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{{Infobox Card
 
{{Infobox Card
 
  |name = Oasis
 
  |name = Oasis
|cost = 3
 
 
  |type1 = Action
 
  |type1 = Action
  |illustrator = Alayna Danner
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  |text = '''+1 Card<br/>+1 Action'''<br/>+{{Cost|1}}<br/>Discard a card.
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  |illustrator = Alayna Lemmer
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  |text = +1 Card<br/>+1 Action<br/>+{{Cost|1}}<br/>Discard a card.
 
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'''Oasis''' is an [[Action]] from [[Hinterlands]]. It is a [[cantrip]] which gives +{{Cost|1}} at the expense of discarding a card.  
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'''Oasis''' is an [[Action]] from [[Hinterlands]]. It is a [[cantrip]] which gives +{{Cost|1}} at the expense of discarding a card. It is a decent source of disappearing {{Cost|}}, useful in certain [[engine]]s.
 
== FAQ ==
 
== FAQ ==
 
=== Official FAQ ===
 
=== Official FAQ ===
* You draw a card, get +1 Action and +{{Cost|1}}, and then discard a card.
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* You draw before discarding.
 
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* You can discard the card you drew.
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* If you are unable to draw a card (due to having no cards in your deck, and none in your discard pile to shuffle), you still discard a card if able.
 
=== Other Rules clarifications ===
 
=== Other Rules clarifications ===
== Strategy ==
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== Strategy Article ==
Oasis is best thought of as a weak [[Peddler variant]]: although cheap, it has the major downside of decreasing rather than maintaining your hand size, meaning that unlike other Peddlers it is difficult to use in bulk. As such, it is most likely to benefit a deck that contains some amount of [[junk]] or other [[dead]] cards for it to discard, or those that benefit from being discarded, like {{Card|Village Green}}. Other use cases include decks that can benefit from both the [[non-terminal]], Action-based [[payload]] and the small [[sifting]] effect while suffering less than usual from smaller hand sizes, such as [[draw-to-X]] [[engine]]s and those relying on {{Card|Menagerie}} for [[draw]].  
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Oasis is not a power card. Nor is it weak. As a non-terminal {{Cost|}} source with a cost of {{Cost|3}} it almost always has to be compared with Silver whenever you consider buying it.  
  
Even if you're not building towards a deck that will eventually make use of multiple copies of Oasis, it can be a reasonable alternative to {{Card|Silver}} in the [[opening]], providing slightly less {{Cost}} on average but more [[cycling]]. On the other hand, it is often skippable if you will be able to quickly [[thinning|thin]] all of your starting cards.  
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Each play of Oasis decreases your hand size by one and gives you one card of cycling. Oasis is very useful when the discard doesn't hurt you, such as with [[Watchtower]], [[Library]], or [[Minion]], or if the discard actively helps you, such as with [[Menagerie]]. It is also very useful in [[double Tactician]] decks, since you will be discarding anyway. In other cases, Oasis can be thought of as a [[cantrip]] that converts another card in your hand into a {{Card|Copper}}; if there are likely to be [[dead]] cards in your hand, Oasis (like other discard-for-value cards like {{Card|Vault}}) can make use of them.
  
== Versions ==
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Generally in any engine where you can't draw your entire deck, Oasis is preferable to silver since it allows you to find and play your payload cards more often. If you are drawing your deck, [[Silver]] offers more buying power.
===English versions===
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
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! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
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| {{CardVersionImage|OasisOld|Oasis}} || {{CardVersionImage|OasisDigitalOld|Oasis from Goko/Making Fun}} || style="padding:0px 20px;"| '''+1 Card<br>+1 Action'''<br>+{{Cost|1}}<br>&nbsp;Discard a card.&nbsp; || Hinterlands || October 2011
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| {{CardLangVersionImage}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || '''+1 Card<br>+1 Action'''<br>+{{Cost|1}}<br>Discard a card. || Hinterlands [[Second Edition#Formatting_changes|(2016 printing)]] || December 2016
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|}
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===Other language versions===
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Oasis becomes much less powerful in [[Big Money]] games where the cycling isn't as important and you will often just be discarding Coppers in the mid-game which is harmful to your economy. Furthermore, if you really need to reach {{Cost|5}} or {{Cost|6}} quickly, Oasis openings are less likely to get you there than opening Silver/Silver.  
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
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! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
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=== Synergies/Combos ===
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* [[Minion]]
!Czech
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* [[Tactician]]
| Oáza || || || ||
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* Draw up to X engines ([[Watchtower]], [[Library]])
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* [[Menagerie]]
!Dutch
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=== Antisynergies ===
| Oase || || || ||
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* [[Big Money]]
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* Strong [[Trashing]]
!Finnish
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* Strong {{Cost|5}} you need immediately
| Keidas || || || ||
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* Opponents' [[handsize attack]]s
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!French
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| Oasis || || || ||
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!German
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| Oase || [[File:Oasis.German.jpg|100px|German language Oasis 2019 by ASS]] || {{CardLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} ||style="padding: 1em;" | '''+1 Karte<br>+1 Aktion'''<br>+{{Cost|1}}<br>Lege eine deiner Handkarten ab. || (2019)
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!Italian
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| Oasi || || || ||
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!Japanese
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| オアシス (pron. ''oashisu'') || || || '''+1 カードを引く'''<br>'''+1 アクション'''<br>+{{Cost|1}}<br>1枚捨て札にする。 ||
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!Polish
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| Oaza || || || || <small>Although Polish version is not released,<br>this name is referred to in Polish Dominion 2E rulebook.</small>
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!Russian
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| Оазис (pron. ''oazis'') || || || ||
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!Spanish
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| Oasis || || || ||
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|}
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== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
[[Image:OasisArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
 
=== Theme ===
 
{{Quote
 
|Text= You can chain them, and you know, caravans travel from oasis to oasis. But you can only chain so many, due to the discarding, or harsh desert conditions, man I can read a lot into a nearly vanilla card.
 
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 
|Source=[https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/719450/article/7789338#7789338 The Secret History of the Hinterlands Cards]
 
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=== Secret History ===
 
=== Secret History ===
 
{{Quote
 
{{Quote
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|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=909.0 The Secret History of the Hinterlands Cards]
 
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=909.0 The Secret History of the Hinterlands Cards]
 
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=== Retrospective ===
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{{Quote|Text= I had a playtester who thought Oasis was too good relative to {{Card|Silver}}, that you just always buy it over {{Card|Silver}}. Time has not been kind to that perspective. It's generally decent though, I tend to get some.
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| Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
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|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18150.msg741757#msg741757 $3 Cost Card Rankings Bottom Half]
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[[category:non-terminals]]
 
[[category:cantrip]]
 
[[category:peddler (card archetype)]]
 
[[category:virtual coin]]
 
[[category:handsize negative]]
 

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