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As a mostly casual player (never played in a competitive setting but have looked into deeper theory etc) I prefer to have Witch banned not because it is too powerful, annoying or hard to deal with but rather because its simply far too over-centralizing in most kingdoms it shows up in. Whenever Witch is in your game you have to prioritize not only it but any card that counters/mitigates it as well, which I don't really enjoy as someone who likes kingdoms where multiple decks, strategies and card combinations are viable as opposed to everyone racing toward the same "correct" build. The card may lead into interesting gameplay dynamics, but it certainly doesn't lead into interesting deckbuilding.

Idk if you’ll see this but i got into dominion a couple months ago and have since listened to your channel every single night since and I rly value the work that you did. Thank you for improving my game and feeding this fun hyperfocus. Like one of my favorite channels and criminally underviewed for the quality you put in.

If I want a stop card to give me money, give me copper over trade route. At least copper is non terminal and does not have a forced trash. It also gives me $1 instead of $0 for the majority of the game. Oh yeah, there is also a card that is called silver that costs the same as trade route. Why don’t you give me that? There are probably 8 times out of 10 that I would choose to not trash than to trash with trade route because I need to trash at least 2 curses, ruined villages, or maybe estates (if it is early enough in the game) for it to be better than buying nothing for a $3 buy. If I am using this to trash coppers or other ruins, I would need to trash at least 3 in most cases. This is not to mention that there is always going to be at least 1 card in every game of dominion that I would rather have in 99% of decks (the aforementioned silver) if the only benefit that I get from trade route is what I just mentioned. With that knowledge, there is no wonder why they removed trade route from the game. I might be being a little harsh on trade route, but probably not very.

With a card that is worded like farmland “Gain a card costing exactly 2 more than it” even if farmland was in the action phase, it would not gain you any card without other cost reduction because there is no card in the game that cost $10. That card in particular is actually beneficial for being in the buy phase because if you have 1 action card in play, you can gain a province.

You’re incorrect, the bold dividing line underneath +1 coin signifies the below text to be separate from the on-play effects above the dividing line. In the case of Peddler the effect is ‘permanently active’ for each individual Peddler card and it is really as simple as it says. During a player’s buy phase it costs 2 less per action card they have in play. In short, effects that are below a dividing line are special, unique effects which may often be interacted with in situations other than by playing the card.. such as “on gain” or “on trash” etc.

I just played with this for the first time in a 3 player game and I already felt miserable so I laughed at that opening lol. It was especially bad since in a 3 player game, only me and 1 other player got Possession so I can't actually return the favour and possess that player back to balance out some of the damage they were doing to me

Funny, Dark Ages is my favourite expansion together with Nocturne and Seaside :D

There was recently a rules change to possession so that you can only get one extra turn out of it at a time so you can’t play five possessions and get five extra turns. I just found this out when I played like three possessions, and only got one extra return.

I think the rules nuances make this card way too difficult to play, especially with more casual groups. I never use throne room variants.

The thing I dislike about this card is that it just HAS To be an insta-buy and becomes a pure focus of each game it's in. It's too good.

Insane card in some games

a true gem of a video!

You are one of the youtube creators that's super fun to listen to, you make GREAT content, but people somehow leave very little feedback here. Don't get discouraged, those vids are phenomenal for all us Dominion freaks ;).

You are crazy putting plunder that low

Really enjoyed the videos! Found them just now when you are already done, but they helped me getting better at Dominion. Recently I have watched some videos of the trend of "I asked a player of another card game if these cards are bad, good or broken" From Magic, Yu gi oh, Hearthstone players etc. Where they invite someone who plays a different card game a lot but doesnt know much about their game, to let them guess if a card is good or bad. I think that concept could also be fun for Dominion. Letting a Magic or YuGiOh player guess if a Dominion card is good or bad after giving them a short rundown on how the game works, and the very basics of what kind of cards there are. Its always fun to see how players of different games approach a new game.

I think a second edition Alchemy would only really work if it's reworked as a big expansion with many new cards and some of the old stinkers replaced

Love watching your gameplay vids

Who on earth plays 6 player dominion?!?!

I really enjoyed listening to this, thank you!

I really enjoy when Duke is viable. Ive had games where each Duke could score me 9 to 10 points (3 player) and it's so much fun for me in these games. Prior to watching this video i would "help my opponent" buy provinces too and try for Dukes even in a fast kingdom but you've taught me that those are not the right moves so I'm now making the most out of Dukes. Thank you.

