A negative review of "Stash" | Dominion: Stash Promo Card

Jake Troughton

(stampimo)

Canada
Fredericton
New Brunswick

djgutierrez77 wrote:

drunkenKOALA wrote:

Off topic, but I hate the Black Market.

I think it needs specially designed cards, and use those instead of single "normal" cards.

I agree with this. The potential swings are just too great. I was in a game earlier this week where the other player got a Witch and a King's Court out of the Black Market deck. It was a hard fought game and I came closer than I thought I would to overcoming it, but I really think the difference in Black Market draws was the deciding factor.

I had one game a while back in which my opponent and I both went for Chapel, Black Market and King's Court. We both had very small decks with King's Court in them, and we both went looking for awesome cards in the Black Market. My opponent got Mountebank. It may as well have been a four million VP card, for all the chance I had to win after that.

An extreme example, of course, but it does go to show how swingy Black Market can be. I'm okay with that in the odd game, but I can see why some people don't like it.

Posted Sat Mar 5, 2011 5:12 am
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enfynet enfynet

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Black Market is a very difficult card to use properly. I always build the BM deck out of cards that match the set, always use multiples of cards, and never put cards in that will significantly swing the balance of the game.

Posted Sat Mar 5, 2011 6:58 am
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Edward

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New York City

CBpegasus wrote:

One province each reshuffle isn't that much... Many strategies can get to one province each turn relatively easily.
Also remember, there is nothing you can do with stash that you can't do with silvers and some luck. OK, a lot of luck, but I made my point.

Yeah, and some strategies can get to 8 Provinces a turn. The point is that 4 $5 cards + a $3 card is really easy to get to; Chancellor/Stash is a fast strategy that puts tempo pressure on opponents, especially since it doesn't get slowed much by Cursing or VP saturation.

Posted Sun Mar 6, 2011 3:56 am
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