Cash Flow

Supply

Synergy

Medium (71)
Engine 100%Slog 80%Alt-VP / Rush 75%
Gardens/Silk Road + gainer + +Buy — Castles + Engineer

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.

Variety payoff + broad gainer/+Buy — Carnival + Engineer

Fairgrounds/Museum/Horn of Plenty want many differently-named cards; Workshops and +Buy make one-of shopping cheap.

Landscape

Setup

Players

Basic Supply

Kingdom piles

Starting decks

Mats & tokens

Card setup