Order of Astrologers

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Order of Astrologers
Info
Type(s)	Ally
Set	Allies
Illustrator(s)	Brian Brinlee
Ally text
When shuffling, you may pick one card per Favor you spend to go on top.

Order of Astrologers is an Ally from Allies. It lets you spend Favor tokens to choose which cards go on top of your deck when you shuffle.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Each time you shuffle, you can spend Favors to look through the cards and pick one card per Favor spent to go on top. Shuffle the other cards normally.
• You can't look through your cards unless you spend at least one Favor. You can look at any to-be-drawn cards while making this decision; for example, if you're shuffling at end of turn and had two cards left, you can look at those, then decide whether or not to spend Favors and what cards to put on top.
• After spending a Favor and looking at the cards, you may still spend more Favors.
• Note that Emissary and Underling can cause you to shuffle before giving you Favors; the Favors you don't have yet can't be used on that shuffle.

Other rules clarifications

• Since you can only begin using Favors starting from the first turn of the game, you can't use Order of Astrologers when shuffling your starting deck during setup.
• If you shuffle your entire deck (with e.g. Inn), you may still spend Favors for Order of Astrologers. If you do, you get to look through your entire deck.
• If you have Star Chart, you may pick one card to go on top for free, and then may spend Favors to put additional cards on top.
• If you spend multiple Favors for this, you can choose the order for the cards you put on top of the shuffled cards. This may matter if e.g. you play Smithy with 2 cards in your deck, and the Smithy will only draw one of the cards you put on top with Order of Astrologers.
• The cards you choose with this go on top of the other shuffled cards, not on top of your deck. So if you play Smithy with 2 Towns in your deck, you can't use Order of Astrologers to put 3 Coppers on top of the Towns; you're forced to draw those 2 Towns dead.
• If you spend a Favor to look through the cards you're shuffling, but decide not to put any of them on top, you still lose that Favor.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When shuffling, you may pick one card per Favor you spend to go on top.	Allies	March 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Astrologenorde			Bij het schudden van je aflegstapel mag je per Dienst die je besteed 1 kaart kiezen, die je bovenop je trekstapel legt.	(2022)
German	Sterndeuterorden			Wenn du mischt, darfst du pro Gefallen, den du einlöst, eine der zu mischenden Karten auswählen, um sie nach dem Mischen nach oben zu legen.

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Unchanged, although the rules changed to support it better. Now we let you look at the cards you're about to draw while deciding, which some people felt was absolutely essential, to the cores of their beings. And the same for Star Chart of course.

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