Mish-Mash: Blue Moon City (Mod Topic)

[Farren]

STOP - this is obsolete!

Mod topic for Blue Moon City - needed for tracking player hands. (see post 50 for current info)

No players have made any special sorting requests.
Default hand sort: by color alphabetically (ascending), then by value numerically (descending)
Default deck sort: by ID numerically (descending).
Default discard sort: in the order the cards are played (descending).

Player	Crystals
Sirius9121	14
vincentw	11
Ninetales	27
Nancy Drew 39	1

Nancy Drew 39 has used two extensions.

Felissan has used two extensions. Player verification failed. AutoPlay active; timer set for 24 hours. Seeking replacement.

Done! Sirius9121 replaces Felissan.
Ninetales has used two extensions.

Spoiler: Sirius9121's Hand

Sirius9121's Hand
ID	Card	Special Power
129	Brown 3	(none)
114	Brown 1	Discard two Brown cards (1s or 2s only). Gain a Wild 3, which must be used immediately.
115	Gold 2	Rebuild an additional Zone at the Courtyard. Pay its full price PLUS two extra Crystals.
130	Gold 1	Rebuild an additional Zone at the Courtyard. Pay its full price PLUS one extra Crystal.
153	Gray 3	(none)
116	Red 2	Move the Red Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.

Spoiler: vincentw's Hand

vincentw's Hand
ID	Card	Special Power
111	Black 3	(none)
138	Blue 2	Move the Blue Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
112	Gold 2	Rebuild an additional Zone at the Courtyard. Pay its full price PLUS two extra Crystals.
137	Gray 1	Move your Pawn to any sector.
7	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
147	White 2	Choose one card. It becomes Wild. It must be used immediately.
113	White 1	Choose up to four cards of the same color. These cards become Wild. They must be used immediately on the same Zone.

Spoiler: Ninetales's hand

Ninetales's Hand
ID	Card	Special Power
135	Black 3	(none)
154	Black 2	Move the Black Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
126	Blue 2	Move the Blue Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
118	Gold 2	Rebuild an additional Zone at the Courtyard. Pay its full price PLUS two extra Crystals.
143	Gray 2	Move your Pawn a maximum of four spaces.
117	White 3	(none)
125	White 2	Choose one card. It becomes Wild. It must be used immediately.

Spoiler: Nancy Drew 39's Hand

Nancy Drew 39's Hand
ID	Card	Special Power
53	Black 2	Move the Black Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
122	Black 1	Bring the Black Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Black Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
121	Blue 2	Move the Blue Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
30	Blue 1	Bring the Blue Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Blue Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
31	Brown 2	Discard two Brown cards (1s or 2s only). Gain a Wild 3, which must be used immediately.
133	Brown 1	Discard two Brown cards (1s or 2s only). Gain a Wild 3, which must be used immediately.
124	Brown 1	Discard two Brown cards (1s or 2s only). Gain a Wild 3, which must be used immediately.
20	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
141	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
119	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
142	Gold 3	(none)
123	Red 1	Bring the Red Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Red Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
120	White 2	Choose one card. It becomes Wild. It must be used immediately.

Spoiler: The Deck

Remaining Deck of Cards:

The Deck - do not PM this to anyone ever!
ID	Card	Special Power
110	Red 2	Move the Red Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
109	Gold 1	Rebuild an additional Zone at the Courtyard. Pay its full price PLUS one extra Crystal.
108	White 3	(none)
107	Black 2	Move the Black Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
106	Black 1	Bring the Black Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Black Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
105	Brown 2	Discard two Brown cards (1s or 2s only). Gain a Wild 3, which must be used immediately.
104	Red 3	(none)
103	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
102	Gold 1	Rebuild an additional Zone at the Courtyard. Pay its full price PLUS one extra Crystal.
101	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.

