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{{Infobox Card
 |name = Faithful Hound
 |cost = 2
 |set = Nocturne
 |type1 = Action
 |type2 = Reaction 
 |illustrator = Lynell Ingram
 |text = '''+2 Cards'''
 |text2 = When you discard this other than during Clean-up, you may set it aside, and put it into your hand at end of turn.
}}

'''Faithful Hound''' is an [[Action]]-[[Reaction]] card from [[Nocturne]].  It provides weak [[terminal draw]], but has a Reaction that adds it to your next hand if it is discarded outside of Clean-up, making it good fodder for [[discard for benefit]] cards.
== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* "End of turn" is after drawing in Clean-up. 
* The Reaction ability can happen on your turn and on other players' turns; if for example you discard Faithful Hound to another player's {{Card|Raider}}, you can set it aside and return it to your hand at the end of that turn. 
* Faithful Hound does not have to be in your hand for the ability to work; for example you can set it aside when it is discarded from your deck due to {{Card|Night Watchman}}. 
* The ability does not work if Faithful Hound is put into your discard pile without being discarded; for example nothing special happens when you gain Faithful Hound, or put your deck into your discard pile with {{Card|Scavenger}} (from {{Set|Dark Ages}}). 
* The ability does not do anything during Clean-up. 
* Setting Faithful Hound aside is optional. 
* You cannot choose to discard Faithful Hound without something telling you to discard.
=== Other rules clarifications ===
* If you discard Faithful Hound with {{Card|Vassal}} and choose to set it aside, {{Card|Vassal}} will fail to play it. [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19893.msg871558#msg871558]

== Strategy ==
===Synergies===
*[[Discard for benefit]]
*[[Handsize attack|Discarding attacks]]
*[[Digging]] cards and [[sifter]]s
*{{Landmark|Arena}}

===Anti-Synergies===
* {{Card|Ghost Ship}}

== Versions ==
=== English versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
|-
| {{CardLangVersionImage}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || '''+2 Cards'''{{Divline}}When you discard this other than during Clean-up, you may set it aside, and put it into your hand at end of turn. || Nocturne || November 2017
|}

=== Other language versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!Chinese
| 忠犬 (pron. ''zhōngquǎn'') || || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| '''＋2 卡片'''{{Divline}}當你在清除階段以外的時候將此卡棄掉，你可以將此卡放到一邊，在這個回合結束時，將此卡放回手中。 || 
|-
!Dutch
| Trouwe hond || || || || 
|-
!French
| Chien fidèle || || || || 
|-
!German
| Getreuer Hund ||{{CardLangVersionImage|German}}|| || '''+2 Karten'''{{Divline}}Wenn du diese Karte außerhalb der Aufräumphase ablegst, darfst du sie zur Seite legen und sie am Ende des Zuges auf die Hand nehmen. || (2017)
|-
!Japanese
| 忠犬 (pron. ''chūken'') || || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| '''+2 カードを引く'''{{Divline}}このカードをクリーンアップフェイズ以外の場面で捨て札にするとき、これを脇に置いてもよい。脇に置いた場合、このターンの終了時に手札に加える。 || 
|-
!Russian
| Верный Пес (pron. ''vyerniy pyos'') || || || || 
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Faithful HoundArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
=== Name ===
{{Quote
|Text=
The card name wasn't based on [the [[blue dog rule]]], but when I made the card I thought, sweet, a blue dog.

I tried two cards at the same time for that slot, two reactions that cared about being discarded. The other was a Black Cat. That would have been cool too. But the blue dog was better.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg754490#msg754490 Interview with Donald X.]
}}
=== Preview ===
{{Quote
|Text=
In these dark days it’s good to have reliable companions, friends that will stick with you to the bitter end. But in a pinch, a dog will do.

Faithful Hound is an Action-Reaction card, like Moat. And just like {{Card|Moat}}, it draws you two cards when you play it. The [[reaction]] is quite different, though. When you send a Faithful Hound away, it comes right back as an extra card in your next hand. You might never even play your Faithful Hounds, just discarding them to {{Card|Cellar|Cellars}} and the like.

And like most Reaction cards, Faithful Hound can help against some attacks. It’s nice against [[Attack]] cards that make you discard from your hand, like {{Card|Militia}}. But maybe sometimes you’ll get lucky and a {{Card|Bandit}} will flip your Faithful Hound. Hope springs eternal.

Faithful Hound doesn’t have an Heirloom, look at that. It’s an off-theme preview! Tomorrow’s bonus preview will have an Heirloom to make up for it, I give you my word.
 |Name=LastFootnote
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17771.0 Nocturne Bonus Preview #2: Faithful Hound]
}}
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote
|Text=A late card. There had been an [[heirloom]] that you set aside for your next hand when you discarded it. It was not obvious that it worked in clean-up. I fiddled with it and then replaced it. And then brought back the concept, sans the clean-up part, on this card. It has been some years since {{Card|Tunnel}}, we are ready for something else to care about discarding it.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17955.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Nocturne]
}}
=== Relevant outtakes ===
{{Quote
|Text=The other [Heirloom outtake] turned into Faithful Hound. At first if you discarded it you set it aside for next turn, and this even worked if you discarded it in clean-up. I didn't like that most players wouldn't get that from reading the card. Then there were versions that didn't work in clean-up, and then I had {{Card|Haunted Mirror}} competing for that slot. And the ability ended up on Faithful Hound instead.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17955.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Nocturne]
}}
=== Possibility of cheating ===
If you discard multiple Faithful Hounds to e.g. a {{Card|Militia}} and set them aside, the other players can't confirm how many Faithful Hounds you actually discarded, because they can only see the top card of your discard pile.
{{Quote
|Text=
It's hard to see how it could be an actual issue in an actual game. If your not-your-friend opponent discards their hand, and only then picks up the cards to reveal Hounds, it will look super-fishy. Try to get the judge to disqualify them and all that.

In practice everyone reveals all the Faithful Hounds from their hand like you'd expect. Then we can consider, where should available energy be directed.

If it were an issue, there could possibly be a tortured wording that had you reveal it as you discarded it but resolve it afterwards, combined with the assurance that I wouldn't make effects that triggered on effects such that something else could happen then.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[https://discord.com/channels/212660788786102272/285903840660946954/852616196813750322 Dominion Discord, 2021]
}}
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