Sir Martin

Sir Martin
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Attack - Knight
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Dark Ages
Illustrator(s)	Julien Delval
Card text
+2 Buys Each other player reveals the top 2 cards of their deck, trashes one of them costing from to , and discards the rest. If a Knight is trashed by this, trash this.

Sir Martin is one of the ten Knight cards from Dark Ages. Like the other Knights, he is an Action–Attack that trashes other players' cards. He provides +Buy (two Buys, even!) and is the cheapest Knight, with a cost of .

FAQ

Official FAQ

Full FAQ on the Knights page. The points specific to Sir Martin are reproduced below:

• Sir Martin only costs , though the other Knights all cost .
• When Sir Martin is the top card of the pile, it can be gained with an Armory and so on.

Strategy Article

General Knights strategy is on the Knights page.

Sir Martin is the only Knight that costs and not . Fittingly, his bonus is typically the weakest - you rarely want more than one or two +Buy in a given turn, and in most engines, you'll get them from cards which also give other bonuses, like Worker's Village or Market. In Big Money, Sir Martin's bonus to you is little better than a Ruined Market.

Synergies/Combos

• engines which would be powerful if only they had a source of +Buy
• gainers like Workshop, Armory, and Ironworks, which can pick up Sir Martin at an appropriate time for free.
• Gardens

Antisynergies

• Big Money
• engines which already have +Buy.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+2 Buys. Each other player reveals the top 2 cards of his deck, trashes one of them costing from to , and discards the rest. If a Knight is trashed by this, trash this card.	Dark Ages 1st Edition	August 2012
		+2 Buys. Each other player reveals the top 2 cards of their deck, trashes one of them costing from to , and discards the rest. If a Knight is trashed by this, trash this.	Dark Ages 2nd Edition	September 2017

Other language versions

Print	Digital	Language	Name	Text
		Czech	Sir Martin
		Japanese	サー ・ マーチン (pron. Sā Māchin)	+2 購入。 他のプレイヤーは全員、山札の上から2枚を公開し、その中のコストがからのカード1枚を廃棄し、残りを捨て札にする。誰かが騎士を廃棄した場合、あなたはこれを廃棄する。

Trivia

Official card art.

Card Art

The art depicts a playtester.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, 'Art Trivia'

Secret History

"Sir Martin [is named after] a friend who would have been in [the first ever game of Dominion], but he'd moved away some months earlier."

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Dark Ages cards

Full secret history on the Knight page.