Open door 23 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Counting House
by Sharur
(to the tune of Ghost Riders in the Sky)

I am a Copper Strategist,
Don’t care for normal draws.
Avoiding thinning’s my real test,
And treasures are my cause.
I scour kingdoms ‘cross the land,
As I search far and wide.
Each starting card, to understand,
The power that’s inside!

Is it today? I need to know!
Is Counting House the buy?

It’s only good in combo decks,
The foolish masses claim.
They’ll eat their words when they get wrecked
By Counting House next game!
A Cellar or a Warehouse,
Surely there will be a Way.
Perhaps if Beggar is the Mouse,
Providing loads of pay.

Is it today? I need to know!
Is Counting House the buy?

But now with new Prosperity,
This key card’s been unmade.
A tragic victim of the
Anti-Copper deck crusade.
The strategies that once I did
Reduced to just a shell.
To Counting House, I can but bid
Safe trav’ling, fare thee well.

Is it today? I need to know!
Is Counting House the buy?

Open door 22 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Silk Road
by saltroza

In the annals of history, myriad nodes
Have been braided and twined into splendid silk roads,
Each traversed till there wasn’t a road left to wend
As it twisted away to a sudden dead end.

Over empires and centuries, goods were conveyed
On a byzantine network that bustled with trade,
Bearing merchants and artisans, spices and wine
Till it frayed into rapid, unhappy decline.

In a web woven later, a corner was dimmed;
With elixirs and murk, there a marketplace brimmed —
Till their ciphers were broken, their leaders arraigned;
As the threads came unravelled, their blocks were unchained.

And the last of the roads, not so keenly adored,
Was an emerald whose shine was too often ignored:
Though well groomed, and itself an admirer of green,
Now it's curved into dust and departed the scene.

So we relish unpicking the warp and the weft
Let the track overgrow; may the trace that is left
Form a place tucked away in a lush, verdant dale
Where we someday might frolic: an untroubled trail.

Open door 21 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Sea Hag
by seanahan

Born by the sea
Raised on its shores
She could see the future,
But only a little

And what she saw brought ruin
And what she saw brought pain
She could see the future,
But only a little

Your future you see, is not yet woven
And the patterns in the deck she could tweak
She could tweak the future, you see
But only a little
And they wanted more

So they hated her and hunted her and despised her for her gifts
And they cast her out into the waters
So she painted her hair bright
And by the pale torch light
She cursed their futures
But only a little

And now she has left us
No more to bring slogs
Never a chance to trigger guard dogs
I know she brought pain
But only a little

In a way we will miss her,
But only a little

Open door 20 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Oracle
by saltroza

The oracle could tell you what’s in store:
In bygone days, she’d share her delphic gift,
But won’t dispense her wisdom any more.

Just drawing through your deck is such a chore;
You’d rather make this shuffle sweet and swift?
The oracle could tell you what’s in store.

Commander of the cards’ elusive lore,
She’d cause the decks to bend and flex and shift —
But won’t dispense her wisdom any more.

Perhaps you hoped your chariots would score?
She’d help you, if you’d only catch her drift:
The oracle could tell you what’s in store.

Although a card we’d frequently ignore,
She offered draw compatible with thrift,
But won’t dispense her wisdom any more.

Perhaps she saw the reaper at her door;
Now huts on legs can draw and curse and sift.
The oracle could tell you what’s in store,
But won’t dispense her wisdom any more.

Open door 19 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Odes of the day:

Mountebank
by seanahan

Mountebank Mountebank
Games with it really stank
So much junk decks would tank
Then you would dud

Mountebank Mountebank
Engines? Completely jank!
Donald said walk the plank
He is our bud

Mountebank Mountebank
All of its memes were dank
Skipping it? Let’s be frank
You will get killed

Mountebank Mountebank
Games with it truly stank
Donald X we should thank
Now let us build

Mountebank
by JNails

Monte made a living off a rank protection racket
Offering elixir for a respite from attack, yet
Utterly annihilating any found to lack it
None could run a working engine; all who tried were lost
Those who sought to prosper had to pay his cursed cost
Even so he might drop in again after it’s tossed

Buried by his flood of copper, one too many drowned
Adding to his status as the baddest man around
Now the feds have intervened and shut the whole thing down
Keep a lookout anyway, a charlatan’s in town

Open door 18 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Trade Route
by Sharur

I don’t know if it’s Root or Rout,
But certainly this is true:
Since trashing’s good, without a doubt,
This Action card must be too.

Moreover, it does something that
Not many more cards can claim:
You’ll see its power level rise
Throughout a Dominion game.

And now that Rout - or Root - is gone,
In case you are asking, why?
It must be that it was too strong,
So sadly, it had to die.

Open door 17 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Embassy
by JNails

You gave high fives but then went “Not so fast!
Deceptively, I’m no more draw than Vault”
It’s come to pass, the joke’s on you at last
Some say it’s that old Baba Yaga’s fault

The kingdom’s renovating with the times
Yes, even way out in the hinterlands
With fewer duds they’re no longer inclined
T’ward terminally sifting through bad hands

Thematically ambassadorial
With Silvers as the treasure passed about
We gather here in grim memorial
To mourn a card that came then went back out

I bid adieu, majestic Embassy
Sincerely signed, one who remembers ye.

Open door 16 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Venture
by saltroza

At times, when once I looked upon a board
Whose drawlessness foretold a sorry game
And wondered how I'd manage to afford
The provinces my heart would seek to claim,
I'd scan the kingdom yet, until my eye
Fell wearily upon a yellow gleam
More typically ignored, and with a sigh,
I'd undertake a speculative scheme
To chain my way through shuffles, on a trek
Past endless junk, through treasures uncontrolled,
Haphazardly discarding bits of deck,
To end the quest, perhaps, by striking gold —
And glad I was that still some hope remained
When, truly, nothing Ventured, nothing gained.

Open door 15 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Embargo
by JNails

You sparked a great fire inside of my soul
Those tactical tokens I sought and revered
But others could not see your critical role
The vanishing Silver's once more disappeared

My heart's palpitations have started to slow
No fancy Duration could block my lament
And so as they lifted the last Embargo
So out from within me the last ember went

Open door 14 of the DLW Advent Calendar 2022! Join the discord to look at the card history while you listen to Donald X.

Ode of the day:

Loan
by Sharur

There once was a card made for thinning
That, confusingly, didn’t cause winning
Many times, its reveals
Led to furious squeals
And it felt like your wheels were just spinning

With his gaze on a crystalline ball
Donald X made a radical call
New Prosperity’s great
You can trash that Estate
Loan forgiveness is slated for all