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| |name = Delve | | |name = Delve |
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| == Strategy == | | == Strategy == |
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− | Delve can get you 3 Silvers in the opening, giving you significantly better odds of hitting 5, 6, and 5 twice on turns 3 and 4 than most other openings. This is especially relevant in games where you can use the extra Silvers profitably later, either via trash for benefit or because the board is weak and Silver is likely to remain an above-median card in your deck into the endgame. Delve is fast enough that it can occasionally enable a money strategy to beat a weak engine, but don't let it trick you into not building a deck if there's a deck to be built.
| + | Synergies: |
| + | Big Money |
| + | Feodum |
| + | Other Alt-VP games |
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− | Delve is notably strong with {{Card|Feodum}}, and can sometimes even be played as a monolithic strategy. This has been benchmarked as follows:
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− | | + | Strong engines (especially with virtual money) |
− | Turn 11: 0 piles, ~27-30 VP
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− | Turn 13-14: 1 pile, ~50 VP
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− | Turn 23-24: 3 piles, ~115 VP
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− | Tip: Start greening on turn 6
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− | ===Synergies===
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− | * Money strategies
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− | * {{Card|Feodum}}
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− | ===Antisynergies===
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− | * Strong engines (especially with virtual money)
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− | * [[Prosperity]] games, especially with {{Card|Platinum}} and {{Card|Colony}}
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− | * {{Event|Bandit Fort}}
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| == Versions == | | == Versions == |
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| !Finnish | | !Finnish |
| | Kaivanto (lit. ''excavation'') || || || | | | Kaivanto (lit. ''excavation'') || || || |
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− | !French
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− | | Trouée (lit. ''gap'') || || || '''+1 Achat'''. Recevez un Argent.
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| !German | | !German |
− | | Erforschen (lit. ''to explore'') ||{{LandscapeLangVersionImage|German}}|| {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} ||'''+1 Kauf'''<br>Nimm ein Silber. | + | | Erforschen (lit. ''to explore'') || || || |
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| !Japanese | | !Japanese |
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| |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] |
| |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15660.0 The Secret History of the Empires Cards] | | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15660.0 The Secret History of the Empires Cards] |
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− | === Comparison with (buying) Silver ===
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− | {{Quote|Text=The main problem with {{Card|Silver}}-with-a-bonus for {{Cost|4}} (for games where people want {{Card|Silver}} and aren't gaining it with a {{Card|Silver}}-gainer) is that the pile just automatically empties. It's also not great that then you have that bonus in your deck, but didn't care about it at all, weren't making a decision there.
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− | Delve has neither issue; it hits the {{Card|Silver}} pile rather than a new 10-card pile, and those {{Card|Silver}}s have no other abilities.
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− | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
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− | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18737.msg760116#msg760116 is royal seal underrated?]
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| {{Navbox Empires}} | | {{Navbox Empires}} |
| {{Navbox Cards}} | | {{Navbox Cards}} |