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| Hirtenhund || || [[File:Sheepdog.German.png|100px]] || '''+2 Karten'''<hr>Wenn du eine Karte nimmst,<br>darfst du diese Karte aus deiner<br>Hand spielen. || | | Hirtenhund || || [[File:Sheepdog.German.png|100px]] || '''+2 Karten'''<hr>Wenn du eine Karte nimmst,<br>darfst du diese Karte aus deiner<br>Hand spielen. || | ||
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+ | | 牧羊犬 (pron. ''bokuyōken'') || || || || | ||
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Revision as of 07:54, 10 November 2020
Sheepdog | |
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Info | |
Cost | |
Type(s) | Action - Reaction |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Menagerie |
Illustrator(s) | Claus Stephan |
Card text | |
+2 Cards When you gain a card, you may play this from your hand. |
Sheepdog is an Action-Reaction card from Menagerie. It provides weak terminal draw, but has a Reaction that draws whenever you gain a card.
Contents |
FAQ
Official FAQ
- You can use this when gaining a card due to buying it, when gaining a card some other way such as due to Falconer, and even when gaining a card on another player's turn, such as due to Black Cat.
- Remember that when you buy a card, you can no longer play Treasures in that Buy phase.
- If you gain a Sheepdog to your hand - such as via Falconer - you can react to that gain and play the Sheepdog.
Other Rules clarifications
- If you gain a card with a "when you gain" clause, you can choose to resolve that before or after reacting with Sheepdog, for example, if you gain Hostelry, you can choose to discard Treasures for Horses before or after reacting with Sheepdog
Strategy
Synergies/Combos
- Cards that gain other cards, such as Groom or Paddock
- Cards that let you return to your action phase: Villa or Cavalry
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+2 Cards. When you gain a card, you may play this from your hand. |
Menagerie | March 2020 |
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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German | Hirtenhund | +2 Karten Wenn du eine Karte nimmst, darfst du diese Karte aus deiner Hand spielen. |
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Japanese | 牧羊犬 (pron. bokuyōken) |
Trivia
Preview
Sheepdog gives Dominion another blue dog. You can play it anytime you gain a card. It may not even be your turn. Playing it means you put it into play and get your +2 Cards; it will be discarded in that turn's Clean-up, even if it's not yours. Using the Reaction part doesn't use up an Action; it just leaps into play and draws you cards. If it draws you another Sheepdog, you can use that one right away too; you can keep playing Sheepdogs until you run out of them.
Secret History
This has two origins. One is a treasure from Empires that had +1 Buy and gave you + per Buy you had. I thought there was something there, and tried a new version, an action that gave you + per card you gained that turn. Some people liked it but man the math was too much to ask of people. No really, it was bad. I tried multiple versions trying to fix it up and make it fair, some of which could also count trashes. I tried versions that triggered at one point in the turn. I switched to reactions and card-drawing (no math there) and was making progress. Now it resembled an outtake from Renaissance, that gave you +1 Card +1 Action when gaining a card, and some versions of this did just that. I got a version that seemed promising but had a bad wording - it wasn't trivial to communicate that you could reveal a copy for each gain, but not multiple copies for one gain. I tried it as draw-to-6 - now I didn't need to limit you to one use because it was naturally limited. Again I thought maybe this would do the trick, but more testing suggested it wasn't there. I came up with a few directions and one of them was Sheepdog. It's sleek and pretty and a delight. Sometimes it takes a while to get there.