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[ddaann]

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201107/13/game-20110713-053740-c40ab9aa.html

Saboteur fest...
One of the strangest games I've ever played
PS I know I did not play like an expert, especially in the beginning, but it was fun

[tko]

Nice.  I searched my games to see if I had something similar, and found only 54 cards in the trash... 74 is huge.  And the interesting difference in my game, 10 Saboteurs were purchased with supporting King's Court - in your game, it looks like 5 Saboteurs were purchased.

OK, now I notice that some of your trash is from Chapel and self-trashing Mining Villages.

In my game, we both had 5/2 starts, and when my opponent opened Saboteur, I too opened Saboteur just to see what would happen.

[ddaann]

I've taken a look now and the game lasted 37 turns, this giving an average of exactly 2 trashed cards / turn (74/37)

[tko]

I just noticed the sick amount of green in the trash:
  4 Provinces, 4 Islands, and 5 Duchies
Islands could have saved some Duchies and Provinces, but they got Saboteured also.

[ddaann]

In fact he managed to save some victory cards by playing 3 Islands (Island - Province, Island - Island, Island - Estate)

[Zaphod]

Wow, that does not look like a fun game.  At least, not for your opponent.

I think rankin could have won in turn 33 if he'd bought the last Mining Village instead of a Duchy.  Estates and Islands were already out, correct?  He probably could have ended it sooner, in fact.  Still, it would be hard to keep track of the point total, with so many green cards in the trash.    Heck, I'd have done it just to end the game.

In another thread, some pleasant fellow called me an idiot for suggesting that the Saboteur is ever useful in any situation.  This illustrates a situation where it can be a powerful card; you had two strong deck thinners in the game, in Chapel and Forge.  The Sabs were more likely to hit something important.  On the other hand, this also illustrates the Sab's major weakness - it has no benefit, only an attack.  As of turn 30, you had no VPs at all.  You were lucky your opponent didn't close it out sooner.

[ddaann]

I think rankin could have won in turn 33 if he'd bought the last Mining Village instead of a Duchy.  Estates and Islands were already out, correct?

No, the initial Mining Village deck has 10 cards, not 8 => there were remaining 3 cards