Round 1: olneyce (1 seed) vs. blitzcat (64 seed)olneyce wins 4-0.
Game 1: olneyce 45 – 14 blitzcat
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/06/game-20121206-152531-c46a602e.htmlKey cards: Bridge, Bazaar, Forge, Courtyard, Envoy
We both opened Bazaar/Courtyard, but after that blitzcat started buying Bridges, while I tried to build toward a Forge as quickly as possible. Once I culled my deck, I was playing triple and quadruple Bridge hands by turn 12.
Game 2: blitzcat 27 -
29 olneycehttp://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/06/game-20121206-153417-ee413955.htmlKey cards: Trading Post, Militia, Treasure Map
He went for maps and it almost worked. I think he made a mistake in not going for Havens to supplement the maps. Meanwhile, I futzed around for a while but basically played Militia-Big-Money. I bought a Trading Post on turn 4, which was probably a mistake. That gave me three terminals out of 14 cards – and it convinced me to buy Walled Villages to supplement them. All of which was probably a distraction. In the end I got 4 Provinces and a Duchy in 20 turns without getting attacked much. Which is not very good.
Game 3: blitzcat 40 -
65 olneycehttp://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/06/game-20121206-154343-9641fafc.htmlKey cards: Trader, Gardens
I went for the Trader/Gardens semi-rush. All the other cards were terrible, so there wasn’t much else to do. Blitzcat fought me a bit for the Gardens but I still got 6 of them. The game ended on piles with Silver, Gardens, and Harem running out.
Game 4: blitzcat 16 -
36 olneyceKey cards: Mining Village, Torturer, Scheme, Develop, Menagerie
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/06/game-20121206-160004-5eb62e07.htmlMenagerie is a nice counter to Torturer and I kind of considered trying to build a straight Menagerie engine. But my early hands I had the turns to let me build a Torturer one. So that's what I did. Develop was moderately useful here, both to clean out the Estates (and Curses if I got hit by a Torturer), but also to top-deck valuable $3 cards for the next turn. Scheme+Torturer when you can draw the whole deck is pretty devastating.
Thanks to blitzcat for the games!