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« on: June 30, 2011, 09:13:15 pm »
Just got done with the ugliest, worst game of Domion I've ever played. The only reason I won was because my opponent was greener than the day is long.
The board had chapel, potion, grand market, and familiar. I, stupidly, thought "Cool, if I open potion/chapel, I can trash my estates, get my potion, and burn through the curse pile all while trimming my deck down to $6 non-coppers, and buying Grand Markets."
To pour gasoline on the wildfire of my stupidity, I chapeled my first hand - 4 coppers. For those playing along at home and not terrible at the game, this meant I needed to do some major chappeling or get a really lucky draw. All my opponent had to do was buy a familiar and I'd be really hosed.
Meanwhile, said opponent, bought islands and stewards, eventually getting up to grand markets, while I had two turns where I did nothing (potion, 2 copper, 2 estate - same hand, twice in a row on either side of the shuffle) and finally bought my familiar on turn 6 or 7.
I start pumping his deck full of curses, build up some silver, and go for Grand Markets. My opponent uses steward to trash the curses, and uses his buys to get additional grand markets and islands rather than provinces (he generated $8+ a turn for several turns and didn't bother to buy one). He buys out the grand markets, and passes the turn with 2 islands still out. I generate $12 (the most my deck can generate), buy the islands and 2 estates.
Final score: 6-4.
