Band of Nomads

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Band of Nomads
Info
Type(s)	Ally
Set	Allies
Illustrator(s)	Grant Hansen
Ally text
When you gain a card costing or more, you may spend a Favor, for +1 Card, or +1 Action, or +1 Buy.

Band of Nomads is an Ally from Allies. It allows you to spend a Favor for a small bonus when you gain a card costing or more; this can be used, for example, to make a gainer non-terminal or give yourself an extra +Buy when you need one.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• What matters is how much the card costs when you gain it, not how much it normally costs. This only works once per gain; you can spend a Favor, and then get your choice of +1 Card, +1 Action, or +1 Buy.

Other rules clarifications

• The card has to cost or more when you gain it; if it changes cost afterwards, that doesn't matter. For example, if you gain a Fisherman when it costs , and it goes into your discard pile, you can't spend a Favor for Band of Nomads, even though by that time the Fisherman now costs .
• Unlike City-state, you may spend Favors for this when gaining a card during another player's turn (with e.g. Barbarian). Getting +1 Action or +1 Buy is not useful.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you gain a card costing or more, you may spend a Favor, for +1 Card, or +1 Action, or +1 Buy.	Allies	March 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Nomadenstamm			Wenn du eine Karte nimmst, die oder mehr kostet, darfst du 1 Gefallen einlösen für +1 Karte oder +1 Aktion oder +1 Kauf.

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Band of Nomads gives you a choice, though it doesn't work with Elder. It can be exciting with gainers, and when there aren't any, well it can still make +Buys for you.

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

Secret History

Originally it gave Buys at the start of the Buy phase. It's friendlier to let you use them mid-Buy-phase, but wait, needs to not loop with Guildmaster. It was always clearly the dud but clearly going to survive; it was such a basic thing, +Buy tokens, they'd gotten a whole mat in Renaissance at one point. It's just that some games there was another +Buy and well that card could often out-compete the Liaison. Then I was messing with what Woodworkers' Guild would be and had this idea for it, only it was basically the +Buy token thing I already had only better. And that was good so here it is. And then the cost limit stops Guildmaster shenanigans.

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