The kingdom contained Mint, Noble Brigand, Tactician, and mostly uninteresting action cards.
It was a Platinum, Colony kingdom.
Events were Wedding and Borrow.
I reasoned that I wanted to get Mint as early as possible after getting a Gold. Tactician was probably going to be the quickest way. The Noble Brigand didn't interest me, as offensively, it is rather weak. And it was worthless against Platinum and I expected to be minting a lot of those.
I had a 3/4 split. I bought a Silver, then with my four coin hand, I went for Borrow and bought a Tactician.
Due to Borrow, I only drew four cards for my next hand, and I couldn't believe my amazing luck: Tactician plus my 3 Estates. Obviously play the Tactician.
This allowed me to draw all of my treasure into my next hand. One Silver and 7 Copper yields 9 coins and two buys.
And this is where I execute a brilliant strategy. I buy a Mint and a Wedding!
Now my deck is just Tactician, Mint, 3 Estates, and a Gold.
I'll be minting Gold till my debt is repaid and then I'll buy a Platinum and start minting those. With Tactician hands filled with Platinum and Gold, I'll surely kick ass.
It is now turn five and I draw my entire deck other than my Gold. Well, that's unlucky since I won't be able to mint a Gold this turn, but this will only delay my victory by a turn. I was convinced that I was going to win.
Then my opponent buys a Noble Brigand.
I resign.
(The Noble Brigand nicks my Gold leaving me treasureless and still in debt from Wedding. I cannot even buy Copper. It is impossible to win.)