Editing Tragic Hero

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{{Infobox Card
 |name = {{PAGENAME}}
 |cost = 5
 |set = Nocturne
 |type1 = Action
 |illustrator = Brian Brinlee
 |text = '''+3 Cards'''<br>'''+1 Buy'''<br>If you have 8 or more cards in hand (after drawing), trash this and gain a Treasure.
}}

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an [[Action]] card from [[Nocturne]].  It's a potentially [[one-shot]] [[terminal draw]] with [[+Buy]]; if you have too many cards in hand after playing it, it dies (tragically), but leaves you with a [[Treasure]] of your choice.
== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* First draw three cards; then, if you have eight or more cards in hand, you trash Tragic Hero and gain a Treasure. 
* If you cannot trash Tragic Hero (for example if you play it twice with {{Card|Throne Room}} and trashed it the first time), you still gain the Treasure.
=== Other rules clarifications ===
== Strategy ==
The discussion topic for Tragic Hero can be found [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18412.0 here.]

At first glance, Tragic Hero looks like a fairly weak [[terminal draw]] card, almost completely inferior to {{Card|Margrave}}. However, it is actually pretty strong, it just requires a bit of cleverness as it carries more nuance than you'd expect. (Furthermore, the existence of Tragic Hero has made people realize how crazy Margrave really is.)

The obvious upside of Tragic Hero is that it's a terminal draw card that gives +Buy. Both of these things are very important for [[engine]]s. The downside is that the Tragic Hero will die if you happen to have more than 8 cards in hand after drawing, which is the same as 6 cards before playing the card. However, this is not as bad as it sounds. As it turns out, it is often possible to use Tragic Hero in the same way you would use Draw-to-X cards, such as {{Card|Library}} or {{Card|Watchtower}}. You want to get rid of all of your junk cards as quickly as possible, then fill it with cards that decrease your handsize for some benefit - [[discard for benefit]], disappearing [[village]]s, [[disappearing money]] or [[sifter]]s. That way you can play multiple Tragic Heroes, drawing your deck, without ever having to trash one.

Tragic Hero has an advantage over true Draw-to-X cards, since it does actually work if you happen to get over the handsize limit, you only lose the Tragic Hero for a [[Treasure]] card. In some cases this might be worth it while you're still building; if you gain a {{Card|Gold}} and buy a new Tragic Hero, you have saved {{cost|1}}. In other cases, similar to {{Card|Mining Village}}, you actually want to get rid of the Tragic Hero for a Gold as long as you can draw it, because the game is almost over. Sometimes there are even better Treasures on the board than Gold, such as {{Card|Horn of Plenty}} or {{Card|Platinum}}. Tragic Hero can provide you with some extra payload in these cases, but it requires solid deck knowledge - if you don't know exactly what you're doing, you will be blowing up your engine without good reason. In rare cases, you could even go for a Tragic Hero [[megaturn]], like with {{Card|Madman}}.

In [[Big Money]], ironically, you might actually want to trash Tragic Hero for a treasure, but you'll be unable to. Nevertheless, the vanilla effects of Tragic Hero are very strong for BM as well, so if there are no [[Village (card category)|splitter]]s on the board, Tragic Hero-BM is a serious consideration.

=== Synergies ===
* {{Card|Necromancer}} can use Tragic Hero if it's in the trash
* {{Card|Lurker}}, {{Card|Rogue}} and {{Card|Graverobber}} can get Tragic Hero back from the trash
* {{Card|Overlord}} can now play Tragic Hero without being trashed.
* {{Card|Horn of Plenty}}, {{Card|Platinum}}, or {{Card|Bank}} and some way to trigger Tragic Hero to trash
* Almost anything that works well with draw-to-X works with Tragic Hero if you don't want it to blow up

=== Antisynergies ===
* {{Card|Hireling}}, {{Card|Caravan}} and other delayed draw will kill Tragic Hero even sooner
* Cards that rely on large handsize or card variety: {{Card|Menagerie}}, {{Card|Hunting Party}}, {{Card|City Quarter}}

== Versions ==
=== English versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
|-
| {{CardVersionImage|{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}}}} || {{CardVersionImage|{{PAGENAME}}Digital|{{PAGENAME}} from Shuffle iT}} || '''+3 Cards'''. '''+1 Buy'''. If you have 8 or more cards in hand (after drawing), trash this and gain a Treasure. || Nocturne || November 2017
|}

=== Other language versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!Dutch
| Tragische held || || || ||
|-
!French
| Héros de tragédie || || || ||
|-
!German
| Tragischer Held ||{{CardLangVersionImage|German}}|| || '''+ 3 Karten<br>+ 1 Kauf'''<br>Wenn du (nach dem Ziehen) 8 oder mehr Handkarten hast, entsorge diese Karte und nimm eine Geldkarte. ||
|-
!Japanese
| 悲劇の勇者 (pron. ''higeki no yūsha'') || || || '''+3 カードを引く'''。 '''+1 購入'''。 引き終えた後、手札が8枚以上の場合、これを廃棄して財宝カード1枚を獲得する。 ||
|-
!Polish
| Tragiczny bohater || || || || <small>Although Polish version is not released,<br>this name is referred to in Polish Dominion 2E rulebook.</small>
|-
!Russian
| Трагический Герой (pron. ''tragichyeskiy gyeroy'') || || || ||
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:{{PAGENAME}}Art.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
=== Secret History ===
For strumphf's 2022 advent calendar, Donald X. [https://youtu.be/LK38kDZbdLU?t=12 went in-depth on the development] of Tragic Hero.
{{Quote
|Text=I tried several cards as ways to get another use for {{Card|Ghost}} into the set (with {{Card|Haunted Mirror}} being the one that stuck). One of them looked like this with no +Buy and Ghost instead of a Treasure. It was fun but you got too many Ghosts. You get a Ghost and it hits another Tragic Hero and that turns it into another Ghost. I played around with wordings that made that not happen but then Haunted Mirror took over. Late in the going I had a card I wasn't confident in, and I looked for what could replace it. I tried this, only gaining {{Card|Gold}}, and it immediately worked out. Matt suggested that it could gain any Treasure and that worked out too.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17955.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Nocturne]
}}
=== Further comments from Donald X.  ===
{{Quote
|Text=The way Tragic Hero interacts with {{Card|Throne Room}} is not intentional, it is random. It is "whatever it turns out to be." {{Card|Throne Room}} was not a consideration at all. Tragic Hero has the best wording to communicate the concept of Tragic Hero, absolutely failing to care what that means for {{Card|Throne Room}}. It could have gone either way and it would have been fine by me.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18412.msg752669#msg752669 Let's Discuss Nocturne Cards: Tragic Hero]
}}
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