Silk Merchant
Silk Merchant | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Renaissance |
Illustrator(s) | Elisa Cella |
Card text | |
+2 Cards +1 Buy When you gain or trash this, +1 Coffers and +1 Villager. |
Silk Merchant is an Action card from Renaissance. It provides terminal draw and +Buy, as well Coffers and Villagers when it is gained or trashed.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- When you play this, you get +2 Cards and +1 Buy; when you trash it or gain it, you get +1 Coffers and +1 Villager.
- If Silk Merchant is trashed, the player trashing it takes the +1 Coffers and +1 Villager, regardless of whose turn it is.
Strategy
While it may look quite unassuming, Silk Merchant is one of the best 4 cost openers in the game because of how easy it makes it to get to 5 coins on turns 3 and 4. Also, because it draws 2 cards, opening Silk Merchant and a non card draw card, like Silver, allows you to perfectly use your whole deck on turns 3 and 4 (unless Silk Merchant is bottom decked). While in some kingdoms you will prefer to open with a thinner like Remake on a 4/3 start, on boards with popular 5 cost cards, Silk Merchant shines.
According to calculations by WanderingWinder, a player opening Silk Merchant/Silver has an over 50% chance to open with two 5 cost cards, and getting at least one 5 cost card is guaranteed on turns 3 and 4 because of the coffer. It also gives a player a decent chance to hit 7 for an early Inheritance if that is in the kingdom. An even better opening is Silk Merchant/Improve if the kingdom has desirable 5s, as the villager from Silk Merchant helps in the case of collision, and otherwise, the Improve can turn into another Silk Merchant or other 4 cost card, like one of the villages, to allow you to play your 5s, if terminal, more often.
Synergies
- Powerful 5 cost kingdom cards
Antisynergies
- Opening 5/2
- A board where all major kingdom cards are less than 5, such as a Native Village/Bridge board
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+2 Cards. +1 Buy. When you gain or trash this, +1 Coffers and +1 Villager. |
Renaissance | November 2018 |
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | |
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Chinese | 布商 (pron. bùshāng, lit. cloth dealer) | |||
French | Marchande de soie (Note: explicitly feminine) | |||
German | Seidenhändlerin (Note: explicitly feminine) | +2 Karten +1 Kauf Wenn du diese Karte nimmst oder entsorgst, +1 Taler und +1 Dorfbewohner. | ||
Japanese | 絹商人 (pron. kinushōnin) | +2 カードを引く。 +1 購入。 これを獲得または廃棄するとき、+1 村人トークン、+1 コイントークン。 | ||
Russian | Торговец Шёлком (pron. torgovyets shyolkom) |
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