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"'''Blue dog'''" is an in-joke used to refer to any interaction in Dominion which seems overly convoluted.
 
"'''Blue dog'''" is an in-joke used to refer to any interaction in Dominion which seems overly convoluted.
  
==Background==
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== Background ==
 
With the release of [[Hinterlands]], many members of the Dominion community had questions on how exactly {{Card|Trader}} interacted with {{Card|Ironworks}}.  Over the course of a long thread on [[Board Game Geek]], while changing his mind on the ruling a number of times, [[Donald X]] introduced an opaque metaphor involving walking a blue dog ([http://boardgamegeek.com/article/7743728#7743728 original post]) in an attempt to clarify the interaction.  This, at the time, only served to further confuse the issue, though it later turned into a fun reference to use in Dominion-related conversation about card interactions that are hard to understand.
 
With the release of [[Hinterlands]], many members of the Dominion community had questions on how exactly {{Card|Trader}} interacted with {{Card|Ironworks}}.  Over the course of a long thread on [[Board Game Geek]], while changing his mind on the ruling a number of times, [[Donald X]] introduced an opaque metaphor involving walking a blue dog ([http://boardgamegeek.com/article/7743728#7743728 original post]) in an attempt to clarify the interaction.  This, at the time, only served to further confuse the issue, though it later turned into a fun reference to use in Dominion-related conversation about card interactions that are hard to understand.
  
The final ruling on the original question was that, if Ironworks is used to gain a card, but Trader is revealed to replace the Ironworks' gain with a {{card|Silver}}, the Ironworks produces no bonus because in the end it failed to gain a card at all. Ironworks provides a bonus contingent on it actually gaining a card, not merely selecting a card to be gained.
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The final ruling on the original question was that, if Ironworks is used to gain a card, but Trader is revealed to replace the Ironworks' gain with a {{Card|Silver}}, the Ironworks produces no bonus because in the end it failed to gain a card at all. Ironworks provides a bonus contingent on it actually gaining a card, not merely selecting a card to be gained.
  
 
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Revision as of 11:05, 19 September 2013

"Blue dog" is an in-joke used to refer to any interaction in Dominion which seems overly convoluted.

Background

With the release of Hinterlands, many members of the Dominion community had questions on how exactly TraderTrader.jpg interacted with IronworksIronworks.jpg. Over the course of a long thread on Board Game Geek, while changing his mind on the ruling a number of times, Donald X introduced an opaque metaphor involving walking a blue dog (original post) in an attempt to clarify the interaction. This, at the time, only served to further confuse the issue, though it later turned into a fun reference to use in Dominion-related conversation about card interactions that are hard to understand.

The final ruling on the original question was that, if Ironworks is used to gain a card, but Trader is revealed to replace the Ironworks' gain with a SilverSilver.jpg, the Ironworks produces no bonus because in the end it failed to gain a card at all. Ironworks provides a bonus contingent on it actually gaining a card, not merely selecting a card to be gained.


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