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[Jacob marley]

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Native Village, Steward, Bishop, Feodum, Navigator, Thief, Throne Room, Cartographer, Cultist, Harem
Log:  http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20161208/log.0.1481165440975.txt

Here my opponent opens 5/2 with Cultist/NV to my 4/3.  I'm at an immediate disadvantage, and decide that aggressive trashing is my best chance, so open Bishop/Steward.  Several times I chose to trash even though it costs me a chance to buy cards, and eventually I get cleaner than my opponent despite losing the ruins 8/2. 

I do make a mistake in trashing the ruined market as it was the only +buy I had.  Otherwise I had a forced win turn 23 with trashing a gold and buying cutlist/NV for a three-pile.

One question though, was he right to resign on my turn 23?  My best play was to bishop the harem and buy Province for 10 points.  Depending on his draw, he could have potentially scored 10 as well for a 1 point lead, hoping I cannot end the game with a Province on my next turn, or keep Duchy dancing.

[Chris is me]

I think I would have done Steward / Silver here; it basically guarantees a Cultist next shuffle and it might get you thin too. NVs are easy to pick up on turns you trash with Steward, and you can probably avoid a catastrophic split loss that way. Bishop helps him play more Cultists more often, which is a problem; you only want one later if at all.

[luser]

No, here you probably don't want bishop at all, unless you need to make comeback with feodum and bishopping lot of silver to reduce first player lead. Also no throne rooms.
Bishop here only helps opponent. If he didn't waste time with buying bishop and 4 native villages and bought silver instead then cultist-bm should pile provinces by turn 20, not have 3 provinces at turn 23 despite having only 2 junk and trashed junk from your bishop.