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After watching the video I shot up from about 1450 to 1700 on spendee ... thanks! At the start I try to stay flexible , sometimes my opponent will try to block the most obvious plan but then I can pivot and go for a different plan. I buy some 3-gem cards at the start (good value for money) and then see what the lay of the land is, there will often be new cards if the opponent also buys or reserves some cards and that might change my plan.

Neat strategy concepts going on here. Since I started learning high efficiency strats I normally tried to just outrace my opponent to 15 with efficiency card purchases, but this well illustrates how you can pace yourself and not focus so much on efficiency as controlling resources to negate your opponent's efficiency to an INCREDIBLE degree. Highly situational strategy though, it seems. Your opponent has to lock up his reserve hand with 3 cards he can't buy, and the deck needs to be stacked with token cost requirements (in this game, the predominant token cost is green), so you mostly deprive him of green tokens so he just can't buy anything.

replay resets 0:10 seconds into the video so this is a good place to start. 0:15 - early game board favors accumulation of mostly blacks with some whites. Since a cheap black is in bottom row for only a red and 2 green, it's a high value card and merits the save with a golden token. Ati counters by reserving the second row card that costs 5 black which was a prime target for Zitoshi. 0:20 - The flop reveals a high value white card, so Zitoshi claims red, black, and green tokens to work to buying his reserve card in addition to a white card in the second row. Ati counters, claiming white, red, and black tokens. 0:24 - Carrying on with the needs of the above strategy, Zitoshi claims another green, red, and black token. Ati counters, claiming white, red, and black. 0:26 - Zitoshi buys his black reserve card for a red and 2 green. Ati reserves a row 1 blue card costing 3 black. 0:30 - Zitoshi takes white, gree, and red for the sake of working toward two different column 2 white cards. Ati counters by reserving one of the cards Zitoshi was gunning for: a white card costing 4 red, 1 green, and 2 black. 0:33 - With 7 tokens and 3 colors available, Zitoshi maxes out his hand claiming a white, blue, and green. Ati, with 9 chips in hand and 3 cards on reserve, buys one of his red reserve cards 0:37 - With 10 chips, Zitoshi opts for the column 1 red card costing his 2 reds and 2 whites. It didn't look like he had any particularly strong moves at this point. Ati counters, taking a green, red, and black. 0:41 - Zitoshi takes a white, blue, and red. This gives him enough toward a column 1 white that opened up and his opponent is no where near buying, although Ati could reserve it to keep Zitoshi from taking it. Ati takes white, blue, and black. 0:54 - Zitoshi buys his last reserve card--a white, which keeps him in the running for the second row white card costing 6 white, if opponent doesn't get to it first. With ten chips in hand, Ati won't reserve it, and he can't afford to buy it). Ati buys up a white reserve card of his own, so he is closer to the high value white card target. 1:26 - Zitoshi beats Ati to reserving said white card, so Ati's stash of white chips suddenly are not very useful, and Zitoshi is not so far from it that he'd never have a reasonable chance of buying it himself. 1:52 - Ati counters, taking green, red, and black, likely gunning for the bottom right blue card and seems to be effectively revising his strategy now to buy up blues and gun for the high value card in row 3 (green card costing 3 green and 7 blue) 2:18 - Zitoshi takes black, blue, and red. Ati takes blue, green, and red. 2:39 - Zitoshi buys a row 2 white card costing 5 red. He spends 2 red chips, 2 gold chips, and has a red card in his engine to make this purchase. Zitoshi now trails Ati's score with 2 points to 4. Ati counters, purchasing a row 1 blue costing a green, black, white, and red. 3:36 - Zitoshi takes blue, green, and black. Ati counters, purchasing a row 1 green card for 2 red and 2 blue. 4:03 - Zitoshi surprises me here. Instead of buying a 2 point red card for 5 black and 3 white, he gets a 0 point row 1 white card for 2 black and 2 blue. Given that Ati is no where near affording the 2 point red card, perhaps Zitoshi trusts Ati won't reserve it before Zitoshi can claim that card himself, and building his white engine is both rendering the noble strategy (4 white, 4 black) viable, and an established white engine is helpful in purchasing some other cards in the mid to late game. Ati counters, claiming green, red, and black. 