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{{Infobox Card
 |name = Animal Fair
 |cost = 7*
 |set = Menagerie
 |type1 = Action 
 |illustrator = Claus Stephan
 |text = +{{Cost|4}}<br>'''+1 Buy''' per empty supply pile.
 |text2 = Instead of paying this card's cost, you may trash an Action card from your hand.
}}

'''Animal Fair''' is an [[Action]] card from [[Menagerie (expansion)|Menagerie]]. It gives +{{Cost|4}} and more Buys as the game goes on. When you buy it, you can pay for it with {{Cost|7}}, or by trashing an Action card from your hand.
== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* This only checks how many piles are empty when you play it; how many [[+Buy]]s you got does not change if a pile becomes empty later in the turn (or non-empty, such as due to {{Card|Ambassador}} from {{Set|Seaside}}).
* This only counts [[Supply]] piles, not [[non-Supply]] piles like {{Card|Horse}}.
* When buying this card, you can [[trash]] an [[Action]] card from your hand instead of paying {{Cost|7}}. You can only do this if you have an Action card in hand to trash. You can do this even if you do not have {{Cost|7}}. When buying Animal Fair this way, you spend no {{Cost}}, but still use up a Buy.
* Animal Fair still has a cost of {{Cost|7}}, regardless of how you pay for it.
=== Other rules clarifications ===
* If you pay for this by trashing an Action card, any "when trash" abilities are resolved before any "when buy" abilities, which are then followed by any "when gain" abilities.
* If you play a {{Card|Haggler}} and then pay for an Animal Fair by trashing an Action card, you still gain a non-Victory card costing less than {{Cost|7}}.

== Strategy ==
In games using [[Shelter]]s, you can use an [[opening]] buy on Animal Fair by trashing {{Card|Necropolis}}. {{Card|Rats}} is another card you wouldn't mind trashing to get an Animal Fair. Also in games with {{way|Way of the Butterfly}} one can acquire an Animal Fair by trashing a low-cost card, then return the Animal Fair to its supply pile to gain a {{Card|Province}}.

Because the benefit of an additional buy per empty pile is usually not that attractive, it's commonly not a good idea to wait until the end of the game before getting a Animal Fair.

== Versions ==
=== English versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
|-
| {{CardVersionImage|Animal Fair|Animal Fair}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || +{{Cost|4}}<br>'''+1 Buy''' per empty supply pile.<hr style="width:66%;text-align:center;margin-left:17%;">Instead of paying this card's cost, you may trash an Action card from your hand. || Menagerie || March 2020
|}

=== Other language versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
! Dutch
| Dierenmarkt || {{CardLangVersionImage|Dutch}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|Dutch|d=s}} || +{{Cost|4}}<br>'''+1 Aanschaf''' per lege<br>voorraadstapel{{Divline}}In plaats van de kosten voor<br>deze kaart te betalen, mag je een<br>atiekaart uit je hand vernietigen. || (2020)
|-
!German
| Viehmarkt || [[File:Animal.Fair.German.png|100px|German language Animal Fair 2020 by ASS]] || {{CardLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} ||+{{Cost|4}}<br>'''+1 Kauf''' pro leerem Vorratsstapel.<hr style="width:66%;text-align:center;margin-left:17%;">Anstatt diese Karte zu bezahlen, darfst du eine Aktionskarte aus deiner Hand entsorgen. || (2020)
|-
!Japanese
| 動物見本市 (pron. ''dōbutu mihon ichi'') || || || ||
|-
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Animal FairArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
=== Preview ===
{{Quote|Text=Animal Fair gives you a weird way to pay for it. The card costs {{Cost|7}}; the alternate payment just applies when you're buying one. At the point at which you'd pay your {{Cost|7}}, you can trash an Action from your hand instead (and can do this when you don't have {{Cost|7}}). And then what do you get, you get +{{Cost|4}} and some number of Buys.
 | Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20130.msg825079#msg825079 Menagerie Previews 1: 5 Cards]
}}
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote
|Text=The premise was the alternate cost; the first version had +2 Cards +2 Actions on top. It was just too important to madly try to acquire them. Then for a long time it was +{{Cost|4}} +1 Buy. This seemed to work out fine. But late in the going I was worried about [[Non-Attack interaction|player interaction]] and tried out +1 Buy per empty pile here. It worked great, it makes it less important early and well does have a little interaction.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20260.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Menagerie]
}}
=== Wording ===
{{Quote
|Text=
The rulebook is trying to explain the card to be people who actually need an explanation, not to people just having fun poking at the rules. And the card can't be computer code or the game would be unplayable. Animal Fair's ability happens at the point at which you normally pay a card's cost. It does not seem so tricky to me.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[https://discord.com/channels/212660788786102272/285903840660946954/862726119778156564 Dominion Discord, 2021]
}}
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