Let's Play Dominion: An Experiment in Deckbuilding???

Actually, put me down with Palamedes-- A Festival and a Chapel. I feel like the Chapel trumps the Moneylender, as the Chapel can be used to trash a lot of cards all at once, while the Moneylender can only trash one copper at a time loses use quickly as we lose Copper (and the likelihood of drawing both Moneylender and Copper on the same turn goes down). I mean, in theory we could buy Copper specifically for burning with the Lender later, but that feels a little iffy to me.

Additionally, as we use the Chapel to burn through Copper and Estates (which, while useful, can clog down the deck and keep us from drawing objectively-more-useful cards), statistically-significantly more of our deck will consist of action cards, which Festivals let us use lots of.

We could probably stand to pick up something with Draw on it in the next few turns, though. Maybe a Smith? Iunno, we'll see.