Patrician

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Patrician
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Empires
Illustrator(s)	Garret DeChellis
Card text
+1 Card +1 Action Reveal the top card of your deck. If it costs or more, put it into your hand.

Patrician is an Action card from Empires. It provides non-terminal draw, if you happen to find a card costing or more to draw. It's part of a split pile, with 5 copies of Patrician sitting on top of 5 copies of Emporium.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Cards costing do not cost or more unless they also have a cost of or more. So Fortune does but City Quarter does not.

Strategy

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Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Card. +1 Action. Reveal the top card of your deck. If it costs or more, put it into your hand.	Empires	June 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text
Dutch	Patriciër
Finnish	Patriisi
French	Patricien
German	Patrizier			+1 Karte +1 Aktion Decke die oberste Karte deines Nach- ziehstapels auf. Kostet sie oder mehr: Nimm sie auf die Hand.
Japanese	パトリキ (pron. patoriki)			+1 カードを引く。+1 アクション。山札の一番上のカードを公開する。それがコスト以上の場合、手札に加える。
Polish	Patrycjusz
Russian	Патриций (pron. patritsiy)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Patrician started as its own pile. It never changed except to become half of a pile. I liked it as a full pile but it was a good fit for half of a pile. Originally it got to interact with cards, since they had high costs, but I still liked the card when it stopped doing that.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Empires Cards