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− | |Text=It's obvious that you could make a card that gets cards from the trash. What's not | + | |Text=It's obvious that you could make a card that gets cards from the trash. What's not obvious is that it will end up looking like this. There was just a straight line that led from the idea to the final card though. It had to provide a way to get good cards into the trash, so that it wouldn't just stare at an empty trash, or a trash full of Coppers and Estates. So, it's a {{Card|Remodel}}. Furthermore it's a Remodel that likes to trash actions that cost {{Cost|5}}, which is just the kind of thing you're happy getting from the trash. In games where Provinces end up trashed, such as via other Remodels, it's way too good to be able to gain them with Graverobbers, so you can't. It also can't get cheap cards, which was to stop you from getting Madman (a combo we first suffered through for a while). I later changed Madman to not go to the trash, but kept Graverobber at {{Cost|3}} to {{Cost|6}}, because that makes things a little easier - you keep one pile of real trash and one pile of good trash - and it meant I could safely do other non-supply {{Cost|0*}} cards in the future without worrying about Graverobber, if somehow that comes up. |
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | ||
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Revision as of 09:33, 30 November 2012
Graverobber | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Dark Ages |
Illustrator(s) | Julien Delval |
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Choose one: Gain a card from the trash costing from to , putting it on top of your deck; or trash an Action card from your hand and gain a card costing up to more than it. |
Graverobber is an Action card from Dark Ages. It is a card built around gaining cards from the trash, and putting them on top of your deck so you can use them as soon as possible—but it also has a trash-for-benefit ability, to ensure that the trash will often have good enough things in it worth gaining.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- You choose either option, then do as much of it as you can; you can choose an option even if you will not be able to do it.
- You can look through the trash at any time.
- If you choose to gain a card from the trash, the other players get to see what it is, and it goes on top of your deck.
- If there were no cards in your deck, it becomes the only card in your deck.
- If there is no card in the trash costing from to , you will fail to gain one.
- Cards with Alchemy) do not cost from to . in the cost (from
- If you choose to trash an Action card from your hand, the card you gain comes from the Supply and is put into your discard pile.
Other Rules clarifications
Strategy Article
There isn't a Graverobber strategy article; as Dark Ages is still new, it has not been discussed much on the forum, so if you know how to use Graverobber, post!
Graverobber's trash for benefit ability is like a more limited Expand, but it's also cheaper. The best use case for it is trashing Action cards to gain Provinces, or picking Action cards out of the trash. And Graverobber itself is a Action, so that strategy is always possible with Graverobber around. However, by itself, Graverobber with Big Money isn't very good, and needs a variety of support—villages to play both your Graverobbers and your other actions, Smithies to draw them faster, and so on. A full engine.
Synergies/Combos
- Treasury. If you use Graverobber to gain Provinces (by trashing Treasuries), you can keep putting Treasuries back on top of your deck since you never need to buy Victory cards.
- Pillage. If you use Graverobber to get back the Pillage you just played (and trashed), that lets you keep playing Pillages every turn without needing to spend and a Buy on them.
Antisynergies
Trivia
Secret History