Craziest swing of luck ever.
http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140818/log.53be12a0e4b00ccce8075fbc.1408419416934.txtI make two huge errors: buying Taxman on T2 when Sir Martin was the top Knight and only source of +buy, then misclick Silver instead of Copper with my Doctor on T3. After my opponent trashes my Taxman w/his Knight on T3, I very nearly resign. I soldier on, and my luck gets worse: my opponent trashes my only Silver on T6; my first Knight catches Knight on T8. He continues to trash my stuff while my Knights catch nothing or a Knight. With my Doctor trashing Copper and his Knights taking care of everything else I am down to a 7 card deck at T16:
1 Dame Anna
1 Doctor
2 Plaza
2 Copper
2 Silver
1 Estate
He has 4 Knights of 19 cards. With a little skill and a lot of luck, a Hail Mary play pays:
T16: Anna trashes Doctor+Estate and lives.
T17: Anna trashes Copper, lives, and I use 2 coin tokens for a Gold; down to 6 cards
A Knight takes a Silver and I'm down to 5 cards
T18: Anna lives again and more tokens for 2nd gold
Knight whiffs (Copper is only card not in hand)
T19: Anna lives, pick up 3rd Gold
Knights gets Silver - good I didn't want that slowing down my Gold anyway
T20: Anna trashes Copper and dies, I get a Province; This is actually lucky because it means I have only 5 cards so no chance of losing a Gold before I get a 2nd Province
T21: I luckily have Plaza as the 1 card not in hand, and its trashed - good riddens
T22: Province is the 1 card not in hand, Knight whiffs; get 4th Province, but still unlikely to win (he has 2P+Duchy and once he hits a Gold I can do little, and its getting hard to line up 3 Gold now)
T23: draw 4P+Gold, he doesn't have a Knight in hand!
T24: draw 3G+new Silver or 5th Province - I may actually have a chance to hang on!
T25: No attack with 2 Gold vulnerable
T26: I get a Duchy, expecting it to be trashed but at least it takes VP off the board; Knight catches 2P
T27: Another Duchy, no attack
T28: Can only buy Silver, he mistakenly buys last Province to lose by 5 - I was favored if it went on, but it wasn't given his ability to destroy by Duchy VP.
So after 15 turns of terrible luck, I get 10 straight that I couldn't have made better if I rigged the deck and win. Dominion can be a crazy game sometimes.