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{{Infobox Card
 |name = Faithful Hound
 |cost = 2
 |set = Nocturne
 |type1 = Action
 |type2 = Reaction 
 |illustrator = Lynell Ingram
 |text = '''+2 Cards'''
 |text2 = When you discard this other than during Clean-up, you may set it aside, and put it into your hand at end of turn.
}}

'''Faithful Hound''' is an [[Action]]-[[Reaction]] card from [[Nocturne]].  It provides weak [[terminal draw]], but has a Reaction that adds it to your next hand if it is discarded outside of Clean-up, making it good fodder for [[discard for benefit]] cards.
== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* "End of turn" is after drawing in Clean-up. 
* The Reaction ability can happen on your turn and on other players' turns; if for example you discard Faithful Hound to another player's {{Card|Raider}}, you can set it aside and return it to your hand at the end of that turn. 
* Faithful Hound does not have to be in your hand for the ability to work; for example you can set it aside when it is discarded from your deck due to {{Card|Night Watchman}}. 
* The ability does not work if Faithful Hound is put into your discard pile without being discarded; for example nothing special happens when you gain Faithful Hound, or put your deck into your discard pile with {{Card|Scavenger}} (from {{Set|Dark Ages}}). 
* The ability does not do anything during Clean-up. 
* Setting Faithful Hound aside is optional. 
* You cannot choose to discard Faithful Hound without something telling you to discard.
=== Other rules clarifications ===
* If you discard Faithful Hound with {{Card|Vassal}} and choose to set it aside, {{Card|Vassal}} will fail to play it. [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19893.msg871558#msg871558]

== Strategy ==
===Synergies===
*[[Discard for benefit]]
*[[Handsize attack|Discarding attacks]]
*[[Digging]] cards and [[sifter]]s
*{{Landmark|Arena}}

===Anti-Synergies===
* {{Card|Ghost Ship}}

== Versions ==
=== English versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
|-
| {{CardLangVersionImage}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || '''+2 Cards'''{{Divline}}When you discard this other than during Clean-up, you may set it aside, and put it into your hand at end of turn. || Nocturne || November 2017
|}

=== Other language versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!Chinese
| 忠犬 (pron. ''zhōngquǎn'') || || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| '''＋2 卡片'''{{Divline}}當你在清除階段以外的時候將此卡棄掉，你可以將此卡放到一邊，在這個回合結束時，將此卡放回手中。 || 
|-
!Dutch
| Trouwe hond || || || || 
|-
!French
| Chien fidèle || || || || 
|-
!German
| Getreuer Hund ||{{CardLangVersionImage|German}}|| {{CardLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} ||'''+2 Karten'''{{Divline}}Wenn du diese Karte außerhalb der Aufräumphase ablegst, darfst du sie zur Seite legen und sie am Ende des Zuges auf die Hand nehmen. || (2017)
|-
!Japanese
| 忠犬 (pron. ''chūken'') || || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| '''+2 カードを引く'''{{Divline}}このカードをクリーンアップフェイズ以外の場面で捨て札にするとき、これを脇に置いてもよい。脇に置いた場合、このターンの終了時に手札に加える。 || 
|-
!Polish
| Wierny pies || {{CardLangVersionImage|Polish}} || || '''+2 karty''' {{divline}} Kiedy odrzucasz tę kartę poza fazą porządków, możesz odłożyć ją na bok, aby wziąć ją na rękę na koniec tury. ||
|-
!Russian
| Верный Пес (pron. ''vyerniy pyos'') || || || 
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Faithful HoundArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
=== Name ===
{{Quote
|Text=
The card name wasn't based on [the [[blue dog rule]]], but when I made the card I thought, sweet, a blue dog.

I tried two cards at the same time for that slot, two reactions that cared about being discarded. The other was a Black Cat. That would have been cool too. But the blue dog was better.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg754490#msg754490 Interview with Donald X.]
}}

Like the other {{Card|Sheepdog|blue dog}}, using its reaction gives net +1 card without costing an action, making equivalent to a {{Card|Laboratory|Lab}} (Labrador).
=== Preview ===
{{Quote
|Text=
In these dark days it’s good to have reliable companions, friends that will stick with you to the bitter end. But in a pinch, a dog will do.

Faithful Hound is an Action-Reaction card, like Moat. And just like {{Card|Moat}}, it draws you two cards when you play it. The [[reaction]] is quite different, though. When you send a Faithful Hound away, it comes right back as an extra card in your next hand. You might never even play your Faithful Hounds, just discarding them to {{Card|Cellar|Cellars}} and the like.

And like most Reaction cards, Faithful Hound can help against some attacks. It’s nice against [[Attack]] cards that make you discard from your hand, like {{Card|Militia}}. But maybe sometimes you’ll get lucky and a {{Card|Bandit}} will flip your Faithful Hound. Hope springs eternal.

Faithful Hound doesn’t have an Heirloom, look at that. It’s an off-theme preview! Tomorrow’s bonus preview will have an Heirloom to make up for it, I give you my word.
 |Name=LastFootnote
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17771.0 Nocturne Bonus Preview #2: Faithful Hound]
}}
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote
|Text=A late card. There had been an [[heirloom]] that you set aside for your next hand when you discarded it. It was not obvious that it worked in clean-up. I fiddled with it and then replaced it. And then brought back the concept, sans the clean-up part, on this card. It has been some years since {{Card|Tunnel}}, we are ready for something else to care about discarding it.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17955.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Nocturne]
}}
=== Relevant outtakes ===
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|Text=The other [Heirloom outtake] turned into Faithful Hound. At first if you discarded it you set it aside for next turn, and this even worked if you discarded it in clean-up. I didn't like that most players wouldn't get that from reading the card. Then there were versions that didn't work in clean-up, and then I had {{Card|Haunted Mirror}} competing for that slot. And the ability ended up on Faithful Hound instead.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17955.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Nocturne]
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-=== Possibility of cheating ===
-If you discard multiple Faithful Hounds to e.g. a {{Card|Militia}} and set them aside, the other players can't confirm how many Faithful Hounds you actually discarded, because they can only see the top card of your discard pile.
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-It's hard to see how it could be an actual issue in an actual game. If your not-your-friend opponent discards their hand, and only then picks up the cards to reveal Hounds, it will look super-fishy. Try to get the judge to disqualify them and all that.
-In practice everyone reveals all the Faithful Hounds from their hand like you'd expect. Then we can consider, where should available energy be directed.
-If it were an issue, there could possibly be a tortured wording that had you reveal it as you discarded it but resolve it afterwards, combined with the assurance that I wouldn't make effects that triggered on effects such that something else could happen then.
-|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
-|Source=[https://discord.com/channels/212660788786102272/285903840660946954/852616196813750322 Dominion Discord, 2021]
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