Spoiler: Discard Pile

Discard Pile - only PM this if someone asks
Old ID	Card	Special Power
33	Black 1	Bring the Black Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Black Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
13	White 1	Choose up to four cards of the same color. These cards become Wild. They must be used immediately on the same Zone.
12	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
11	Blue 1	Bring the Blue Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Blue Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
73	Gray 1	Move your Pawn to any sector.
10	Gold 1	Rebuild an additional Zone at the Courtyard. Pay its full price PLUS one extra Crystal.
9	White 1	Choose up to four cards of the same color. These cards become Wild. They must be used immediately on the same Zone.
19	Brown 3	(none)
4	Gray 2	Move your Pawn a maximum of four spaces.
1	Brown 1	Discard two Brown cards (1s or 2s only). Gain a Wild 3, which must be used immediately.
155	Red 2	Move the Red Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
156	White 2	Choose one card. It becomes Wild. It must be used immediately.
151	Gray 2	Move your Pawn a maximum of four spaces.
145	Brown 2	Discard two Brown cards (1s or 2s only). Gain a Wild 3, which must be used immediately.
144	Brown 2	Discard two Brown cards (1s or 2s only). Gain a Wild 3, which must be used immediately.
6	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
3	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
139	Red 2	Move the Red Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
149	Red 1	Bring the Red Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Red Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
5	Red 1	Bring the Red Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Red Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
27	Blue 1	Bring the Blue Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Blue Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
136	Black 1	Bring the Black Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Black Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
146	Red 3	(none)
63	Green 1	Wild; matches any color when rebuilding.
157	Blue 3	(none)
134	Blue 1	Bring the Blue Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Blue Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
132	Gold 3	(none)
150	Gold 2	Rebuild an additional Zone at the Courtyard. Pay its full price PLUS two extra Crystals.
152	Gray 3	(none)
131	Gray 2	Move your Pawn a maximum of four spaces.
148	Gray 1	Move your Pawn to any sector.
140	White 1	Choose up to four cards of the same color. These cards become Wild. They must be used immediately on the same Zone.
2	Red 1	Bring the Red Dragon into play, if it isn’t already. Move the Red Dragon to any sector; no restrictions.
127	Black 2	Move the Black Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
158	Blue 3	(none)
8	Blue 2	Move the Blue Dragon a maximum of three spaces. It must be in play to use this ability.
128	Gray 1	Move your Pawn to any sector.

[Farren]

Turn 16:

Nancy Drew 39 discards: Red 2 (29)
Nancy Drew 39 draws: Gold 1, White 1 (10,9)

vincentw draws: Blue 2, Green 1 (8,7)

Nancy Drew 39 gets 1 Crystal.
vincentw gets 1 Crystal.

[Farren]

Turn 17:

Felissan discards: Brown 2, Brown 1,

Black 2, Gray 1

. (46, 18, 17, 38)
Felissan draws: Green 1, Red 1, Gray 2, Green 1 (6,5,4,3)

[Farren]

Turn 18:

vincentw discards: Gray 2, Black 1, Gold 3, Gold 1, Gold 2, Gold 2,

Gold 2

.
vincentw draws: Red 1, Brown 1, ---RESHUFFLE DECK---, Blue 3

vincentw gains 5 Crystals.

[Farren]

Turn 19:

Ninetales discards: Blue 1, Green 1,

Black 1, White 1

.
Ninetales draws: Blue 3, Red 2, White 2, Black 2.
Felissan draws: Gray 3, Gray 3.

Ninetales gains 1 Crystal.
Felissan gains 1 Crystal.

[Farren]

Figuring out AutoPlay:

Nancy cannot win.
She isn't short on markers.
She doesn't have enough Crystals to rebuild.
Buying power: Black 2, Blue 1, Brown 5, Gray 1, Gold 1, White 1, Wild 1. The White 1 can turn any of those into Wild provided they're applied to a single zone.

She has a Gray 1, so can go anywhere.

