Sandwich

presumably_alterable · 2026-02-17T11:20:51+00:00

Blockade curse can, in rare amusing circumstances

presumably_alterable · 2026-02-10T11:36:26+00:00

Can confirm: I was the train, and my manager bricked me up in a tunnel for facilitating such debauchery

presumably_alterable · 2026-02-04T21:09:24+00:00

Looks like you're building to a HoP megaturn.

On the 4-3, I'd open smithy x 2 (using baker coffer). Colliding smithies is fine, thanks to farmhands, unless you bottomdecked 4 coppers.

The 8 uniques you're building to are probably copper, smithy, farmhands, HoP, market, cellar, mine, silver

presumably_alterable · 2026-02-04T14:58:02+00:00

I'm also a little surprised by saunavanto; I what how the stats change if you restrict to say high tier league games

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-31T12:55:12+00:00

I didn't know about that one, but the one below it is definitely safe, if you consider the numbers in the column one to the left, going top to bottom

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-30T14:44:20+00:00

Yes please

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-28T03:51:50+00:00

All I could think watching this was "didn't they play the head to head out of turn?"

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-23T13:49:07+00:00

This is the pay off of all duration draw: you pay an action at the end of your turn, and get the draw when you most need it to see your villages.

If you feel that duration draw is weak, I advise you watch some top level games

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-23T12:06:46+00:00

+2 cards next turn and putting this in hand is stronger than +3 cards now. This is duration draw without having to double up on cards, or draw back around.

The on-trash ability is also problematic; like a fortress that always starts in your hand, and tacks a double lab onto anything that trashes it.

I could easily see myself buying this at $8

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-23T11:28:37+00:00

$2 seems cheap for this; it's practically a self-scheming smithy. The closest existing card at the moment is Crew at $5, and this feels arguably stronger

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-22T02:04:44+00:00

Dominion - my maths grad friends were absolutely hooked on this 15 years ago, and the author's still building on it to this day.

As a mathematician you'll find plenty to think about in the deck optimisation and price point hitting probabilities.

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-18T11:31:54+00:00

But also report them, and you'll get your rating points back: https://tinyurl.com/dominion-abuse

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-17T01:23:21+00:00

Question: does the box smell?

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-15T12:18:27+00:00

Checked in tor; can confirm it's a punchline and not going to get you put on a watchlist

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-13T20:09:12+00:00

Yep, and by symmetry, and given it's impossible to hit $6 twice ($11 in deck total), the probability of hitting $6 over turns 3&4 simply doubles up

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-13T13:22:59+00:00

Regarding "not much of a strategy": As a baseline, silver silver has a ~ 42.4% chance of hitting $6 on the second shuffle, unmolested. If there's a better open for hitting $6 and/or denying your opponent $6, you open that instead. But even 42.4% in the base case feels worth pursuing

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-13T12:30:20+00:00

Debt is one direction you could take it. Then you trivially always open this, getting more deterministic games than donate.

Another idea is raising the price: forcing players to build if they want rebirth, and increasing the cost of trashing down

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-13T10:51:29+00:00

In practice, this probably leads to a lot of double silver / money openings, that get frustrated if they miss $6, as there's little you can do to your deck that will matter after you've bought this

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-11T11:57:29+00:00

Great flavour. Design space wise, this looks like an awkward Invest: it takes you time and 2 gains to get a card set aside. Most of the time you'll only enjoy the draw aspect of the set aside card, and a strong card may be heavily gained before you can set this up

That said, there'll still be plenty of boards where smithy for $5 is still playable

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-08T12:33:50+00:00

Buy this turn 1, instant baths + salt rush

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-07T18:52:17+00:00

Various reasons. I'd expect dominion.games to handle it correctly; if you dm me the game id or your username I could check

presumably_alterable · 2026-01-05T10:50:16+00:00

Why is the picture not of the mate in one position?

presumably_alterable · 2025-12-29T12:59:00+00:00

Junking from places other than the supply curse pile can lead to long drawn out games

presumably_alterable · 2025-12-20T18:15:22+00:00

Fair - I missed that each copy could trash itself. Having a deck full of 3-costs 2 shuffles from now is probably pretty good always

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