This might just be obvious, but.... played a 3 player game IRL with Count, Rebuild, Ironmonger, Poor House, Knights, Rogue, Squire, Wandering Minstrel, Beggar, and Death Cart.
I started out with a couple Ironmongers, but quickly switched to just getting 2 Counts and 2 Rebuilds. So I trashed my hand once to get rid of a bunch of Coppers (probably a mistake), then took the Duchy option every time. My Rebuilds worked well at turning those Duchies into Provinces. In the end we all split the Provinces equally, but I had more Duchies than anyone else.
And that was with Knights trashing one of my Duchies as well as a couple Silvers. I'm pretty sure that Count + Rebuild will prove to be pretty good on most boards.