Sage + Apothecary

[Shaq]

Hey, up to this point I thought a card with a potion cost ist always worth more than a card with just coin cost.
So my sage was discarding my topdecked apothecary last game?
Was my assumption wrong all that past time?

[WhiteRabbit1981]

You where wrong!

2 < 2P
and
P + 2 = 2P

but
2P is not smaller than 3 and
2P is not larger than 3.

it works like complex numbers in mathematics do.

[Shaq]

2P is not smaller than 3 and
2P is not larger than 3.

does that mean 2p = 2?

[markus]

No, Apothecary costs more than Estate.
If it costs the same number of coins but also Potion or Debt, it costs more.

[Ingix]

it works like complex numbers in mathematics do.

Not sure what you want to say, but complex numbers and ordering don't mix. It is not true that 1 < 1+i or something like that. They are *all* incomparable. That's different from Dominion, where *some* card costs are incomparable (2P and 3) while others are comparable (4P and 3). The mathematical term for that is a partial order.