There's no need for all this convoluted nonsense. Fishing Village is a Duration Village with Actions and Coins for cheap. That's clearly the best village.

[Seprix]

I don't even.... What is happening?

There's no need for all this convoluted nonsense. Fishing Village is a Duration Village with Actions and Coins for cheap. That's clearly the best village.

But Donald X. started it! Are you going to go against his will? He was with Ernest Hemingway one time!

[Witherweaver]

I don't even.... What is happening?

There's no need for all this convoluted nonsense. Fishing Village is a Duration Village with Actions and Coins for cheap. That's clearly the best village.

But Donald X. started it! Are you going to go against his will? He was with Ernest Hemingway one time!

Fishing Village would have been Hemingway's favorite village, obviously.

[Seprix]

I don't even.... What is happening?

There's no need for all this convoluted nonsense. Fishing Village is a Duration Village with Actions and Coins for cheap. That's clearly the best village.

But Donald X. started it! Are you going to go against his will? He was with Ernest Hemingway one time!

Fishing Village would have been Hemingway's favorite village, obviously.

If there's ever a Eunuch Village, I'm sure he'd like that one too.

[Scion]

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

Really bummed about having to pick between Shanty Town and Ironmonger

[McGarnacle]

I think we are probably ready to go to the next round. Anyone want to do the next bracket?

[Seprix]

I think we are probably ready to go to the next round. Anyone want to do the next bracket?

Only Donald can do that.

[Accatitippi]

I think we are probably ready to go to the next round. Anyone want to do the next bracket?

Only Donald can do that.

Yeah, bring it to the Variants and Fan Brackets sub-forum, please.

[ThetaSigma12]

Round 2:

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm

[Donald X.]

I think we are probably ready to go to the next round. Anyone want to do the next bracket?

I'll give it a full day. That feels friendly to all time zones and like plenty of time. So, I'll tally it up in ~9 hours.

If you are desperate to pick between pairs of Dominion cards, you could start up another bracket for something.

[LibraryAdventurer]

Round 2:

1 King's Court
3 Crossroads

5 Herald
8 Plaza

9 Royal Carriage
12 Squire

13 Fortress
15 Fishing Village

18 Shanty Town
19 Ironmonger

21 Wandering Minstrel
24 Lost City

25 Border Village
27 Golem

29 City
32 Coin of the Realm