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[eHalcyon]

I think this is a fairly simple puzzle, but I wanted to post it anyway.  The puzzle name is pretty bad.  Couldn't think of a good one without giving too much away.

In a solitaire game, you have only a single non-drawing Action card in hand at the start of your turn.  No Possession, no durations, nothing on mats.  You have not yet purchased any VP cards, and no more than 2 copies of any other card.  Starting from this turn, what is the minimum number of turns you need to pile drive Provinces?

Hard Mode: do not assume perfect shuffle luck.

My solution takes 2 turns, including the current one.  Feel free to post anything that takes longer, or something that is faster if you can manage it.

If I can throw in an extra duration (from the previous turn), my solution can be pumped up to work for Colonies.  How?  If you use Caravan or Wharf, Hard Mode still applies to the draw.  You can only choose your starting 5 cards.

[blueblimp]

Do you mean just a single NON-drawing (edit sorry) action in your deck?

[theory]

Easy mode: Play Chancellor, buy Bridge, shuffle, draw KC KC Bridge Bridge Bridge?

[eHalcyon]

Do you mean just a single NON-drawing (edit sorry) action in your deck?

In your hand, though it means you'll only be playing one action this turn.  Um, for the purpose of this puzzle I will classify Golem as a drawing action.  The purpose was to keep it open for solutions other than my own.  My own solution only has one action in the deck.

Maybe that restriction should be in place to prevent this:

Easy mode: Play Chancellor, buy Bridge, shuffle, draw KC KC Bridge Bridge Bridge?

which totally works.  But it doesn't work for hard mode!

[cayvie]

Your hand is Quarry, Talisman, Talisman, Royal Seal, Bridge.

You play Bridge, buying a King's Court (placing 2 on top) and a Bridge (placing 3 on top).

Next turn, KC KC Bridge Bridge Bridge!

[eHalcyon]

Your hand is Quarry, Talisman, Talisman, Royal Seal, Bridge.

You play Bridge, buying a King's Court (placing 2 on top) and a Bridge (placing 3 on top).

Next turn, KC KC Bridge Bridge Bridge!

Darn.  Too easy.

Though my solution actually used Contraband instead of a second Talisman.

For Colonies, if you have an extra buy on the set up turn (e.g. from Wharf), you can pick up Highway and put them on the very top, in order to bring Colonies down to 0 on the next turn.