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[[Image:Laboratory.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Laboratory]], the archetype for this category.]]

== Official Rules ==
: "+1 Card" - Draw a card.
* You draw the card immediately.
* If you have to draw more cards than are left in your deck, you shuffle your discard pile, put it under your deck, and then draw. If there still are not enough cards to draw, you just draw as many as you can.
== Prior Official Rules (amended by Dominion Second Edition) ==
: "+X Card(s)"
* The player immediately draws X number of cards from his Deck.
* If there are not enough cards in his Deck, he draws as many as he can, shuffles the Discard pile to form a new Deck, and then draws the rest. If he still does not have enough cards left after forming a new Deck, he just draws as many as he can.

== Different uses of the term "draw" ==

In Dominion, the word "draw" has been used in multiple ways.

* synonymous with +Cards, as seen from the rules quote above<br>(Note that there's a relevant distinction when playing with {{Way|Way of the Chameleon}}, from {{Set|Menagerie}}.)
* as a concept for describing capabilities of certain decks
* Informally (and also on this wiki), an instruction that says to reveal a card and then put it into your hand may be viewed as drawing.<br>(Note that there's a distinction involving the <span class="card-popup">[[Adventures tokens#–1 Card token|–1 Card token]]<span class="noprint">[[File:MinusCard_token.png|150px|link=]]</span></span>, from {{Set|Adventures}}.)

== Draw concept definition ==

'''''Draw'' is any combination of cards that increases the number of cards in hand, without decreasing the number of actions remaining.'''

The presence of draw in a given kingdom is important because having a cap on the number of cards you can have in your hand is a significant limiting factor in the potential of decks you’re able to build; Kingdoms with draw and kingdoms without draw play very differently. Without the presence of draw in a kingdom, the focus of most decks shifts to the [[cantrips]], plus the most desirable non-drawing cards available.


== List of Draw cards ==

Cards that can provide the draw effect will be listed below. Without the presence of at least one card on this list, it is impossible for a kingdom to have "draw" as defined above. However, the presence of most of the cards below does not necessarily mean that draw is possible -- some of the cards require some level of support to achieve the draw effect. Draw cards are sorted into sections according to what type of support they require in order to give the draw effect.


=== Draw that doesn’t require a lot of support ===

The length of this list is pretty short compared to everything else; these cards just draw you cards if that’s what you want. If you need to meet a requirement in order to enable that draw, it’s usually not a huge deal to do so.

'''{{Card|Alchemist}}, {{Card|Archive}}, {{Card|Caravan}}, {{Card|Cursed Village}}, {{Card|Den of Sin}}, {{Card|Governor}}, {{Card|Hireling}}, {{Card|Hunting Party}}, {{Card|Laboratory}}, {{Card|Lost City}}, {{Card|Sauna}}/{{Card|Avanto}}, {{Card|Stables}}'''


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=== Draw that requires some other non-[[Village (card category)|Village]] support ===

Most draw cards require some support in order to work. With this list of cards, you will need some support in order to make them work, but the support is there often enough that it’s frequently worth using these cards as a source of draw.

* '''{{Card|Advisor}}''' needs a deck with few enough bad cards in it that you can reasonably expect to draw something good.

* '''{{Card|Apprentice}}''' needs a deck with enough expensive cards that you can afford to trash some without ruining the potential of your deck.

* '''{{Card|Apothecary}}''' can’t increase the number of non-Copper cards in your hand, which is a huge mark against it in terms of actual draw; you usually need some other enabler like {{Card|Warehouse}} to make it function as draw, otherwise its effect is closer to [[sifting]].

* '''{{Card|City}}''' needs a way to empty a supply pile quickly enough to be useful as a source of draw.

* '''{{Card|City Quarter}}''', '''{{Card|Herald}}''', and '''{{Card|Scrying Pool}}''' need an action-dense deck to be effective.

* '''{{Card|Crossroads}}''' and '''{{Card|Shepherd}}''' need a way to line them up with enough [[Victory]] cards to make the draw worthwhile.

