Hero
| Hero | |
|---|---|
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| Info | |
| Cost |
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| Type(s) | Action - Traveller |
| Kingdom card? | No |
| Set |
Adventures |
| Illustrator(s) | Alayna Danner |
| Card text | |
+ Gain a Treasure. When you discard this from play, you may exchange it for a Champion. (This is not in the Supply.) | |
Hero is an Action-Traveller from Adventures. It is a terminal silver that can gain any Treasure in the Supply. It is not in the Supply, but can be exchanged for using a Warrior. Hero itself, once discarded from play, can be exchanged for a Champion. There are only 5 copies of Hero in the Hero pile.
Hero is the fourth step in its line of Travellers: Page - Treasure Hunter - Warrior - Hero - Champion.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- The Treasure comes from the Supply and is put into your discard pile.
- It can be any Treasure being used that game.
Other Rules clarifications
Strategy
To better understand the Kingdoms and contexts in which Hero appears, it may be useful to refer to the overall strategy section for this Traveller line.
As a terminal silver with a Treasure gaining effect, Hero is most often used as a stepping stone to Champion. However, it is sometimes a sufficiently useful card that it's worth acquiring a second copy that you can keep playing. Whether to do this depends largely on the strength of the available draw and the relative value of the cards Hero can gain. Strong draw enables your deck to handle gaining multiple Treasures, and Hero is a reasonably fast way to add payload once you can make use of this draw. Hero's available targets are particularly desirable when the alternatives for payload are weak or when the available Treasure options themselves are strong cards, for example Platinum, Horn of Plenty, or Crown.
In some cases, Champion may be skippable and obtaining a Hero may be the primary goal of your Page line. This is usually only the case if the Kingdom favors a money-based strategy, which is most likely to occur when there is no practical way to build towards scoring multiple Victory cards’ worth of 
per turn, either because the draw is weak or because the Kingdom lacks +Buy or other relevant sources of gains. Another important factor is how threatening any Attacks are, and occasionally you'll still prefer to advance Hero to Champion primarily for the attack immunity.
Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Notes | Release | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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+ Gain a Treasure. When you discard this from play, you may exchange it for a Champion. (This is not in the Supply.) |
Adventures | April 2015 | |
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+ Gain a Treasure. When you discard this from play, you may exchange it for a Champion. (This is not in the Supply.) |
Digital version may have a cost of  rather than . |
Adventures (2017 printing) | August 2017 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Held | + Pak een geldkaart. Als je deze kaart vanuit het spel aflegt, mag je deze tegen een Kampioen ruilen. (Deze kaart bevindt zich niet in de voorraad). |
(2015) | ||
| Finnish | Sankari | ||||
| French | Héroïne (note: explicitly feminine) | ||||
| German | Held (note: explicitly masculine) |
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+ Nimm dir eine Geldkarte. Ist diese Karte im Spiel, darfst du sie gegen einen Champion eintauschen, anstatt sie abzulegen. (Diese Karte gehört nicht zum Vorrat.) |
(2015) | |
| Held (note: explicitly masculine) |
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+ Nimm eine Geldkarte. Wenn du diese Karte aus dem Spiel ablegst, darfst du sie in einen Champion eintauschen. (Diese Karte gehört nicht zum Vorrat.) |
(Nachdruck 2021) | ||
| Japanese | ヒーロー (pron. hīrō) | + 財宝カード1枚を獲得する。 これを場から捨て札にするとき、これを チャンピオンと交換してもよい。 (このカードはサプライに置かない。) |
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| Russian | Герой (pron. gyeroy) |
Trivia
Preview
and gain a Treasure, any Treasure in the game. Usually Gold but you never know, could be Platinum or something more exotic. And then when you discard it from play, you can exchange it for a Champion. And wait, this isn't in the Supply. How do you get one? Well I'll tell you. You just need to discard a Warrior from play; then you can exchange the Warrior for a Hero. Warrior isn't in the Supply either though - you get one by exchanging a Treasure Hunter for it. I suppose it's obvious that you get a Treasure Hunter by exchanging a Page for it. But that's it, that's all the turtles there are; you buy a Page, and it turns into a Treasure Hunter, then a Warrior, then a Hero, then a Champion. Page costs 
, so the actual cost of Hero is, , plus playing those other cards once each. I somehow fit two of these cycles into Adventures - there's also a Peasant who becomes a Soldier, but then a Fugitive, but then a Disciple, and finally a Teacher. It's two little life stories, played out in cards that gradually get better for you. What exactly the other cards do will remain a mystery until the set is out; there is just too much to preview.
Secret History
