Odyssey

Odysseys
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Odyssey
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Allies
Illustrator(s)	Julien Delval
Card text
This pile starts the game with 4 copies each of Old Map, Voyage, Sunken Treasure, and Distant Shore, in that order. Only the top card can be gained or bought.

Odyssey is a type of Kingdom card from the Allies expansion. There are 4 copies each of 4 differently-named Odysseys with a single randomizer card, forming a split pile: when Odysseys are selected as a Kingdom card for a game, they are put into a single Supply pile in order by increasing cost, of which only the top card can be gained at any given time. The cheapest of the four allows you to "rotate" the pile—move all copies of the current top card to the bottom of the pile, revealing the next card in the sequence.

List of Odysseys

• Old Map
• Voyage
• Sunken Treasure
• Distant Shore

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Additional rules

General rules for playing with Dominion: Allies' six split piles are described in the rulebook.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		This pile starts the game with 4 copies each of Old Map, Voyage, Sunken Treasure, and Distant Shore, in that order. Only the top card can be gained or bought.	Allies	March 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Zwerftochten			Deze stapel start het spel met 4 exemplaren van Oude landkaart, Reis, Verzonken schat, en Verre kust, in die volgorde. Alleen de bovenste kaart kan gepakt of gekocht worden.	(2022)
German	Irrfahrten			Dieser Stapel besteht zu Beginn aus je 4 Karten Alte Landkarte, Seereise, Versunkener Schatz und Ferne Küste (von oben nach unten). Nur die oberste Karte darf genommen oder gekauft werden.

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

As before, the first card can rotate the pile. Old Map does a little filtering. Voyage is an extra turn with a tricky limitation: you only get to play 3 cards, and that includes Treasures. Although things that play cards other than from your hand get around this a little (e.g. Golem). Sunken Treasure can get you stuff you don't have yet, and Distant Shore is somehow a Lab that gains Estates.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Allies Previews #2: Split piles

Secret History

The first card was initially Importer (called Provisioner). Then it was a duration version of Old Map - cantrip, next turn draw/discard (with an option to trash Odyssey cards from the Supply). Matt suggested having this be the multicolor pile - each card a different color. So I tried some blue Old Maps, but the one I liked ending up being a straight Action. The second card started as a cool thing that became its own pile and then left the set, bound for the future. Then briefly it was Fugitive with a recursion clause, and then it got Voyage from the Wizards pile. Cade suggested the "from your hand" wording, which was crucial for e.g. not stranding cards that Golem hits. The third card was initially a Remodel with +2 Cards in front of it and "discard 2 cards" after it. An old concept, tried years ago. You know this time it didn't exactly fail, it just didn't want to be in the pile and then there was no home for it. I followed it with a treasure that cared how many types you had in play, then "gain an Action card from a pile that isn't full," then the final card. And then the last card in the pile started out as a token-based variation on Stronghold - 4 tokens, remove some this turn for +, the rest next turn for +Cards. The tokens weren't necessary, I could just fix the amounts. But you know, did that elsewhere. Here I was looking for a green card for that multicolor theme. I tried Miller with   based on how many treasures you had, then a thing that gave based on the cost of a discarded card, and finally the final card. Hooray, we made it there.

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