Sometimes with just the right draws, silly things can happen. I just played
this game with Jfrisch where I got insanely lucky, and was able to leverage it into the kind of strategy you just can't plan for. I thought I might as well share it.
With 5/2 opens, we both ignore Mountebank and open Tactician/nothing due to the presence of forge. I get lucky enough to draw my tactician turn 3, buy a forge turn 4 and play tactician again turn 5. Now here's where it gets fun. Turn 6 I draw forge with 2 estates and 7 coppers. Well, after a bit of thinking, I forge everything into a trader. My deck now totals 4 cards, but it's about to grow in a hurry. Turn 7 I trader my forge and I'm off to the races. By turn 15 I buy my 7th province.
