Editing Pearl Diver

{{Infobox Card
 |name = Pearl Diver
 |cost = 2
 |type1 = Action
 |illustrator = Maura Kalusky
 |text = +1 Card<br/>+1 Action<br/>Look at the bottom card of your deck. You may put it on top.
}}

{{Card|Pearl Diver}} is an [[Action]] card from [[Seaside]]. It is a [[cantrip]], meaning that it gives both +1 Card and +1 Action; it rarely hurts to have it in your deck, but its ability to move cards from the bottom of your deck to the top rarely helps very much either. 

== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* Draw a card before you look at the bottom card of your deck.
* If placing the card on top of your deck, be sure not to look at the next card on the bottom of your deck while moving the card.
* If you have no cards left when it's time to look at the bottom, you shuffle first.
=== Other Rules clarifications ===
== Strategy Article==
''[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=16293.msg640800#msg640800 Original article] by Chris is me''

Pearl Diver is among the most basic examples of a [[cantrip]] in Dominion. Other than {{Card|Page}}, no other cantrip does less on-play than Pearl Diver. All Pearl Diver does is check the bottom card of your deck, which you can move to the top. The effect does not stack well, since if you keep the bottom card on the bottom of the deck, future Pearl Divers just check that same card repeatedly until you [[reshuffle]]. So it really is a cantrip with a bonus so weak it is negligible in most cases.

Pearl Diver is an excellent illustration of [[opportunity cost]] in Dominion. It is a card that, once in your deck, usually does not hurt the deck. It might even save a good card from missing the shuffle once in awhile. But with limited economy, gains, or buys, getting Pearl Diver when you could have gotten a different, better card is often difficult to justify.

Playing Pearl Diver is simple enough, so it is best to focus on when it is worth gaining Pearl Diver in the first place.

===When Should I Gain Pearl Diver?===
To answer this question, first consider the attributes of Pearl Diver.
* It is named Pearl Diver
* It is an [[Action]] card.
* It costs {{Cost|2}}.
* It gives +1 Card and +1 Action.
* It does a bottom-of-deck inspection.
* It comes from an Action [[Supply]] Pile.

The short version is, Pearl Diver is worth it if you need cards with one or more of these attributes in your deck and a better card cannot be gained instead. Below are some examples of when each trait is relevant. They are by their nature edge cases, but they should give you a good idea of what to notice when considering Pearl Diver.

===When You Need A Differently Named Card===
This is kind of a gimme, because it can justify the gaining of basically any card, but Pearl Diver is a potential unique card that is easy to incorporate into almost any deck ([[terminal draw]] [[Big money|BM]] excluded). {{Card|Horn of Plenty}} and {{Card|Fairgrounds}} are two powerful cards that care about uniques.

{{Card|Hunting Party}} is also relevant. In certain decks you may run out of unique cards for it to sift for, causing excess HP plays to only draw a single card. If you add cantrips, you can have your excess Hunting Parties dive for the cantrip, then play all copies of the cantrip, then play Hunting Party again to fish for another copy of that cantrip. This ensures your handsize continues to increase with each Hunting Party play.

===When You Need An Action Card===
Certain cards really like your deck to have a lot of Action cards in them. {{Card|Scrying Pool}} draws through Actions and stops at stop cards. {{Card|Graverobber}} and {{Event|Advance}} trash Action cards for benefit. {{Card|Vineyard}} craves numerous cheap Action cards. {{Card|Throne}} Room needs to collide with SOMETHING in order to not be a dead card. Gaining Pearl Diver always increases the proportion of your deck that is Action cards, and always increases the number of Action cards in your deck. By being a cantrip, Pearl Diver shouldn't hurt your deck too much versus your other choices for cheap Actions in that particular Kingdom, especially if it is one of the only [[non-terminal]]s (more on that later).

