Feodum

Feodum
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Victory
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Dark Ages
Illustrator(s)	Matthias Catrein
Card text
Worth 1  per 3 Silvers you have (round down). When you trash this, gain 3 Silvers.

Feodum is a Victory card from Dark Ages. It gains value as you get more Silvers in your deck, and it also allows you to gain three Silvers by trashing it.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This is a Victory card, so use eight copies for games with two players, or 12 for games with three or more players.
• At the end of the game, each Feodum is worth 1  for every three Silvers in your deck, rounded down.
• For example if you have 11 Silvers, your Feodums are worth 3  each.
• If Feodum is trashed, you gain three Silvers.
• If there are not enough Silvers left, gain as many as you can.

Strategy

Feodum is a weak alt-VP card that scales with the amount of Silver in your deck. This can infrequently allow for a monolithic combo-based strategy or provide supplemental  . More commonly, Feodum’s on-trash effect of gaining Silvers is useful for adding payload to your deck, possibly in combination with trash for benefit effects.

If you can trash Feodum soon after gaining it, it can be viewed similarly to an efficient one-time Silver gainer, giving you three Silvers with one gain. The most common example of this use case is with Donate: by opening with Feodum on turn 1 and Donate on turn 2, you can begin turn 3 with a deck of three Silvers. Other examples include Watchtower, which allows you to immediately trash the Feodum, or simply having lots of overdraw, a Workshop variant, and a need to quickly increase your economic output. Similarly, with Salt the Earth, it’s possible to effectively buy three Silvers and 1  for only , which is a strong tool for a money strategy.

The main problem with using Feodum as your primary method of scoring is that it does not score many   quickly, and it’s too difficult to gain Silvers quickly enough to be competitive with more normal strategies. When the cost of acquiring Silvers in bulk is very cheap, scoring via Feodum may be viable or even centralizing, as in the cases of Masterpiece and Delve. In these cases, you’ll want the game to go long enough that you can acquire many Silvers and Feodums and, if contested, to win the split on both. Because your deck is predominantly Silvers, it’s probably not worthwhile to add other cards (such as terminal draw), as you simply won’t draw them very often. On the other hand, being Silver-flooded does mean that you can likely afford Provinces—even though they may score less than your Feodums, doing so can help you end the game. With slower Silver gainers such as Trader, the rate at which you can gain Silvers and Feodums is unlikely to be competitive except in very weak Kingdoms.

Feodum can also provide supplemental  , perhaps instead of a Duchy. With 9 Silvers in your deck, it provides the same   for less. With 12 Silvers it provides more  . This may happen if you are, for example, playing a money strategy using a Silver gainer such as Jack of All Trades.

External strategy articles

Note: Article(s) below are by individual authors and may not represent the community's current views on cards, but may provide more in-depth information or give historical perspective. Caveat emptor.

• werothegreat's 2018 article

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Worth 1  for every 3 Silvers in your deck (round down). When you trash this, gain 3 Silvers.	Dark Ages 1st Edition	August 2012
		Worth 1  per 3 Silvers you have (round down). When you trash this, gain 3 Silvers.	Dark Ages 2nd Edition	September 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Czech	Léno			Má hodnotu 1  za každé 3 Stříbrňáky ve tvém balíčku (zaokrouhleno dolů). Pokud tuto kartu zahodíš na smetiště, vezmi si 3 Stříbrňáky.
Dutch	Feodum
Finnish	Sarka (lit. field)
French	Fief
German	Lehen			Wert 1  für je 3 Silber im eigenen Kartensatz (abgerundet). Wenn du diese Karte entsorgst: Nimm dir 3 Silber.	(2012)
German	Lehen			Wert 1  pro drei Silber, die du besitzt (abgerundet). Wenn du diese Karte entsorgst, nimm dir 3 Silber.
Japanese	封土 (pron. hōdo)			あなたの銀貨3枚(端数切り捨て)につき1 。 これを廃棄するとき、銀貨3枚を獲得する。
Korean	봉토 (pron. bongto)
Polish	Pańszczyzna				Although Polish version is not released, this card is referred to in the Polish version of Empires rulebook
Russian	феод (pron. fyeod)
Spanish	Feudo

Trivia

Official card art.

Feodum is one of the available backgrounds in Dominion Online.

Theme

Feodum is of course referring to the original flavor paragraph, where I used the word just to have a list of three things that were actually the same.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Interview with Donald X.

Preview

Feodum is the victory card that counts treasures that you always knew I’d make. What you didn’t know is that it would only count Silvers. If Coppers count, man, that’s like a Gardens deck, we built that one already. I mean it’s different but whatever. If Golds count, man, I already wanted a deck with a lot of Gold. So it only counts Silvers. And to help that out, it’s a Silver piñata. You might even buy one just to crack it open, with no plan of really going for Feodums.

Feodum does something when you trash it. There are a bunch of cards like that in this set. There’s really only so much you can do with the trash directly, like Graverobber, but you can do tons of things based on cards getting trashed. And if you are the kind of person who likes card combos, these cards are for you. For example you can just Remodel a Feodum into a Feodum, for the 3 Silvers. Look at that.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Dark Ages Preview #2: Feodum, Cultist, Ruined Market

Secret History

At last, the victory card that counts treasures that you've been waiting for. As explained in the preview, it only counts Silvers in order to be more different from Gardens and not just favor the kind of deck you already wanted. Making it a Silver piñata seemed cool and the card was just like that from the beginning.

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