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TheFunfighter

Looking for fun combinations of Menagerie with other sets

I bought Menagrie on a whim yesterday, and are now playtesting it a bit in combination with my other sets. If you got any fun combinations of 2-4 cards (or even entire boards), I'd like to hear about them. Trying everything on my own is a little overwhelming at 170+ cards.

I own: Base (2E), Seaside, Hinterlands, Dark Ages, Adventures, Menagerie.

So far I had some fun with a kingdom that had Sheepdog, IGG and Wayfarer. Also seeing some potential with Goatheard and Dark Ages in general.

Posted Aug 22, 2020, 1:41 PM UTC

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Snip3•

The ways combo well with rats from dark ages or the travelers (page and peasant) from adventures. I think they're the best part of menagerie, and really add interesting layers to a board. In particular, way of the chameleon really can create new potential strategies if you look for them. I remember an awesome set with it, miser and Hamlet where I was able to alternate between drawing 7 and gaining 7 coins with my misers.

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Snip3•

I should mention the traveler combo is that they all read "when this is discarded from play" for leveling up separate from their action text, so when you play them as a way you can still progress to the next traveler if you want

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ObamaTimeTravel•

Dark Ages is great because the combination of Shelters and Ways spices up everyone's starting hand.

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DominionCardBot•

These are the cards mentioned in this post:

Menagerie - 3◯ - Action - Cornucopia

+1 Action
Reveal your hand. If the revealed cards all have different names, +3 Cards. Otherwise, +1 Card.

Sheepdog - 3◯ - Action, Reaction - Menagerie

+2 Cards
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
When you gain a card, you may play this from your hand.

Wayfarer - 6*◯ - Action - Menagerie

+3 Cards
You may gain a Silver.
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
This has the same cost as the last other card gained this turn, if any.

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TheFunfighterOPBorder Villages > Gold•

2/3

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Narwhals64Throne Room Main•

To be fair, even I have no idea what IGG is

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UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2•

Iggy is Ill Gotten Gains, the treasure that gives out a Curse when you gain it

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TheFunfighterOPBorder Villages > Gold•

I was actually referencing the false positive with Menagerie

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ObamaTimeTravel•

Hinterlands also has a lot of "when you gain this" bonuses, which makes it very interesting when you have IGG, Falconer, Destrier, and Sheepdog and all players are gaining multiple cards per turn.

Although you don't get the on-gain bonuses if you acquire the card directly to your exile mat, which is kind of a bummer.

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TheFunfighterOPBorder Villages > Gold•

Ok, maybe Beggar becomes interesting with Destrier and maybe some sort of trashing. Also offering a strong alt-VP strat with Black Cat could be fun.

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UBKUBK•

Black Cat with the Lost Arts event which gives plus action and no other cursers. Each player gets to 5 Black Cats and then who is daring enough to buy Green?

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TheFunfighterOPBorder Villages > Gold•

Black Cat is one of my favourites from Menagerie. Such a unique and well-themed card. Really happy in general that Menagerie has so many reaction cards.

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