Depending on how you gain it, you may be able to remove a stop card while doing so, for example by {{Card|Remodel|Remodeling}} a {{Card|Copper}} or {{Card|Curse}} into Pearl Diver. {{Card|Ironworks}} is a card [[gainer]] that needs to gain an Action card in order for it to be non-terminal. It's plausible the choice for Ironworks is between Pearl Diver or not being played at all (if you can't afford deck space for another Ironworks). Or maybe you just have an extra {{Cost|2}} and 1 Buy at the end of a turn, and it's the best Action card you can justify.

{{Card|Procession}} and {{Card|Death Cart}} both are [[trash for benefit]] cards that require you to trash Actions, so Pearl Diver is a good card to feed these with if you can get it easily.

===When You Need A Card That Costs $2===
Pearl Diver costs {{Cost|2}}, and all sorts of things in Dominion care about that. Trash for benefit cards are the big winner here. There's the Remodel (or {{Card|Governor}}) case, where you may need something that costs up to {{Cost|2}} more than a Copper or Curse. In many cases, the cantrip Pearl Diver is the card you should get.

More importantly though, Pearl Diver can itself be trashed for benefit. {{Card|Salvager}} can use it as fuel to give you a little money (and more importantly a +Buy). Remodel can turn it into a {{Cost|4}} cost card once your {{Card|Estate|Estates}} are gone. {{Card|Remake}} can turn it into at worst a Silver. {{Card|Expand}} and Graverobber can trash it and turn it into any card costing up to {{Cost|5}}, an elite tier of Action cards.

The most notable synergy is with Procession. Procession can play Pearl Diver twice, giving +2 Cards +2 Actions, and then gain an Action card costing {{Cost|3}}. Pearl Diver could be the start of a powerful Procession chain, as well as a source of +Actions for an engine lubricated by Procession.

Finally, Pearl Diver is a card that is cheaper than {{Cost|3}}. This makes it immune to all [[trashing attack]]s (except {{Card|Swindler}}), including {{Card|Warrior}}, [[Knight]]s, and {{Card|Rogue}}. This is relevant if you are building an engine based on {{Card|Teacher}} or a [[Adventures tokens|token]] [[Event]] - Pearl Diver is a safe destination for tokens that trashing attacks can't remove from your deck. Even without token cards, a deck full of Pearl Divers has a lower density of more valuable cards, increasing the chances of a trashing attack miss.

===When You Need A Cantrip===
Pearl Diver is more or less a [[vanilla]] cantrip. It doesn't do much else! So really, this is its biggest selling point, those +1 Card and +1 Action, which make it usually not have an impact on your deck's terminal space or handsize.

Some cards really, really value the presence of cantrips. The biggest example are [[Throne Room variant]]s. You can Throne Room a Pearl Diver to give +2 cards +2 actions, which increases the available terminal space in a deck. If Pearl Diver is the only cantrip, the extra Action can be invaluable, because otherwise you have to rely on chaining Throne Room / Throne Room / Terminal Draw / Throne Room / Action / Throne Room... for your engine to work. If you miss a chance to play Throne Room on itself, the chain is broken. If you Throne a cantrip, then you can end a Throne Room chain and still play other Actions.

Other Throne Room variants also like cantrips. {{Card|Royal Carriage}} [[engine]]s require cantrips if there is no [[Village (card category)|Village]] in the kingdom in order to play more than a single unique terminal action. Procession not only gets the extra Actions, but it upgrades Pearl Diver into a card that might actually be good. {{Card|King's Court}} is probably the least reliant on Pearl Diver, as it is easier to chain multiple King's Courts than it is to chain multiple Throne Rooms, but Pearl Diver can still be nice in a pinch for KC engines.

{{Card|Conspirator}} requires a certain number of Actions to have been played in order to activate, so a Conspirator deck benefits from having vanilla cantrips sprinkled throughout it. {{Card|Herald}} and {{Card|Vassal}} both play Actions if they are on your deck, so they value a deck with many Actions, especially cantrips. Pearl Diver is good filler for these cards as well.

===When You Need A Bottom Of Deck Inspection===
This is, oddly enough, both the thing that makes Pearl Diver unique and the least common reason you'll purchase the card. But it does have this benefit. Opening Pearl Diver / something on {{Split|5|2}} decreases your chances of the {{Cost|5}} card missing the shuffle versus opening something / nothing. This might matter at some point.

