Editing Combo: Counting House and Travelling Fair

{{Infobox CardEventCombo
|name1 = Counting House
|name2 = Travelling Fair

|set1 = Prosperity
|set2 = Adventures
|type = Rush
|nocats =
}}

'''{{Card|Counting House}} and {{Card|Travelling Fair}}''' is a [[combo]] that uses Travelling Fair's [[+Buy]] and [[Top decker|top-decking]] to fuel Counting House to quickly buy out the Provinces.

== Article ==
Counting House is usually regarded as one of the weakest cards for its cost; while it can provide a substantial amount of {{Cost}}, it's reliant on how close to a [[reshuffle]] it's drawn, and its buying power can be undercut if there's no +Buy to use it.  Travelling Fair addresses both of these problems: once you're fielding enough {{Cost}}, it can top-deck a newly bought Counting House, as well as 4 {{Card|Copper|Coppers}}, preventing a reshuffle.

=== Step 1: Buy Coppers ===
Ignore all other [[Treasure]]s.  Buy Travelling Fair at every chance, and as many as you can, and just flood your deck with as many Coppers as you can buy.

=== Step 2: First Counting House ===
After a few turns, you're pretty much guaranteed a hand of 5 Coppers.  Buy a Counting House.

=== Step 3: Start the cycle ===
Once you draw the Counting House, you're more than likely to get at least 7 Coppers in hand.  Buy as many Travelling Fairs as you can (up to 4) until you have {{Cost|5}} remaining, then top-deck Counting House and 4 Coppers.  Since all the Coppers you used that turn will be discarded, your new Counting House will just draw them, since dropping 5 cards on top of your deck guarantees you won't shuffle.  If you can't afford all 4 TF's, just drop as many Coppers as you can on top of your deck, and hope it's enough to stop a reshuffle.

=== Step 4: Rinse and repeat ===
Since every turn you're just increasing your purchasing power by {{Cost|4}}, you can keep making that same buy (4 Travelling Fairs, 4 Coppers, 1 Counting House) over and over again.

=== Step 5: Buy {{Card|Province|Provinces}} ===
After a couple turns, once you make your obligatory 4-TF/1-CH buys, you'll have {{Cost|8}} or more left over.  Start using a Buy on a Province instead of a 4th Copper.  After a couple more turns, you should be buying multiple Provinces every turn.  In a solitaire game, you should be able to clean out the Provinces in around 12 turns.

=== Weaknesses ===
This is highly vulnerable to [[Attack]]s, particularly {{Card|Pillage}}, which can discard your Counting House, {{Card|Cutpurse}}, which can stymie your first Counting House Buy, and {{Card|Minion}} and any [[deck inspection attack]] or [[deck order attack]], which can force a reshuffle.  However, this strategy is a bit more resistant to [[junker]]s, especially after you have your first Counting House, since you won't be shuffling anyway, as well as most [[handsize attack]]s, since you can just discard Coppers.

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