Lucky Coin

Lucky Coin
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Treasure - Heirloom
Kingdom card?	No
Set	Nocturne
Illustrator(s)	Claus Stephan
Card text
When you play this, gain a Silver.

Lucky Coin is a Treasure-Heirloom card from Nocturne, replacing one of your starting Coppers when Fool is in the Kingdom. When you play it, you gain a Silver for free in addition to getting the usual +.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• You can choose not to play Lucky Coin, and thus not gain a Silver.

Strategy

To better understand the Kingdoms in which Lucky Coin appears, it may be useful to refer to the Fool strategy section.

Lucky Coin's Silver gaining can be somewhat influential on the overall direction of the game. Generally, it provides a useful source of early payload and is therefore typically worth playing at least on your first couple of shuffles; subsequently, its value and impact often become more dependent on the type of deck you're aiming to construct. In cases where an engine is best and strong Action-based payload is available, gaining too many Silvers (especially early in the game) is likely to be undesirable, as they will impede your efforts to achieve deck control without providing sufficient payoff. You may therefore consider not playing Lucky Coin on some turns, particularly if you can generate the amount of you need in any case. If you will never want extra Silvers, e.g. because the draw is weak and alternative forms of payload are very strong, you may consider trashing Lucky Coin, especially if a good trash-for-benefit effect is available. However, the ability to ramp up payload easily or gain extra fodder for effects like Recruiter can be very useful once you have added some draw, and there are other scenarios in which the best course of action is to flood your deck with Silver by playing Lucky Coin as often as possible. Most frequently, this is simply because you are adopting a money strategy: because it provides immediate access to a way to increase your money density rapidly, Lucky Coin is a strong enabler of such strategies (for which Fool itself can also provide helpful support) and can push you in that direction in Kingdoms where this would otherwise be a marginal decision. More specifically, Lucky Coin is particularly notable in money strategies where the Silvers are also relevant in scoring  , e.g. with Feodum.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you play this, gain a Silver.	Nocturne	November 2017
		Gain a Silver.	Nocturne (2021 printing)

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Geluksmunt
French	Porte-bonheur (lit. lucky charm)			Quand vous jouez cette carte, recevez un Argent.
German	Glückstaler			Wenn du diese Karte ausspielst, nimm ein Silber.	(2017)
Japanese	幸運の銅貨 (pron. kōun no dōka)			銀貨1枚を獲得する。
Russian	Счастливая Монетка (pron. schastlivaya monyetka)

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Finally, in games that use Fool, everybody starts with a Lucky Coin. It’s like a Copper that gains Silvers! It can really speed up your deck early on. And later if you decide you have enough Silver, maybe you can remodel Lucky Coin into a Gold or something. Or trash it. Or just stop playing it. The possibilities are (not actually) endless.

—LastFootnote, Nocturne Bonus Preview #3: Fool

Secret History

Lucky Coin was one of the first Heirlooms, bopping around from card to card. It ended up here to slow down the Boonage and then maybe didn't have to stay but I didn't want to keep testing late changes so here it is still on Fool. It uh gains you Silvers, it was a simple idea and didn't need tweaking.

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