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[catsclaw]

Bazaar, Conspirator, Crossroads, Grand Market, Haggler, Hoard, Mint, Pirate Ship, Possession, Potion, and Stash

If it helps, you open 4/3, and your opponent starts with Pirate Ship.

[DG]

Isn't this one of the worst pirate ship kingdoms you could invent?

[kn1tt3r]

No, it doesn't help.

I would strictly ignore Pirate Ship here, basically because there are so many great sources of +$ available, and Pirate Ship will mostly help your opponent.

I would probably start wirth Conspirator/Crossroads, get a Haggler soon, try to trash as many coppers as possible with a Mint buy, and then load up on Bazaars, Conspirators, Grand Markets and supporting Crossroads. If the occasion occures (which is quite likely) I'd grap a Potion on the way and get a Possession - especially if my opponent is going for it.

Possibly plain BM is faster here (due to Hoard and Stash basically), but the other approach is definately more fun.

[Toskk]

The only concern I have with the opponent opening Pirate Ship here is it greatly reduces the incentive to Mint out all my Copper. A treasure-trimmed deck is a great target for Pirate Ship, unless of course I can get enough +$ chaining actions to be able to ignore treasure.. and there are plenty. But I don't really want my opponent grabbing Mint either.. so I can either pick up a Pirate Ship myself, or hope on a faster buildup and just outpacing them.

As for Conspirator / Crossroads, that particular opening isn't quick at all.. here's how it rates in this morning on Councilroom.com:

Conspirator / Crossroads: -0.243 ± 3.741 (not enough available game data yet to reduce the deviation on this one)

By comparison, Pirate Ship / Silver rates in at -1.676 ± 0.912, and Silver / Silver rates in at 0.378 ± 0.908.

So I hate to be boring, but I'm pretty sure I'd open Silver / Silver, gunning for +$ chaining actions. Grand Markets should let you pick up a Crossroads or two for late-game deck cycling, too.

[chwhite]

Open Conspirator/Silver, buy GM>Bazaar>Conspirator>Crossroads in that order of priority, and thank your opponent for the free Copper trashing.  Maybe pick up a Haggler early as well, I dunno; Mint probably isn't necessary but if the perfect situation arises to junk lots of Coppers after you have some money Actions, then why not.  I personally wouldn't bother going out of my way for Possession, but maybe that's a mistake.

[Copernicus]

The simplest strategy is Silver/Conspirator.  Grab a Haggler on the first shuffle, then start picking up the components (Grand Market, Bazaar, and Conspirator).  Possibly grab a second Haggler if the deck feels like it's reaching a good critical mass each turn.  Grab a Crossroads with the first spare 2$/buy from a Grand Market, and make decisions based on how your deck's green, action, and money density is.

There's also a Stash/Crossroads strategy which is going for the goal of getting four Stashes and using Crossroads to rapidly cycle through the deck.  Which is probably terrible but sounds like fun.

[LastFootnote]

Maybe pick up a Haggler early as well, I dunno;

MAYBE pick up a Haggler? I'm pretty sure I'd like a free Conspirator when I buy a Bazaar.

[Davio]

Maybe pick up a Haggler early as well, I dunno;

MAYBE pick up a Haggler? I'm pretty sure I'd like a free Conspirator when I buy a Bazaar.

How about a free Bazaar with your GM?

While building your engine you will regularly overshoot your main target (GM) by a small margin ($7 to $9) in which case you don't want another cheap card, but having Haggler you can easily grab GM + Bazaar in these instances, accelerating your deck even more.

[WanderingWinder]

Or a free Grand Market with your province. Oh wait, I did that earlier today.
Has anyone else noticed that Haggler is one of the sneaky power cards of the set?

[painted_cow]

Yes, Haggler is really cool. I mean why should one think, that Haggler isnt? 

[Jimmmmm]

I always tend to worry that Haggler will force me to get low-cost cards that I don't want. Do you find it's still good if there are no good cheap cards? If there aren't any, is there a best time to buy it to ensure you're going to have it with plenty of other money?

[chwhite]

My experience with Haggler has actually been that it's skippable more often than you think.  Though, yeah, y'all are right it should be stellar in this particular setup.

[greatexpectations]

There's also a Stash/Crossroads strategy which is going for the goal of getting four Stashes and using Crossroads to rapidly cycle through the deck.  Which is probably terrible but sounds like fun.

i tried out a few variants of that and didn't seem to have much luck with it.  i even tried throwing in an early mint to clean up some copper but i don't think it could keep up with the other ideas.

[WanderingWinder]

I find for Haggler it's important to have a good 2 OR a good 4, not necessarily both.