Need boardgame recommendation

[zebano]

I don't know what cards you are playing with typically, but this is not my experience with gardens. With some sets of cards, this will be the dominant strategy (Ironworks+Gardens is a beast; workshop+gardens is fairly good as well), but with others (no "gain a card" cards), not really. You don't need a sparse deck or trash-heavy cards to counter gardens. A gardens player will tend to have way less purchasing power and a lot more clutter than a non-gardens player. If you can make it so that they don't get to the 40 card mark, you have some of the gardens, and you focus on duchies or provinces quickly, you should be able to win.

Now that you have prosperity, there is one killer counter to most garden sets available: Bishop. http://dominionstrategy.com/2011/02/23/counter-of-the-day-10-bishop-v-gardens/

There's some additional tips for countering it here, though the article mostly focuses on when gardens works: http://dominionstrategy.com/2010/12/16/dominion-gardens/

I've only played with prosperity once so I'll have to see how that affects things (it was a goon dominated game). You are right that if there are no gain cards it's harder to make gardens work but they just seem to be so common that it is a rare game where gardens exist and don't make sense.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Heh the only "banned" card we have in Dominion is Saboteur.

I have seen gardens work, I have also seen Gardens fail multiple times. My absolute favorite card of all the sets is Chapel. My absolute most worthless card in the sets is Loan. My most hated set is Alchemy. My favorite set is Prosperity (although Cornucopia is a close second).

 

[torpid]

Heh the only "banned" card we have in Dominion is Saboteur.

I have seen gardens work, I have also seen Gardens fail multiple times. My absolute favorite card of all the sets is Chapel. My absolute most worthless card in the sets is Loan. My most hated set is Alchemy. My favorite set is Prosperity (although Cornucopia is a close second).

Loan is a decent card to trash coppers if no other means of trashing cards exists. Most worthless for us is surely pearl diver.

 

[mugs]

Heh the only "banned" card we have in Dominion is Saboteur.

I have seen gardens work, I have also seen Gardens fail multiple times. My absolute favorite card of all the sets is Chapel. My absolute most worthless card in the sets is Loan. My most hated set is Alchemy. My favorite set is Prosperity (although Cornucopia is a close second).

Yeah Alchemy is terrible, Prosperity is great. I haven't played Cornucopia yet, but I like Seaside a lot - I really like the Duration cards.

I have so many cards now that I don't play Dominion often because I hate transporting it, and I hate setting it up and tearing it down. But when I do play it's usually good for 3 or 4 games, and I just switch out a few cards between games (nominated by the players) to keep it fresh and reduce the setup between games.

 

[JTsyo]

Heh the only "banned" card we have in Dominion is Saboteur.

I have seen gardens work, I have also seen Gardens fail multiple times. My absolute favorite card of all the sets is Chapel. My absolute most worthless card in the sets is Loan. My most hated set is Alchemy. My favorite set is Prosperity (although Cornucopia is a close second).

We prefer not to have Saboteur and Swindler in the same game. It wrecks decks and slows down the game as people discard and pick new cards.

Best gardens run I've seen was with bridge/ironworks. Totally destroyed everyone else.