DO isn't quite as catchy as MTGO...

Hello everyone! As I have mentioned before, I am a huge fan of the deck-building game Dominion, and thanks to Sam Black over at SCG I found a website that lets you play Dominion online against other people: http://dominion.isotropic.org/ It's a very simple site, theres no flashy advertising or visuals, or even sound, but I often find myself so engaged in playing that I don't even realized when 5 games and 2 hours have gone by! This website is awesome because you don't have to pay any money, it randomizes the games from all domion sets released to date, and even ranks you and others based on how succesful you are in your expanding.

I used to do game recaps in magic turn by turn, but it was always a little odd. Sometimes I would miss important details which skrew up the game, but also the board is always developing which makes it hard to follow a game via play-by-play. In Dominion, there is no board, so you can understand what's going on if you read a game replay. Conveniently, this website also records all your games for you as you go. Here's a replay of a game I won against a n00b, which makes me look better at dominion than I really am: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201103/21/game-20110321-164319-f9b28450.html.gz

I have been having a ton of fun grinding out games of domion online while all my Dominion playing friends (probably the only people who read this blog) are back to college. If you want to play some Dominion against me, go on and find either "rLack" or "rLack2" and request a game! Also, for you spikes out there, there is a Domion strategy blog called http://dominionstrategy.com/. I personally haven't perused it too much, but if you want to win all the time and make everyone else feel bad when you play your whole deck every turn, then I  suggest this blog for you.

In my games I came across 1 insane combo that I simply can't keep to myself!
Key cards: Native Village, Pirate Ship

Every turn he used a Native Village, pitching the top card of his deck away until later, then he would follow that up by hitting me with a Pirate Ship, then pass without buying anything. After several turns of this happening, he soon had only 5 cards in his entire deck/hand/discard pile aka his hand was everything. Now he hits me with a Pirate Ship every turn until it goes to 8. Then every turn he pitches a card with the Native Village, and then buys another Province with the Pirate Ship. Sounds fair right? With a 5 card deck you can memorize it, and then know whether it's profitibal to use Native Village or not, because losing your Pirate Ship makes things get awkward...

But I am having a ton of fun playing domion online, if you came across me some time, give me a hollar! Until next time, stay classy!