Set: Basic
$2 Victory- 1VP
Another silly common card. Estate doesn't get enough love, I feel like. Sure, it really holds you back in the early game, and is pretty much the highest priority trash card other than Curse and MAYBE Copper depending on the situation, but a couple of Estates in endgame can make a surprising amount of difference, and once you're in the final mad scramble for points, how much is one more green card going to slow you down?
Estate's also kinda fun for Baron and stuff, but yeah, at the end of the day, it's a junk card, and rarely little more.
127. Wishing Well
Set: Intrigue
$3 Action- +1 Card; +1 Action. Name a card, then reveal the top card of your deck. If it is the named card, put it in your hand.
Analysis: http://dominionstrategy.com/2010/12/07/intrigue-wishing-well/
The DS blog once again does a better job of analyzing the potential of this card than I will, but whatever. Wishing Well is a very difficult card to set up and support properly, but unlike some of the cards I have criticized in such a fashion, the payoff is decently worth it for a $3 card. It's nifty for highly specific engines like Minion, and the fact that it's a cantrip makes it an inoffensive option even if it fails, which it will most of the time. It doesn't discard the card revealed, which can be either annoying or quite helpful in the presence of things like Lookout or Native Village. Multiple Wishing Wells is quite nice for obvious reasons, but that's hard to set up without committing really hard. And unlike Pearl Diver, it won't leave you stuck for an entire cycle with crap on the bottom.
It combos decently well with things like Navigator IF you can set it up, but again that's a lot of effort to go to, and quite possibly not worth it. Like the blog says, though, it works well with some reactions and attacks. Otherwise, though, it's a pain to set up a Wishing Well that will hit reliably. I also suck at counting cards, so somebody who is better at that would probably find this card a bit more useful.
Wishing Well isn't a BAD card, but it's usually worth a miss unless there's a good support for it and not much else at $3.
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~Tommeri Uranius Bombaldi the Fourth, esq.
(aka not Krakenprophet)