* '''{{Card|Encampment}}''' needs a way to line it up with {{Card|Gold}} or {{Card|Plunder}}, or else it doesn’t stay in your deck.

* '''{{Event|Expedition}}''' needs additional buys and money because you have to buy it repeatedly.

* '''{{Card|Ghost}}, {{Card|Golem}}, {{Card|King's Court}}, {{Event|Pathfinding}}, {{Card|Teacher}}''''s +1 Card token, and '''{{Card|Prince}}''' need Action cards to find in your deck that you’re happy to play and/or use as sources of draw, even if they only have +1 Card (which is not normally enough by itself to give you a draw effect).

* '''{{Card|Imp}}''' needs enough unique cards in your deck to play with its ability, otherwise it will need [[Village (card category)|Village]] support.

* '''{{Card|Menagerie}}''' needs a deck that can provide opportunities to activate its draw ability.

* '''{{Card|Minion}}''' and '''{{Card|Tactician}}''' need a form of “[[Virtual coin|virtual payload]]” to mitigate their drawbacks of discarding your hand.

* '''{{Card|Storyteller}}''' needs high-value treasures, or having money before playing it, to work as draw.

* '''{{Card|Seer}}''' needs a deck consisting of cheap cards to draw any cards. 

* '''{{Card|Will-o'-Wisp}}''' can be hard to get, plus it doesn’t always draw you an extra card.

* '''{{Card|Wishing Well}}''' normally only works as draw when you have some way of knowing what the second card of your deck is, which requires somewhat narrow support.

* '''{{Card|Paddock}}''' {{Card|Horse|Horses}} are delayed draw, paddock gains two horses, but a supply pile needs to be empty for it to be non terminal.

=== Draw that requires village support ===

All of these cards are [[terminal]] when used for their draw ability. In order to achieve the above definition for draw, the support of a [[Village (card category)|Village]] in the kingdom is required.

Be careful, though, that you consider the village you plan to use with these draw cards, and make sure it will actually work. For example, if your village is {{Card|Festival}} and your draw card is {{Card|Moat}}, your hand size hasn't actually increased while maintaining the action count.

'''{{Card|Catacombs}}, {{Card|Council Room}}, {{Card|Courtyard}}, {{Card|Cultist}}, {{Card|Diplomat}}, {{Card|Enchantress}}, {{Card|Embassy}}, {{Card|Envoy}}, {{Card|Faithful Hound}}, {{Card|Gear}}, {{Card|Ghost Ship}}, {{Card|Haunted Woods}}, {{Card|Hunting Grounds}}, {{Card|Journeyman}}, {{Card|Library}}, {{Card|Margrave}}, {{Card|Masquerade}}, {{Card|Moat}}, {{Card|Nobles}}, {{Card|Old Witch}}, {{Card|Patrol}}, {{Card|Pooka}}, {{Card|Rabble}}, {{Card|Ranger}}, {{Card|Royal Blacksmith}}, {{Card|Silk Merchant}}, {{Card|Smithy}}, {{Card|Steward}}, {{Card|Swashbuckler}}, {{Card|Torturer}}, {{Card|Tragic Hero}}, {{Card|Vault}}, {{Card|Watchtower}}, {{Card|Werewolf}}, {{Card|Wharf}}, {{Card|Wild Hunt}}, {{Card|Witch}}'''

=== Draw with serious issues ===

The cards in this list can be used, in theory, to meet the requirements for draw; but it’s usually extremely difficult or impossible without very strong support. Many of these cards are good cards, but they don’t serve the purpose of meeting the objective of the draw definition very well. That’s not to say that you can’t make them work in a pinch when nothing better is available, but it’s a lot of work and frequently won’t be worth it to pursue.

* '''{{Card|Crypt}}''' will increase your hand size, but the issue here is that you can’t use just these cards to draw your deck in any meaningful way, as other cards that you might want could be “trapped” in duration-land with these cards. Plus, it only works on Treasure cards.

