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Goons is a terminal [[stop card]], and your opponents are likely to be using it to attack your hand size, so a deck that aims to play a large number of Goons consistently needs a powerful [[engine]] to support this. Thus, the best case scenario for Goons is one that has good [[trashing]], strong [[draw]], and plentiful [[Village (card category)|villages]]. However, even if the engine will be slow to come together, it will usually still be worth building to multiple Goons plays per turn. When building a Goons-focused engine, it's common to gain one Goons as soon as you can: at this stage, the {{VP}} it provides is largely incidental, but the {{Cost|2}} and +Buy are useful, and the primary benefit is the attack, which will slow down your opponents’ efforts. Aside from your first Goons, [[deck control]] is the key aim; you can subsequently keep adding more Goons as you acquire the ability to draw and play them consistently. | Goons is a terminal [[stop card]], and your opponents are likely to be using it to attack your hand size, so a deck that aims to play a large number of Goons consistently needs a powerful [[engine]] to support this. Thus, the best case scenario for Goons is one that has good [[trashing]], strong [[draw]], and plentiful [[Village (card category)|villages]]. However, even if the engine will be slow to come together, it will usually still be worth building to multiple Goons plays per turn. When building a Goons-focused engine, it's common to gain one Goons as soon as you can: at this stage, the {{VP}} it provides is largely incidental, but the {{Cost|2}} and +Buy are useful, and the primary benefit is the attack, which will slow down your opponents’ efforts. Aside from your first Goons, [[deck control]] is the key aim; you can subsequently keep adding more Goons as you acquire the ability to draw and play them consistently. | ||
| − | In the midgame, further improvements to your deck's reliability and payload take priority over maximising scoring. However, once you have a very reliable deck with some [[overdraw]], you might increase the number of cards you purchase per turn (e.g. by buying several cheap [[cantrip]]s over fewer, more valuable cards); you could even spend some spare Buys on {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} or other {{Cost|0}} [[junk]] to accumulate more {{VP}}, if you can trash them easily on your next turn (or better still, immediately with {{Card|Watchtower}}). Late in the game, especially on your final shuffle, scoring extra points in this way is likely to become crucial. An eventual [[three-pile ending]], favouring whoever has managed to get the most Goons into play consistently, is probable; a player who aims to acquire all the {{ | + | In the midgame, further improvements to your deck's reliability and payload take priority over maximising scoring. However, once you have a very reliable deck with some [[overdraw]], you might increase the number of cards you purchase per turn (e.g. by buying several cheap [[cantrip]]s over fewer, more valuable cards); you could even spend some spare Buys on {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} or other {{Cost|0}} [[junk]] to accumulate more {{VP}}, if you can trash them easily on your next turn (or better still, immediately with {{Card|Watchtower}}). Late in the game, especially on your final shuffle, scoring extra points in this way is likely to become crucial. An eventual [[three-pile ending]], favouring whoever has managed to get the most Goons into play consistently, is probable; a player who aims to acquire all the {{Card|Province}}s quickly instead will have a deck that deteriorates rather than improving as the game continues, will have much less control over when it ends, and is likely to be outscored. |
With a weaker, less reliable engine, a lack of village support, or a [[Big money|money]] strategy, consistently playing multiple Goons per turn may be difficult or impossible. Attacking and scoring with this card is still likely to be important throughout the game; an early Goons may still be useful, and you may want more than one of them even if you aren’t aiming to draw your deck and play them all each turn. However, the weaker the engine, the more likely it is that Goons {{VP}} will be secondary in importance to those provided by Victory cards. Additionally, if a [[rush]] is possible, an opponent adopting such a strategy is likely to be less severely slowed by the Goons attack, and building a Goons-focused deck may take too long to be able to outscore the rush before the game ends. | With a weaker, less reliable engine, a lack of village support, or a [[Big money|money]] strategy, consistently playing multiple Goons per turn may be difficult or impossible. Attacking and scoring with this card is still likely to be important throughout the game; an early Goons may still be useful, and you may want more than one of them even if you aren’t aiming to draw your deck and play them all each turn. However, the weaker the engine, the more likely it is that Goons {{VP}} will be secondary in importance to those provided by Victory cards. Additionally, if a [[rush]] is possible, an opponent adopting such a strategy is likely to be less severely slowed by the Goons attack, and building a Goons-focused deck may take too long to be able to outscore the rush before the game ends. | ||
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| Type(s) | Action - Attack |
| Kingdom card? | Yes |
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Prosperity |
| Illustrator(s) | Tu Pei-Shu |
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+1 Buy +  Each other player discards down to 3 cards in hand. While you have this in play, when you buy a card, +1  . | |
Goons is an Action–Attack card from Prosperity. It is a terminal silver, since it gives + but no +Action. It is similar to Monument in that it gives you tokens - one token if you buy only one card this turn, but one more for each additional buy; it gives +Buy to help with that, as well. In addition, Goons is also a discard attack like Militia.
Goons is one of two Attack cards costing more than 
, the other being Raider.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- You get +1 for each card you buy, but do not get a +1 for gaining a card some other way.
- Multiple copies of Goons are cumulative; if you have two Goons in play and buy a Silver, you get +2 .
