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[iguanaiguana]

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Herbalist, Pearl Diver, Fortune Teller, Masquerade, Trade Route, Horse Traders, Embassy, Highway, Ill-Gotten Gains, Venture
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I got 5/2 here and my opponent got 4/3. It looked like strong big money options, but with no village around I thought IGG would be pretty strong and I didn't want to open embassy and give my opponent a free early silver in a big money game.

I was thinking masquerade would not counter IGG THAT well as you could just pick up your own masquerade on a sub 5 hand and pass curses back. So I open IGG/herbalist (probably the herbalist was worse than nothing. I thought it could put back IGGs, it ended up not being played much) and go mostly for IGG with one horse traders and two masqs.

My opponent on the other hand ignores IGG early and gets a few gold. Early on I'm ahead, then we are close for a long time, and in the late game he can province a few times to pull far enough ahead that I stand no chance of winning.

Was IGG just bad on this board? What should I have done here?

[yed]

Maybe opening IGG is ok, but i would almost never bought more IGGs here.

[ehunt]

i'd open masquerade/- on 5/2 here, but i can see an argument for igg/-, picking up masquerade on the next shuffle. i mean obviously you are sad to be 5/2 but this doesn't change the fundamental layout of the board. if my opponent buys any igg's i'll get a second masquerade; if not i'll probably get an embassy at some point; otherwise money and green. maybe a 2nd masquerade anyway instead of the embassy? dont know.

the thing is, cursing isn't very good in the face of masquerade (exceptions: lots, but especially mountebank is still quite good). it's not just that the opponent can pass you a curse; the passing is really almost a red herring. it's that the tempo you lose cursing them (spending a 5 money turn buying a silver-) is not made up for by the tempo they lose by having a curse in the deck (masquerade being extremely fast).

[DG]

Masquerade and IGG are very weak together. If you buy an igg you're basically gaining a fancy copper, giving your opponent a curse, then swapping the curses around when masquerades are played. If you gain coppers with your igg you just waste the trashing work done by the masquerade. IGGs might still be a better buy than silver here but it's irrelevant since they're worse buys than ventures.

[AdamH]

IGG is one of my favorite cards to IGG-nore. If there's any decent trashing at all (Masquerade certainly fits the bill here) then almost all of the time you're better off just IGG-noring it.

On 5/2, well I would whine about it, but I certainly wouldn't open IGG. Masquerade/nothing is probably best; I'd consider Venture/nothing, but that doesn't seem as good.

[assemble_me]

Your opponent didn't even play it very well. His Horse Traders should have just been another Masquerade, maybe even a third is possible. Otherwise all he should get is more money, possibly Ventures on 5$ and maybe a late Trade Route.