4:28 - Zitoshi reserves a row 2 black card costing 3 green, 3 white, and 2 black. It is definitely looking like a noble strategy at this point, and blocks Ati from reserving the same card which he could buy on his subsequent turn. Zitoshi is also effectively controlling resources, blocking Ati from getting black tokens and cards. At 5:05, Ati counters by reserving a row three 4 point white card which he has no reasonable chance of getting, but blocks Zitoshi from building toward it. 5:17 - After Ati's reserve, fortune favors Zitoshi as a high value (4 point) blue card costing 7 white appears on the flop. Zitoshi immediately reserves this one, as he has a gold, a white, and 3 white cards in his engine (total of 5 white) and Ati has a gold, 3 white tokens, and 1 white card in his engine (total of 5 white). Fortune favors Zitoshi even further as the flop reveals a high value white card costing 7 black, and Zitoshi has been controlling the black resource this entire game. Ati counters by reserving the row 3 card costing 7 black, even though he only has a black token, 2 golds, and NO engine with black development cards. While stopping Zitoshi from getting it, he's really locking up his reserve hand with unpurchasable cards for him. In addition, this reserve move has ended him with 11 tokens, so he opts to throw away his blue token. Now on the flop in row 3 comes another high value blue card (5 points) costing 7 white and 3 blue. 6:04 - Zitoshi, with a full reserve hand, purchases a white 3 point card costing 6 white. He has 3 white in his engine, so he spends his last white token and 2 gold to claim it. Leading in points 5 to 4, he has also completed his white engine toward a noble, needing only 3 more black development cards. Ati answers picking up a 1 point white card to tie the game, costing him 2 red, 3 green, and 2 black (so he has to spend one of his golds to get it). 6:23 - Zitoshi takes white, green, and black tokens. Ati takes blue, green, and red tokens (the only colors available). 7:20 -In an act of incredible confusion for me, Zitoshi puts a hold on row 2 two pointer blue card costing a red, 2 white, and 4 black. He won't be able to horde his black tokens from Ati if he buys it, he's filled up his reserve hand, and Ati was no where close to buying this card, so this move is very interesting. Now the flop favors Zitoshi heavily, as it is a valuable 3 point card costing 6 black, which Zitoshi could buy next turn if he wants. Ati is locked on reserves with 3 cards in hand, and as always this game, has no black resources to work with. Ati counters, purchasing a 1 point blue card costing 2 green, 2 blue, and 3 red. 7:28 - Zitoshi buys the blue card he reserved on his last turn. Leads Ati 7 points to 6 now, but this frees up black for Ati and takes Zitoshi further from a 3 point black card which also would set him 2 black development cards away from picking up a noble. I finally see what the blue cards is about. There are a couple of row 3 blue cards in play that call for blue chips. A 4 pointer costing 3 blue, 6 white, and 3 black, and a 5 pointer costing 3 blue and 7 white. Zitoshi is simply thinking ahead on how to score higher and faster than buying up lower tier cards aiming for nobles. Ati counters, taking green, red, and black tokens. 7:48 - As I was expecting, Zitoshi is about to take blue, green, and black tokens, but then to my surprise at 8:00 reserves the row 3 card costing 3 blue, 6 white, and 3 black. Why do this? He won't be able to buy the card next turn, and Ati can't steal it from him. Zitoshi only had 5 chips in his hand, and taking the green away would stop Ati from taking a green to be in position to buy the row 2 black card for 2 points costing 4 green, a blue, and 2 red. Ati counters, taking blue, green, and black. 8:36 - Zitoshi buys his 7 cost white card (a blue development card) and nets 4 points, freeing up one spot in his hand for future reserves. This shows why the previous move--a mystery to me at the time--why make a reserve? Because he needed the gold to buy the blue card costing 7 white in reserve. Had he not reserved a card, he couldn't afford to buy this white card on this turn. Zitoshi leads 11 to 6. In his and is the 4 points he needs to get to 15. That card will cost him 3 blue, 6 white, and 3 black. Zitoshi sits on an engine of 2 blue, 4 white, 1 black, and in his hand are 2 green tokens and a black token. Total is 2 blue, 4 white, 2 black, so he needs a blue, 2 white, and a black to win the game. Ati counters buying a black card in row 2 costing 4 green, a blue, and 2 red. My play at 7:48 which Zitoshi almost made would have stopped this, but as you can see, Zitoshi sees the end game and that he'll win whether or not Ati makes this move. 9:14 - Zitoshi takes white, blue, and black. He is one white chip away from buying the last card he needs to score 15. He has a free spot in his hand to take a gold, which is great as there are no white chips left in the pool, and there's no telling whether Ati will buy something that puts a white gem back for Zitoshi to take. At about 10:00 Zitoshi restarts the video and delves into what I'm sure was this incredible commentary on the thesis of his efficiency strategy. Amazingly, no one bought the blue card costing only 2 black and a white in this game even though there were blue cards that were purchased later on for engine building (both because black was valuable to hold onto and Zitoshi wanted to opt to buy cards that got him points). 10:34 he goes back to where the game left off. Zitoshi reserves from the deck as it doesn't matter what card he picks up. It only matters to get the gold token in lieu of white to get the last 4 points needed for victory. If this were a closer game, it also makes a fine point that by reserving from the deck, you're not risking a valuable card to appear on the flop for your opponent to snatch and possibly beat you on the last turn of the game.