The only other situations that come to mind are when you care about the top card of your deck. For example, {{Card|Mystic}} likes Pearl Diver because it can guarantee a draw. 

===When You Need A Card From An Action Supply Pile===
Teacher and the +Token Events deserve special mention here, as Pearl Diver is among the cheapest possible targets for these cards / events. Pearl Diver becomes a {{Cost|2}} {{Card|Laboratory}} plus with the addition of a +Card token. It can be a half-decent cheap Village with the +Action token, or a {{Cost|2}} Peddler with the +{{Cost}} token. The +Buy token basically makes it a boring {{Card|Market Square}} variant. These situations are usually fairly obvious.

===When To Not Gain Pearl Diver===
The most obvious time to not gain Pearl Diver is when a better card can be gained for the same opportunity cost and do the same job as Pearl Diver. If you just need an Action card, and there is another cheap Action card, maybe it benefits your deck more than Pearl Diver. If you just need a cantrip, maybe you can afford a pricier one depending on your gain method, or even cards like {{Card|Vagrant}} which are the same price. The bottom of deck inspection is the only unique attribute of Pearl Diver other than its name, and that effect isn't strong enough to usually justify it outside of these other factors.

You also don't want to gain Pearl Diver when your {{Cost}}, Buys, or gains are best used on other cards. These are sometimes scarce, and Pearl Diver is usually only good when you have exactly {{Cost|2}} and a spare Buy, or you have a gainer you were otherwise not going to use. Lots of times there just isn't the time to gain it versus other things you need more.

One special case when it is worse to get Pearl Diver than it is to get nothing at all is when you play a terminal draw card with no actions left. In this case, like any cantrip, Pearl Diver becomes a stop card instead of a freebie. Big Money should stay away from Pearl Diver for the most part.

The other special case where Pearl Diver is particularly bad is [[Handsize attack|discard attacks]]. These attacks make all cantrips a little bit worse, since you have to decide between discarding the cantrip or a different card (without knowing the replacement card the cantrip will draw). In the case of more powerful cantrips like [[Peddler variant]]s, {{Card|Grand Market}}, etc. the benefit of playing the cantrip itself justifies their inclusion in a deck vulnerable to these attacks. But Pearl Diver's secondary effect is so minimal, its inclusion in your deck just becomes a liability. {{Card|Pillage}} is an exception - there Pearl Diver is helpful because it effectively conceals the information of what card replaces it from your opponent.

=== Synergies/Combos ===
* your own {{Card|Goons}}
* {{Card|Throne Room}}, {{Card|King's Court}}
* {{Card|Vineyard}}
* {{Card|Mystic}}
* {{Card|Loan}}
* {{Card|Native Village}}

=== Antisynergies ===
* {{Card|Warehouse}}
* your opponent's {{Card|Goons}}, {{Card|Militia}}, [[handsize attack|etc.]]
* {{Card|Mountebank}}

== Alternate versions ==
<gallery>
File:PearlDiverDigital.jpg|Digital version for [[Dominion Online]]
File:PearlDiverGerman.jpg|German version
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Pearl_DiverArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
=== In other languages ===
Most languages translate this card using the title of the Bizet opera, ''The Pearl Fishers''.
* Chinese: 採珠人 (pron. ''cǎizhūrén'')
* Czech: Lovec perel
* Dutch: Parelduiker
* Finnish: Helmenkalastaja
* French: Plongeur de perles
* German: Perlentaucher
* Italian: Pescatore di Perle
* Japanese: 真珠採り (pron. ''shinju-tori'')
* Korean: 진주조개잡이 (pron. ''jinjujogaejab-i'')
* Polish: Poławiacz pereł
* Russian: Ловец Жемчуга (pron. ''lovyets zhyemchuga'')
* Spanish: Pescador de Perlas

