Our group played tonight for the first time too! Not sure what you mean by cycled through your deck multiple times, but if you meant all in 1 turn, then you de

Our group played tonight for the first time too! Not sure what you mean by cycled through your deck multiple times, but if you meant all in 1 turn, then you definitely didn't play correctly. Any action cards that are played are put in the play area, and aren't moved into the discard pile until the Cleanup phase. Also, the Buy phase only starts after the Action phase has ended. ABC (Action, Buy, Cleanup). Once you've drawn your entire deck and need to draw more, then the discard pile is shuffled to form a new deck. Once that's drawn too you'll be left with an empty deck, no discard pile, and the rest of the cards left in either your hand or playing area.