A4: 8 Crystals, can complete (White 1 + Brown 3/2 = Wild 5, overpaying). Needs Gray 1 to move there, but Grays are authorized.
B1: 3 Crystals.
B5: 4 Crystals.
C2: 7 Crystals.
C4: 7 Crystals.
D1: 2 Crystals.
D3: 5 Crystals.
D4: 1 Crystal.
D5: 1 Crystal.
E2: 2 Crystals.
E3: 1 Crystal.
E4: 2 Crystals.

So: Autoplay plays a Gray 1 to move to A4. No Dragons moved. Question: how does it pay for it? It needs 4 Gold.

Use of the White 1 is required. Gold 1 + Green 1 only makes 2.
It will attempt to pay in exact change if it can. It prefers not to use Wilds - so given that no solution exists where only the Green can be used, it would logically prefer to use only the White over the White and the Green.
Gold 1 + White 1 + Brown 3: no overpay, minimum # of wilds used.

Result: Red Dragon pays out a scale, which triggers resolution. It'll be 3-4-4-4, so everyone gets 3 Crystals.
Nancy then gets another 8 Crystals (for a total of *11* Crystals); Felissan and Ninetales both get 6 Crystals (for a total of 9 each).

I'm beginning to think I made AutoPlay too powerful. Granted, this turn could be improved further - use the Black 2 to bring the Black dragon over, which would give Nancy another 3 Crystals; AutoPlay won't do this as it ignores the Dragons - but still!

[Farren]

Assuming Nancy uses AutoPlay's move, here's what's really crazy: she'll draw a Gray 2 / Gold 2 at the end of the round, and she'll have 15 Crystals. With perfect knowledge and no interference from other players, a player in her shoes could use the Green 1 in lieu of the Gold 1 - saving the Gold 1 for the Courtyard. 15 Crystals is just enough for 7+7+1. Gray 2 to get there, Gold 1 to buy 2 VPs.

Granted, everyone else will have enough Crystals to buy a VP; they should be blocking off all those cheap 7-Crystal VPs! But vincent's out of range and doesn't have a Gray card to close the distance in time ...

Still, 7 next turn and 8 the following turn is entirely doable. And AutoPlay would stick around to do it, as it prioritizes buying VPs.

[Farren]

Turn 20:

Nancy Drew 39 discards: Gray 1, Gold 1, White 1, Brown 3.
Nancy Drew 39 draws: Gray 2, Gold 2.

Nancy Drew 39 gains 11 Crystals.
Felissan gains 9 Crystals.
vincentw gains 3 Crystals.
Ninetales gains 9 Crystals.

[Farren]

I'm going to be leaving for somewhere right at deadline, so I'm going to prepare the AutoPlay post here for Felissan in case it's needed.

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Felissan has run out of time. Now invoking AutoPlay.

Moving: Felissan plays a Gray 2 to increase her movement limit by 2. She moves from B5 to C3 - the Courtyard. She plays no other cards and moves no Dragons.
Rebuilding: Felissan pays 7 Crystals to rebuild the second Zone of the Obelisk. She spends 1 Building Marker,

which is lost forever

.

Felissan

gains

+1 VP

.

Discard/drawing: she discards nothing and draws two cards.

No cards going to the discard pile. Now resolving!

(Note - running an errand, so resolution will take a bit longer than usual.)

[Farren]

Turn 21:

Felissan discards: Gray 2.
Felissan draws: Red 1, Gray 1.

Felissan spends 7 Crystals.

[Farren]

Turn 22:

vincentw discards: Brown 1.
vincentw draws: White 2, Red 3, Brown 2.

[Farren]

Turn 23:

Ninetales discards: White 2, Red 2.
Ninetales draws: Brown 2, Gray 2.

[Farren]

Turn 24:

Nancy Drew 39 discards: Gray 2.
Nancy Drew 39 draws: Gold 3, Green 1.

Nancy Drew 39 spends 7 Crystals.

[Farren]

Turn 25:

Player 1 discards: (nothing)
Player 1 draws: White 1, Red 2.

