What are good standard tactics for Dominion?
Remove Your Bad Cards

This involves slimming your deck down as small as possible by trashing or otherwise removing your starting Estates and Coppers (as well as any Curses you have ended up with).

Common cards that can enable this strategy (with set in parantheses):

Multiple Card Trash:


Chapel (B) - 4 cards
Forge (P) - Any number of cards from your hand
Steward (I) - 2 cards


Single Card Trash:


Apprentice (A)
Bishop (P)
Expand (P)
Loan (P)
Lookout (S)
Masquerade (I)
Moneylender (B)
Mine (B)
Remodel (B)
Salvager (S)
Trade Route (P)
Trading Post (I)
Transmute (A)
Upgrade (I)


Remove Cards From Play:


Island (S)
Native Village (S)


Removing your starting Copper and Estates will let you draw your more powerful cards that you've bought more often.