Wine & Dine
Supply
Synergy
High (77)Alt-VP / Rush 100%Engine 80%Trash-for-benefit 80%
Gardens/Silk Road + gainer + +Buy — Vineyard + Transmute
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 — Fairgrounds + Transmute
Fairgrounds/Museum/Horn of Plenty want many differently-named cards; Workshops and +Buy make one-of shopping cheap.
Multiple Potion-cost piles — Apothecary + Scrying Pool
A single Potion purchase amortizes across piles — a lone Potion-cost card is a cost, two or more is a plan.
Vineyard + cheap Action gainers — Vineyard + Transmute
Vineyard scores 1 VP per 3 Action cards — University/Workshops/Talisman stack Actions fast.
Extra piles
Bane