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You can’t cycle your deck multiple times per turn, iirc the discards don’t happen until after the turn ends.

Aside from that, it’s definitely not the only or best strategy. Buying gold early can usually edge it out, and it’s very vulnerable to curses.

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I got into dominion at the start of the first lockdown and have played close to 400 games since, the one thing that helped me improve was remember a Big Money or Big Money/+Cards deck normally wins in 14-17 turns so any strategy you choose should beat that time.

Not necessarily "any strategy" - if you have interactive kingdoms it may be better to slow your opponent down (feed them curses, feed them junk, make them discard,outpace their Province/Duchy-driven victory points via alternate victory cards, etc). In "engine vs big money" or "engine dittos", you are totally correct in that you need to have the superior engine.

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