Category Archives: Dark Ages

Dark Ages: Ironmonger

This article incorporates analysis from mischiefmaker and DrFlux. By itself, Ironmonger is surprisingly strong.  Solo play suggests that straight Ironmonger-Money is about equivalent to Smithy-Money: 14-17 turns to get to 4 Provinces and some Duchies. In a more diverse deck, … Continue reading

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Dark Ages: Scavenger

This article is written by sffc, originally posted on the forum. Scavenger is a card whose power may not be obvious at first glance.  It looks a whole lot like the card Chancellor always wanted to be, similar to how … Continue reading

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The Secret History of Dark Ages

The “Secret Histories” are a series of articles by Donald X. Vaccarino, detailing the evolution and development of a particular expansion. Previous “Secret Histories” can be found here; the forum discussion topic for this is here. When I showed Dominion … Continue reading

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Dark Ages cards revealed!

The community is discussing these new cards in the Dark Ages Preview subforum. You can see images of most of the cards here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20240121/dark_ages/1.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20240121/dark_ages/2.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20240121/dark_ages/3.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20240121/dark_ages/4.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20240121/dark_ages/5.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20240121/dark_ages/6.jpeg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20240121/dark_ages/7.jpeg Altar $6 Trash a card from your hand. Gain a … Continue reading

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