http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20140224/log.514cd37de4b0fe3236619906.1393272283024.txt
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/c/c8/Caravan.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Caravan) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/7/76/Ironworks.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Ironworks) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/e/e2/Spice_Merchant.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Spice Merchant) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/5/58/Contraband.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Contraband) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/0/06/Margrave.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Margrave)
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/c/cd/Crossroads.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Crossroads) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/a/a7/Trade_Route.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Trade Route) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/c/c2/Watchtower.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Watchtower) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/2/22/Alchemist.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Alchemist) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/7/73/Baron.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Baron)
Crossroads, Trade Route, Watchtower, Alchemist, Baron, Caravan, Ironworks, Spice Merchant, Contraband, Margrave
After my opponent whines about shuffle luck for a while, he says this:
fap_on_it: ironworks was a mistake btw
fap_on_it: not worth it
fap_on_it: you have extra buy
fap_on_it: common mistake i know
Robz888: i disagree
fap_on_it: just shows that you don't have good understanding of the game
Obviously, I'm blocking this jerk. But anyway, I submit the question to the experts. Was Ironworks wrong? I think it was a good pick up, given my draws. It allowed me to pile drive the Caravans, which were an important source of draw for me.
I got reminded of this thread when I got automatched against this guy a couple of times recently.
I really don't like blacklisting based on stories of others, so I just accepted those, also a bit anxious to find out if these stories had any truth in them.
Two of the games were actually pretty remarkable. On both I started with a series of extreme bad luck, just kept playing, and by some miracle / misplays by opponent / luck later on, I managed to turn them around. Funny thing is that this was exactly the thing I would try to tell him ("If you run into a series of bad luck, don't just start ranting, but look for an opportunity of luck and just keep playing your best game). Except that I couldn't tell him because he doesn't really do chat, he just does ragequit.
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/7/7f/Mining_Village.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Mining Village) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/a/ad/Monument.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Monument) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/9/9e/Young_Witch.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Young Witch) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/4/43/Bandit_Camp.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Bandit Camp) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/7/74/Pillage.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Pillage) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/b/b3/Altar.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Altar)
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/f/fa/Black_Market.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Black Market) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/f/f1/Market_Square.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Market Square) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/c/c2/Watchtower.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Watchtower) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/c/c8/Caravan.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Caravan) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/8/8a/Fortress.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Fortress)
Here I start with $5, $2, $4, $2, $4. This gets me Young Witch, nothing, Mining Village + Curse, nothing, Watchtower
Opposing Young Witch, Market Square, Caravan + Curse, Black Market, Remake. Ugh! (http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20140312/log.50b20dc3e4b0c9ce0cf27eb3.1394645443391.txt)
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/d/dc/Golem.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Golem) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/5/5d/Counting_House.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Counting House) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/a/ab/Hunting_Party.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Hunting Party) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/8/8e/Mine.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Mine) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/d/dc/Expand.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Expand)
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/7/79/Scrying_Pool.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Scrying Pool) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/0/0e/Masquerade.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Masquerade) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/a/a7/Trade_Route.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Trade Route) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/5/50/Workshop.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Workshop) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/9/9c/Feast.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Feast)
We both open Masquerade/Potion, but then he gets Hunting Party/Scrying Pool and on my side Masquerade misses the shufle and I'm stuck with $2 on turn 3.
Then his Scrying pool finds his only action and he can trade an estate for my copper. In the meanwhile I have a dead Golem and on turn 6 I have 3 estates, a copper and a potion.
Holy cow can games start worse? Fortunately he greens way too early and on an unlucky masquerade he selects the worst possible card (even giving away the province would be much better) log (http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20140313/log.50b20dc3e4b0c9ce0cf27eb3.1394748544707.txt)
Playing this guy isn't the kind of fun I'm looking for in games at all, but when gems like these happen... they're just extra sweet ;)