Sailor

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Sailor
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Duration
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Seaside
Illustrator(s)	Julien Delval
Card text
+1 Action Once this turn, when you gain a Duration card, you may play it. At the start of your next turn, + and you may trash a card from your hand.

Sailor is an Action-Duration card from the second edition of Seaside. It is a delayed trasher that also accelerates playing newly gained Duration cards.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• If you gain a Duration card the turn you play Sailor, playing it is optional.
• This is cumulative; if you play two Sailors, you can play up to two gained Duration cards. However two Sailors cannot play the same gained Duration card twice.
• Sailor applies to cards gained due to being bought, or gained other ways, such as with Workshop.
• If you gain a Duration card in your Buy phase, Sailor can play it, even though it's your Buy phase. If such a card gives you +Actions, that doesn't let you play more Action cards in your Buy phase; if it draws Treasure cards, you can only play them if you haven't bought any cards yet.
• The ability to play Duration cards only happens the turn you play Sailor; on your next turn, you just get + and may trash a card from your hand.

Other rules clarifications

• The Duration doesn't need to be an Action, meaning that you can play Night-Durations when you gain them (like Cobbler).
• If you exchange a Hero for a Champion, you aren't gaining it, so you can't play it.
• If you gain a Garrison and play it, you'll immediately add a token to Garrison.
• This can play a gained Duration even if it was gained to somewhere other than your discard pile (such as a Guardian, or a card gained with Blockade), or if another card is trying to move it at the same time (such as Gatekeeper). But if the gained card has already gotten moved (e.g. by another Sailor), then this can't play it.

Strategy

Synergies/Combos

• The turn you've played Sailor, an Astrolabe that you bought and then played using Sailor's ability effectively cost less and grants another Buy.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Action Once this turn, when you gain a Duration card, you may play it. At the start of your next turn, + and you may trash a card from your hand.	Seaside (Second Edition)	June 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Matroos			+1 Actie Eenmaal in deze beurt: als je een duurzame kaart pakt, mag je die spelen. Aan het begin van je volgende beurt: + en je mag een kaart uit je hand vernietigen.	Hijs de Zeilen (2de Editie) 999 Games (2022)
French	Navigatrice			+1 Action Une fois durant ce tour, quand vous recevez une carte Durée, vous pouvez la jouer. Au début de votre prochain tour, + et vous pouvez écarter une carte de votre main.
German	Seefahrerin (Note: explicitly feminine)			+1 Aktion Einmal in diesem Zug: Wenn du eine Dauerkarte nimmst, darfst du sie spielen. Zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges: + und du darfst eine deiner Handkarten entsorgen.
Polish	Żeglarz			+1 akcja Raz w tej turze, gdy dodasz kartę Następstwa, możesz ją zagrać. Na początku twojej następnej tury: + i możesz wyrzucić na Śmietnisko kartę z ręki.

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Ambassador! It's such a classic old Dominion card. At first it just looks silly; later you find out it's a powerhouse. It's not necessarily a problem in 2-player, though you get a sub-game of trashing down with Ambassadors before you get to the main game after that. But in multiplayer, it can just shut you out. As with Ghost Ship, you don't get to see your deck.

Sailor is unrelated, other than also covering trashing. It's a Duration card that ties into Duration cards, by letting them leap into play. And if there aren't any other ones on the board, well it can work with another Sailor.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Seaside 2E Preview 3

Secret History

I tried several variations on "Innovation as a card" and then hit on this thing that ties it to Durations. There's always at least Sailor to work with it, and then other cards are sometimes exciting there. It's a bit on the complex side for Seaside, but well, there it is.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Seaside 2E

2E Complexity

I can only hope that I achieved my objective of putting fairly simple cards into these sets. I still think I have. I do think that Sailor is over-the-top for Seaside 2E; this was not missed but as you can see I decided to print it anyway.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, An Opinion on the 3 New Revisions (Seaside, Prosperity, Hinterlands)