Crystal Ball

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Crystal Ball
Info
Cost $5
Type(s) Treasure
Kingdom card? Yes
Set Prosperity
Illustrator(s) Marco Morte
Card text
$1
Look at the top card of your deck. You may trash it, discard it, or, if it's an Action or Treasure, play it.

Crystal Ball is a Treasure card from the second edition of Prosperity. It allows you to trash, play, discard, or put back the top card of your deck.

It replaces the removed first-edition cards Loan and Venture, which could respectively trash or play Treasures from your deck.

FAQ

Official FAQ

  • If you don't choose to do any of those things, you leave the card on your deck.
  • If this plays an Action during your Buy phase that gives you +Actions, that doesn't let you play more Action cards in your Buy phase; if it draws Treasure cards, you can still play them.

Other Rules clarifications

Strategy

Versions

English versions

Print Digital Text Release Date
Crystal Ball Crystal Ball from Temple Gates Games $1
Look at the top card of your deck. You may trash it, discard it, or, if it's an Action or Treasure, play it.
Prosperity (Second Edition) June 2022

Other language versions

Language Name Print Digital Text Notes
Dutch Kristallen bol $1
Bekijke de bovenste kaart van
je trekstapel. Je mag deze
vernietigen, afleggen of, als het een
actie- of geldkaart is, spelen.
2. Edition
(2022)
German Kristallkugel German language Crystal Ball German language Crystal Ball from Shuffle iT $1
Sieh dir die oberste Karte deines Nachziehstapels an. Du darfst jene entsorgen, ablegen oder, falls es eine Aktions- oder Geldkarte ist, spielen.

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Venture is more or less a fixed Adventurer. And it's still weak. Casual players must get some fun out of it sometimes, but I could make a better one.

Crystal Ball is like Venture, but it's like Loan too, and also it can trash the Estates that Loan can't, and play the Actions that Venture can't.

Secret History

It's the combination Loan-Venture you never knew you needed. It started life as an Allies card, with no trashing. I dropped it, then was looking for new Treasures for Prosperity, and added the trashing to spice it up. Finally it got the discarding option for an extra nudge.


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