{"id":973,"date":"2019-04-08T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2023-10-16T02:15:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T02:15:24","slug":"bite-sized-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/bite-sized-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite-Sized: Tournament"},"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-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Tournament-1-1024x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Tournament-1-1024x273.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Tournament-1-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Tournament-1-768x205.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Tournament-1-1536x410.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Tournament-1.jpg 1863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the start of the game, tournament is already quite strong. Cantrip +$1 has an economic impact similar to Silver, and as your deck improves, it gets better than that fairly quickly. Additionally, compared to a pure payload card like a silver, the cantrip nature is much better for deck control, letting you more easily start chaining cards together.. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, the other text on the card is important, too. Note that turning off your opponent\u2019s Tournaments by revealing a Province can be a very big deal &#8211; often even bigger than gaining Prizes. If they would draw 3 tournaments in their turn, then by having a province in hand, you\u2019re denying them drawing 3 cards, plus 3 coins, and potentially more than that, as the lack of ability to draw also increases the chances that their turn stalls out.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prizes are also strong. Generally, Trusty Steed, Princess, and Followers are the strongest, and one of them is almost always taken first. Which of them is best is board-dependent &#8211; usually, look for what the rest of the board is missing (village, +buy\/payload for many-buys deck, discard attack). Taking other prizes &#8211; including duchy &#8211; is usually a consolation or an endgame play.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of the importance of Provinces on both these axes, getting to $8 faster is generally more important than normal.<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-tournament\/\">Continue Reading...<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Bite-Sized: Tournament\"<\/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-973","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\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamhorton.com\/flog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}