Border Village
Border Village | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
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Hinterlands![]() |
Illustrator(s) | Kurt Miller |
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+1 Card +2 Actions When you gain this, gain a cheaper card. |
Border Village is an Action card from Hinterlands. Its on-play effect is identical to Village, but Border Village's key property is that when you gain it, it comes with a free card costing up to . The effect of buying Border Village for is thus equivalent to buying a Action and getting an additional village.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- Normally Border Village costs , so it comes with a card costing up to .
- If Border Village has a different cost (such as due to Highway) then that affects what you gain with it (though Highway would also affect the other cards).
- Border Village goes to your discard pile first, then the card you gain with it.
Strategy
Border Village is a simple village, equivalent in its on-play effect to Village itself, with a strong on-gain effect that allows you to gain a cheaper card along with it. While it is very expensive for a village, effectively paying for a strong Action card costing in order to get a village thrown in with it is often a very good deal and allows you to build an effective engine more quickly than usual. This is especially true because these desirable cards (most frequently draw, Attacks, or payload) are often terminal and you would therefore need to expand your terminal space in order to play them in any case; examples include Council Room, Torturer, and Livery. Because this option is even more expensive than , it's unlikely to be a viable way of gaining all your terminals, so you may sometimes need a few copies of a cheaper village (if available) in addition to your Border Villages. Additionally, if the Kingdom lacks strong terminals at and and +Buy is not a limiting factor, cheaper villages will sometimes offer better overall value than Border Village.
If you are not reliant on keeping all your copies of Border Village for terminal space, it is an excellent target for trash for benefit effects like that of Salvager or Apprentice, since its price greatly exceeds its value once it's in your deck. This can be especially relevant if strong, cheaper villages are also easy to gain (e.g. with a Workshop variant) or if the Kingdom offers useful non-terminal cards costing , e.g. Laboratory; since these don't require extra terminal space, the Border Village can be treated as fodder that you can obtain almost for free. Border Village can be particularly useful with Remodel variants: not only can it be Remodeled into Province in the endgame, before that you can also turn some appropriately-priced card (sometimes Border Village itself) into a new Border Village, gaining another card with it; this effectively transforms a card like Transmogrify into a net gainer. In the endgame, the fact that each Border Village gain comes with an additional gain often makes a pile-out available sooner than it otherwise would be; this sometimes involves using the extra gain to score , e.g. with Duchy.
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Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Card +2 Actions When you gain this, gain a card costing less than this. |
Hinterlands | October 2011 |
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+1 Card +2 Actions When you gain this, gain a cheaper card. |
Hinterlands (2016 printing) | December 2016 |
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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Czech | Pohraniční vesnice | ||||
Dutch | Grensdorp | ||||
Finnish | Rajakylä | ||||
French | Village frontalier | ||||
German | Grenzdorf | ![]() |
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+1 Karte +2 Aktionen Wenn du das Grenzdorf nimmst, nimm dir eine Karte, die weniger kostet als das Grenzdorf. |
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Grenzdorf | ![]() |
+1 Karte +2 Aktionen Wenn du diese Karte nimmst, nimm eine billigere Karte. |
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Italian | Villaggio di Frontiera | ||||
Japanese | 国境の村 (pron. kokkyō no mura) |
+1 カードを引く +2 アクション これを獲得するとき、これより安いカード1枚を獲得すろ。 |
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Polish | Pogranicze | Although Polish version is not released, this card is referred to in the Polish version of Empires rulebook | |||
Russian | Пограничная Деревня (pron. pogranichnaya dyeryevnya) |
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Spanish | Pueblo Fronterizo |
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