Fortune Teller
| Fortune Teller | |
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| Info | |
| Cost |
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| Type(s) | Action - Attack |
| Kingdom card? | Yes |
| Set |
Cornucopia |
| Illustrator(s) | Raven Mimura |
| Card text | |
+ Each other player reveals cards from the top of their deck until they reveal a Victory card or a Curse. They put it on top and discard the rest. | |
Fortune Teller is an Action-Attack card from Cornucopia. It is a terminal silver that provides a relatively weak deck order attack: it forces the opponent to discard cards until they can leave a Victory or Curse card on top of their deck.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- Each other player reveals cards from the top of their deck until they reveal a Victory or Curse card.
- If they do not find one (even after shuffling), they just discard all of the revealed cards.
- If they do find one, they put the Victory or Curse card on top of their deck, and discard the other revealed cards.
- You do not choose Victory or Curse - they stop on the first card that matches either type.
Other Rules clarifications
- Cards with Victory as one of multiple types, such as Nobles, are still Victory cards and can be left on top by Fortune Teller.
Strategy
Fortune Teller is a payload card that provides a small amount of 
and a weak Attack, and is generally not worth gaining. As a terminal silver, it compares unfavourably with Silver itself (which doesn’t consume terminal space), unless the Attack component is unusually helpful or the value of Action-based payload is particularly high.
The impact of the Attack is usually low. Although discarding Coppers and leaving an Estate on top of an opponent's deck in the early game can hurt their future purchasing power, the cycling effect is helpful, allowing them to proceed through their early shuffles more quickly and draw their new purchases sooner. Later, as deck control improves, a single junk card on top of their deck is unlikely to prevent them from drawing; furthermore, if there are no cursers present and your opponents have trashed their Estates, they may not even have any eligible junk left until they begin greening, since Fortune Teller discards Ruins as well as Coppers and Shelters. Even in the late-game when many Victory cards have been gained, playing multiple copies of Fortune Teller fails to increase the damage (unlike Rabble's similar Attack, which can leave an opponent with up to three undesirable cards topdecked). However, there is a chance of causing a dud turn, especially if the game lacks Estate trashing and/or an opponent is playing with an unreliable engine. Additionally, in money strategies and sloggy games in which your opponents shuffle their decks infrequently, the value of their hand can be significantly hurt by the topdecked junk, and discarding a good card from their shuffle may mean it's many turns before they can play it again.
Aside from the value of the Attack, you might consider Fortune Teller for supplementary payload when other options are weak, +Actions are plentiful, and the Kingdom promotes generated by Action cards, e.g. because of a good draw-to-x engine; however, it's generally not strong enough to make these strategies viable in the absence of other, better sources of Action-based payload, so these conditions are difficult to meet. These are also cases in which Fortune Teller's Attack is unlikely to be effective, assuming your opponents adopt a similar strategy, so the overall weakness of the card is usually hard to overcome.
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.
Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+ Each other player reveals cards from the top of his deck until he reveals a Victory or Curse card. He puts it on top and discards the other revealed cards. |
Cornucopia | June 2011 |
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+ Each other player reveals cards from the top of their deck until they reveal a Victory card or a Curse. They put it on top and discard the rest. |
Guilds & Cornucopia (2017 printing) | March 2018 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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| Chinese | 算命家 | + 其他玩家持續展示牌庫頂直到他們展示出分數卡或是詛咒，他將將那張卡放到牌庫頂，並且將其他卡棄掉。 |
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| Czech | Věštkyně (lit. pythoness) | ||||
| Dutch | Waarzegster | ||||
| Finnish | Ennustaja | ||||
| French | Diseuse de bonne aventure (Note: explicitly feminine) | ||||
| German | Wahrsagerin (Note: explicitly feminine) |
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+ Jeder Mitspieler deckt solange Karten vom Nachziehstapel auf, bis er entweder eine Punktekarte oder eine Fluchkarte aufgedeckt hat. Diese legt er oben auf den Nachziehstapel. Die anderen aufgedeckten Karten legt er ab. |
(2014) | |
| German | Wahrsagerin (Note: explicitly feminine) |
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+ Jeder Mitspieler deckt Karten von seinem Nachziehstapel auf, bis er eine Punktekarte oder einen Fluch aufgedeckt hat. Er legt jene Karte auf seinen Nachziehstapel und den Rest ab. |
(2019) |
| Italian | Indovina (Note: explicitly feminine) | ||||
| Japanese | 占い師 (pron. uranaishi) |
+ 他のプレイヤーは全員、勝利点カードか呪い1枚が公開されるまで山札を上から公開し、その1枚を山札の上に置き、 残りを捨て札にする。 |
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| Polish | Cyganka (lit. gypsy) |
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| Russian | Гадалка (pron. gadalka) | ||||
| Spanish | Adivinadora (Note: explicitly feminine) |
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