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jlighton

Dominion tournament card sets

Jul 08, 2013 12:54

Here are the card sets from this year's Dominion tournament at Dexcon. (Which I won.) I'm interested in how other people would have played them. (I didn't record the kingdom in the qualifying round, but could probably recall most of it if anybody cares; it was all-Intrigue. (Great Hall?, Masquerade, Shanty Town, Wishing Well, Bridge, Coppersmith, ( Read more... )

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mneme July 8 2013, 19:37:34 UTC

The qualifying round included Ambassador (which was why thought an engine was practical, if non-trivial). No Great Hall, I think ( ... )

jlighton July 8 2013, 22:39:50 UTC

The qualifying round was all-Intrigue, so cannot have had Ambassador.

mneme July 8 2013, 22:44:47 UTC

Huh. Good point; I probably misremember.

bigscary July 9 2013, 03:16:59 UTC

5/2 lighthouse/wharf esp. if torturers have been bought -- MVs once I have 2 wharves, silvers at three, gold with first 6, alternate nobles thereafter, keep up lighthouses. The only question is at 4 -- I think I like island in this deck for trimming, good chance of three-piling with torturer out so those 2v add up.

Second kingdom I'm with Josh, with MAYBE looking towards fest/watch/goons in the late game (PC game, so there IS a late game, no cursers so 3-piling unlikely, though with 4 players small ball right from horse-tunnel might work out)

jlighton July 13 2013, 16:35:37 UTC

In the semis I opened torturer/lighthouse Nobody went for Ambassador early. I figured that between the torturers and lighthouses, it'd be a lot less powerful. (Even if you're taking curses from the torturer, it still slows the thinning power a lot.) I grabbed one later for some deck thinning, but never used it much.

I was playing money, torturer, lighthouse, mv, and wharf mostly. We three-piled on mv, lighthouse, and nobles IIRC. The other players started draining the nobles pile fairly rapidly at some point, while I was the only one hitting $8 at all often, so the game ended with me only in a small lead. (And if the first player hadn't eaten a curse or two off my ambassador, we would've tied.)

jlighton July 13 2013, 16:43:20 UTC

In the finals, I did open the obvious tunnel/horse traders, and I'm not sure I ever bought money; early on I focused on winning the tunnel split (5), and then I had gold. (At some point, a player bought a Margrave, and when he used it I had three tunnels to pitch.)

I was buying festivals and watchtowers, but I don't think there's the engine deck there that josh does - those tunnels choked up the watchtower draw a lot, and the money floating around from the tunnel and horse traders makes hitting 8 happen pretty quickly. We piled out the provinces, with only one colony bought.