IRL divine wind would be a lot of setup and cleanup.

Divine Wind is insane lol

I think the benefit of Mastermind in the first game would be that if you managed to start with, say, Kitsune in hand and a Riverboat in play, you could reduce your hand size without relying on your opponent and get a bit more out of the Souk play. If all of the Actions you have are draw, you just use the Souk first.

Divine wind looks like so much fun! The amount of facepalms alone will be wonderful

I think in the second kingdom you way overinvested in Native Village. I think the way I would have played was just Kings Court/Baker, Magnates and one or two Sacred Groves for Buy. Rice is decent payload but it's no match for Kings' Court on the same price.

It's great to see you making new videos 😄

I was just thinking how cool it’d be to have action cards that are excellent with obtaining debt tokens to balance them.

Well now I can’t wait for tomorrow!

I notice you often make plays in order to activate a prophecy, or you mention wanting to reveal the Avantos for draw. What you need to realize is, Dominion is a multiplayer game. Revealing the Avantos for draw isn't actually an advantage for you because it also gives your opponent access to them. Enabling the prophecy isn't much of an advantage because it affects both you and your opponent. It can be a slight advantage if you get access to the resource sooner, but it usually shouldn't be a core part of your strategy in terms of what cards you're picking up.

22:23 Ironworks for Towns, Change Masq to Prov, Change for coins, buy Province.

We havent even seen half of the cards but I think this is a top 3 expansion

Late game bishop is savage.

Return of debt!

Wow has dominion grown. Prophecies, events, landmarks, projects, coins, victory tokens, playmats, debt tokens, I’m sure I’m missing some. A bit much.

Man that first kingdom was crazy. I dont play on the app and only have about half the expansions and even then, I just mix 2 at most. Full random with everything is wild! The setup time in person for that first kingdom would make me puke

Tide Pools is like the inverse of Tactician, where it benefits you now but hurts your next turn. Unfortunately, in this game, your next turn usually matters more than your current turn.

I've been thinking about ways that Enlightenment messes with recent cards, and I hadn't even considered Action cards that play Treasures. The first game here really highlights how traditional Dominion strategies kind of go out the window in the face of such a sweeping change - trashing Coppers isn't necessarily beneficial, because they're almost more useful than nothing, and it makes sense to load your deck with Loot because you can cycle until you get the hand you want. Highways as your entire economy actually makes sense that way.

t5 in your first game (~4:14), you might have been able to pop the Lamp by playing Lucky Coin (and waiting with the Lamp), Continue -> Wayfarer (costing $3 due to the Silver gain), and had you then drawn any unique (Mountain Shrine or Sack or Secret Cave, so rather nice odds), the Lamp would have been popped :)

In the first game, couldn't you play Mountain Shrine without trashing anything?

These games were really cool! I think I'm now really starting to understand Rising Sun's character as an Empires sequel with lots of space for tricksy interactions and combos! Also, thank you for all your early cards videos that helped me understand how to play Dominion well, I think I'd still be way further behind without watching them!

I actually quite like that there was an example of prophecies not happening. A good way of showing that they're NOT just landmarks, they may never come to pass.

Interesting strategy hard ai did. Saw you buying enlightenment cards so completely ignored certain cards to not trigger it.

Shadow cards most interesting concept since ways imo, we will see how they play in practice I guess but they all include a lot of tactical decisions I think

Watched everything I could about rising sun, and I got so excited when I saw you released a video on it as well! Just happy to see you in whatever format apparently, they are all just bangers😊

Oh I'm assuming this is an upcoming expansion? Wild seeing this cause I wasn't really expecting another expansion. As others have mentioned, great to see you doing more videos. Was actually the first time I saw you explaining your thought processes each turn so I was able to learn the considerations each turn, compared to the more general card advice you do. Awesome! I'm also excited for this new setting that seems to be themed after Japan.

Wow they keep making these.

Been playing regularly for about a year, and it’s cool to see your in depth knowledge of the relationships between all cards, including Rising Sun. Hoping to get there one day. Great video!

Just when I thought it was over, it turned out that we actually are so back

The return of the king

Its nice that you keep doing videos even after stopping with the dominion card series, always fun