Patron
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Patron | |
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Cost | |
Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Renaissance |
Illustrator(s) | Claus Stephan |
Card text | |
+1 Villager + When something causes you to reveal this (using the word "reveal"), +1 Coffers. |
Patron is an Action-Reaction card from Renaissance. When played, it is a disappearing silver that gives +1 Villager. When revealed, it gives +1 Coffers.
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Cards that can reveal Patron
For a full list of cards that use the word "Reveal" (including cards which can't reveal Patron), see List of cards which instruct the players to "reveal".
- "Reveal cards from your deck until": Scrying Pool, Golem, Loan, Venture, Farming Village, Sage, Hunting Party (also reveals your hand), Rebuild, Journeyman, Ghost
- "Reveal your hand": Shanty Town, Menagerie, Hunting Party, Crossroads, Poor House, City Quarter, Royal Blacksmith, Grand Castle
- "Reveal the top n cards of your deck": 5 cards: Envoy 4 cards: Patrol, Apothecary, Harvest 3 cards: Wandering Minstrel, Doctor, Advisor, Seer 2 cards: Oracle, Border Guard (reveals 3 with Lantern) 1 card: Wishing Well, Vagrant, Ironmonger, Mystic, Herald, Magpie, Patrician, Chariot Race, Will-o'-Wisp, Piazza
- "Reveal a card from your hand": Courtier, Ambassador, Gladiator
- Can reveal an opponent's Patron: Bureaucrat, Bandit, Cutpurse, Pirate Ship, Noble Brigand, Rabble, Fortune Teller, Young Witch (if Patron is the Bane), Pillage, Rogue, Knights, Taxman, Giant, Raider, Villain
- Other: Black Market, Inn
FAQ
Official FAQ
- Anything that causes you to reveal a Patron, and specifically uses the word "reveal," causes you to get +1 Coffers.
- For example if you play a Border Guard and reveal two Patrons, you will get +2 Coffers.
- Other players seeing a card, without the word "reveal" being used, is not enough; for example if another player plays a Villain and you discard a Patron, you do not get +1 Coffers.
Other rules clarifications
- Once Patron is revealed, getting +1 Coffers is not optional.
- If you play Black Market and Patron is one of the 3 cards revealed from the Black Market deck, you get +1 Coffers
Strategy
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Villager, +. When something causes you to reveal this (using the word "reveal"), +1 Coffers. |
Renaissance | November 2018 |
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | |
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Chinese | 贊助人 (pron. zànzhùrén, lit. sponsor) | |||
French | Mécène | |||
German | Gönner | |||
Japanese | 後ろ盾 (pron. ushirodate) | +1 村人トークン。 +。 これが公開されるとき、+1 コイントークン。 | ||
Russian | Покровитель (pron. pokrovityel') |
Trivia
Patron is the only card to use quotation marks in its English text, and along with Capitalism the only card-shaped thing to care about the text on cards. It is also the only Reaction whose trigger is being revealed.
Secret History
The first version had a two-sided State (it was a Cathedral that turned into a Cargo Ship for Treasures if you trashed a + card). When those went away, I preserved the top and added the reaction. I fiddled with the wording some, to try to make it clear, but the idea stayed the same.