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[Elanchana]

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Scrying Pool, Black Market, Warehouse, Herald, Procession, Bandit Camp, Contraband, Mine, Pillage, Harem
And log.

I have this labeled as my biggest success ever with Black Market. I was able to reliably overdraw on every turn by the end. My hands got so big and diverse that there was literally a second page to them. I double-Provinced twice for the win without any difficulty.

And I still feel like I won by a fluke. After all, I panicked a little when my opponent got the closest thing to a no-strings-attached trasher in the whole BM deck. And they seemed to have a clear idea of what they were doing while my only coherent thought was "buy as many action cards as possible". Really, what I'm asking is, what made me win?

[HiveMindEmulator]

My guess is that you won because you got the Stonemason-->2x Scrying Pool early and ended up winning the split 8-2. Black Market makes the deck fun, but Scrying Pool is the main card here.

[amalloy]

My guess is that you won because you got the Stonemason-->2x Scrying Pool early and ended up winning the split 8-2. Black Market makes the deck fun, but Scrying Pool is the main card here.

Yeah, that's a pretty cool play. I love seeing Stonemason + Pool on board, but I have to say I might not have remembered to overpay for it if I drew it from the black market. Good alertness, ela.

[-Stef-]

Well played Ela.

You win because your opponents execution ("shuffle control") is meh.
It's not always easy to spot this from your side of the table, but let's take a closer look at his shuffles:

I respect his opening plan, but it doesn't work out at all.
On turn 4, he draws copper, potion, 2x estate, Warehouse.
One more copper and he could have just not played the warehouse, but now he has to.
As a result, his new scrying pool and the potion miss the shuffle and he is already half a turn behind.
This is really bad luck for your opponent, but it would not happen with your opening buys.

On turn 6, he draws 2x copper, warehouse, herald, estate.
He now (correctly) plays the warehouse first, to keep his options open.
He draws copper-potion-estate, and should now discard 2xestate and herald, buy scrying pool.
In stead, he plays the herald (triggers shuffle) and then buys a scrying pool.
This is a huge mistake that costs him more then one full turn.

On turn 8, he is back to just bad luck again having a terrible draw.

From here on it snowballs... Your Mint buy is nice and so is the stonemason.
With both herald and scrying pool around, the action density is really important.
He may have the better trasher but it's too little too late by then.

[Seprix]

Well played Ela.

You win because your opponents execution ("shuffle control") is meh.
It's not always easy to spot this from your side of the table, but let's take a closer look at his shuffles:

I respect his opening plan, but it doesn't work out at all.
On turn 4, he draws copper, potion, 2x estate, Warehouse.
One more copper and he could have just not played the warehouse, but now he has to.
As a result, his new scrying pool and the potion miss the shuffle and he is already half a turn behind.
This is really bad luck for your opponent, but it would not happen with your opening buys.

On turn 6, he draws 2x copper, warehouse, herald, estate.
He now (correctly) plays the warehouse first, to keep his options open.
He draws copper-potion-estate, and should now discard 2xestate and herald, buy scrying pool.
In stead, he plays the herald (triggers shuffle) and then buys a scrying pool.
This is a huge mistake that costs him more then one full turn.

On turn 8, he is back to just bad luck again having a terrible draw.

From here on it snowballs... Your Mint buy is nice and so is the stonemason.
With both herald and scrying pool around, the action density is really important.
He may have the better trasher but it's too little too late by then.

Perfect analysis by the best in the game. I actually learned a new way to think about the game by this 'trivial' post alone.