Family of Inventors

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Family of Inventors
Info
Type(s)	Ally
Set	Allies
Illustrator(s)	Martin Hoffmann
Ally text
At the start of your Buy phase, you may put a Favor token you have on a non-Victory Supply pile. Cards cost less per Favor token on their piles.

Family of Inventors is an Ally from Allies. It allows you to spend a Favor to reduce the cost of a non-Victory pile. But unlike other cost-reducers, it affects all players equally.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This can't put tokens on Victory piles. It can put tokens on split piles that have Victory cards in them, if the randomizer isn't a Victory card; this means it can put tokens on the 6 split piles in Allies, but not on the Castles pile from Empires.
• The effect is cumulative; two tokens on a pile means that cards in that pile cost less.
• This does not reduce costs below .
• This makes cards cost less at all times for all players, not just for the player placing the token.

Other rules clarifications

• This can put a token on Knights, even if the top Knight in the pile is Dame Josephine.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		At the start of your Buy phase, you may put a Favor token you have on a non-Victory Supply pile. Cards cost less per Favor token on their piles.	Allies	March 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Erfinderfamilie			Zu Beginn deiner Kaufphase darfst du 1 deiner Gefallen-Marker auf einen Nicht-Punkte-Vorratsstapel legen. Karten kosten weniger pro Gefallen-Marker auf ihrem Stapel.

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Family of Inventors lowers costs for everyone; fooshing may occur.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Allies Preview 5:More cards

Secret History

How about putting tokens on piles? It's non-Victory both due to how it would play without that, and due to Trade Route, which puts tokens on Victory piles. Crazy but unchanged.

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