The way the size of Victory piles scales with the number of players more or less makes the general rule for this card the same regardless of the number of players: You want to end the game with two of them in your deck, and you want the rest of them in the trash. If for some weird reason one or more of the other players don't have any of them and the pile is going to run out, then do some quick arithmetic, because you may want a 3rd copy in extreme cases with 3 or 4 players, but that's it (except maybe if you play 5-6 player Dominion, which you shouldn't).
If the other players realize what will happen if they let you hold on to 3 and trash 9 (that's 18 VP, or three Camelots which are each worth the same as a Province), then that won't happen, hence why everyone should be aiming to hold on to two. Sure, it's usually hard to gain 12 copies of a card and trash 9 of them, but this card does all of that for you, though you may have to cope with some interactive shenanigans to get there. If you can't stop the other players for getting two Camelots, then there really isn't much of a hurry to run out the pile. If the other players try to do something more immediately productive than put horses in the Camelot race, though, then it *might* be possible to run out the pile before they manage to gain a second Camelot, but that could be an iffy proposition.
Anyway, this card could potentially be more fun with a bigger stack. The number of Camelots you would want to shoot for would increase, and the copies would leave the pile at a faster rate. Maybe an extra 4-8 would be enough to make this card more interesting again.
In your haste to run out the pile, though, don't get stuck holding more in your deck than there are in the trash when the game ends! Count how many you have, and trash down to the magic number before the end - at the moment, that number is two.
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