I opened fool, thinking that was also good with the squirrel, because unlinke usually it wont be a dead card later

This was a sleeper. Went from "not sure if search will be triggered" to "will there be time to play the loots gained from search?".

It's painful seeing a great player such as yourself missing the Shaman-Cabin Boy interaction. I wish you replayed the kingdom with it in mind!

This will almost certainly be the kingdom that the bot has highest win percentage on this month.

Interesting. The bot can be impressive in those rushy kingdoms

Bot trashed my two first 5 costs with barbarian. Rip

Where can you find this dominion "site" with the hard ai? Also the layout seems better with for example the emissary and souk

I often struggle or have to pay attention but found today's Daily weirdly easy. Contract's set aside, on Specialist, to double play Royal Galley or Emissary gave tons of draw to early Province. Early Sentinel and Herb Gatherer for trashing and buy, but wasn't too necessary as managed to outrun bot's cursing really quickly.

Bureaucrat does t even get mentioned as a gainer :( Bureaucrat is truly dead

In your second round you were less strict on copper denial and that I think is correct.

I opened plan on kitsune and silver, then just bought silvers and kitsunes, 1 gold, and won pretty easily. I think the bot was kinda throwing though (it ended with 7 curses)

one thing you do sometimes and i often disagree is mixing draw to x cards with normal draw cards, i often find that not worth it. first mate in this case is sorta weak imo cause often you have 6 coppers/curses in hand in the turn because you drew cards with courtyards and kitsunes.

Yeah, i got like 10 5 cost duration cards by trashing cabin boy gaining a duration and gaining cabin boy back from the trash with the shaman effect on the same start of turn, in this way you also don't get junk from the trash at the start of the turn

there was also the cabin boy/shaman synergy. bot even used it once or twice!

this is daily kingdom of the year! (so far) bad jokes aside happy new year to you and thank you for the videos!!

I opened ninja and mountain shrine then got another mountain shrine soon after to get really good deck control before the prophecy triggered. The bot got entirely too many daimyos and lost control of the deck when the coppers started coming in. I've seen a few games where the bot just aimlessly clicks daimyo.

think you noticed at the end anyway but yeah you didn't need to get 2 coins from last witch's hut

You’ve got a typo in the title: 21->31

"bot never misses a deterministic win" while bot: 11:40

you need to do some practices with practice😛you missed some good lines all around

If the scroll ain't working you can also drag the kingdom view with your mouse (just hold left click and go up and down)

Thanks for all the detailed information! You don`t know how much i have learned from you the past couple weeks! <3 keep nailin j

Poor bot. Not having the game of his life I would say.

@5:35 you can expand an estate to add something into the shuffle

Got a turn 10 win here. I got academy a little later due to prioritizing double quarry via tiara, and buying workers villages until then. Didnt get canal at all. When i lined up the tiara quarry with the help of sculptor, i already had several villages and villagers, so i was able to handle a couple swashbucklers. Next turn, i grabbed academy and more swashbucklers, and then on my last turn, it was easy to draw my deck and pile out.

I beat the bot to begin with doing pretty much wat you did. (altho i didnt go nearly as heavy with the Sculptors!) However, i then experimented with getting 2 quarries, and i was able to pile villages, swashbucklers and border guards by turn 10 (one turn faster than my previous strategy). The cost reduction from quarry, in combination with the +buy from workers village really works for emptying piles. Interestingly, this strategy involved never buying either project, bekoz that is a "wasted" buy wich is not lowering piles.

I've seen someone get all Colones and Provinces by turn 9, how is it possible?

Taking a Curse to open Sanctuary doesn't make sense anyway. Even if you don't bottom-deck it, you break even after T3/4. Better to add some other card you want and then use that to get Sanctuary and not have the -1 VP, or the risk of bottom-decking Sanctuary (which is correspondingly higher with the Curse anyway).

I went with a modify deck, it was so funny to reduce the price of stuff so the bot couldnt remodel well, and i got a bajillion royal galleys and couriers and with one guildmaster, it was enough to province every turn, and ocassional duchy from increasing stuff. I grabbed an early syncophant for favours and remodel target, and a few underlings for cantripping with courier if needed. Ended up t14 win.

I think i ended up with the exact same strategy more or less, but i decided to pick up vassals instead of merchants and sentries. I think that was a big mistake as it did increase my payload a fair bit, theres enough treasures in the deck to make vassal miss, or hit a terminal like council room or bandit, and that gets worse once i started greening. It was still enough to easily beat the bot though, since not having + buy or any way of scaling payload is just not good enough.

