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[werothegreat]

Just played this nonsense: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/20/game-20120720-104928-57b2a339.html

It took forever, but I managed to beat him, even though he got Torturer on his first turn.  I think it's mainly because opening Potion allowed me to start earlier on the Alchemists, and because I wasn't afraid to take a Curse - that's what Remake was for!

Anything I could have done differently?

[jonts26]

I'd consider opening remake, then getting a potion on turn 3/4 (hopefully). It'll slow you down from getting your first alchemist, but hopefully the smaller deck will allow you to see you potion more frequently after the first two shuffles, as well as connect your early alchemists to the potion.

[Robz888]

I think your opponent made a mistake trying to go Alchemist at all. Surely the better strategy for him is to commit big time to a Torturer/Native Village engine that draws his whole deck without having to dip into a Potion-cost card at all?

This is a good board for Alchemist (+buy, trashing, Colony), and perhaps Alchemist is the dominant strategy. In which case I don't think pursuing them from a 5/2 start was going to work out for him.

[jonts26]

A couple other thoughts:

Outpost is likely to be strong here. It often is with large alchemist stacks.

On a 5/2 I probably grumble a bit and open remake/NV.

I'm surprised no one bought a Mountebank. It'll give two cards you need to trash instead of just the one from torturer. And it works after the curses are gone. And I don't know that you need that much card draw from torturers since the alchemists should take care of that.

[werothegreat]

I agree that I probably should have opened Remake.

I do think Remaking those Spice Merchants into Duchies was clever, and probably won me the game.