City-state

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City-state
Info
Type(s)	Ally
Set	Allies
Illustrator(s)	Marco Morte
Ally text
When you gain an Action card during your turn, you may spend 2 Favors to play it.

The City-state is an Ally from Allies. It allows you to spend Favors to play Action cards immediately upon gaining them—an effect similar to the Project Innovation.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• If you gain an Action card in your Buy phase (such as by buying it), City-state can still let you play it then; if it gives you +Actions, that won't let you play more Action cards in your Buy phase, and if it draws you Treasures, you can only play them if you haven't bought anything yet.
• City-state can only play a card that's still wherever it was gained to (normally the discard pile) but can still play a card in your discard pile if it was covered up by other cards.
• City-state only works during your turns.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you gain an Action card during your turn, you may spend 2 Favors to play it.	Allies	March 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Stadtstaat			Wenn du während deines Zuges eine Aktionskarte nimmst, darfst du 2 Gefallen einlösen, um sie zu spielen.

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Originally just one Favor, which was nuts. Also it had the wording where you set aside the card, and check if you did. That went away with a rules change: now you can't play a card you can't find (though you can replay it, meaning Thrones on Horses still work).

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