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== Strategy ==
 
== Strategy ==
  
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.
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Delve is a very good Event for {{Cost|2}}, allowing you to gain a {{Card|Silver}} for {{Cost|2}}, and it doesn't even use up a buy. Opening {{Cost|3}}-{{Cost|4}} can get you 3 Silvers, fantastic in a [[Big Money]] game. Another neat time to use it is whenever you have {{Cost|2}} more than you need for buying the card you want to buy, eliminating those pesky {{Cost|10}}s you always seem to get.(Sorry, {{Card|King's Castle}}!) Delve is also good in these situations:
  
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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*{{Card|Duke}}-{{Card|Duchy}} rushes, where the extra Silver can keep you going until the end of the game, despite having an extra 16-24 Victory cards in your deck.
  
    Turn 11: 0 piles, ~27-30 VP
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* {{Card|Gardens}} games, where the extra Silver keeps you going and gives you a lot of Victory points.
    Turn 13-14: 1 pile, ~50 VP
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    Turn 23-24: 3 piles, ~115 VP
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*{{Card|Feodum}} games, where the Silver gives you ''a lot'' of Victory points.
    Tip: Start greening on turn 6
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*Games with {{Card|Embargo}} [[tokens]] enjoying themselves on the Silver pile, since the wording on Embargo states that players only gain a {{Card|Curse}} if they buy a card with an  Embargo token on it's pile, not gain, hence creating a loophole for Delve.
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It's not so good in [[Prosperity]] games with {{Card|Platinum}} and {{Card|Colony}}, because Silver in a Colony game is only somewhat better than {{Card|Copper}} in a {{Card|Province}} game, especially with all those swanky [[Treasure|Treasures]] in Prosperity.
  
 
===Synergies===
 
===Synergies===
* Money strategies
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*Big Money
* {{Card|Feodum}}
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*{{Card|Feodum}}
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*Other Alt-VP games ({{Card|Gardens}}, {{Card|Duke}}-{{Card|Duchy}})
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*{{Card|Embargo}} on the {{Card|Silver}}
  
 
===Antisynergies===
 
===Antisynergies===
* Strong engines (especially with virtual money)
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*Strong engines (especially with virtual money)
* [[Prosperity]] games, especially with {{Card|Platinum}} and {{Card|Colony}}
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*[[Prosperity]] games, especially with {{Card|Platinum}} and {{Card|Colony}}
* {{Event|Bandit Fort}}
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*{{Event|Bandit Fort}}
  
 
== Versions ==
 
== Versions ==

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