=== Card Art ===
{{Quote
|Text=The art depicts playtester Wei-Hwa Huang. He won a tournament at the Gathering of Friends where being depicted was the prize.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5130.msg128558#msg128558 'Art Trivia']
}}
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote|Text=Borrowed from a later expansion to replace Haven. Nothing changed during testing but the name. |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=117.0 The Secret History of the Seaside Cards]
}}
=== Retrospective ===
{{Quote|
|Text=Pearl Diver is not prized, but it looks reasonable to me, and as I have said many times, if I made all cards better by making them maximally complex, the game would have no players.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=3179.msg56362#msg56362 What Donald X. Might Do With a Dominion Time Machine]
}}

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-{{Card|Pearl Diver}} is an [[Action]] card from [[Seaside]]. It is a [[cantrip]], and thus it rarely hurts to have it in your deck, but its ability to move cards from the bottom of your deck to the top rarely helps very much either.
+{{Card|Pearl Diver}} is an [[Action]] card from [[Seaside]]. It is a [[cantrip]], meaning that it gives both +1 Card and +1 Action; it rarely hurts to have it in your deck, but its ability to move cards from the bottom of your deck to the top rarely helps very much either.
-It was removed from the second edition of Seaside and replaced with {{Card|Sea Chart}} which is a stronger cantrip because it can sometimes act as [[non-terminal draw]].
 == FAQ ==
 === Official FAQ ===
-* First draw a card and get +1 Action; then look at the bottom card of your deck, shuffling first if needed.
+* Draw a card before you look at the bottom card of your deck.
-* If you choose to put the bottom card on top of your deck, be sure not to look at the card above it.
+* If placing the card on top of your deck, be sure not to look at the next card on the bottom of your deck while moving the card.
+* If you have no cards left when it's time to look at the bottom, you shuffle first.
 === Other Rules clarifications ===
-== Strategy ==
+== Strategy Article==
-Before it was removed, Pearl Diver was a cheap but weak [[cantrip]]. While it does not usually hurt your deck, it doesn’t provide much value either so you will mostly gain it when you cannot buy more expensive cards and there are no alternatives available.
+''[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=16293.msg640800#msg640800 Original article] by Chris is me''
-Pearl Diver is most commonly useful for various purposes where cheap cantrips are generally applicable:
+Pearl Diver is among the most basic examples of a [[cantrip]] in Dominion. Other than {{Card|Page}}, no other cantrip does less on-play than Pearl Diver. All Pearl Diver does is check the bottom card of your deck, which you can move to the top. The effect does not stack well, since if you keep the bottom card on the bottom of the deck, future Pearl Divers just check that same card repeatedly until you [[reshuffle]]. So it really is a cantrip with a bonus so weak it is negligible in most cases.
-* As a means to increase the density of [[Action]] cards in your deck without affecting your [[deck control]]. This is useful when scoring with effects such as {{Card|Vineyard}}, or for drawing with effects such as {{Project|Piazza}} or {{Card|Scrying Pool}}.
-* As cheap targets for on-buy effects such as those of {{Card|Goons}} and {{Card|Merchant Guild}}, or to facilitate a [[three-pile ending]].
-* As a cheap [[non-terminal]] target for [[Throne Room variant]]s and [[Adventures tokens]] (such as from {{Event|Pathfinding}}).
-* As a cheap way to access powerful [[Way]]s such as {{Way|Way of the Horse}}.
-The option to inspect and [[topdeck]] the bottom card of your deck is generally low impact, as even at its best it will never offer an improvement over simply having better shuffle luck. Pearl Diver may occasionally allow you to make sure an important card does not miss the [[reshuffle|shuffle]], but in the early stages of the game where this is important, Pearl Diver has some [[opportunity cost]] and the most likely outcome is that you’ll simply look at a [[junk]] card. Pearl Diver is an option on a {{Split|5|2}} [[opening]] split because it nearly guarantees that the other card bought in the opening does not miss the reshuffle. However, given the low impact of the bottomdeck inspection, many other cheap cantrips (e.g., {{Card|Hamlet}}) are overall preferable for the use cases outlined above because they offer a better additional effect.
