Amulet

Amulet
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Duration
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Adventures
Illustrator(s)	Matthias Catrein
Card text
Now and at the start of your next turn, choose one: +; or trash a card from your hand; or gain a Silver.

Amulet is an Action-Duration from Adventures. It gives you a choice between three options now and later (you may make a different choice each time). It is a trasher, a gainer of Silvers, and a source of .

FAQ

Official FAQ

• You choose something when you play it, and again at the start of your next turn; the choices may be the same or different.

Strategy

Amulet is a cheap and flexible Duration whose most important role is as an efficient trasher. Amulet‘s strength as a trasher comes from two aspects:

1. It’s a relatively fast thinner, as it can trash two cards (over two turns) for the cost of a single terminal play, which is comparable to other fast thinners such as Steward.
2. It’s very flexible, as its + option can allow you to hit a price point rather than trash a card. This can be used to react to shuffles: for example, if you draw an Amulet and four Coppers and you do not want any of the cards, it can be better to buy a card rather than trash a Copper and buy a Silver.

For these reasons, Amulet is usually a strong opening buy (unless an even more efficient trasher like Chapel is available) and can help you achieve deck control quickly. However, as a Duration card, Amulet has the usual disadvantages of missing shuffles and spreading its impact over two turns; this means that an Amulet played on turn 3 is far more impactful than an Amulet played on turn 4. This can usually be counteracted by using a pair of Amulets for consistent thinning. This might mean buying a second Amulet after playing your first on turn 4, but can also mean opening with two copies of Amulet, which does risk terminal collision, but can speed up your trashing significantly if they do not collide.

Later in the game, Amulet often transitions into a more payload-oriented role. Its ability to act as a Silver gainer is useful to ramp up your economy, while the + option generally plays the role of a fall-back that can be used if you don’t want either of the other effects (because you do not want to trash anything in your hand and do not want to add a stop card to your deck).

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Now and at the start of your next turn, choose one: +; or trash a card from your hand; or gain a Silver.	Adventures 1st Edition	April 2015
		Now and at the start of your next turn, choose one: +; or trash a card from your hand; or gain a Silver.	Adventures 2nd Edition	August 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Amulet			Kies nu en aan het begin van je volgende beurt één van de volgende: +; of vernietig 1 kaart uit je hand; of pak 1 Zilver.	(2015)
Finnish	Amuletti
French	Amulette
German	Amulett			Jetzt und zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges, wähle jeweils eins: + oder entsorge 1 Handkarte oder nimm dir 1 Silber.	(2015)
German	Amulett			Jetzt und zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges, wähle eins: + oder entsorge eine deiner Handkarten oder nimm ein Silber.	(Nachdruck 2021)
Japanese	魔除け (pron. mayoke)			現在とあなたの次のターンの開始時に、次のうち1つ選ぶ:「+ 」:「手札1枚を廃棄する」:「銀貨1枚を獲得する」。
Polish	Amulet				Although Polish version is not released, this name is referred to in Polish Dominion 2E rulebook.
Russian	Амулет (pron. amulyet)

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Amulet is a basic Duration card. It gives you a choice on both turns, that's its special thing. Amulet is super-flexible; it gets rid of garbage, provides money for the same turn, and gets Silvers for later.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Adventures Previews #3 - Amulet, Swamp Hag, Hireling

Secret History

I tried a couple choose-one duration cards and quickly settled on this one.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Adventures

Relevant outtakes

In the Amulet slot, I tried a Duration card that gave the other players a bonus of your choice at the start of their intervening turns - +1 Action or +. I liked it in theory.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Adventures

Donald X.'s opinion

Amulet is pretty sweet. I open with it a lot.

One thing about Amulet is the temptation to take + for a better buy, even though you could trash something. Try not to be a sucker.

Amulet provides economy, so you never need to be worried about trashing too many Coppers. That's nice.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Let's Discuss Adventures Cards: Amulet

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