Give and Take

Supply

Medium (73)

Engine 100%Alt-VP / Rush 100%Duration 67%

Ambassador + Curse — Ambassador

Ambassador can return Curses you're handed straight back to the Supply for someone else to draw.

Gardens/Silk Road + gainer + +Buy — Island + Smugglers

Cheap alt-VP piles score best when you can gain/buy many cards per turn to pad the deck count — the generalized Beggar/Gardens pattern.

Self-duplicators accelerate three-pile endings — Ambassador + Island

Port/Magpie/Experiment empty their own piles fast, pairing with Gardens/Silk Road rush plans.

Players

Copper: every Copper not dealt into the starting decks.
Silver: 40 · Gold: 30.
Estate: 8 · Duchy: 8 · Province: 8 (Estates counted after dealing starting decks).
Curse: 10 (10 per player after the first).