* '''{{Card|Cultist}}''' has an on-trash benefit of +3 Cards. While this works well as draw, the number of times you can use this is usually limited to the number of Cultists you have that you're willing to trash from your deck (or from the supply with {{Card|Lurker}}).

* '''{{Card|Ghost Town}}, {{Card|Haven}}, {{Card|Native Village}}, and {{Card|Royal Carriage}}''' are all just forms of pushing a card from a previous hand off to a future hand — you’ll need something like a [[megaturn]] deck to take advantage of this kind of thing.

* '''{{Card|Ironmonger}}''' can increase your handsize, but in order to get this to happen reliably, you need a high density of victory cards in your deck, which usually makes decks much worse and doesn’t function well without another source of draw.

* '''{{Card|Madman}}''' is a one-shot and is tough to gain.

* '''{{Card|Magpie}}''' only works on treasure cards

* '''{{Card|Warrior}}''' can be tough to get a lot of, and usually aren’t good at drawing cards until you get a {{Card|Champion}} out.

* '''{{Card|Patrician}}''' is difficult to enable, especially if you want to have a lot of Patricians, plus there are only five of them.

* '''{{Card|Settlers}}'''/'''{{Card|Bustling Village}}''' are very difficult to enable, and most of the draw you can expect to get from these cards is just Coppers.

* '''{{Card|Shanty Town}}'''‘s draw very rarely happens and is pretty much impossible to make reliable.

* '''{{Event|Summon}}''' can work as draw but is expensive and it only effectively gives you one card worth of draw.

* '''{{Card|Vagrant}}''' can usually only draw cards that aren’t very good, so it’s more of a [[Sifting|sifter]] than a draw card in real games of Dominion.

=== Draw that doesn’t work out in practice ===

These cards, while you can theoretically make them work as draw, have issues that are serious enough that they can almost never provide the draw effect in a real game of Dominion.

* '''{{Card|Adventurer}}''' can only draw treasures, and requires [[Village (card category)|Village]] support to fit this definition.

* '''{{Card|Beggar}}''' and '''{{Card|Counting House}}''' are not only terminal, but they only draw Coppers, so you need to convert that into better cards. Beggar gains you a whole bunch of Coppers which you have to deal with somehow, and Counting House requires you to have Coppers in your discard to work at all.

* [[Boons]] can sometimes increase your hand size in some cases with '''{{Boon|The Sea's Gift}}''' or '''{{Boon|The River's Gift}}''', but these are unpredictable, weak effects that are impractical to try to plan around.

* '''{{Card|Cobbler}}''' and '''{{Event|Save}}''' are forms of pushing a card from one turn to the next, but are limited enough in their utility that they don't work out well in practice.

* '''{{Card|Duplicate}}''' has interactions with the gain-to-hand abilities '''{{Card|Rocks}}''' and '''{{Card|Guardian}}''' which can increase hand size. While this fits the definition of draw here, it's completely impractical.

* '''{{Card|Fortress}}''' needs to be combined with some very specific sources of trashing in order to function as draw, which is convoluted enough that it’s almost never possible; the main exception being with {{Card|Procession}}.

* '''{{Card|Jack of All Trades}}''' has many abilities, but the draw-to-5 isn't powerful enough to overcome the fact that a deck that uses this as its only source of draw is brought down by the constant treasure-gain from Jack.

* '''{{Card|Sir Destry}}''', '''{{Card|Zombie Apprentice}}''', and '''{{Card|Trusty Steed}}''' will only work once per turn for you, and they’re not fantastic at actually drawing cards either.

* '''{{Card|Scout}}''' can only draw Victory cards, which are useful so rarely that Scout is almost never a good addition to any deck.

* '''{{Card|Tribute}}''' isn’t reliable enough at drawing cards to work out.

* '''{{Card|Villa}}''' increases hand size when gained and returns to the Action phase, so it technically fits the definition of draw. With {{Event|Alms}} this can function as draw once per turn, but isn't practical.