+Pearl Diver is an excellent illustration of [[opportunity cost]] in Dominion. It is a card that, once in your deck, usually does not hurt the deck. It might even save a good card from missing the shuffle once in awhile. But with limited economy, gains, or buys, getting Pearl Diver when you could have gotten a different, better card is often difficult to justify.
-===External strategy articles===
+Playing Pearl Diver is simple enough, so it is best to focus on when it is worth gaining Pearl Diver in the first place.
-''Note: Article(s) below are by individual authors and may not represent the community's current views on cards, but may provide more in-depth information or give historical perspective. Caveat emptor.''
-* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=16293.msg640800#msg640800 Chris is me's 2016 article]
-== Versions ==
+===When Should I Gain Pearl Diver?===
-===English versions===
+To answer this question, first consider the attributes of Pearl Diver.
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
+* It is named Pearl Diver
-! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
+* It is an [[Action]] card.
-|-
+* It costs {{Cost|2}}.
-| {{CardVersionImage|Pearl DiverOld|Pearl Diver}} || {{CardVersionImage|Pearl DiverDigitalOld|Pearl Diver from Goko/Making Fun}} || '''+1 Card<br>+1 Action'''<br>Look at the bottom card of your deck. You may put it on top. || Seaside || October 2009
+* It gives +1 Card and +1 Action.
-|-
+* It does a bottom-of-deck inspection.
-| {{CardVersionImage|Pearl Diver|Pearl Diver}} || {{CardVersionImage|Pearl DiverDigital|Pearl Diver from Shuffle iT}} || '''+1 Card<br>+1 Action'''<br>Look at the bottom card of your deck. You may put it on top. || Seaside (2017 printing) || July 2017
+* It comes from an Action [[Supply]] Pile.
-|}
-===Other language versions===
+The short version is, Pearl Diver is worth it if you need cards with one or more of these attributes in your deck and a better card cannot be gained instead. Below are some examples of when each trait is relevant. They are by their nature edge cases, but they should give you a good idea of what to notice when considering Pearl Diver.
-Most languages translate this card using the title of the Bizet opera, ''The Pearl Fishers''.
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
+===When You Need A Differently Named Card===
-! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
+This is kind of a gimme, because it can justify the gaining of basically any card, but Pearl Diver is a potential unique card that is easy to incorporate into almost any deck ([[terminal draw]] [[Big money|BM]] excluded). {{Card|Horn of Plenty}} and {{Card|Fairgrounds}} are two powerful cards that care about uniques.
-|-
-!Chinese
+{{Card|Hunting Party}} is also relevant. In certain decks you may run out of unique cards for it to sift for, causing excess HP plays to only draw a single card. If you add cantrips, you can have your excess Hunting Parties dive for the cantrip, then play all copies of the cantrip, then play Hunting Party again to fish for another copy of that cantrip. This ensures your handsize continues to increase with each Hunting Party play.
-| 採珠人 (pron. ''cǎizhūrén'') || || || ||
-|-
+===When You Need An Action Card===
-!Czech
+Certain cards really like your deck to have a lot of Action cards in them. {{Card|Scrying Pool}} draws through Actions and stops at stop cards. {{Card|Graverobber}} and {{Event|Advance}} trash Action cards for benefit. {{Card|Vineyard}} craves numerous cheap Action cards. {{Card|Throne}} Room needs to collide with SOMETHING in order to not be a dead card. Gaining Pearl Diver always increases the proportion of your deck that is Action cards, and always increases the number of Action cards in your deck. By being a cantrip, Pearl Diver shouldn't hurt your deck too much versus your other choices for cheap Actions in that particular Kingdom, especially if it is one of the only [[non-terminal]]s (more on that later).
