Every time I think I'm getting confident at this (SP, vanilla), I find out there's yet another thing I don't know about
OK, so some AI guy has cast "The Eyes of God" ages ago. I'd like to cast it now (there are 4 globals up, 1 slot free, though I realise that isn't relevant here). So I generously add an extra 10 gems for 60, and confidently cast. Next turn, it failed. I'm 60 astrals lighter, and fed up.
I was expecting to win... am I just a wild optimist?
How the heck should I guess what he'll have spent? What are we using for "optimal" game theory strategy here?
I could have gone "Dispel" first, then cast my own, would that have been a better strategy, seemed to me I'd have spent more overall?
To conclude, I just started looking at docs. It does seem I had not understood the casters involved were relevant, can anyone summarise the math to say how much difference that makes?