Editing Royal Blacksmith

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{{Infobox Card
 |name = Royal Blacksmith
 |cost2 = 8
 |set = Empires
 |type1 = Action
 |illustrator = Alayna Danner
 |text = '''+5 Cards'''<br/>Reveal your hand; discard the Coppers.
}}

'''Royal Blacksmith''' is an [[Action]] card from [[Empires]].  It is a [[terminal draw]] card and can be a [[sifter]], and is a [[Debt]] card.  It forces you to discard all {{Card|Copper|Coppers}} in your hand after drawing; it would thus behoove the player to either get rid of their Coppers before acquiring one, or find some way to get Coppers back out of their discard pile afterwards.
== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* You discard both Coppers that were in your hand already, and Coppers drawn in the +5 Cards.

== Strategy ==
=== Synergies ===
* {{card|Fool's Gold}}
* {{card|Miser}}
* [[Heirloom|Heirlooms]], especially {{Card|Lucky Coin}}.

=== Antisynergies ===
* {{card|Mountebank}}

== Versions ==
===English versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
|-
| {{CardLangVersionImage}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || style="padding:0px 20px;"| '''+5 Cards'''<br>Reveal your hand; discard the Coppers. || Empires || June 2016 
|}

===Other language versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!Dutch 
| Koninklijke smid || || || || 
|-
!Finnish 
| Kuninkaanseppä<br>(lit. ''king's blacksmith'') || || || || 
|-
!French
| Forgeron royal || || || || 
|-
!German 
| Königlicher Schmied || {{CardPNGImage|Royal BlacksmithGerman2021rulebook|German language Royal Blacksmith 2021 by ASS}} || {{CardVersionImage|Royal BlacksmithGerman2022Digital|German language Royal Blacksmith 2022 from Shuffle iT}} || style="padding:0px 20px;"| '''+5 Karten'''<br>Decke deine Handkarten auf; lege alle Kupfer ab. || 2.&nbsp;Edition<br>(2021)
|-
!Japanese 
| 王室の鍛冶屋<br>(pron. ''ōshitsu no kajiya'') || || || '''+5 カードを引く'''<br>手札を公開し、銅貨をすべて捨て札にする。 || 
|-
!Polish 
| Królewski kowal || {{CardLangVersionImage|Polish}} || || '''+5 kart'''<br> Odkryj swoją rękę; odrzuć wszystkie Miedziaki. || (2017)
|-
!Russian 
| Королевский Кузнец<br>(pron. ''korolyevskiy kuznyets'') || || || || 
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Royal_BlacksmithArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
This card was originally called '''Old Blacksmith''', but upon seeing the art submitted for it, Donald X decided the blacksmith depicted did not look "Old", and changed the name.  Because of this, Royal Blacksmith comes before {{Card|Overlord}} in the rulebook, and on the box's inlay.
=== Preview ===
{{Quote
|Text=Royal Blacksmith also costs {{Debt|8}} and draws a lot of cards. It doesn't let you keep the Coppers and well you may want to do something about that. I like to show off at least a few simple cards, and Royal Blacksmith and {{Card|City Quarter}} are both pretty simple, other than wondering about that red hexagon.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15357.0 Empires Previews #1: Debt]
}}

=== Secret History ===
{{Quote|Text=One of the first {{Debt}} cards was +5 Cards, you may put your deck into your discard pile. It cost {{Cost|10}} at first, but varied. For a while it seemed like one of the more reasonable Debt cards. It wasn't good immediately, when your deck had mostly Coppers. Or was it? Gradually I got disenchanted with the deck-flipping; it was there to make you less sad to draw at the bottom of your deck, but sometimes meant you got it in every hand when you weren't actually drawing your whole deck. You zoomed to victory or didn't, depending on where it was in your deck. Then I got focused on wanting the big {{Debt}} cards to really not be good right away. I replaced the flipping with "discard the Coppers" and well there it is.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15660.0 The Secret History of the Empires Cards]
}}
=== Why cost Debt? ===
{{Quote|Text= Royal Blacksmith and {{Card|City Quarter}} are trying to cost a lot of {{Debt}}, and to make that work, they had to have abilities that you wouldn't want turn one. So Royal Blacksmith punishes you for having {{Card|Copper}}s, and {{Card|City Quarter}} depends on you having a bunch of Actions. They could have had normal costs... but, the entire idea was to have {{debt}}. People loved [[debt]] so that all worked out, it's okay that I made cards with [[debt]] costs.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20358.msg839154#msg839154 Logic behind "special things"]
}}
=== Retrospective ===
{{Quote|Text= 
Royal Blacksmith is a great fit for a [[debt]]-cost, and a fine if dull card to print; I totally would try it for less debt these days though, see how that went. In general things that you don't want early can be cheaper due to that.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[https://discord.com/channels/212660788786102272/936246610961260594/1210655546877681664 Dominion Discord, 2024]
}}
{{Quote|Text= 
Staring at the card list [for Empires], there are a few cards people complain about for different reasons, but really, there's nothing say {{Card|Fortune Teller}} level, or {{Card|Mountebank}} level. The standout to replace is Royal Blacksmith. And I mean, sure it could be stronger, but that's not bad for worst card.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[https://discord.com/channels/212660788786102272/257241961482813440/1216839283747586188 Dominion Discord, 2024]
}}
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