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| | == Strategy == | | == Strategy == |
| − | The Villagers that Lackeys provides are very powerful. Like {{Card|Silk Merchant}}, it is a strong opening card. Drawing Lackeys on turn 3 or turn 4 guarantees that your other opening buy doesn't miss the reshuffle, and the Villagers guarantees that you can play it. The power of Lackeys is mostly on the Villagers, not the +2 Cards. Trashers to remove excess Lackeys (optimally [[Trash for benefit]]), or ways to make Lackeys non-terminal (like {{Event|Lost Arts}} or certain [[Way]]s), can make it better to buy Lackeys more aggressively.
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| | == Versions == | | == Versions == |
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| | ! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date | | ! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date |
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| − | | {{CardLangVersionImage}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || style="padding:0px 20px;"| '''+2 Cards'''<hr style="width:66%;text-align:center;margin-left:17%;">When you gain this, '''+2 Villagers'''. || Renaissance || November 2018 | + | | {{CardLangVersionImage}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || '''+2 Cards'''.<br>When you gain this, '''+2 Villagers'''. || Renaissance || November 2018 |
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| − | ! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes | + | ! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text |
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| | !Chinese | | !Chinese |
| − | | 奴才 (pron. ''núcái'') || || || || | + | | || || || |
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| − | | Kamerbedienden || {{CardLangVersionImage|Dutch}} || || '''+2 Kaarten'''{{Divline}}Als je deze kaart pakt, '''+2 Dorpsbewoners.''' ||
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| | !French | | !French |
| − | | Laquais || || {{CardVersionImage|LackeysFrench2022Digital|French language Lackeys 2022 from Shuffle iT}} || '''+2 Cartes'''{{Divline}}Quand vous recevez cette carte, '''+2 Villageois'''. || | + | | || || || |
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| | !German | | !German |
| − | | Diener<br>(lit. ''servants'') || {{CardVersionImage|LackeysGerman|German language Lackeys 2019 by ASS}} || {{CardVersionImage|LackeysGerman2022Digital|German language Lackeys 2022 from Shuffle iT}} || style="padding:0px 20px;"| '''+2 Karten'''{{Divline}}Wenn du diese Karte nimmst: '''+2 Dorfbewohner'''. || (2019) | + | | || || || |
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| | !Japanese | | !Japanese |
| − | | 追従者<br>(pron. ''tsuijūsha'') || || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| '''+2 カードを引く'''{{Divline}}これを獲得するとき、'''+2 村人トークン'''。 || | + | | しもべ (pron. ''shimobe'') || || || '''+2 カードを引く'''。 これを獲得するとき、'''+2 村人トークン'''。 |
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| − | | Służba || || || || <small>Although Polish version is not released,<br>this name is referred to in Polish Dominion 2E rulebook.</small>
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| | !Russian | | !Russian |
| − | | Лакей (pron. ''lakyey'') || || || || | + | | || || || |
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| − | | Lacayos || {{CardLangVersionImage|Spanish}} || || '''+2 Cartas'''{{Divline}}Cuando ganas esta carta, '''+2 Aldeanos.''' ||
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| | == Trivia == | | == Trivia == |
| | [[Image:LackeysArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]] | | [[Image:LackeysArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]] |
| − | === Secret History ===
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| − | |Text=Originally it was +2 Cards, turn over your thing that gets you +1 Action half the time. It went straight from that to the final version.
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| − | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
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| − | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19203.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Renaissance]
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| − | === Why does it cost 2? ===
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| − | |Text= Lackeys is clearly not strictly better/worse than [{{Card|Experiment}}] though, so that's not an issue. It felt like a {{Cost|2}}, given {{Card|Moat}} and {{Card|Faithful Hound}}; it worked fine at {{Cost|2}}, people did not quit in disgust at {{Cost|5}}/{{Cost|2}} Lackeys openings or some such. It seemed fine to buy them up with +Buys.
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| − | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
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| − | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19490.msg787007#msg787007 Re: Let's Discuss Renaissance Cards: Lackeys]
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| − | In 2022, after players compared {{Card|Sea Chart}} with Lackeys, Donald X. said this:
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| − | In context I was just fighting a classic poor line of reasoning. {{Card|Sea Chart}} was being complained about, and compared to Lackeys. But, as a wise man once said, "No amount of having blown it on Lackeys makes it good to blow it on {{Card|Sea Chart}}, that's how I see it." Comparing something to an overpowered card doesn't tell you how balanced it is. I mean unless it's even more powerful. It's great to be weaker than Lackeys; that's the goal in fact.
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| − | I don't think I have any deep insights into Lackeys. Villagers were stronger than they looked. Coffers were too but we caught that. I mean maybe I blew it there somewhere but we did know that Coffers were stronger than they looked. But you know. I haven't done the post-release work on Lackeys to know what it would look like with more time spent on the set. I don't know that charging more is the fix. For casual players it seems fine; experts empty them and I mean it sure looks like I could have done better.
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| − | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
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| − | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg899651#msg899651 Interview with Donald X.]
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| | {{Navbox Renaissance}} | | {{Navbox Renaissance}} |
| | {{Navbox Cards}} | | {{Navbox Cards}} |
