Marchland

Marchland
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Victory
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Promo
Illustrator(s)	Eric J. Carter
Card text
Worth 1  per 3 Victory cards you have (round down). When you gain this, +1 Buy, and discard any number of cards for + each.

Marchland is a promotional Victory card. It provides alt-VP proportional to the number of Victory cards in your deck; and when you gain it it gives you +Buy and allows you to discard unneeded cards in your hand to get additional to spend on your extra buy.

It was designed as a replacement for Silk Road in the second edition of Hinterlands, but there wasn't enough space for it in the Update Pack, so it was released as a promo instead.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Marchland counts itself.
• Round down; if you have 11 Victory cards, each Marchland is worth 3 .
• Use 8 copies of Marchland for games with 2 players, 12 for games with 3 or more players.
• "Any number" includes zero.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Worth 1  per 3 Victory cards you have (round down). When you gain this, +1 Buy, and discard any number of cards for + each.	Marchland	March 2024

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Grenzregion			Wert 1  für je 3 Punkte­karten in deinem Karten­satz (abgerundet). Wenn du diese Karte nimmst: +1 Kauf und lege beliebig viele deiner Hand­karten für je + ab.	Promo (2024)

Trivia

Official card art.

First announcement of the card

There is in fact a new expansion on the way, called Rising Sun. My best guess is March 2024, but as usual I will know more in say February. And there's a promo coming called Marchland (no relation to the month or expansion), which I expect will be in an issue of Spielbox, and all the other promos are available in English from BoardGameGeek so I don't know why this one wouldn't be.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Discord, Oct. 13th 2023

Secret History

This started in Hinterlands 2E, as a replacement for Silk Road. It doesn't fit in the update pack; Victory cards require 2 pesky extra cards. So it's a promo instead.

The first attempt had "When you gain this, gain a Silver per card you've gained this turn" on the bottom, and it jumped from there straight to the final version. However then I also tried "1  per 2 Victory cards," and only letting you discard Victory cards but giving you + each.

This card then sat around for a couple years, waiting for us to need a promo. At last Spielbox wanted one.

—Donald X. Vaccarino,