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Poker Video: Misc/Other by DeathDonkey (Micro/Small Stakes)

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They came out with a new expansion to Dominion where they have an 11 cost 10 victory point card (called a Colony) and a 9 casting cost 5 money card (called a Platinum) along with a whole slew of new cards 7 drops, etc.

Great game. Love that you guys are doing a video like this for random fun games.

Yes we play with colonies and platinum normally by default on the site we recorded this video from - we just used the basic set for the first video.

oh for everyone, site to play on: http://dominion.isotropic.org/

Awesome

Being a Magic nerd a lot of the guys I played with were into board games and sometimes after we'd either spent a day drafting or testing constructed Magic decks we'd play board games to relax and Dominion was one of them and it's one I really enjoyed learning, even if I was rubbish and got pwned mercilessly.

Cheaper than magic definitely

Maybe DeathDonkey can teach you how to bring balance to your Dominion game.

Awesome

Being a Magic nerd a lot of the guys I played with were into board games and sometimes after we'd either spent a day drafting or testing constructed Magic decks we'd play board games to relax and Dominion was one of them and it's one I really enjoyed learning, even if I was rubbish and got pwned mercilessly.

Cheaper than magic definitely

Mike l. and I played Dominion with 2p2er JDalla at commerce one time, he had never seen the game before. He is/was another very high level MtG guy, and he was beating us at Dominion within a couple hours, a lot of similarities in the games.

Maybe DeathDonkey can teach you how to bring balance to your Dominion game.

If DD could balance my Magic Range with my Bank Balance Range I would officially declare him the King of Balance

Man if I ever manage to meet you guys (either in US or UK) I'd love to play a few games.

The similarites to Magic definitely are there. I have to admit my first thought when seeing "Smithy" was "Hey Ancestral Recall!" and to "Moat" was "Oh cool, Moat" except infinitely less broken I guess. Plus I found myself nodding with the "Cantrip cards are good" advice. What can I say? I was always a Blue Mage, I love drawing cards and generally being mean to my opponent

Yea dominion is such an amazing game. I've only played it in person with friends 2-3 times, looking forward to trying it out online.

This looks like a lot of fun but it confused me a bit and this is probably gonna sound extremely noobish, but every turn the players did a chain of villages/smithies, but they were never showing on screen. Same for coins and victory points. Is there a way to see your actual deck?

This looks like a lot of fun but it confused me a bit and this is probably gonna sound extremely noobish, but every turn the players did a chain of villages/smithies, but they were never showing on screen. Same for coins and victory points. Is there a way to see your actual deck?

Not sure I understand your question, sorry

On this particular site (one of the only 2 I know of where you can play Dominion online) a lot more of the actions are shown as text, so you can scroll up and see the previous turns pretty easily. DJ recorded it from his side so it never showed my hands face up, only the actions I was taking.

If you are asking if its possible to view your entire deck that you would be drawing from (say you play smithy and will be drawing 3 cards), then no, that is the random element of the game. Your deck is shuffled and you just draw 3 off the top.

This looks like a lot of fun but it confused me a bit and this is probably gonna sound extremely noobish, but every turn the players did a chain of villages/smithies, but they were never showing on screen. Same for coins and victory points. Is there a way to see your actual deck?

Nah, you can't see your actual deck mid-game. The shuffle is the only randomizing aspect to the game, so it wouldn't be quite fair to be able to see it in detail. You can see a number of useful and transparent things (like the trash pile and assorted 'tokens' that might be involved) if you click "info".

Let me rephrase. There were only 10 available villages at the start for example. They didn't seem to be 1-time use items, as every turn started with a village chain and the game had way more than 10 turns. As soon as you played a village, the card was removed from the screen, yet they seemed to play every turn from then on. Shouldn't they be face up on the table and remain visible or something?

Let me rephrase. There were only 10 available villages at the start for example. They didn't seem to be 1-time use items, as every turn started with a village chain and the game had way more than 10 turns. As soon as you played a village, the card was removed from the screen, yet they seemed to play every turn from then on. Shouldn't they be face up on the table and remain visible or something?

After your turn, all the cards you played that turn (and the rest of your hand) go to your discard pile, which is reshuffled to become your draw deck whenever necessary. You keep your cards until the end unless they are "trashed".

Ahhhh now I get it thanks

So what about victory points? Do all points in your deck count? And if so, drawing them during the game is completely useless, unless you can spend an action card on them which might be useful?

Ahhhh now I get it thanks

So what about victory points? Do all points in your deck count? And if so, drawing them during the game is completely useless, unless you can spend an action card on them which might be useful?

Exactly correct. There is a good/bad thing with victory points, the good part is if you have more than your opponent when the game ends, you win! The bad part is when you draw one in your hand its almost always useless.

This is why a really bad strategy would be to start buying them too early in the game, your opponent will end up with a much stronger deck, and over take you for VP near the end. Often between two good players there is a bit of a race situation that happens where one player is trying to end the game as quickly as possible with more VP, while the other player is trying to build a monstrous deck that will end up taking a ton of VP in a short period of time and overtaking his opponent.