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!Chinese | !Chinese | ||
− | | 占卜 (pron. ''zhānbǔ'', lit. ''divination'') || || || | + | | 占卜 (pron. ''zhānbǔ'', lit. ''divination'') || || || || |
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!Czech | !Czech | ||
− | | Vidění (lit. ''vision'') || {{CardLangVersionImage|Czech}} || || | + | | Vidění (lit. ''vision'') || {{CardLangVersionImage|Czech}} || || '''+1 akce'''<br>Každý hráč (včetně tebe) ukáže vrchní kartu svého dobíracího balíčku a ty vybereš, zda ji odloží na odkládací balíček, nebo zda ji vrátí zpět. Poté ukazuj vrchní karty ze svého dobíracího balíčku, dokud neodkryješ kartu, která není akční.<br>Všechny své odkryté karty si přidej do ruky. || |
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!Dutch | !Dutch | ||
− | | Visioen (lit. ''vision'') || || || | + | | Visioen (lit. ''vision'') || || || || |
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!Finnish | !Finnish | ||
− | | Ennemalja (lit. ''omen bowl'') || || || | + | | Ennemalja (lit. ''omen bowl'') || || || || |
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!French | !French | ||
− | | Bassin divinatoire || || || | + | | Bassin divinatoire || || {{CardVersionImage|Scrying PoolFrench2021Digital|French language Scrying Pool 2021 from Shuffle iT}} || '''+1 Action'''<br>Tous les joueurs (y compris vous) dévoilent la carte du haut de leur pioche et la défaussent ou la replacent (votre choix). Ensuite, dévoilez des cartes de votre pioche jusqu'à dévoiler une carte qui n'est pas une Action. Prenez en main les cartes dévoilées. || |
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!German | !German | ||
− | | Vision (lit. ''vision'') || {{ | + | | Vision (lit. ''vision'') || {{CardVersionImage|Scrying PoolGerman2019rulebook|German language Scrying Pool 2019 by ASS}} || {{CardVersionImage|Scrying PoolGerman2021Digital|German language Scrying Pool 2021 from Shuffle iT}} || '''+1 Aktion'''<br>Jeder Spieler (inklusive dir) deckt die oberste Karte seines Nachziehstapels auf. Du entscheidest bei jedem, ob er die aufgedeckte Karte ablegt oder zurücklegt. Decke dann Karten von deinem Nachziehstapel auf, bis du eine Nicht-Aktionskarte aufdeckst. Nimm alle so aufgedeckten Karten auf deine Hand. || (2019) |
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!Italian | !Italian | ||
− | | Divinazione (lit. ''divination'') || || || | + | | Divinazione (lit. ''divination'') || || || || |
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!Japanese | !Japanese | ||
− | | 念視の泉 (pron. ''nen-shi no izumi'', lit. ''fountain of thought-inspection'') || || || '''+1 アクション''' | + | | 念視の泉 (pron. ''nen-shi no izumi'', lit. ''fountain of thought-inspection'') || || || '''+1 アクション'''<br>プレイヤーは全員、山札の一番上のカードを公開し、あなたの選択により、捨て札にするか山札の上に戻す。その後、あなたはアクションカード以外のカード1枚が公開されろまで山札を上かち公開する。公開したカードをすべて手札に加えろ。 || |
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− | | Гадательная Чаша (pron. ''gadatyel'naya chasha'', lit. ''oracle bowl'') || || {{CardLangVersionImage|DigitalRussian}} || '''+1 Действие''' | + | | Гадательная Чаша<br>(pron. ''gadatyel'naya chasha'', lit. ''oracle bowl'') || || {{CardLangVersionImage|DigitalRussian}} || '''+1 Действие'''<br>Каждый игрок (вы тоже) раскрывает верхнюю карту своей колоды и по вашему выбору либо сбрасывает её, либо кладёт назад. Затем раскрывайте карты с вашей колоды до тех пор, пока не раскроете карту, не являющуюся картой Действия. Положите все раскрытые карты в руку. || |
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!Spanish | !Spanish | ||
− | | Hidromancia (lit. ''hydromancy'') || || || | + | | Hidromancia (lit. ''hydromancy'') || || || || |
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Revision as of 06:19, 13 November 2021
Scrying Pool | |
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Type(s) | Action - Attack |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Alchemy |
Illustrator(s) | Klemens Franz |
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+1 Action Each player (including you) reveals the top card of their deck and either discards it or puts it back, your choice. Then reveal cards from your deck until revealing one that isn’t an Action. Put all of those revealed cards into your hand. |
Scrying Pool is an Action–Attack card from Alchemy. When you play Scrying Pool, you first do a Spy-like attack on your opponents and on your own deck, and then draw all the Action cards off the top of your deck. If all you have is Action cards, a single Scrying Pool will draw your whole deck.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- First each player reveals their top card, and discards it or puts it back, with you choosing separately for each player.
