Village idiot
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"'''Village idiot'''" is a derogatory term for an inexperienced Dominion player who buys too many {{Card|Village|Villages}}. Although Village is almost never a harmful card to have in one's deck, and its +2 Actions bonus looks appealing, it carries a potentially heavy [[opportunity cost]]: every turn you buy a Village is a turn you could have bought a {{Card|Silver}} and didn't. Since Village produces no +{{Cost|}}, buying Villages doesn't improve your ability to buy cards in any way. Its only value is in increasing the number of [[terminal]] [[Action]]s you can play each turn; but over-investing in Villages leaves the Village Idiot player without enough money to regularly buy the powerful terminal Actions that the Villages are useful to support. | "'''Village idiot'''" is a derogatory term for an inexperienced Dominion player who buys too many {{Card|Village|Villages}}. Although Village is almost never a harmful card to have in one's deck, and its +2 Actions bonus looks appealing, it carries a potentially heavy [[opportunity cost]]: every turn you buy a Village is a turn you could have bought a {{Card|Silver}} and didn't. Since Village produces no +{{Cost|}}, buying Villages doesn't improve your ability to buy cards in any way. Its only value is in increasing the number of [[terminal]] [[Action]]s you can play each turn; but over-investing in Villages leaves the Village Idiot player without enough money to regularly buy the powerful terminal Actions that the Villages are useful to support. | ||
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Revision as of 16:46, 13 June 2013
"Village idiot" is a derogatory term for an inexperienced Dominion player who buys too many Villages. Although Village is almost never a harmful card to have in one's deck, and its +2 Actions bonus looks appealing, it carries a potentially heavy opportunity cost: every turn you buy a Village is a turn you could have bought a Silver and didn't. Since Village produces no +, buying Villages doesn't improve your ability to buy cards in any way. Its only value is in increasing the number of terminal Actions you can play each turn; but over-investing in Villages leaves the Village Idiot player without enough money to regularly buy the powerful terminal Actions that the Villages are useful to support.