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[GendoIkari]

Can you ignore a Curser when Masquerade is on the board? Along with Masquerade support? More specifically, how about Familiar?

I just played a game with Obi Wan Bonogi... the key cards were Familiar, Masquerade, Farming Village, and lack of any other Potion-cost cards.

He opened Potion; I opened Talisman so I could spam Farming Village and Masquerade (the 5's didn't seem key either). He won, but it was very close, and I mis-clicked and passed him a Farming Village with an early Masq play. Wish I'd saved the log...

[DG]

Masquerade/silver/masquerade + treasure could be the baseline and then look for the other kingdom cards to improve on that. Familiar won't scratch that on its own.

[popsofctown]

Masquerade seems to tear cursers a new one pretty well.  The worst 20% of your cards all belong to mother russia.

[Robz888]

Delayed cursing can work, I think. But straight-up cursing basically has no harder counter than Masquerade.

[LastFootnote]

Why did you buy Farming Villages at all? I could see maybe buying a Talisman and using it to double up on Silver buys in the absence of $5 cards, but even that seems iffy.

[GendoIkari]

Why did you buy Farming Villages at all? I could see maybe buying a Talisman and using it to double up on Silver buys in the absence of $5 cards, but even that seems iffy.

Yeah, in retrospect I think that just Silver would have been better.... my thought was to try and play multiple Masquerades per turn. With enough spare actions floating around, Masquerade becomes better than a Lab.

[HiveMindEmulator]

Why did you buy Farming Villages at all? I could see maybe buying a Talisman and using it to double up on Silver buys in the absence of $5 cards, but even that seems iffy.

Yeah, in retrospect I think that just Silver would have been better.... my thought was to try and play multiple Masquerades per turn. With enough spare actions floating around, Masquerade becomes better than a Lab.

If you're building up to the point that you're playing 3 actions in one turn, you're playing into the hands of the Familiar. Double Masq + Treasure will usually beat Familiar play largely because of the speed. Going Familiar gives up a lot of early tempo. By going Talisman and Farming Villages, you're giving that tempo right back to him.

[papaHav]

The inclusion of an extra copper (talisman) is REALLY BAD.

i.e. it needs better than farming village/masq to make it worth it

try gardens and +buy... then we're talking talisman level