(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/e/e2/Spice_Merchant.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Spice Merchant) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/0/0c/Laboratory.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Laboratory) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/7/7e/Market.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Market) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/9/92/Merchant_Ship.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Merchant Ship) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/3/3b/Possession.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Possession)
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/6/67/Native_Village.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Native Village) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/9/9b/University.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/University) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/8/88/Steward.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Steward) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/4/40/Coppersmith.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Coppersmith) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/7/70/Moneylender.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Moneylender)
Native Village, University, Steward, Coppersmith, Moneylender, Spice Merchant, Laboratory, Market, Merchant Ship, Possession
I put some of the words in spoiler tags so you can think about the kingdom yourself first if you feel like it.
I played this kingdom against yed yesterday. We both opened 4/3 and started with Potion/Steward
However, after the game I started wondering and today I tested out a different opening with Andrew Iannaconne.
He would continue to open Potion/Steward but I would in fact get Spice Merchant/Steward
Unfortunately goko lost one of our logs but here are the remaining: 1 (http://gokologs.drunkensailor.org/static/logprettifier.html?20141001/log.50b20dc3e4b0c9ce0cf27eb3.1412194977677.txt) 2 (http://gokologs.drunkensailor.org/static/logprettifier.html?20141001/log.50b20dc3e4b0c9ce0cf27eb3.1412195245247.txt) 3 (http://gokologs.drunkensailor.org/static/logprettifier.html?20141001/log.50b20dc3e4b0c9ce0cf27eb3.1412196325117.txt) 4 (http://gokologs.drunkensailor.org/static/logprettifier.html?20141001/log.50b20dc3e4b0c9ce0cf27eb3.1412196618351.txt)
Our conclusion was that Spice Merchant/Steward is just plain better. If nobody has any collisions its quite close, but collisions totally kill Potion/Steward, while the Spice Merchant/Steward is completely immune to this
(original game (http://gokologs.drunkensailor.org/static/logprettifier.html?20140930/log.50b20dc3e4b0c9ce0cf27eb3.1412091347794.txt) against yed)