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[Robz888]

Here's a game I just won: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201202/13/game-20120213-125122-f90084ba.html

Scrying Pool makes me very nervous, as I don't consider myself very good with 'em. But my opponent opened Pirate Ship, and I figured that with him trashing some of my Coppers, Scrying Pool would be really strong here--plus there were good Actions to load up on, Native Village, Stables, Oracle, Smithy, and Cutpurse. No extra buy, though.

I got decently lucky in that most of his initial Pirate Ships miss entirely--of course, I was loading up on Actions, so I'm not sure that was unexpected. Anyway, everything goes according to plan, he knocks me down to just 3 Coppers, my Scrying Pools go great, I keep him under attack with Oracle and Cutpurse, and I score an easy win.

My question is this: If he hadn't opened Pirate Ship, should I have still bought Scrying Pool? Or done something fairly conventional with Stables, or Smithy/Big Money, or Oracle/Big Money?

[toaster]

I'm a big fan of Scrying pool, but without great trashing options or any +buy, I think a BM-ish deck beats Scrying pool here.

[Davio]

I like defending vs Pirate Ship, but usually you need some money producing cantrips (Peddler, Market, Bazaar etc) to do this properly.

[Zem]

i'd say scrying pool needs +buys even more than trashers. Or at least some fairly strong attack cards. Or good cantrips.
So I would not have gone for scrying pools here.

On the other hand I think even big mony could win against pirate ship on this board with 2 players.

[Asklepios]

Interesting game!

i wonder if your opponent waited too long to start cashing in the pirate ships: I think with the concentration of ships he had there, he might have been better off just getting them to $4, as he only needed two activations to get a province. He probably could have done with a scrying pool or two himself as well