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

Always start by playing all Festivals in-hand. I'm reasonably certain there is zero downside to doing so; this turn, it'll net us two actions (one to use on the Pawn) and +2 coin (total of three). The one thing that keeps us from doing is trashing them, but we'd only need to do that if we'd already bought too many, which we can plan against doing.

I propose we use the Pawn (after the Festival, as I've already said) to gain 1 Card and 1 Coin, and save judgement on what to do with our 2 buy and 4 coin until after seeing what the draw is.