hi! i am former site chat and discussion* moderator schadd. i am also adept dominion player schadd! one time i bumped into someone on mafiauniverse who recognized my username from having written a few articles on the dominion strategy wiki, which was surreal.
i'd be interested in playing against mafiascum users and trying to see who can beat me. you'll have to take my word that the answer is 'pretty much anyone', although for sufficiently non-adept players it might take a really long time.
i'm opening myself up to being challenged!! you can ping me on discord if i'm online and theres a fairly large chance id be happy to play with you right then and there. additionally if you see that i'm logged in or like actively playing with someone on the website, i'd probably also be happy to switch gears. it is pretty simple to play online, if you have not done so i will talk u through it - you don't have to buy anything but you do have to make an account. additionally i am happy to explain unfamiliar cards / mechanics, though if you don't know the rules to the game i don't know if i'm the one to play it with for the first time. Lol
i would say the game of dominion is overwhelmingly skill-based, though like many things i can really only guarantee that to be true in the long run. on the basis of an individual set of 10 cards (plus bonus stuff), there's a lot of ways the skill element of the game can be reduced. a player called
something you could theoretically do is find some of those high-skill cards and ban them (see
additionally, i think that if you pay attention to what i'm doing, certain nuances of the strategy of the game will reveal themselves to you. you always have this point of comparison, like, what did it do that i didn't do, and how did that change its deck, etc. naively, you could just copy the cards that i buy, but i'm skeptical as to how far that could take you within a game (also i will always have challengers go first). i'm also just happy to comment on your choices in a game after we've finished. even if it's hard to learn some things on a game by game basis, maybe you'll see a little bit of beauty just watching the stuff that i do.
every time a player beats me or ties with me, i will post in this thread; when you beat me you will be immortalized in this opening post. you can request for me to post in the thread whenever i beat you, however this is optional. a handful of people are surely able to do so, such as something_smart (who is in fact like very close to my skill neighborhood. Lol.), isis (who has come very close to beating me in the past) and hellbooks (who has sporadically already beaten me in the past, which are not retroactively counted for the purposes of this thread). i only plan to do this with 2-player games, and in fact i don't think i'm remotely as good at 3-or-more-player games. each game will be played with complete random selection from every card
good luck everyone !!
*5/8/2022 edit: no idea whether i just meant to type "discord moderator" or if i meant to say discussion moderator and be lying