Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

With me tonight for a special Fourth of July vacation edition of Three Moves Ahead, brought to you by Comcast, is Julian Murdoch.

Julian, welcome to show.

You make that sound like we might legitimately have a sponsor that was paying us, that was Comcast.

God, that we should make clear that that is totally not the case.

No, that's true.

This episode is sort of sponsored by Comcast and that their failure to provide internet

service to Corey Banks is one reason why it's just me and Julian tonight.

We were going to talk about the various board

games you've been playing with Corey out there in California, correct? Well, that was one of

the things, but we also have been sort of punting the whole, this whole issue of card-based

strategy games a little bit, right? It's one that we keep saying, oh, well, we'll wait till we get the

stars aligned and have Richard Borg on or whatever. And so we keep sort of pushing that one down

the road. So I've been playing a lot of card-based strategy stuff lately. I figured we might as

well go for it, get it out of the way. What have you been playing lately that brought this topic

to mine for you? Well, so, I mean, most of our listeners that have been playing board games

will probably be familiar with Dominion.

It was one of the big games of the last two years.

And it's a deck-building game, right?

It's based off of similar kinds of games like Magic and Pokemon in that, you know, the end result is you have a deck that is somewhat unique to you.

But the thing that Dominion introduced was the idea that the game is about building the deck, not about sitting in your basement, figuring out the optimal broken power combination to then go play.

And so you basically have either, in the case of Dominion,

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