Pearl Diver
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| 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) | | 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) | ||
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+ | | Perlentaucher || || || 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) | ||
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− | | 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。 || | + | | 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。 || |
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Revision as of 09:02, 1 January 2022
Pearl Diver | |
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Info | |
Cost | |
Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Seaside |
Illustrator(s) | Maura Kalusky |
Card text | |
+1 Card +1 Action Look at the bottom card of your deck. You may put it on top. |
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.
Contents |
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 Vineyard, or for drawing with effects such as Piazza or Scrying Pool.
- As cheap targets for on-buy effects such as those of Goons and Merchant Guild, or to facilitate a three-pile ending.
- As a cheap non-terminal target for Throne Room variants and Adventures tokens (such as from Pathfinding).
- As a cheap way to access powerful Ways such as 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 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 / 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., 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.
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Card +1 Action Look at the bottom card of your deck. You may put it on top. |
Seaside 1st Edition | October 2009 | ||
+1 Card +1 Action Look at the bottom card of your deck. You may put it on top. |
Seaside 2nd Edition | July 2017 |
Other language versions
Most languages translate this card using the title of the Bizet opera, The Pearl Fishers.
Trivia
Card Art
Secret History
Why don't more cards interact with your bottom card?
Retrospective