Editing Farm

  |illustrator = Claus Stephan

|illustrator2 = Maura Kalusky

* Use 8 Harems/Farms for games with 2 players, 12 for games with 3 or more players.

 

Farm suffers from many of the same problems as {{Card|Gold}}—chiefly that it’s an expensive [[stop card]] that usually has a high [[opportunity cost]]—while generating even less {{Cost}}, which makes it usually undesirable in an [[engine]]. At the same time, it is also worse than a cheaper {{Card|Duchy}} at scoring {{VP}}. However, the combination of both these effects in a single card does make it occasionally relevant, most often in [[money strategies]].

Like {{Card|Duchy}}, Farm can be a useful option when you’re employing a money strategy if you want to add {{VP}} but cannot afford {{Card|Province}}; its advantage over {{Card|Duchy}} is that it allows you to continue increasing (rather than decreasing) your [[money density]] at the same time. This is especially relevant if you want to start [[greening]] early, for example with {{Card|Hoard}} or {{Landmark|Battlefield}}. However, you’ll still sometimes prefer {{Card|Gold}} over Farm when using a money strategy, especially if it’s early in the game or if money density is even more important than usual, e.g. because {{Card|Colony}} is present or you’re facing a [[handsize Attack|discarding attack]].

In an engine context, Farm is occasionally useful as a supplementary source of [[alt-VP]] that can allow you to score while [[build]]ing, in a fashion similar to {{Card|Nobles}}. It can be a reasonable target for [[Treasure]] [[gainer]]s such as {{Card|Hero}} or {{Card|Mint}}—although gaining these specifically for this purpose is unlikely to be the focal point of an efficient build, the ability to use a Treasure gainer to score may be important if there are no other sources of additional gains. Farm can also be useful as a [[Victory]] card that can be put into play, with effects such as {{Card|Storyteller}} (where it functions as both {{VP}} and draw) or gainers such as {{Card|Kiln}} and {{Card|Changeling}} (which cannot usually be used to score). Finally, the fact that Farm costs {{Cost|6}} means it can be relevant with {{Card|Displace}}, which allows you to alternate between [[Exile|Exiling]] Farm and {{Card|Province}} to gain a copy of the other card, thus scoring {{VP}} with every play of {{Card|Displace}}.

| {{CardVersionImage|HaremOld|Harem}} || {{CardVersionImage|HaremDigitalOld|Harem from Goko/Making Fun}} || style="padding:0px 30px;"| <p>{{Cost|2|l}}</p>{{VP|2|l}} || Intrigue || July 2009

| {{CardVersionImage|Harem|Harem}} || {{CardVersionImage|HaremDigital|Harem from Shuffle iT}} || {{Cost|2|l}}{{Divline}}{{VP|2|l}} || Intrigue [[Second Edition#Formatting_changes|(Second Edition)]] || October 2016

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| Harem || {{CardLangVersionImage|Dutch|n=Harem}} || || {{Cost|2|l}}<p>{{VP|2|l}}</p> || Eerste editie<br>(2009)

| Farm || {{CardVersionImage|FarmGerman|German language Farm 2023 by ASS}} || {{CardVersionImage|FarmDigitalGerman|German language Farm 2023 from Temple Gates Games}} || style="padding:15px 0px;"| {{Cost|2|l}}{{Divline}}{{VP|2|l}} || Promo<br>(2023)

| Harem || {{CardVersionImage|HaremPolish|Polish language Harem}} || || <p>{{Cost|2|l}}</p>{{VP|2|l}} || (2016)

| Гарем<br>(pron. ''garyem'') || || {{CardVersionImage|HaremDigitalRussian|Russian language Harem}} || {{Cost|2|l}}{{Divline}}{{VP|2|l}} ||

| Harén || {{CardLangVersionImage|n=Harem|Spanish}} || || {{Cost|2|l}}{{Divline}}{{VP|2|l}} || Second Edition<br>(2016)

[[Image:HaremArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official original card's art.]]

Until [[Empires]], Farm was the only [[Treasure]]–[[Victory]] card. [[Donald X. Vaccarino]] designed and playtested one or two other such cards, including a card that gave {{Cost|1}}, {{VP|1}}, and +Buy, but that turned out to be too weak to be usable.

=== Original card art ===

The author of the drawing ([[Maura Kalusky]]) said there is no man in the picture, all the characters are women.