Dominion Engine Basics 1 - What is an Engine?

[@maxdetax7]

Man, I have been looking for a good dominion engine guide for a while now. Saw this pop up on reddit and I really like it! Hope it improves my play :)

[@gadafix1]

Love this series. The material is well organized and the idea of an engine is gradually built through the different videos. I have learned a lot from your videos. Kudos and thanks a bunch!

[@julesmartin6972]

Is it likely to build an engine if there are no +2 actions cards? I feel quite limited in building an engine if that is not in the kingdom

[@michaelrusinak3194]

what happens with a kingdom with no trashers? do you go hybrid or big money? do you have a video on this, im just starting at sq1 with what youve posted

[@JacobNails1]

Good question. Trashing is the counterpart to draw (the more junk cards you've trashed, the fewer draw cards you'll need to get through your deck), so you can still build a kingdom with no trashing if you have strong enough draw to make it through 10 extra junk cards each turn. If trashing is absent AND draw is weak, that may be enough to hamstring an engine. Sifters (cards that don't net draw cards but let you search through your deck to replace bad cards in your hand with good ones) like Dungeon, Forum, and Cellar also become more valuable in kingdoms with no or weak trashing. Be extra careful about triggering shuffles though. If you got to your good cards by discarding all your bad cards, you should stop drawing when you reach the end of your deck. If your discard pile is full of junk cards and you draw into it, you'll end up triggering a shuffle that's full of nothing but Coppers/Estates and guarantee a dud on your following turn. For an example of what triggering a bad shuffle looks like, see this clip: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHmxoIawjKylmK8

[@diegosegreto3872]

@JNails!!!!!!!!! Brooooooooooooooooooooooooo thanks so much! This is really awesome Video 1 already helped me a lot!

[@andrewholm3946]

I got prosperity after about two years of playing and I LOVE the combos and interactions that it makes what would you think in the next expansion I should get for optimising decks and random kingdom game play. ( also what is the fastest possible dominion game) Thanks.

[@JacobNails1]

I think the most recent two expansions do a lot to enable strong combos. Menagerie adds a number of naturally complicated and interactive cards. Renaissance cards tend to be much simpler on face but most are strong engine enablers so they push you toward building bigger and more complex decks.

[@andrewholm3946]

@@JacobNails1 I was thinking about empires because it has a lot of strong engine pieces and I had some of the same mechanics as prosperity. I will look into Menagerie and Renaissance too thanks.