Here's the result of the week 2 match between Duck Sauce/Nicki Menagerie and I.
Dsell: 5 wins, Nicki Menagerie: 2 wins
Game 1:
Dsell 19, Nicki Menagerie 14
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/03/game-20120503-120549-be3b9436.htmlIronworks/great hall/crossroads rush. I'm not the best at these, but all the pieces were there for a super fast rush. I think extra ironworks early helped me.
Game 2:
Dsell 34, Nicki Menagerie 34
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120503-121313-8f853e56.htmlI went straight up Masq/BM (2nd masq might have sped the game up?), while NM was going for a lot more pieces. NM accidentally tied it, and I won on turns.
Game 3: Dsell 34,
Nicki Menagerie 35http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120503-122322-2cf0da18.htmlI did boring old minions, but despite having an unfortunate envoy, NM pulls out the win by a point.
Game 4: Dsell 39,
Nicki Menagerie 44http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/03/game-20120503-123456-30378115.htmlTorturer/bazaar. I went early shanty towns, which was probably a mistake. Not good with torturer usually, but they didn't seem too bad here...I think NM had a more focused strategy though.
Game 5:
Dsell 28, Nicki Menagerie 26
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120503-124256-58c64d2c.htmlMinions again, but this time not boring! I lose the minion split 4/6, but trashing from lookout really shines and makes a difference here. Caravans also come through for me in a big way. Love that skinny minions deck!
Game 6:
Dsell 29, Nicki Menagerie 23
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120503-124927-5592ac50.htmlI think my strategy was kinda interesting here. Probably stupid, but interesting, and hey it worked out. I opened masquerade, but then
again tried shanty town/torturer, and I knoooow it's a bad village but I just really wanted it to work! I think I got
very lucky here to activate shanty town as much as I did, and probably to win the whole game in general. NM does masq with a few other terminals thrown in, which should have countered torturer pretty well (2nd masq may have been death to my torturers).
Game 7:
Dsell 41, Nicki Menagerie 32
Torturers/cities. The luck really seemed to be shifting around in this game. I had a terrible first reshuffle, 4/4 and then baron whiffing and missing the reshuffle. Then I hit a lucky 5 copper hand with mint (and harem) on the board, which let me thin my deck a lot, which I ultimately think was a big part of the win. I still trailed NM's superior city and torturer stack most of the game, but after I broke PPR in hopes of a comeback, NM hit a terribly unlucky hand which netted only duchy.
Thanks, Nicki Menagerie/Duck Sauce! These games were really tense and close, and several of them had interesting end games. Intriguing match overall!
(I'm sorry...I had to...)
Edit: typos
Edit: added councilroom links and game descriptions