Cursed Village

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Cursed Village
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Doom
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Nocturne
Illustrator(s)	Joshua Stewart
Card text
+2 Actions Draw until you have 6 cards in hand. When you gain this, receive a Hex.

Cursed Village is an Action-Doom card from Nocturne. It's a village and a draw-to-X card. This combination of effects is powerful enough that, as a penalty, you are forced to Hex yourself when you gain one.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• If you already have six or more cards in hand, you do not draw any cards.
• When you gain Cursed Village, you receive a Hex; since that will often be in your Buy phase, some of the Hexes may not do anything to you.

Strategy

Cursed Village is a very strong engine card, being both a reliable village and a powerful draw card. It is a Draw-to-X card, like Library and Watchtower, and so it works with many of the same cards including disappearing money, discard for benefit and sifters, but it is easier to utilize effectively because it doesn't require any further village support. Although it might seem that your handsize will increase by too much to make Cursed Village worthwhile, in many cases alternating Cursed Village and terminal non-drawing cards works well enough already, making Cursed Village at least as strong as Lost City. Do not make the mistake of thinking you need more draw; in the presence of other draw cards, Cursed Village quickly deteriorates into a Necropolis. You could say that Cursed Village is a very jealous draw card, intolerant of any other draw in the deck.

Cursed Village has a clear drawback; it Hexes you upon gain. Some of the hexes are fairly inconsequential - the handsize hexes, Haunting, Fear and Poverty, tend to do nothing when it's your buy phase. Others, however, can be painful. The worst one to get is probably Locusts, especially when you're drawing your deck, as that immediately kills your Cursed Village. It might be worth it to track where Locusts is in the Hex deck.

If your opponent has Cursed Villages, do not employ handsize attacks; they will actively help your opponent to activate their Cursed Villages.

Synergies

• Artificer is absolutely insane; other discard for benefit cards are great as well, especially Horse Traders which provides the Money/Buy to the Actions/Cards of Cursed Village
• Strong terminals
• Strong trashing
• Sifters such as Cellar
• Fool. Discarding for a Boon at the start of your turn means at least +3 Cards, +2 Actions.
• Black Market since you can play all your money.
• Camel Train allows you Exile (which is not gaining!) copies of Cursed Village before you gain one "honestly", thereby Hexing yourself only once for the whole lot. Just be sure to actually gain a Cursed Village before they run out!

Antisynergies

• Faithful Hound
• All other draw cards, but especially duration draw cards such as Wharf
• Swindler can also Hex you whenever it hits a

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+2 Actions Draw until you have 6 cards in hand. When you gain this, receive a Hex.	Nocturne	November 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Vervloekt dorp
French	Village maudit
German	Verfluchtes Dorf			+2 Aktionen Ziehe, bis du 6 Karten auf der Hand hast. Wenn du diese Karte nimmst, empfange eine Plage.
Japanese	呪われた村 (pron. norowareta mura)			+2 アクション 手札が6枚になるようにカードを引く。 これを獲得するとき、呪詛を1つ受ける。
Polish	Przeklęta wioska			+2 akcje Dobieraj karty, aż będziesz miał ich 6 na ręce. Kiedy dodajesz tę kartę, otrzymujesz Urok.
Russian	Проклятая Деревня (pron. proklyataya dyeryevnya)

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Cursed Village Hexes you when you gain it. Maybe you will get lucky there and just have to discard some cards or something. But probably it will hurt; that's the way it goes when your village is cursed. Once you have it it's a Village with "draw to 6" instead of +1 Card; that's pretty spiffy, but it has some quirks to learn about the hard way.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Nocturne Previews #4: Werewolf, Skulk, Cursed Village

Secret History

For a while there was another Library+Village thing that seemed okay. I guess it wasn't quite there. When I wanted to try a card that hexed you when you got it, I thought of this Library+Village thing, and liked it better than the other one. There was the question of, is it okay that discard Hexes miss or mostly miss. We tried Cursed Village setting aside the Hex for your next hand, but it was too easy to forget; people are better at remembering things they actually want to happen. It could have been that Hexes had categories so that Cursed Village always hit one that mattered, but there's no space for that on the little diagonal bar, it would have to be in the text box or something. In the end I decided it was okay if the Hex missed sometimes; it makes the card a little less scary to buy.

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

Relevant outtakes

The card that left for Cursed Village was draw up to 7, may discard 2 for +2 Actions. It was fine? Cursed Village was just similar and better.

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