Farming Village

Farming Village
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Cornucopia
Illustrator(s)	Garret DeChellis
Card text
+2 Actions Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Treasure or Action card. Put that card into your hand and discard the rest.

Farming Village is an Action card from Cornucopia. It is a village that digs for an Action or Treasure, instead of merely drawing the top card of the deck like the vanilla Village does. Its digging effect is usually relatively weak; its main utility is simply as a source of +Actions.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Reveal cards from the top of your deck until you reveal a Treasure or Action card.
• If you fail to find one (even after shuffling), just discard all of the revealed cards.
• If you do find a Treasure or Action card, put it into your hand, and discard the rest of the revealed cards.
• You do not choose Treasure or Action - you stop on the first card matching either type.

Strategy

Farming Village is a simple village whose small sifting effect of drawing only an Action card or Treasure is generally of limited value. Although it’s among the weakest of the Village variants costing , it’s still a very useful engine component and the bonus is occasionally helpful.

Farming Village is typically gained and used in the same way as any other village: it’s usually not a good choice in the opening, but once you’ve added at least a couple of terminals to your deck and started working on deck control so that you have the potential to play more than one of them, Farming Village is a good way to increase your terminal space; you’re likely to want several if it’s the best available village. Although Farming Village compares unfavourably to the strongest villages, such as Wandering Minstrel or Worker's Village, it’s often preferable to a stop card (e.g. Squire), and its lower price can mean it’s significantly easier to gain multiple copies (e.g. using a Workshop variant) in comparison to powerful but expensive villages like Hunting Lodge.

Once you’ve constructed a reasonably reliable engine, Farming Village’s sifting bonus doesn’t typically provide much help, as it’s likely that you can draw your deck equally well without this effect; in the midgame, you may not even have any Victory cards or Curses to skip over, and Farming Village doesn’t sift past Treasures, which you’d usually prefer to draw towards the end of your turn. Conversely, in a very junky deck where sifting tends to be useful more generally, it’s much less likely that you’ll have a use for the village effect that constitutes Farming Village’s primary purpose, since it won’t reliably collide with multiple terminals. Furthermore, because it fails to discard certain types of junk (e.g. Coppers and Ruins), the small amount of sifting is still of limited use; and in this scenario, Farming Village can also sift unhelpfully past cards that you’d prefer to draw, such as Vampire and other important Night cards. Therefore, the best case for Farming Village’s bonus tends to lie somewhere between these two scenarios: it’s at its most helpful when you have a moderately reliable engine that still contains some skippable junk you’d prefer to sift past, e.g. because the Kingdom offers no way to trash your starting Estates, or because your deck’s reliability is starting to deteriorate due to greening towards the end of the game. This is especially true if you’re likely to have skippable junk on top of your deck, e.g. because an opponent is playing with Rabble. You might also set this up mid-turn before playing a Farming Village (e.g. by topdecking a Victory card with Courtyard).

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+2 Actions Reveal cards from the top of your deck until you reveal an Action or Treasure card. Put that card into your hand and discard the other cards.	Cornucopia 1st Edition	June 2011
		+2 Actions Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Treasure or Action card. Put that card into your hand and discard the rest.	Cornucopia 2nd Edition	March 2018

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Czech	Selský dvůr
Dutch	Boerendorp
Finnish	Talonpoikaiskylä (lit. peasant village)
French	Village agricole			+2 Actions Dévoilez des cartes de votre pioche jusqu'à dévoiler une carte Trésor ou Action. Prenez en main cette carte et défaussez les autrez.
German	Bauerndorf			+2 Aktionen Decke solange Karten vom Nachziehstapel auf, bis du entweder eine Aktionskarte oder eine Geldkarte aufgedeckt hast. Nimm diese auf die Hand und lege die anderen aufgedeckten Karten ab.	(2014)
German	Bauerndorf			+2 Aktionen Decke Karten von deinem Nachziehstapel auf, bis du eine Geld- oder Aktionskarte aufgedeckt hast. Nimm jene Karte auf die Hand und lege den Rest ab.	(2019)
Italian	Villaggio Agricolo
Japanese	農村 (pron. nōson)			+2 アクション 財宝カードかアクションカード1枚が公開されるまで山札を上から公開する。その1枚を手札に加え、残りを捨て札にする。
Polish	Farma (lit. farm)			+2 akcje Odkrywaj karty z wierzchu swojej talii, aż odkryjesz kartę Akcji lub Skarbu. Weź tę kartę na rękę i odrzuć pozostałe odkryte karty.	(2011)
Russian	Деревня Фермеров (pron. dyeryevnya fyermyerov)
Spanish	Poblado Agrícola

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

I had previously tried a card that drew you an action or treasure but did nothing else (just +1 Action), for in another set. It was fine but there was no room for it there in the end. I moved it here as a Village.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Cornucopia Cards

Retrospective

I guess my top thing is, it would be nice to have another card that really makes you want a variety of cards. Just to push the theme a little more. Probably Farming Village would go to have room for it. People like Farming Village but it's the off-theme card I need the least here.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, What Donald X. Might Do With a Dominion Time Machine