Wow, I would have never thought of building such a crazy deck...bravo!

I just realized you can skip multiple turns if you play multiple liches. Now I just want to start a turn with Kings Court + Kings Court + Lich + Lich + Lich, draw 54 cards, get +18 actions, and skip 9 turns.

I think this plan just doesn't work against a human opponent, who can easily stack a bunch of favors up on the Wizards pile.

what a funny kingdom

Man today's kingdom made me so sad - the bot trashed my first two city quarters before i could use them. That said, city quarter + artificer is a ton of draw + gains. Populate is also quite nice here. I should have gotten more guardians, since the trashing/curses hurt without good thinning, but i still managed to eke out a victory.

When you CAN buy all the cards, you MUST buy all the cards

Gg

I'm sad to say I overlooked the carriage+bridge troll combo, I thought bridge troll was a "While this is in play" sort of card, and I got rolled once the bot started calling carriage on the bridge trolls. Second go around worked a lot better

pretty straight forward indeed, though cost relevant trashers and bridge troll interaction is always fun

Im not really sure how the bot did it, but in my first game it ended up getting 4 plunders and scored a ton that way. In the second game, we got a better split, with me having 2 encampments and 3 plunders, but the bot just played it better i think. The score was close but it won off of defiled shrine points i think.

Just Salt the Earth for Province every single turn, or buy a Silver if you can't afford it, buy a curse around 5 or 6 VP on Defiled Shrine.

Very similar ideas here. Opened 3/4 with bounty hunter + scrap, and grabbed only 2 falconers instead of 3. Picked up a cavalry turn 3 due to missing both bounty hunter and scrap, and got lucky enough to find the scrap. After the opening, the idea was the same, using falconer to gain a ton of the villages and wayfarers, plenty of draw and payload. picked up a single snowy and 2 scraps for buys, though piling cavalries doesnt actually need that many extra buys like you showed. I also hit a dud, except on t11 where I drew 1 village, 3 wayfarers, silver. Played village wayfarer and drew cavalry, wayfarer, bounty hunter, falconer. Tried to grab a cavalry after exiling a cavalry to see if i could draw one of my many horses or villages, or even the second falconer, but no luck. Ended up winning on provinces turn 12 as a result.

No cavalry on turn 8?

I played a silver gaining stables deck and it wasn't terrible. Hard bot also bought stables with no treasures. I didn't think the vassal deck would work when I started greening, but it worked well for you

Im embarassed to say I did the exact same thing as the bot here, where I bought several stables but only had a single copper in my whole deck. The bot handily beat me because i spent several turns not realizing my mistake and kept gaining stables. I blame lack of sleep for that one LOL.

This one was funny - I ended my last turn with piles in a situation such that the bot couldnt pile out even if it drew its whole deck (which it did). Unfortunately, I didn't consider woodworkers, and it decided to pile using woodworkers + all its buys, not scoring at all. This resulted in a tie with both of us at 0 points, which counted as a win for me. I ended up going for 4x rope (2 a turn), 3x merchant guild and 3x livery for payload and draw, which was overkill. I had 2x enchantress as my early draw, but picked up a bauble a very early to generate favors which could turn an extra 2 coins into a 5 cost next turn by picking up a cellar (as opposed to scouting party), and setting up topdecking for horses was nice for consistency early as well. I could have definitely done with one less merchant guild or smth, the multiplicative scaling is insane - each 4 you buy with 3x of each generates 12 coffers! I found myself short on buys, so on my last turn, i grabbed merchant guilds and village greens for + buys. In hindsight, I should have grabbed baubles/ropes for + buy, not lowering piles as much. That said, you were a full two turns faster than me this time, so I definitely overbuilt and made some slower decisions early (such as not scouting to shuffle in a rope, though I had 3/4).

Completely agree with the opening here. I personally was able to trash a fair bit of my coppers and merchant guild is insane for payload, so i didnt go fo magnate, opting for pilgrim as draw instead. As for lost arts target, i had more merchant guilds than draw cards, but i still like lost arts on draw because it reduces the chances of a dud due to not lining up village/draw, though gear/innkeeper also solves that problem. That said, recruiter also solves that problem so in hindsight i should have arted merchant guilds and needed to buy less lodges. I think that after seeing this, magnate is stronger as draw and I should have gone for it + some inns, as it allows grabbing coppers for coffers without screwing your ability to draw as much as well. I dont value sea witch here that much because the draw is just so good and trashing a curse a turn is really not an issue. Using it for reliability is nice, but i like gear for that more.