Falconer

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Falconer
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Reaction
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Menagerie
Illustrator(s)	Claus Stephan
Card text
Gain a card to your hand costing less than this. When any player gains a card with 2 or more types (Action, Attack, etc.), you may play this from your hand.

Falconer is an Action-Reaction card from Menagerie. It is a gainer that you can play when any player (including you) gains a multi-type card.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This can only gain cards from the Supply.
• You can react with this to any gained card with 2 or more types; it can be a card that was bought, or a card gained some other way, such as via a Falconer.
• You can do this regardless of who gained the card - you or anyone else - and regardless of whose turn it is.
• The types are the words on the bottom line – including Action, Attack, Curse, Duration, Reaction, Treasure, and Victory (with more in other expansions).
• If you gain a Falconer to your hand - such as via Artisan - you can react to that gain and play it, since it has two types.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Gain a card to your hand costing less than this. When any player gains a card with 2 or more types (Action, Attack, etc.), you may play this from your hand.	Menagerie	March 2020

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Falknerin			Nimm eine Karte auf deine Hand, die weniger kostet als diese Karte. Nimmt ein Spieler eine Karte mit 2 oder mehr Typen (Aktion, Angriff usw.), darfst du diese Karte aus deiner Hand spielen.
Japanese	鷹匠 (pron. takajō)

Trivia

Falconer is the most expensive Reaction card released to date.

Official card art.

Secret History

This started as a a Smithy you could play when someone gained a particular thing - first a card they had a copy of in play, then when they gained either this or a 3rd card on their turn. I found it just too hard to pay attention to when they got a 3rd card. At the same time the set was packed with card-drawing, it didn't need more. Some people were sad to see it go, but I switched it to gaining a cheaper card to hand, Matt's suggestion, and then found a better reaction condition for it.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Menagerie

Relevant outtakes

There was a Smithy that Exiled a supply card for up to when you gained it, and let other players get in on it by discarding a treasure. Then, a Smithy that let each other player play any Action card from their hand when you gained it. Sometimes it was very cool, but in practice they so often could not get use out of it. I replaced it with the first of the cards that led to Falconer.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Menagerie