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Artisan is a really good card, you should almost always pick it over gold unless you´re playing something really money based.

And just one other thing, a little bit of general adice, try always to look beyond gold´s $6 price tag... More often than not your first $6 should be just an $5 card, $5 actions make somewhat the bulk of elite actions in Dominion and are frequently the most important cards to get quickly in a given kingdom (which is also why Artisan is a really good card)

Also had this problem happen a couple of times while trying to replay (not from the start) an loaded game... Nobles was also in the game and empty for the most part


Original game id: 3465091

This is one of the games that ended up stuck at the last turn:  #3465728

Some things do not need a disclaimer for people to know it´s wrong and that it´s a bannable offense. Just the smallest bit of common sense and a basic degree of human decency is enough.

I just tested this and it does seem wrong, here is how it´s reported in the log

g plays a Throne Room.
g plays an Engineer.
g gains a Throne Room.
g trashes an Engineer.
g gains a Throne Room.
g plays an Engineer again.
g gains 2 Throne Rooms.

I actually did this a few times a while back and the game would always freeze around turn 16, so I believe it´s definetely reproduceable. I did have one game that managed to come to an end, and that featured Torturer, making me have to respond to the gain a curse prompt a few times.

This is probably right actually, assuming you had previously played exactly one action, playing Band o Misfits as Conspirator, should give you +1 card +1 action. I find this one of the most counterintuitive rulings in Dominion, and Donald himself changed position on this over time (see here http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=11518.0).

It´s also explained on the wiki http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Band_of_Misfits under Other Rules Claridications.

The opposite (marking shelters as no, and then switching to random) also seems to get you stuck with no shelters for subsequent games, colonies/plat seem to be working fine.

I just played in the monoset tournament against Awaclus, and our first game was Dark Ages only (with shelters on), after this game I put shelters on random and we played other 5 games each with a different set  and in every single one of them we had shelters. I don´t know if it was even possible to get shelters on those matches since there were no Dark Ages cards, but even if it is possible the probability would be quite low.

So I´m not sure if it was a bug or just a very low probability event, either way I thought it might be better to report it. It´s not exactly an essential bug to get fixed either...

Just to note, it was always in the same table hosted by me. Sorry I didn´t record the numbers assigned to the games.


Edit: I just reproduced against a bot, and it´s most definetely a bug.

Joining game #405579 on frankfurt. (Shelters on)
Joining game #405598 on tokyo.     (Shelters random)
Joining game #405604 on frankfurt. (Shelters random)
Joining game #405620 on oregon.    (Shelters random)
Joining game #405627 on oregon.    (Shelters random)
Joining game #405631 on tokyo.     (Shelters random)
Joining game #405633 on tokyo.

With Goons/Forum/Trader/Cost Reduction you can literally score as many points as you wish in a single turn. Just make Forum cost 0, have a Goons in play and Trader in hand, then keep buying Forum and reaveling Trader to gain a silver, which you can do even after the silver pile is gone!

Being a 4-card combo does mean it´s quite unlikely for it to show up in a fully randomlly chosen kingdom, but  if you actually put all those cards in the game, it isn´t that hard to pull off. If Highway is the cost reduction I´d say you would only need a half decent engine around it (or just pretty much any trashing that´s better than Trader).