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− | |Text=It's a Lab where the extra card is always bad. Actually that would be more powerful but slower; it doesn't guarantee you a bad card, it just can't do better. Sometimes you're happy with blank cards to discard to something, and when you aren't, at least it can clear a bad card out of the way of your next draw. It's not going to be a star, but some cards that cost {{Cost|2}} have to really look like they're just a {{Cost|2}} | + | |Text=It's a Lab where the extra card is always bad. Actually that would be more powerful but slower; it doesn't guarantee you a bad card, it just can't do better. Sometimes you're happy with blank cards to discard to something, and when you aren't, at least it can clear a bad card out of the way of your next draw. It's not going to be a star, but some cards that cost {{Cost|2}} have to really look like they're just a {{Cost|2}}. |
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | ||
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Revision as of 22:20, 13 November 2012
Vagrant | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Dark Ages |
Illustrator(s) | Joshua Stewart |
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+1 Card +1 Action Reveal the top card of your deck. If it's a Victory card, Curse, Ruins, or Shelter, put it into your hand. |
Vagrant is an Action from Dark Ages. It's a cantrip (i.e., it gives +1 Card and +1 Action), and it lets you look at the top card of your deck and draws it if it's a dead card, potentially streamlining your next hand a bit.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- You draw a card before revealing your top card.
- If the top card of your deck is a Curse, Ruins, Shelter, or Victory card, it goes into your hand; otherwise it goes back on top.
- A card with multiple types goes into your hand if at least one of the types is Curse, Ruins, Shelter, or Victory.
Other Rules clarifications
Strategy Article
As Dark Ages is pretty new, there hasn't been much strategy discussion of Vagrant.
The card it's most similar to, of previously existing cards, is Pearl Diver. It's a cheap cantrip for , which might sometimes give an extra bonus. In the case of Vagrant, the bonus is that it might act like a cheap Laboratory, drawing you that second card - but only if that second card is likely to be dead, since Victory, Ruins, Curse, and Shelter cards are usually pretty bad. Vagrant is obviously going to be much better with Action–Victory cards, since it can draw you your Nobles, Islands, and Great Halls. It can also reveal the top card for you to draw it with Mystic, and can maybe help clear green off the top of the deck for Scrying Pool. It could also help keep an Apothecary engine humming.
Synergies/Combos
- Cursers and Looters both give you the junk that you need Vagrant to clear out and will make you be stuck at so you have a good time to buy Vagrant
- +Buy, to pick up spare Vagrants during engine-building
- Action–Victory cards.
- Mystic
- Cards that want to get green off the top of your deck, so perhaps Apothecary and Scrying Pool
Antisynergies
- Native Village likes having green left on top
Trivia
Secret History