-| Lovec perel || || || ||
-|-
+Depending on how you gain it, you may be able to remove a stop card while doing so, for example by {{Card|Remodel|Remodeling}} a {{Card|Copper}} or {{Card|Curse}} into Pearl Diver. {{Card|Ironworks}} is a card [[gainer]] that needs to gain an Action card in order for it to be non-terminal. It's plausible the choice for Ironworks is between Pearl Diver or not being played at all (if you can't afford deck space for another Ironworks). Or maybe you just have an extra {{Cost|2}} and 1 Buy at the end of a turn, and it's the best Action card you can justify.
-!Dutch
-| Parelduiker || || || ||
+{{Card|Procession}} and {{Card|Death Cart}} both are [[trash for benefit]] cards that require you to trash Actions, so Pearl Diver is a good card to feed these with if you can get it easily.
-|-
-!Finnish
+===When You Need A Card That Costs $2===
-| Helmenkalastaja || || || ||
+Pearl Diver costs {{Cost|2}}, and all sorts of things in Dominion care about that. Trash for benefit cards are the big winner here. There's the Remodel (or {{Card|Governor}}) case, where you may need something that costs up to {{Cost|2}} more than a Copper or Curse. In many cases, the cantrip Pearl Diver is the card you should get.
-|-
-!French
+More importantly though, Pearl Diver can itself be trashed for benefit. {{Card|Salvager}} can use it as fuel to give you a little money (and more importantly a +Buy). Remodel can turn it into a {{Cost|4}} cost card once your {{Card|Estate|Estates}} are gone. {{Card|Remake}} can turn it into at worst a Silver. {{Card|Expand}} and Graverobber can trash it and turn it into any card costing up to {{Cost|5}}, an elite tier of Action cards.
-| Plongeur de perles || || || ||
-|-
+The most notable synergy is with Procession. Procession can play Pearl Diver twice, giving +2 Cards +2 Actions, and then gain an Action card costing {{Cost|3}}. Pearl Diver could be the start of a powerful Procession chain, as well as a source of +Actions for an engine lubricated by Procession.
-!German
-| Perlentaucher || {{CardVersionImage|Pearl DiverGerman2018rulebook|German language Pearl Diver 2018 by ASS}} || || '''+1 Karte<br>+1 Aktion'''<br>Sieh dir die unterste Karte deines Nachziehstapels an. Du darfst diese auf deinen Nachziehstapel legen. || (Nachdruck 2018)
+Finally, Pearl Diver is a card that is cheaper than {{Cost|3}}. This makes it immune to all [[trashing attack]]s (except {{Card|Swindler}}), including {{Card|Warrior}}, [[Knight]]s, and {{Card|Rogue}}. This is relevant if you are building an engine based on {{Card|Teacher}} or a [[Adventures tokens|token]] [[Event]] - Pearl Diver is a safe destination for tokens that trashing attacks can't remove from your deck. Even without token cards, a deck full of Pearl Divers has a lower density of more valuable cards, increasing the chances of a trashing attack miss.
-|-
-!German
+===When You Need A Cantrip===
-| Perlentaucher || || {{CardLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} ||style="padding:15px 0px;"| '''+1 Karte<br>+1 Aktion'''<br>Sieh die unterste Karte deines Nachziehstapels an. Du darfst jene auf deinen Nachziehstapel legen. || (Nachdruck 2021)
+Pearl Diver is more or less a [[vanilla]] cantrip. It doesn't do much else! So really, this is its biggest selling point, those +1 Card and +1 Action, which make it usually not have an impact on your deck's terminal space or handsize.
-|-
-!Italian
+Some cards really, really value the presence of cantrips. The biggest example are [[Throne Room variant]]s. You can Throne Room a Pearl Diver to give +2 cards +2 actions, which increases the available terminal space in a deck. If Pearl Diver is the only cantrip, the extra Action can be invaluable, because otherwise you have to rely on chaining Throne Room / Throne Room / Terminal Draw / Throne Room / Action / Throne Room... for your engine to work. If you miss a chance to play Throne Room on itself, the chain is broken. If you Throne a cantrip, then you can end a Throne Room chain and still play other Actions.
-| Pescatore di Perle || || || ||
-|-
