Harbinger
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Harbinger | |
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Info | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Base |
Illustrator(s) | Martin Hoffmann |
Card text | |
+1 Card +1 Action Look through your discard pile. You may put a card from it onto your deck. |
Harbinger is an Action card from the second edition of the base set. It is a cantrip that lets you move a card of your choice from your discard pile to your deck, allowing you to reuse that card without waiting for your next reshuffle.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- First draw a card and get +1 Action; then look through your discard pile, and you may put a card from it on top of your deck.
- Putting a card on top is optional.
Other Rules clarifications
Strategy
Synergies/Combos
Anti-synergies
In deck-drawing engines, Harbinger can become useless—there's likely to be nothing in your discard pile at any given time.
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | Notes | |
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+1 Card. +1 Action. Look through your discard pile. You may put a card from it onto your deck. | Dominion 2nd Edition | October 2016 |
Other language versions
Digital | Language | Name | Text | |
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German | Vorbotin (Note: explicitly feminine) | |||
Japanese | 先駆者 (pron. senku-sha) | +1 カードを引く。 +1 アクション。 捨て札置き場のカードをすべて見る。 その中の1枚を山札の上に置いてもよい。 | ||
Russian | Предвестник (pron. pryedvyestnik) |
Trivia
Secret History
One day I thought, do I have any published cards that are really different from everything else in the set, that I could make new very simple versions of? I found two good candidates: Scavenger (from Dark Ages) and Herald (from Guilds). The Scavenger part I liked was getting a card from your discard pile; so Harbinger does that, with +1 Card +1 Action instead of +, and without the Chancellor part (phew). This was called Courier for a while, but people complained about there being both Courier and Courtier.