- However if you King's Court a Goons, despite having played the card 3 times, there is still only one copy of it in play, so buying Silver would only get you +1 .
Other Rules clarifications
- Buying Events does not give you .
Strategy
Goons is a terminal silver and one of the best payload cards in Dominion: it offers a strong attack, +Buy, and a source of alt-VP that is often centralising, being theoretically limited only by the number of cards you can buy over the course of the game. If the Kingdom allows you to build a deck that will be capable of consistently playing multiple Goons per turn, this is highly likely to be the optimal strategy. Doing so will enable you to accumulate many , since buying useful cards scores with Goons, avoiding the usual negative effects of greening. Gaining Victory cards is unlikely to be necessary at all, except perhaps at the very end of the game. Even if it isn’t possible to play multiple Goons, it’s still likely to be a strong terminal Action for your deck.
Goons is a terminal stop card, and your opponents are likely to be using it to attack your hand size, so a deck that aims to play a large number of Goons consistently needs a powerful engine to support this. Thus, the best case scenario for Goons is one that has good trashing, strong draw, and plentiful villages. However, even if the engine will be slow to come together, it will usually still be worth building to multiple Goons plays per turn. When building a Goons-focused engine, it's common to gain one Goons as soon as you can: at this stage, the it provides is largely incidental, but the and +Buy are useful, and the primary benefit is the attack, which will slow down your opponents’ efforts. Aside from your first Goons, deck control is the key aim; you can subsequently keep adding more Goons as you acquire the ability to draw and play them consistently.
In the midgame, further improvements to your deck's reliability and payload take priority over maximising scoring. However, once you have a very reliable deck with some overdraw, you might increase the number of cards you purchase per turn (e.g. by buying several cheap cantrips over fewer, more valuable cards); you could even spend some spare Buys on Coppers or other 
junk to accumulate more , if you can trash them easily on your next turn (or better still, immediately with Watchtower). Late in the game, especially on your final shuffle, scoring extra points in this way is likely to become crucial. An eventual three-pile ending, favouring whoever has managed to get the most Goons into play consistently, is probable; a player who aims to acquire all the Provinces quickly instead will have a deck that deteriorates rather than improving as the game continues, will have much less control over when it ends, and is likely to be outscored.
With a weaker, less reliable engine, a lack of village support, or a money strategy, consistently playing multiple Goons per turn may be difficult or impossible. Attacking and scoring with this card is still likely to be important throughout the game; an early Goons may still be useful, and you may want more than one of them even if you aren’t aiming to draw your deck and play them all each turn. However, the weaker the engine, the more likely it is that Goons will be secondary in importance to those provided by Victory cards. Additionally, if a rush is possible, an opponent adopting such a strategy is likely to be less severely slowed by the Goons attack, and building a Goons-focused deck may take too long to be able to outscore the rush before the game ends.
External strategy articles
Note: Article(s) below are by individual authors and may not represent the community's current views on cards, but may provide more in-depth information. Caveat emptor.
Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Buy. +. Each other player discards down to 3 cards in hand. While this is in play, when you buy a card, +1 . |
Prosperity 1st Edition | October 2010 |
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+1 Buy. +. Each other player discards down to 3 cards in hand. While this is in play, when you buy a card, +1 . |
Prosperity 2nd Edition | February 2017 |
| +1 Buy. +. Each other player discards down to 3 cards in hand. While you have this in play, when you buy a card, +1 . |
Prosperity (2020 printing) | October 2020 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | |
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| Chinese | 暴徒 | +1 購買。 +。 其它玩家將手牌棄到剩三張。當此卡在出牌區，每購買一張卡片+1 。
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| Czech | Hrdlořez (lit. thugs) | |||
| Dutch | Domkoppen (lit. fools) | |||
| Finnish | Roistot (lit. villains) | |||
| French | Fiers-à-bras (lit. braggarts) | |||
| German | Halsabschneider (lit. cutthroat) |  |
+1 Kauf + Jeder Mitspieler muss Karten ablegen, bis er nur noch 3 Handkarten hat. Solange diese Karte im Spiel ist: +1 -Marker, wenn du eine Karte kaufst.
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| Italian | Scagnozzi (lit. henchmen) | |||
| Japanese | ならず者 (pron. narazumono, lit. ruffian) | +1 購入。 +。 他のプレイヤーは全員、手札が3枚になるように捨て札にする。これが場にある間、カード1枚を購入するとき、+1 。
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| Polish | Naciągacze (lit. tricksters) |  |
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| Russian | Головорезы (pron. golovoryezy) | |||
| Spanish | Matones |
Trivia
Card Art
Secret History
. Choose two: +1 Action; each other player discards down to 3 cards in hand; take a 1 token; gain a Silver. (The choices must be different.)" This card was popular. It had issues though, as pointed out by Wei-Hwa Huang and Bill Barksdale. It was political - someone would play it ahead of you, and then you could pick the discard option or not based on how well that one player was doing (since no-one else would be discarding). With +1 Action making it easy on your deck, it got bought up by everyone, so that you were having to discard constantly. I tried several other versions with different options in different combinations. I tried another card that I thought would work for a while but was just too strong, and finally ended up in a weaker form in another set (that set is Cornucopia and that card is Followers). Finally the Goons you know stuck. Again it squeezes in another use for those VP tokens.
