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]], 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. 

== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* First draw a card and get +1 Action; then look at the bottom card of your deck, shuffling first if needed. 
* If you choose to put the bottom card on top of your deck, be sure not to look at the card above it.

=== Other Rules clarifications ===
== Strategy ==
Pearl Diver is 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. 

Pearl Diver is most commonly useful for various purposes where cheap cantrips are generally applicable:
* 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.

===External strategy articles===
''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 ==
===English versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date 
|-
| {{CardVersionImage|Pearl DiverOld|Pearl Diver}} || {{CardVersionImage|PearlDiverDigitalOld|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 1st Edition || October 2009
|-
| {{CardVersionImage|Pearl Diver|Pearl Diver}} || {{CardVersionImage|PearlDiverDigital|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 [[Second Edition|2nd Edition]] || July 2017 
|}

===Other language versions===
Most languages translate this card using the title of the Bizet opera, ''The Pearl Fishers''.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!Chinese 
| 採珠人 (pron. ''cǎizhūrén'') || || || || 
|- 
!Czech 
| Lovec perel || || || || 
|-
!Dutch 
| Parelduiker || || || || 
|-
!Finnish 
| Helmenkalastaja || || || || 
|-
!French 
| Plongeur de perles || || || ||  
|-
!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)
|-
!Italian 
| Pescatore di Perle || || || || 
|-
!Japanese 
| 真珠採り (pron. ''shinju-tori'') || || || '''+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。 || 
|-
!Korean 
| 진주조개잡이 (pron. ''jinjujogaejab-i'') || || || || 
|-
!Polish 
| Poławiacz pereł || {{CardLangVersionImage|Polish}} || || '''+1 karta<br>+1 akcja'''<br>Podejrzyj kartę ze spodu swojej talii. Możesz położyć ją na wierzchu talii. || (2016)
|-
!Russian 
| 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. || 
|-
!Spanish 
| Pescador de Perlas || || || ||  
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Pearl_DiverArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
=== 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]
}}
=== 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.]
}}
=== 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]
}}
{{Quote|
|Text= [Pearl Diver and {{Card|Navigator}}] would be ones I'd replace, except, I couldn't, just as I couldn't rename 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]
}}
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