- If people care about the order, go clockwise, starting with yourself.
- After that, reveal cards from the top of your deck until you reveal a card that is not an Action card.
- If you run out of cards without revealing a [non-]Action card, shuffle your discard pile and keep going. If you have no discard pile left either, stop there.
- Put all of the Action cards you revealed from your deck into your hand, plus that first non-Action card.
Other Rules clarifications
- There is a typo in the official FAQ; it says "Action card" where it should say "non-Action card". That error is corrected above.
- Cards with multiple types, one of which is Action, are Actions.
- The only cards that go into your hand are the ones revealed as part of revealing cards until finding a non-Action; you do not get discarded cards from the first part of what Scrying Pool did, or cards from other players' decks.
Strategy
Scrying Pool is a powerful card because, in the right Kingdoms, it offers potentially unlimited draw. In decks that are mostly Action cards, Scrying Pool can allow you to draw your entire deck relatively easily, allowing you to reliably play all your stop card payload (such as Coven), enabling gain and play scenarios, and synergizing well with discard for benefit cards such as Artificer. Scrying Pool’s strength, therefore, is largely tied to whether the rest of the Kingdom allows you to get to that kind of deck. Junking Attacks such as Mountebank can make that goal nearly impossible, while strong thinners such as Steward often make it feasible. Kingdoms with lots of cheap Actions, especially cantrips such as Pearl Diver, can also allow you to easily flood your deck with cards that Scrying Pool can draw.
Scrying Pool’s Potion before buying a Scrying Pool. This means you need to plan in advance whether you want Scrying Pools or not. If Scrying Pool is good in a particular Kingdom, you’ll often want to open with a Potion to start getting Scrying Pools as soon as possible. Second, you’ll need to keep the Potion in your deck to get more Scrying Pools. This is an additional non-Action card that may get in the way of Scrying Pool’s draw, and exacerbates Scrying Pool’s struggles in Kingdoms with no thinning. Third, because Potion is useless for affording other non- cards, you’ll usually only have one, limiting you to gaining one Scrying Pool per shuffle.
cost has several repercussions. First, you’ll need to buy aScrying Pool’s initial reveal and optional discard of the top card of all players’ decks is a relatively small component of the card’s overall strength. Revealing the top card of your own deck is useful sifting, as you can discard non-Action card junk to make it miss the shuffle and increase your odds of drawing more cards, or keep an Action card on top to guarantee you draw at least two cards. As an attack, Scrying Pool is low-impact. It can sometimes cause duds for your opponents if you can leave a junk card such as an Estate on top of their deck, trigger bad shuffles for them, or cause their good cards to miss the shuffle, but oftentimes if you’re able to play enough Scrying Pools to cause that to happen, they will also have Scrying Pools to discard the topdecked junk, or simply draw to their own good cards. Sometimes, Scrying Pool can allow you to more precisely use cards that care about the top of your opponent’s deck, such as Swindler, Chariot Race, and Jester.
External strategy articles
Note: Article(s) below are by individual authors and may not represent the community's current views on cards, but may provide more in-depth information or give historical perspective. Caveat emptor.
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Action. Each player (including you) reveals the top card of his deck and either discards it or puts it back, your choice. Then reveal cards from the top of your deck until you reveal one that is not an Action. Put all of your revealed cards into your hand. | Alchemy 1st Edition | May 2010 | ||
+1 Action. Each player (including you) reveals the top card of their deck and either discards it or puts it back, your choice. Then reveal cards from your deck until revealing one that isn't an Action. Put all of the revealed cards into your hand. | Alchemy 2nd Edition | December 2018 |
Other language versions
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Secret History
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