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You can buy actions out of the Black Market deck after getting hit by Deluded.

The 2017 Dominion Online Championships were quite an exciting tournament. With a turnout of 389 players, it was the biggest dominion tournament ever, as well as the debut of new tournament-friendly features on the new dominion client.

To make it far in a tournament, you have to play well. Some games are one from clever plays on both sides. But some games are also decided by P1 advantage and shuffle luck. You need a little luck at precisely the right time, and boy did that happen here.

In the semifinals, I was down 1-3 against jsh357, then won a couple of engine games to force a game 7. I thinned down with Donate, built up a Plaza/Witch engine, and won the Plaza split, partially at least, due to P1 advantage.

Then in the finals, I was down 1-3 against Mercury444F, then won a couple of engine games to force a game 7. I thinned down with Remake/Bonfire, built up a Plaza/Witch engine, and won the Plaza split, partially at least, due to P1 advantage.

Recording of my matches (including the finals) are up on youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfrY5CAun1zLiG3FfOrgRxzNAirHJIPVH

A big thanks to Shuffle IT for hosting the tournament. Another big thanks goes out to the moderation team -  drsteelhammer, assemble_me, Deadlock39 and irrationalE.

And finally, a big thanks to the community for coming out and competing, spectating and discussing. It was great to see so many people excited about competitive dominion come together for this event.

See you next year!
-Dan Brooks

On Possession/Baths boards, each Possession turn Bath triggers for 2VP tokens which should be transferred to the player who played Possession according to recent rulings (below).
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=16860.msg674518#msg674518
http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Baths

Online it appears to be the opposite. I played a game where the player getting possessed took the Baths tokens.

Issues in: #628947 on oregon

There were some stability issues at the end of a long black market game.

After attempting to undo a princed cellar, the client begins to slow down for all three players in the game. After a (maybe related) blue screen, logging in takes longer than usual as well.

On turn 20, I attempt to undo an action phase crown, which results in a number of visual bugs. Buying black market appeared to reduce the black market in supply by two. Each card in my hand had a two in the upper left.

Really weird. Early game was fine. I think undo was related.

Anecdotally, if both players have the same starting hands and opening, the first shuffle is identically. Including the player number in the random number seeding could create divergent and deterministic shuffles.

As of a day ago specifying [use colonies] resulted in games without colonies twice in a row.

Playing a golem into an envoy results in the game freezing. The choice on envoy can't go through.

Created a game, set min/max rating to +/-100, left and then rejoined. The game feature screen shows:

Min relative rating: [object Object]
Max relative rating: [object Object]

When a friends list is long enough to scroll, increasing the font size in chrome causes the names to hang over the bottom of the white boundary. The boundary should extend with the font size - white_div_size = 10 * (font_height + buffer))

So here is an idea for a long-term feature that I think would be interesting (and generate publicity).

A 24/7 twitch stream that spectates matches in progress. After 1 game finishes it would move to another.