Editing Delve

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{{Infobox Event
 |name = Delve
 |cost = 2
 |set = Empires
 |type1 = Event
 |illustrator = Mark Poole
 |text = '''+1 Buy'''<br>Gain a Silver.
}}

'''Delve''' is an [[Event]] from [[Empires]].  Its presence in a game essentially makes {{Card|Silver}} cheaper and not require a Buy to buy.
== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* Each purchase of Delve gives you back the Buy you used on it. 
* For example, if you have {{Cost|7}}, you can Delve, then Delve, then buy a card for {{Cost|3}}.

== Strategy ==

Delve can get you 3 Silvers in the opening, giving you significantly better odds of hitting 5, 6, and 5 twice on turns 3 and 4 than most other openings. This is especially relevant in games where you can use the extra Silvers profitably later, either via trash for benefit or because the board is weak and Silver is likely to remain an above-median card in your deck into the endgame. Delve is fast enough that it can occasionally enable a money strategy to beat a weak engine, but don't let it trick you into not building a deck if there's a deck to be built.

Delve is notably strong with {{Card|Feodum}}, and can sometimes even be played as a monolithic strategy. This has been benchmarked as follows:

    Turn 11: 0 piles, ~27-30 VP
    Turn 13-14: 1 pile, ~50 VP
    Turn 23-24: 3 piles, ~115 VP
    Tip: Start greening on turn 6

===Synergies===
* Money strategies
* {{Card|Feodum}}

===Antisynergies===
* Strong engines (especially with virtual money)
* [[Prosperity]] games, especially with {{Card|Platinum}} and {{Card|Colony}}
* {{Event|Bandit Fort}}

== Versions ==
===English versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
|-
| {{LandscapeVersionImage|Delve|Delve}} || {{LandscapeVersionImage|DelveDigital|Delve from Shuffle iT}} || '''+1 Buy'''. Gain a Silver. || Empires || June 2016 
|}

===Other language versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text
|-
!Dutch 
| Delven || || || 
|-
!Finnish 
| Kaivanto (lit. ''excavation'') || || || 
|-
!French
| Trouée (lit. ''gap'') || || || '''+1 Achat'''. Recevez un Argent.
|-
!German 
| Erforschen (lit. ''to explore'') ||{{LandscapeLangVersionImage|German}}|| {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} ||'''+1 Kauf'''<br>Nimm ein Silber.
|-
!Japanese 
| 掘進 (pron. ''kusshin'', lit. ''excavation'') || || || '''+1 購入'''。銀貨1枚を獲得する。 
|-
!Polish 
| Zejście (lit. ''descent'') || {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|Polish}} || || 
|-
!Russian 
| Шурф (pron. ''shurf'', lit. ''pit'') || || ||  
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:DelveArt.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Official card art.]]
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote|Text=This was an idea from [[Adventures]] that I never got around to trying there. It's the only one of those I tried, and it worked great.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15660.0 The Secret History of the Empires Cards]
}}
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