{"id":967,"date":"2019-04-07T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2023-10-16T02:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T02:13:55","slug":"bite-sized-silk-merchant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/bite-sized-silk-merchant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite-Sized: Silk Merchant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Bite-Sized series of articles is meant to take the most powerful cards in Dominion and give a short explanation of what makes them powerful.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Silk_Merchant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Silk_Merchant.jpg 391w, https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Silk_Merchant-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Silk Merchant provides a little bit of everything you want at the start of the game. It increases your payload with the on-gain coffer (which is really, really good at hitting early price points. Opening SM and silver, you\u2019re likely to be able to hit 5 twice, or up to 7 once, on turns 3-4). It increases your deck control with the draw, and the Villager. The villagers it gives helps you pick them up without much fear, which you\u2019d normally otherwise have with a terminal, even though it\u2019s also a drawing card. Extra buys are also something you want to pick up fairly often, and on Silk Merchant, you\u2019re getting them on a card which already otherwise furthers your game plan, making the cost of getting that +buy quite small.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having said this, you can\u2019t usually build a deck just from these &#8211; they are terminal draw, and if you spam these and only these, you don\u2019t end up with much of a deck at all &#8211; you eventually won\u2019t have enough villagers to play them all, and you don\u2019t have much lasting payload. So you want to use the card more as a role player, combining with things like villages and economy in order to maximize your deck\u2019s effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The on-trash effect is also a nice bonus and is usually quite strong wherever there\u2019s something that gives you benefit for trashing a card (especially one which cares about the card\u2019s cost).<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bite-Sized series of articles is meant to take the most powerful cards in Dominion and give a short explanation<span class=\"more-dots\">&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"more-tag d-block mt-15\"><a class=\"more-link wp-block-button__link icon-inline\" href=\"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/bite-sized-silk-merchant\/\">Continue Reading...<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Bite-Sized: Silk Merchant\"<\/span><\/a><\/span><!-- .more-tag --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitesized","category-dominion","category-tabletopgames","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}