Architects' Guild

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Architects' Guild
Info
Type(s)	Ally
Set	Allies
Illustrator(s)	Martin Hoffmann
Ally text
When you gain a card, you may spend 2 Favors to gain a cheaper non-Victory card.

Architects' Guild is an Ally from Allies. When you gain a card, it allows you to spend Favors to get a cheaper non-Victory card thrown in for free, like an Ally version of Haggler.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This only works once per gain but can trigger off of itself; you could gain a Province, spend 2 Favors to gain a Gold (cheaper than Province), spend 2 Favors to gain a Laboratory (cheaper than Gold).

Other rules clarifications

• In situations where costs change, what matters is its cost of cards at the time you are gaining the second card. If you gain a Fisherman when it costs , and it lands in your discard pile and now costs , Architects' Guild will gain a card costing less than , because it's once the Fisherman is already in your discard pile that Architects' Guild cares about what its cost is.

Strategy

Architects' Guild is similar to Haggler, though there are many differences in how it functions. It does not stack, but can still go through multiple cards with one buy. A Province buy could get a Border Village, then a Laboratory, then an Old Map, and then a Hamlet, providing many different engine pieces. When Favors are not too difficult to get and an Engine strategy is viable, this will be very helpful.

Architects' Guild can also be used in Big Money strategies, but only to a lesser extent because Favors will be harder to get. It can gain Golds when gaining Provinces, Platinums with Colonies, and Silvers with Golds. It's power level mostly depends on how easily Favors can be taken.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you gain a card, you may spend 2 Favors to gain a cheaper non-Victory card.	Allies	March 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Architektengilde			Wenn du eine Karte nimmst, darfst du 2 Gefallen einlösen, um eine billigere Nicht-Punktekarte zu nehmen.

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Architects' Guild doesn't fit the day's theme but I am showing it off anyway. It's the Haggler Ally.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Allies Preview 3:Choose One

Secret History

There were multiple gainers besides Crafters' Guild, some of them Remodels. Some were in the file for a while, some just briefly tested. I eventually settled on two, with the name Architects' Guild on this one. Originally it didn't say non-Victory; it always seems worth trying, but.

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