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[catsclaw]

Here's the set: Duchess, Festival, Loan, Merchant Ship, Pearl Diver, Rabble, Steward, Torturer, Trader, and Walled Village

You open 5/2.  What's your strategy?

[Ozle]

Id open torturer, hope to pick up more torturers and then either walled village or festival.
Throw in a couple of silvers and loan

[Drab Emordnilap]

Probably something like this.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-132758-15103e15.html

Obviously it would be slower because of the opponent's Torturer, but unless they opened 5/2, they should be slowed down some by the curse(s).

[ehunt]

I'd open trader duchess with an eye toward psychotrader.

[CopperrCopper]

Should i already know what Psycho trader is?

[ftl]

No idea, never heard of it...

[Drab Emordnilap]

Really? I'm surprised you guys have played this long without seeing anyone play PsychoTrader. I remember it being a big deal when that article got written about it.

[theory]

What is PsychoTrader?

[Drab Emordnilap]

Apparently I confused myself. I thought there was an article about it, but the only reference I can find to it is this post: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=3280.msg60385#msg60385

If I remember, it's basically massing buys, even at the expense of money, and using a Trader in hand to turn those into a bunch of silver all in one turn. I don't know why that'd be the best strategy here (or what Duchess has to do with it), but with something like Hamlet/Terminal Drawn/Trader/Loan, it's fun. Buy a couple Loans, use Hamletsto buy more Hamlets, and when your deck mostly draws itself and gives you +buys, reveal a Trader a bunch of times for an instant economy!

[Ozle]

Erm...there are people that have not played psychotrader when the board is right?!
Wow, where are they when I play, I always get crushed

[WanderingWinder]

Apparently I confused myself. I thought there was an article about it, but the only reference I can find to it is this post: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=3280.msg60385#msg60385

If I remember, it's basically massing buys, even at the expense of money, and using a Trader in hand to turn those into a bunch of silver all in one turn. I don't know why that'd be the best strategy here (or what Duchess has to do with it), but with something like Hamlet/Terminal Drawn/Trader/Loan, it's fun. Buy a couple Loans, use Hamletsto buy more Hamlets, and when your deck mostly draws itself and gives you +buys, reveal a Trader a bunch of times for an instant economy!

Seems insanely slow.

[catsclaw]

Okay, so this is how the board ended up playing out.  I basically went with the Torturer strategy.

My opponent went heavy Stewards, and killed me.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-065727-210f597a.html

[ehunt]

What is PsychoTrader?

buy a million traders, trader traders, trader anything, ignore what your opponent is doing, buy duchies early.

i don't think it beats torturer on this board though because there is walled village, which is a much better friend to the torturer than festival.

[HiveMindEmulator]

Okay, so this is how the board ended up playing out.  I basically went with the Torturer strategy.

My opponent went heavy Stewards, and killed me.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-065727-210f597a.html

Your Loan should be Steward. It trashes faster, can trash Estates, and remains useful as the game goes on.

[hsiale]

What is PsychoTrader?

buy a million traders, trader traders, trader anything, ignore what your opponent is doing, buy duchies early.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201302/07/game-20130207-023113-f25fa752.html - nice example posted in some other thread, Silvers gone turn 13, the game ended on Provinces

[SirPeebles]

I'm not sure if I'd call that Psycho Trader.  IGG is great with Trash-for-Benefit, such as Trader.  And Trader is great versus cursers, such as IGG.  So IGG and Trader mesh well.

Edit: Looking that game's trash pile is further evidence of non-Psychoness.  Neither player Tradered a Trader, and only a single Silver got Tradered.  The Trader were used as TfB on IGG, and for clearing out Curses and Estates.