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[Juice2403]

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Stonemason, Scrying Pool, Steward, Warehouse, Conspirator, Silk Road, City, Laboratory, Tactician, Altar

I have no idea how I won this match and I know for a fact i messed up somewhere. When i Stonemasoned turn 10 it was meant to buy Cites and I accidentally did it for Altar but I have fun playing this board but mistakes were made. Point them out so i can reevaluate my play and look it over. Help!!!!!

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[faust]

One huge thing is the opening... having a 5/2 is quite horrible here. So you already were in a decent position from the start. Also I agree with your opening buys.

Silver on turn 4 sounds like a mistake though. I don't think you want any money cards here. $3 should be Steward or Warehouse, $4 should be Conspirator. The turn 6 Tactician is a mistake as well; the engine is strong enough to draw your deck here anyway, Tactician won't do much for you except providing +1 buy... I don't think that's good enough.

It certainly helped that your opponent ended the game while behind, but your deck was in a better state anyway at this point.

[Juice2403]

One huge thing is the opening... having a 5/2 is quite horrible here. So you already were in a decent position from the start. Also I agree with your opening buys.

Silver on turn 4 sounds like a mistake though. I don't think you want any money cards here. $3 should be Steward or Warehouse, $4 should be Conspirator. The turn 6 Tactician is a mistake as well; the engine is strong enough to draw your deck here anyway, Tactician won't do much for you except providing +1 buy... I don't think that's good enough.

It certainly helped that your opponent ended the game while behind, but your deck was in a better state anyway at this point.

Yea you're right. I was thinking as the silver to get the bigger cards like an alter but warehouse conspirator would have been good.

[brian.marcy]

I'm a newbie so feel free to bash me.

Did you ever consider the stonemason overpay earlier?

Agree w/ the Turn 4 steward instead of silver.
Turn 5: use steward for +2 coin, buy stonemason, overpay 2P, get 2x scrying pools?
Turn 6:  I'm not very good at tactician but, I would be getting city in case my turn 4 steward collides.
Turn 8: overpay stonemason again to get 2x conspirator or 2x pool?

I think I'd still consider a tactician despite not being good at it.  You could be doing a double tactician using stewards/conspirator for $.  Use altar for gaining then use stonemason to trash into 2 cards and repeat.  Lots of different options leading to a three pile for sure.

[Jimmmmm]

I admittedly try to make double Tactician work more often than I should, but is Scrying Pool really better than double Tactician here?

[pubby]

One huge thing is the opening... having a 5/2 is quite horrible here.

With stonemason it's not so bad. Overpay 3 and get steward+warehouse.

I admittedly try to make double Tactician work more often than I should, but is Scrying Pool really better than double Tactician here?

They're not mutually exclusive.

[Jimmmmm]

I admittedly try to make double Tactician work more often than I should, but is Scrying Pool really better than double Tactician here?

They're not mutually exclusive.

Well it's pretty hard to get more Scrying Pools once you have double Tac going, and getting both seems a bit redundant.

[Titandrake]

I really have no idea whether Tact or Pool gets you going faster here, but I'm leaning towards Pool. If Tact does start up faster, I'd guess 1-2 turns faster at most, but Pool will give you more draw than the Lab stack, which gives better guarantees in the endgame. The ability to for example use Stonemason on $6+ costs to get as many Cities as you can, then draw them all with one Pool is nice.

I think ideal play here is that you go for Pool, then use Altar to get 1 Tact at some point. You use the Tact more for the +Buy than the extra cards.