sorry about the hiccup on no sound in the recording. You hadn't posted in quite some time. I hope this doesn't discourage you, Zitoshi! I was trying to research Splendor strategy because my wife is obnoxiously good at the game and was coming up short on good advice until I found your videos, which I noticed were a few years old, so to see one you posted only two months ago is exciting! I hope you make a big come back to playing and sharing strategies more often!

Fun little exercise here to have a guest on. I enjoyed hearing commentary from both players instead of Zitoshi's "best guess" as to what his opponent's reasons were for doing whatever he did

wonder how you did in the Vegas Poker Tournament. That's super cool you got to do that. Great Splendor game analysis as always

I enjoyed the play and breakdown of said play where you reserve a tier 1 face down card hoping you would get something good. Question: when you do that, does your opponent get to see what you reserved or is it a secret to you only revealed to other players once you buy the card?

Mark of great humility and dedication to playing the game well to share and review play by play of a game he LOST. I'm learning more of high level splendor play from Zitoshi videos than from anyone else I've watched or read on this game's strategy. Great stuff here!

I'm in shock that at such high level ELO, Shanzhu is making plays collecting over the ten gem limit and having to return excess gems. Never would have expected to see moves like that at such high rankings. Were his options really that bad at those times??

Very cool "efficiency" play breakdown. I watched another video where the guy swears by the strategy of don't even buy tier 1 cards--save and buy tier 2 cards of good value and that he usually wins, but I see how you factor "engine building" for higher tier cards by getting "cheap" cards of the right color so it's easier to buy the tier 2/3 cards that call for said color (in this case, black)

Hey loved your video just one question why did you save black card from bottom row at around 10:39 instead of buying it ?

Hey bro love your videos. Just started playing irl with my friends. Cant wait to try your teachings. So cool that youve stuck with this so long too

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the primary idea here is on turn 6 i contemplate taking the blue card on bottom row (2b1w). Generally i opt to take such a cheap resource, but as i look at the board i don't think it will be utilized in the future, so opt not to take it. let me know what you think.

Is the lack of sound unintentional?

just realized no sound.