+Other Throne Room variants also like cantrips. {{Card|Royal Carriage}} [[engine]]s require cantrips if there is no [[Village (card category)|Village]] in the kingdom in order to play more than a single unique terminal action. Procession not only gets the extra Actions, but it upgrades Pearl Diver into a card that might actually be good. {{Card|King's Court}} is probably the least reliant on Pearl Diver, as it is easier to chain multiple King's Courts than it is to chain multiple Throne Rooms, but Pearl Diver can still be nice in a pinch for KC engines.
-!Japanese
-| 真珠採り <br>(pron. ''shinju-tori'') || || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| '''+1 カードを引く'''<br>'''+1 アクション'''<br>山札の一番下のカ一ドを見る。それを一番上に置いてもよい。 ||
+{{Card|Conspirator}} requires a certain number of Actions to have been played in order to activate, so a Conspirator deck benefits from having vanilla cantrips sprinkled throughout it. {{Card|Herald}} and {{Card|Vassal}} both play Actions if they are on your deck, so they value a deck with many Actions, especially cantrips. Pearl Diver is good filler for these cards as well.
-|-
-!Korean
+===When You Need A Bottom Of Deck Inspection===
-| 진주조개잡이 (pron. ''jinjujogaejab-i'') || || || ||
+This is, oddly enough, both the thing that makes Pearl Diver unique and the least common reason you'll purchase the card. But it does have this benefit. Opening Pearl Diver / something on {{Split|5|2}} decreases your chances of the {{Cost|5}} card missing the shuffle versus opening something / nothing. This might matter at some point.
-|-
-!Polish
+The only other situations that come to mind are when you care about the top card of your deck. For example, {{Card|Mystic}} likes Pearl Diver because it can guarantee a draw.
-| Poławiacz pereł || {{CardLangVersionImage|Polish}} || || '''+1 karta<br>+1 akcja'''<br>Podejrzyj kartę ze spodu swojej talii. Możesz położyć ją na wierzchu talii. || (2016)
-|-
+===When You Need A Card From An Action Supply Pile===
-!Russian
+Teacher and the +Token Events deserve special mention here, as Pearl Diver is among the cheapest possible targets for these cards / events. Pearl Diver becomes a {{Cost|2}} {{Card|Laboratory}} plus with the addition of a +Card token. It can be a half-decent cheap Village with the +Action token, or a {{Cost|2}} Peddler with the +{{Cost}} token. The +Buy token basically makes it a boring {{Card|Market Square}} variant. These situations are usually fairly obvious.
-| Ловец Жемчуга<br>(pron. ''lovyets zhyemchuga'') || || {{CardLangVersionImage|DigitalRussian}} || '''+1 Карта<br>+1 Действие'''<br>Посмотрите на нижнюю карту вашей колоды. Вы можете положить её наверх. ||
-|-
+===When To Not Gain Pearl Diver===
-!Spanish
+The most obvious time to not gain Pearl Diver is when a better card can be gained for the same opportunity cost and do the same job as Pearl Diver. If you just need an Action card, and there is another cheap Action card, maybe it benefits your deck more than Pearl Diver. If you just need a cantrip, maybe you can afford a pricier one depending on your gain method, or even cards like {{Card|Vagrant}} which are the same price. The bottom of deck inspection is the only unique attribute of Pearl Diver other than its name, and that effect isn't strong enough to usually justify it outside of these other factors.
-| Pescador de Perlas || {{CardLangVersionImage|Spanish}} || || '''+1 Carta<br>+1 Acción'''<br>Mira la última carta de tu mazo. Puedes ponerla encima del mazo. ||
-|}
+You also don't want to gain Pearl Diver when your {{Cost}}, Buys, or gains are best used on other cards. These are sometimes scarce, and Pearl Diver is usually only good when you have exactly {{Cost|2}} and a spare Buy, or you have a gainer you were otherwise not going to use. Lots of times there just isn't the time to gain it versus other things you need more.
+One special case when it is worse to get Pearl Diver than it is to get nothing at all is when you play a terminal draw card with no actions left. In this case, like any cantrip, Pearl Diver becomes a stop card instead of a freebie. Big Money should stay away from Pearl Diver for the most part.
