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[Epoch]

Hot off the presses, a game with some, to put it lightly, divergent strategies:

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201108/17/game-20110817-164947-bbd3c398.html

cards in supply: Bishop, Chancellor, Hoard, Hunting Party, King's Court, Quarry, Royal Seal, Talisman, Venture, and Wishing Well

We both started 5/2 and went Hunting Party/nothing, which you might think would indicate a mirror match.  But here are our ending decks:

#1 Epoch: 71 points (8 Provinces, 4 Duchies, 8 ▼, and 3 Estates); 24 turns
       opening: Hunting Party / nothing
       [39 cards] 3 Hoards, 2 Hunting Parties, 1 Bishop, 1 Chancellor, 1 King's Court, 1 Venture, 1 Wishing Well, 5 Coppers, 9 Golds, 3 Estates, 4 Duchies, 8 Provinces

#2 the wanky shit demon: 59 points (49 ▼, 2 Duchies, and 4 Estates); 24 turns
                      opening: nothing / Hunting Party
                      [15 cards] 4 King's Courts, 3 Hunting Parties, 1 Bishop, 1 Copper, 4 Estates, 2 Duchies


He did a KC/Bishop trashing strategy, where I went essentially BM enabled by Hoard.

[ackack]

KC/Bishop seems hard to work unless there's going to be a lot more gaining. I think his strategy could have worked quite well if he'd had another Hoard. Getting concrete about where that could have occurred, with Hunting Parties I think his second KC buy should definitely have been a Hoard instead to start gaining Golds. I also think that if he's going to avoid Provinces altogether, he needs to grab ~2 Talismans both for Bishop fuel and for substantially greater ability to put 3-pile pressure on you.