Player 1 spends 7 Crystals.

[Farren]

Turn 26:

vincentw discards: Brown 2
vincentw draws: Blue 2, Gray 1, Black 1

vincentw spends 8 Crystals.

[Farren]

Sirius9121 replaces Felissan.

[Farren]

Turn 27:

Ninetales discards: Brown 2.
Ninetales draws: Black 3, Blue 1.

[Farren]

Turn 28:

Nancy Drew 39 discards: nothing.
Nancy Drew 39 draws: Brown 1, Gold 3.

Nancy Drew 39 pays 8 Crystals.

[Farren]

Turn 29:

Sirius9121 discards: Red 1, Red 2, Red 1, Green 1, Green 1,

Blue 1

.
Sirius9121 draws: Gray 2, Gold 1, Brown 3.

[Farren]

Turn 30:

vincentw discards: Black 1, Red 3, Green 1.
vincentw draws: Gray 1, Black 2.

vincentw gains 5 Crystals.
Sirius9121 gains 7 Crystals.
Ninetales gains 5 Crystals.

[Farren]

Turn 31:

Ninetales discards: Blue 3, Blue 1.
Ninetales draws: Blue 2, White 2.

[Farren]

Figuring out AutoPlay for Nancy's seat this turn:

1) Current cost to win is 9 Crystals. She does not have 9 Crystals and thus cannot win this turn.
2) She has more than 2 Building Markers.
3) This priority is now irrelevant, as priority 1 completely eclipses it.
4) Completing buildings.
Nancy has no Gray cards, so is limited to buildings within a 2-square radius. C2, D3, D4, E3 are the only buildings within range.
C2 requires a Buying Power of Black 12 (5/4/3). She has an innate Wild power of 5 (3/1/1) and a Black 2. This cannot be completed.
D3 requires a Buying Power of Blue 8 (5/3). She has a Blue 1 (and the above Wild power). This cannot be completed.
D4 requires a Buying Power of Gold 5. This can be completed (by the Wilds alone, if nothing else!), and would pay 1 Crystal (ignoring Scales and Dragons).
E3 requires a Buying Power of Red 5. This can also be completed (again, by the Wilds alone if necessary), and would pay 1 Crystal.

Both D4 and E3 pay 1 Crystal, and thus are tied. (Leader Bonuses are both non-Crystal, and so are not considered. C4's Synergy bonus is also non-Crystal and thus is not considered.)
Both are equally close to the Courtyard (2 squares away).
Next tiebreaker is proximity to Row A. D4 wins that tiebreaker - it is three squares away from Row A compared to E3's four squares away.

Thus, AutoPlay will move to D4 and complete the Sector.
Next: how? Nancy has Gold cards, so AutoPlay will opt to use those over the Wilds. She can pay for it with exact change: 3/2.

So, AutoPlay's move:
1) Move to D4; play no cards and move no Dragons.
2) Play Gold 3 and Gold 2; rebuild Zone A. Complete the Building.
3) Discard nothing; draw two cards.

[Farren]

Turn 32:

Nancy Drew 39 discards: Gold 3, Gold 2.
Nancy Drew 39 draws: Brown 1, Red 1, Black 1, Blue 2, White 2, Green 1.
Ninetales draws: Gold 2, White 3.

Nancy Drew 39 gains 1 Crystal.
Ninetales gains 1 Crystal.

[Farren]

Turn 33:

Sirius9121 discards: White 1, Gray 3, Gray 2, Gray 1.
Sirius9121 draws: Red 2, Gold 2, Brown 1.

[Farren]

Turn 34:

vincentw discards: Red 1, Black 2, Blue 2, Blue 3, Gray 1.
vincentw draws: White 1, Gold 2, Black 3.

vincentw gains 4 Crystals.
Sirius9121 gains 6 Crystals.
Ninetales gains 4 Crystals.