Advanced All-Round Edgar

Edgar sees the rarity and silhouette of every White, Green and Blue collectible at the start. The board fills from the top with no gaps, so the empty slots left after those three are exactly where the purples, golds and reds sit, and the shape of each empty slot is the list of collectibles that can fit there — 4×5 is Giovanni's Gilded Statue · Flatbread (gold) · 5×1 is only the Radiant Scepter (red) (1×5 is the gold Your Fitness Buddy! · Cloudcutter) · 5×5 is the Pendragon Model · Little Oink Bank (red) · Orrery (gold).

1R — one of three. The default is Rarity (Large): it lands randomly across the whole board and sometimes hits the White, Green and Blue you already know, but a red cell showing inside a big empty slot means that empty slot is a red spot. If the empty slots reach wide down to the bottom of the board, see high-value identities first with Collectible (Large). On a Super Rush (gold ×2) board, the Gold total — it gives the doubled gold value in one go, so in most cases using the Gold total in 1R to look for an all-in opening is a fine strategy too. But on the same board others' defensive bids come out high too, so skipping the all-in and defending with a reasonably high bid is also sensible.

2R — if you used Rarity (Large) in 1R, lock in the gold value with the Gold total (if the empty slots are wide but the Gold total is small, most of the empty area is purple and red). If you used Collectible (Large) or the Gold total, find red cells with Rarity (Large).

3R — if the empty slot holding a red cell is big, trace its actual shape back with Size (Large) (Luminous Goblet 3×3 · Antique Suitcase 3×2 · Radiant Scepter 5×1 · White Dragon King 1×4 · Antique Pendulum Clock 2×5). For a small red that shape can't sort out, like 1×1 or 2×2, pin down its identity with Collectible (Large).

4R — the 2-slot average only when a red 2×1 silhouette remains (above 280k means a Data Vault, 5.12M).

5R — board value = Gold total + the reds you confirmed + purples (small). Bid the top price within that.

Don't use Gold slots — the gold area is visible enough from the empty-slot shapes and the rarity cells.