Navigator
| Navigator | |
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| Info | |
| Cost |
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| Type(s) | Action |
| Kingdom card? | Yes |
| Set |
Seaside |
| Illustrator(s) | Maura Kalusky |
| Card text | |
+ Look at the top 5 cards of your deck. Either discard them all, or put them back in any order. | |
Navigator is an Action card from Seaside. It is a terminal Silver, meaning that it gives you + but no +Action; it is also a deck inspector, so when played, it lets you look at the next 5 cards in your deck and discard them if you don't like them.
It was removed from the second edition of Seaside.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- You discard all 5 cards (or however many were left after shuffling) or none of them.
- If you do not discard them, put them back in any order.
Other Rules clarifications
Strategy
Before it was removed, Navigator was a weak terminal Silver, as the sifting effect it provides is inflexible and rarely useful, making the card skippable in most cases. If you cannot make good use of the deck inspection and discarding and don’t have a specific reason to prefer Action-based payload, a Silver will usually be preferable as a way to generate , as it doesn’t use up your terminal space. Even if the bonus effect may be of some use, Navigator’s opportunity cost is generally too high, as there are almost always better options for deck control at that price point and better uses for your terminal space.
Because Navigator can only discard either all or none of the five cards you look at, it tends to compare unfavorably to more flexible sources of deck manipulation effects, e.g. Cartographer. This ability does provide some passably usable synergies, however (e.g. it can be a way to discard Tunnel or Village Green, or set up to draw with cards like Wishing Well); if these synergies provide you with an advantage in a Kingdom that is weak overall, Navigator may occasionally be worthwhile. More likely, Navigator can see use as a supplementary source of Action-based 
in a deck that requires this (e.g., because you are using draw-to-x), provides the spare terminal space, and lacks better options. Cycling by discarding cards from your deck may also be sometimes useful to play key cards as fast as possible (e.g. attacks such as Witch) or get through lots of bad cards in a slog, though you should be wary of triggering bad shuffles.
Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+ Look at the top 5 cards of your deck. Either discard all of them, or put them back on top of your deck in any order. |
Seaside | October 2009 |
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+ Look at the top 5 cards of your deck. Either discard them all, or put them back in any order. |
Seaside (2017 printing) | July 2017 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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| Chinese | 領航員 (pron. lǐnghángyuán) | ||||
| Czech | Navigátor | ||||
| Dutch | Navigator | ||||
| Finnish | Luotsi (lit. maritime pilot) | ||||
| French | Navigateur | ||||
| German | Navigator |  |
+ Sieh die obersten 5 Karten deines Nachziehstapels an. Lege jene entweder alle ab oder in beliebiger Reihenfolge zurück auf deinen Nachziehstapel. |
(Nachdruck 2021) | |
| Italian | Navigatore | ||||
| Japanese | 航海士 (pron. kōkai-shi) | + 山札の上から5枚を見る。それらを捨て札にするか、好きな順番で山札の上に戻す。 |
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| Korean | 항해사 (pron. hanghaesa, lit. shipmate) | ||||
| Polish | Nawigator |  |
+ Podejrzyj 5 wierzchnich kart ze swojej talii. Odrzuć je wszystkie albo odłóż z powrotem na wierzch talii w dowolnej kolejności. |
(2016) | |
| Russian | Штурман (pron. shturman) |  |
+ Посмотрите на 5 верхних карт вашей колоды. Либо сбросьте их все, либо положите назад в любом порядке. |
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| Spanish | Navegante |  |
+ Mira las 5 cartas superiores de tu mazo. Elige una opción: descartar las 5 cartas; o bien devolverlas a tu mazo, en el orden que quieras. |
Trivia
Card Art
Secret History
Retrospective
Second Edition Removal
