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== Strategy == | == Strategy == | ||
| − | Mint is a [[terminal]] [[Treasure]] [[gainer]] with a relatively important on- | + | Mint is a [[terminal]] [[Treasure]] [[gainer]] with a relatively important on-buy [[thinning]] effect. If the [[Kingdom]] offers more convenient ways to trash your {{Card|Copper|Coppers}}, Mint is likely to be skippable; however, it can be a serviceable way to achieve thinning, especially if strong Treasures are present so that you have further use for the Mint after buying it. |
| − | Mint's trashing effect provides a way to get rid of your starting {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} and is most likely to be relevant for this purpose if there are no good alternatives, such as {{Card|Counterfeit}}. Because Mint trashes all of your Treasures in play when | + | Mint's trashing effect provides a way to get rid of your starting {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} and is most likely to be relevant for this purpose if there are no good alternatives, such as {{Card|Counterfeit}}. Because Mint trashes all of your Treasures in play when bought, it is at its best thinning when you can get as many {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} into play as possible, although you will have to weigh this against trying to thin as early as possible. In the simplest case, you can use five {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} to buy Mint and trash them all; a Mint trash is also sometimes worthwhile even if you can only get four {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} into play (supplementing the {{Cost}} using another source such as a [[Peddler variant]] or a {{Card|Silver}}), but only rarely with less than that. This is due both to the [[opportunity cost]] of not buying another {{Cost|5}} card and the fact that Mint itself is a [[stop card]]—if you add it to your deck while only trashing three {{Card|Copper|Coppers}}, you’ve only effectively thinned two cards. Occasionally, you can trash more than five {{Card|Copper|Coppers}}, which sometimes makes it worthwhile to delay Mint until you can [[draw]] a big hand. Ways to spike a larger hand size before achieving deck control, such as {{Event|Expedition}}, can help enable this sooner. |
Trashing a large number of {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} with Mint drastically thins your deck and greatly helps you with [[deck control]], but because it can remove a large portion of your payload, it can be important to have a way to restore this to be able to afford price points and continue [[build]]ing. An extreme case is opening with Mint when you have a {{Split|5|2}} split, which might cripple you as you are unable to buy anything costing more than {{Cost|2}}. Potentially useful effects include ways to transform the Mint itself into payload, such as with {{Event|Advance}} or {{Way|Way of the Butterfly}}, and cheap ways to add payload, such as with {{Event|Delve}} or {{Event|Alms}}. {{Card|Fool's Gold}} synergizes doubly with Mint: not only is it a cheap payload option that you can copy with Mint to gain in bulk, it also greatly benefits from the immediate, heavy thinning. {{Card|Page}} is a similarly good option: {{Card|Treasure Hunter}} can restore your payload in the short term, {{Card|Hero}} can provide good targets for Mint later, and in the meantime the thinning helps you advance your [[Traveller]]s quickly. An early Mint can also synergize with [[trash-for-benefit]] effects such as {{Card|Remodel}}, both to trash the Mint and your {{Card|Estate|Estates}}. | Trashing a large number of {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} with Mint drastically thins your deck and greatly helps you with [[deck control]], but because it can remove a large portion of your payload, it can be important to have a way to restore this to be able to afford price points and continue [[build]]ing. An extreme case is opening with Mint when you have a {{Split|5|2}} split, which might cripple you as you are unable to buy anything costing more than {{Cost|2}}. Potentially useful effects include ways to transform the Mint itself into payload, such as with {{Event|Advance}} or {{Way|Way of the Butterfly}}, and cheap ways to add payload, such as with {{Event|Delve}} or {{Event|Alms}}. {{Card|Fool's Gold}} synergizes doubly with Mint: not only is it a cheap payload option that you can copy with Mint to gain in bulk, it also greatly benefits from the immediate, heavy thinning. {{Card|Page}} is a similarly good option: {{Card|Treasure Hunter}} can restore your payload in the short term, {{Card|Hero}} can provide good targets for Mint later, and in the meantime the thinning helps you advance your [[Traveller]]s quickly. An early Mint can also synergize with [[trash-for-benefit]] effects such as {{Card|Remodel}}, both to trash the Mint and your {{Card|Estate|Estates}}. | ||