+The other special case where Pearl Diver is particularly bad is [[Handsize attack|discard attacks]]. These attacks make all cantrips a little bit worse, since you have to decide between discarding the cantrip or a different card (without knowing the replacement card the cantrip will draw). In the case of more powerful cantrips like [[Peddler variant]]s, {{Card|Grand Market}}, etc. the benefit of playing the cantrip itself justifies their inclusion in a deck vulnerable to these attacks. But Pearl Diver's secondary effect is so minimal, its inclusion in your deck just becomes a liability. {{Card|Pillage}} is an exception - there Pearl Diver is helpful because it effectively conceals the information of what card replaces it from your opponent.
+=== Synergies/Combos ===
+* your own {{Card|Goons}}
+* {{Card|Throne Room}}, {{Card|King's Court}}
+* {{Card|Vineyard}}
+* {{Card|Mystic}}
+* {{Card|Loan}}
+* {{Card|Native Village}}
+=== Antisynergies ===
+* {{Card|Warehouse}}
+* your opponent's {{Card|Goons}}, {{Card|Militia}}, [[handsize attack|etc.]]
+* {{Card|Mountebank}}
+== Alternate versions ==
+<gallery>
+File:PearlDiverDigital.jpg|Digital version for [[Dominion Online]]
+File:PearlDiverGerman.jpg|German version
+</gallery>
 == Trivia ==
 [[Image:Pearl_DiverArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
+=== In other languages ===
+Most languages translate this card using the title of the Bizet opera, ''The Pearl Fishers''.
+* Chinese: 採珠人 (pron. ''cǎizhūrén'')
+* Czech: Lovec perel
+* Dutch: Parelduiker
+* Finnish: Helmenkalastaja
+* French: Plongeur de perles
+* German: Perlentaucher
+* Italian: Pescatore di Perle
+* Japanese: 真珠採り (pron. ''shinju-tori'')
+* Korean: 진주조개잡이 (pron. ''jinjujogaejab-i'')
+* Polish: Poławiacz pereł
+* Russian: Ловец Жемчуга (pron. ''lovyets zhyemchuga'')
+* Spanish: Pescador de Perlas
 === Card Art ===
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 {{Quote|Text=Borrowed from a later expansion to replace Haven. Nothing changed during testing but the name. |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
   |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=117.0 The Secret History of the Seaside Cards]
-}}
-=== Why don't more cards interact with your bottom card? ===
-{{Quote|Text=
-When you have multiple cards that interact with the top, they can interact with each other. The same applies to the bottom, but because it's wonkier, there will be fewer of those cards, so it's less likely you will see those interactions. So, there's not much point to doing much with it.
-{{Card|Stash}} originally went on top rather than letting you choose, and at the same time there was a {{VP}} card that went on the bottom. I also had a version of Pearl Diver that had you look at the top and choose to put it on the bottom or not.
- |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
- |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg375869#msg375869 Interview with Donald X.]
-}}
-{{Quote|Text=
-I also had, take the top and the bottom, put one on top and one on the bottom. I did not test versions that involved discarding one of the cards.
-There's probably room there for another card, but I had Pearl Diver, and it's no star, so it's not like I was looking to do something especially similar. |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
- |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg375992#msg375992 Interview with Donald X.]
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 |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=3179.msg56362#msg56362 What Donald X. Might Do With a Dominion Time Machine]
-}}
-{{Quote|
-|Text= [Pearl Diver and {{Card|Navigator}}] would be ones I'd replace, except, I couldn't, just as I couldn't rename {{Card|Harem}}; they depict real people. Why not offer those real people new better art on their new card, you ask? That sounds good to me, and I thought it would get Harem renamed, but it didn't.
-|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
-|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=16263.msg640483#msg640483 Dominion and Intrigue second editions]
 }}
-=== Second Edition Removal ===
-{{Quote|
-|Text=Pearl Diver is inoffensive but also very low value. You want it when a cantrip that does nothing is useful.
-|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
-|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=21226.msg891540#msg891540 Seaside 2E Previews 2]
-}}
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