by Antistone
donaldx wrote:
Anyway it's not a trivial deadlock, though it might look like that to the players if it came up. A key thing is that it's just four cards, so I can have whatever 5th card, and that card can drastically change things.
2 Bishop + 2 Fortress is only four cards, but I don't see any particular reason you'd stop there. Why not an 8-card deck with 4 Bishop + 4 Fortress? Then you're getting 12 VP per turn, and there's no wiggle room left to buy and trash Estates without sacrificing your lead against an opponent doing the same thing (even taking advantage of their Bishops).
Which still doesn't make this worse than King's Court / Monument, but I don't think it's better, either. And it's probably easier to set up (since the most expensive card is $4 and the Bishops can trash your bootstrapping cards).