== Cards Gallery ==

=== Draw that doesn’t require a lot of support ===

{{CardImage|Alchemist}}{{CardImage|Archive}}{{CardImage|Caravan}}{{CardImage|Counting House}}{{CardImage|Cursed Village}}{{CardImage|Den of Sin}}{{CardImage|Governor}}{{CardImage|Hireling}}{{CardImage|Hunting Party}}{{CardImage|Laboratory}}{{CardImage|Lost City}}{{CardImage|Sauna}}{{CardImage|Avanto}}{{CardImage|Stables}}


=== Draw that requires some other non-[[Village (card category)|Village]] support ===

{{CardImage|Advisor}}{{CardImage|Apprentice}}{{CardImage|Apothecary}}{{CardImage|City}}{{CardImage|City Quarter}}{{CardImage|Crossroads}}{{CardImage|Encampment}}{{CardImage|Ghost}}{{CardImage|Golem}}{{CardImage|Herald}}{{CardImage|Imp}}{{CardImage|King's Court}}{{CardImage|Menagerie}}{{CardImage|Minion}}{{CardImage|Prince}}{{CardImage|Scrying Pool}}{{CardImage|Shepherd}}{{CardImage|Storyteller}}{{CardImage|Seer}}{{CardImage|Tactician}}{{CardImage|Teacher}}{{CardImage|Will-o'-Wisp}}{{CardImage|Wishing Well}}

{{EventImage|Expedition}}{{EventImage|Pathfinding}}

=== Draw that requires village support ===

{{CardImage|Catacombs}}{{CardImage|Council Room}}{{CardImage|Courtyard}}{{CardImage|Cultist}}{{CardImage|Diplomat}}{{CardImage|Enchantress}}{{CardImage|Embassy}}{{CardImage|Envoy}}{{CardImage|Faithful Hound}}{{CardImage|Gear}}{{CardImage|Ghost Ship}}{{CardImage|Haunted Woods}}{{CardImage|Hunting Grounds}}{{CardImage|Journeyman}}{{CardImage|Library}}{{CardImage|Margrave}}{{CardImage|Masquerade}}{{CardImage|Moat}}{{CardImage|Nobles}}{{CardImage|Old Witch}}{{CardImage|Patrol}}{{CardImage|Pooka}}{{CardImage|Rabble}}{{CardImage|Ranger}}{{CardImage|Royal Blacksmith}}{{CardImage|Scholar}}{{CardImage|Silk Merchant}}{{CardImage|Smithy}}{{CardImage|Steward}}{{CardImage|Swashbuckler}}{{CardImage|Torturer}}{{CardImage|Tragic Hero}}{{CardImage|Vault}}{{CardImage|Watchtower}}{{CardImage|Werewolf}}{{CardImage|Wharf}}{{CardImage|Wild Hunt}}{{CardImage|Witch}}

=== Draw with serious issues ===

{{CardImage|Crypt}}{{CardImage|Ghost Town}}{{CardImage|Haven}}{{CardImage|Ironmonger}}{{CardImage|Madman}}{{CardImage|Magpie}}{{CardImage|Native Village}}{{CardImage|Royal Carriage}}{{CardImage|Settlers}}{{CardImage|Bustling Village}}{{CardImage|Shanty Town}}{{CardImage|Vagrant}}{{CardImage|Warrior}}

{{EventImage|Summon}}


=== Draw that doesn’t work out in practice ===

{{CardImage|Beggar}}{{CardImage|Cobbler}}{{CardImage|Counting House}}{{CardImage|Duplicate}}{{CardImage|Fortress}}{{CardImage|Jack of all Trades}}{{CardImage|Sir Destry}}{{CardImage|Trusty Steed}}{{CardImage|Villa}}{{CardImage|Zombie Apprentice}}

{{EventImage|Save}}{{EventImage|The River's Gift}}{{EventImage|The Sea's Gift}}


=== Removed Cards ===

{{CardImage|Adventurer}}{{CardImage|Scout}}{{CardImage|Tribute}}


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