Don't have the log yet, as it was today, but I was playing a Colony game, and I surveyed the board roughly as follows:
"Let's see, I've got two possible Village cards (Walled & Workers, I think)... but no card drawing. Let's see, the two $5's are Ill Gotten Gains and Mandarin. Mandarin is maybe the worst card in the game, I'm not buying that. No really strong cards for Colony play. Jack of All Trades is in, but it's terrible in Colonies: who wants Silver? Wow, there's just nothing going on on this board. The hell with it, I think I'll get Jacks and just go Provinces instead -- my opponent won't be able to put together a strong enough deck to catch up on Colonies."
And here is my thought process on, like, turn 8 or so:
"Wait, I have to discard? What? What's making me discard? What the hell is happening? I... that... that $5 action is Margrave, not Mandarin. Oh god, and there are good Villages on the board. I'm trying to rush Provinces on a Colony board that has a perfectly viable attacking village/smithy engine on it. Um... okay, it's time to go Ill Gotten Gains and see if I can prevent his deck from coming together!"
I actually won that game, only because my opponent didn't have the courage to just go pure village/margrave and let his deck come together. He got a Jack as well, prevented himself from getting the Action density he needed, and I won on Provinces.
EDIT: Man, I never remember that this board doesn't like cursing.
