Oh goodness, I'm soo bad at "don't buy Develop".
My advices, as a presumptuous was-30-once-upon-a-time player.
1. IGG - IGG rush is really good, make sure you open with cards that can help you hit 5$ like Silver and terminal Silver. Then the strategy is to buy nothing but IGG then Duchies. Gain copper with the IGG if you need it all, in Duchy phase, even if you don't. (maybe even earlier than that).
Don't play the IGG rush if there's another curser in play. I dunno how much you buy it in that scenario.
2. Keep in mind that Island does not help big money at all (according to bots). Use it only for engines, even then it is unfortunately weak. If you're losing from not buying it.. remember it's nice with Gardens and Silk Road. I countered an ambassador opening with Island Silk Road once, it was hilarious. But don't try that at home.
3. Margrave is a little better with BM than with engines I think. Margrave weakens trashing even more than Militia does, which with Island in your top five could be an effect you overvalue.
4. Pawn is generally a 2$ autobuy, so either your decks don't play nice with it, or you pick the options poorly. Pawn helps BM more than an engine deck, because Card/$ drawing treasure can be similar to Moat in quality, a Moat that you don't have to keep playing late game and a Moat you can just cycle away if you don't want it. Resist using +buy for cute double purchases that are probably worse than one strong card. Unless Gardens or Vineyards ofc.
5. Listen to ehunt. He beats my hide in tournaments.
What he's saying isn't that novel though, 1 Gold, 1 Terminal, Hunting paaarties and Silvers is a deck I've seen mentioned on these forums (I do stupid engine stuffs instead).