I learned two things from you: 1.Splendor 2.Patience

love your splendor games. hope u will do more

The white card at 10:13 would have won him the game because you wouldn't have been able to buy or reserve the 7 3 5 pointer card and he would have made it to 15.

Recently there are some extreme trapping strategies by bga "QueenDong" (or "MissDong") that get popular in the Chinese community, which feature a careful calculation of "theoretic trapping", meaning the opponent can be guaranteed to make zero further progress. The opponent would have no choice but resign even on 9-0 lead, see for example boardgamearena.com/table?table=352394531 Other examples include boardgamearena.com/4/splendor?table=365530607 boardgamearena.com/table?table=368419206 Since you are the first uploader that gets me into the competitive side of Splendor, I am very interested in your take on these! (Note: In these games, just like yours, the strat does depend on the opponents going too far in defensive reserving.)

It worked perfectly!! Im constantly winning now😎🤝thank youuuuuu❤

What a chad I'm subbing

i think u are smart, do u have a gf?

Gd teaching but can u teach in 4 players mode?

On move 27, HeroSplendor had a clear win that he missed. Remember, he’s holding the 7 green for four points and the 6 red 3 green 3 black for four as well. He could’ve just drawn a green and a black. Then played the green card for four on move 28 and the 6 red 3 green 3 black card for four on move 29 and won with 17 points.

When Lovepaopao on move 28 bought the card off of the first row, you called it an interesting move and said Lovepaopao was in a tough spot and the move gave Lovepaopao more flexibility. The move by Lovepaopao was an egregious mistake, Love paopao should’ve bought the 2 point card on the second row followed by the 5 point card on the top row on move 29 winning the game. You had no defense for that because your reserves were full.

Hello, really appreciate high-level coverage of games like this since there's not much out there! Please keep it up - you got a new subscriber =)

Keep on the good work man! Hope to see more splendor strategies videos from you bro

Fantastic strat explanation brotha!

Hi, could u show a game with 21 points?

I like that it is a long game, and nobles matter a lot! Do you think this kind of games is getting more and more common as players get better at counteracting each other, creating a higher level of entanglement?

Yeah!!! More video's man!!

3 / 6 > 2 / 5, so shouldn't that 3/6 be more efficient?

I think I used this strategy wrong because it wasn't probably the optimal strategy for the game I selected. Will see your first video and see if I can better identify the best strategy at the start of game.

Thanks!!

Cool Chanel!

Really enjoying your thoughts on the game. I’m looking forward to your next video!

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Thanks for the video, zitoshi!!

Great stuff. Great analysis. Keep it coming. :) I personally would have gone 6 blue reserve but the 4,2,1 reserve makes lot of sense as. I guess I would have been more worried about efficient blues taken from me. I wonder if it made sense at some point for your opponent to take away the efficient blues from you. I felt opponent was mostly playing his game. Though with inefficient moves he wasn’t very far off in pts.

why don't you make a new video ?

I've been treating the game more as an engine rather than primarily set collection. Thus, my view of efficient cards is nearly the opposite as I should have built up a few of nearly every color gem. My strategy works fine against rookies but not with experienced players.

Splendor is on Boardgamearena now, I imagine that’s going to bring in a lot of new players looking for guides on how to play (like myself) so I think you have an opportunity to create more content. Nice videos :) maybe create some even more basic videos? After watching your stuff I’m sorta getting it, but some moves that are obvious to you are hard to follow for total beginners. Thanks!

Nice analysis zitoshi! Great win! Congratulations! :)

nice strategy

great vid

can we have some more of this? i have been losing to my boyfriend for forever and i really need a win lol

這開局,綠卡效率最好,但底層缺綠卡,所以如果我選擇我會將重心放在底層的藍卡上,因為它是唯一不用花掉綠色的錢幣買,反而你扣中層的黑卡很危險,因為它需要太多綠色錢幣

On move 28 you could have taken the blue card on row 2, which would give you the Noble plus 1 point. Or maybe there was some other strategy?

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