My commentary on the games against SCSN. Video:
Thanks for recording the videos. Some comments on the games:
Game 1: You played this better than me. Opening Chapel/Baker with 2/5 on a board with Market Square still looks so awfully strong to me, but then I pretty much resign myself to not getting the Potion for a while, and University is also really strong here, so I'm still not sure what I should have done differently. Right now I'm leaning towards a Chapel/Potion open even with 2/5...
Game 2: This is an interesting board. Going for IGG/PS/Silk Roads is really really awful though. If you go that route I can just make Forager worth $8 without you being able to benefit from it due to your giant deck.
The early game is straightforward, but where to go from there is the big question. I had really no idea what to do--upping Forager benefits you as well, and Forge has a bit of a fuel problem--but felt like getting a Forge, and when I'm confused I just go for what gives me the most options in the future and let the draws/my opponent's play decide which of them to exercise, so Quarry and Forge seemed like natural fits.
The idea behind the 2nd Quarry was to buy Forge fodder for "free", but unfortunately I was forced to trash one of them when they collided too early. I decided that hoping for duplicates to not collide just wasn't going to work, so that double-Quarry plan went out of the window. With Forager worth $3 now and $4 in the near future because I still had a duplicate Counterfeit, and seeing how you had just bought a Province, I figured the best play would be to just double Province and win the race for Provinces, especially with Forge giving me a big advantage and your Militia assisting me in not stalling.
Not Foraging the Militia sometime before the end-game was a definite mistake. Yes, the first Menagerie only cancels the Militia attack, but with me having 6 Menageries that's pretty irrelevant, and the important thing is that the Militia enables me to discard not only duplicates, but also cards that are likely to be duplicated after 1 or 2 activations (i.e. Provinces). Your T14 Militia play was completely unnecessary, as you could have gotten the Province without it, and it allowed me to send two of my 3 Provinces to the discard, thus ensuring me that I'd be drawing my deck.
And I think you either shouldn't have bought the 2nd Gold in the first place or Foraged it on T12 where the two Golds prevented you from activating a Menagerie (and would continue to bug you on subsequent turns). Besides Menagerie, the only card you don't mind having multiple copies of in your deck is Forager, as you can use one to trash the other when they collide.
Game 3: Yeah this was just terrible luck. Definitely discard the Gold over the Pearl Diver though, it doubles your changes of getting to the Wharfs.
Game 4: We already discussed this one a bit (more Silvers, less Warehouses), but having watched the video I saw you sometimes not even play a Warehouse in a hand where you had already reached $5. Sometimes that's the right play b.c. of deck management issues, but that was not the case here. Barring misclicks, it's impossible to end up with less than $5 after the Warehouse play, and you just deprive yourself of a free shot at $8.
Game 5: Trashing matters. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether to get a T1 Doctor for $4 or go for Feast/Steward. I decided the 2nd option would be healthier because this particular Doctor often makes me sick.
Game 6: As mentioned by others you would probably have won this one by buying the penultimate Province. I do think the engine is quite a bit better than getting a million Golds (they clog your deck and thus limit you to mostly single Province turns), and that had you gone for double Bandit Camp over the Hoard you'd have decided that game right there. Due to your early Margrave and unfortunate draws I had a really slow start, and didn't have or felt like I didn't have the time to get my deck to the point where I'd be able to draw it with reasonable consistency (triple Scheme: HG, HG, BC).
It was a fun series for sure, and I'm obviously happy to have won
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