Seer

Seer
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Renaissance
Illustrator(s)	Joshua Stewart
Card text
+1 Card +1 Action Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. Put the ones costing from to into your hand. Put the rest back in any order.

Seer is an Action card from Renaissance. It is a cantrip that draws the cards of middling from the top 3 cards of the player's deck.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Cards with (from Alchemy) or (from Empires) in their cost do not cost from to .

Strategy

Seer provides non-terminal draw, increasing your hand size by up to three, and is considered a strong card in most Kingdoms.

One natural comparison for Seer is Laboratory. Seer is expected to draw the same amount as Laboratory when a third of the cards in your deck cost between and . Many of the strategic considerations relevant to Laboratory and other non-terminal draw cards are thus also applicable to Seer. However, since the expected amount of draw that Seer provides is dependent on the costs of cards in your deck, Seer’s strength is more variable.

Seer is stronger in Kingdoms where there are cards costing between and that you want many copies of in your deck, such as Patrician or Patron; the latter constitutes a particular synergy, as Seer also activates Patron’s on-reveal effect. It also increases the value of cards in that range, most notably Silver, since they are easier to draw than usual. Workshop variants also benefit since many of them are drawn by Seer and can gain more cards in the range drawn by Seer. On the other hand, Seer is weaker in Kingdoms where it is difficult to thin Coppers or when you want many cards costing or more. At worst, it is a cantrip that reveals and rearranges the top three cards of your deck.

Seer is typically worth consideration throughout the game and can safely be added to most decks to provide additional consistency and draw. Early on, Seer can be useful in drawing Estates and other opening buys. However, acquiring Seer may be delayed in favor of strong payload or trashing, such as Witch or Sentry. Later on, decisions to gain Seers are dependent on tradeoffs between getting draw and consistency versus adding additional payload.

Seer has the added benefit of revealing and rearranging the cards that it does not draw on top of your deck, which is useful for cards such as Herald or Chariot Race. This ability can also enable Seer to draw more cards. For instance, if you know that you have three Coppers on top of your deck, it is usually correct to play another draw card to clear them before playing another Seer.

Seer usually benefits from cost reduction such as with Canal or Highway. With card costs reduced by , Seer is able to draw cards, including itself. Note however that multiple cost reducers can bring the costs of the relevant cards below . Therefore, it is usually best to play enough cost reduction for Seer to be most effective, and then to play the remaining cost reduction after drawing with Seers.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Card +1 Action Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. Put the ones costing from to into your hand. Put the rest back in any order.	Renaissance	November 2018

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Chinese	先知 (pron. xiānzhī, lit. prophet)
Dutch	Ziener			+1 Kaart +1 Actie Toon de bovenste 3 kaarten van je trekstapel. Doe de kaarten die , of kosten in je hand. Leg de rest in een volgorde naar keuze terug.
French	Prophète (lit. prophet)
German	Seher			+1 Karte +1 Aktion Decke die obersten 3 Karten deines Nachziehstapels auf. Nimm die, die bis kosten, auf deine Hand. Lege den Rest in beliebiger Reihenfolge zurück.	(2019)
Japanese	先見者 (pron. senkensha)			+1 カードを引く +1 アクション 山札の上から3枚を公開する。その中のコストがからのカードを手札に加える。残りを好きな順番で山札に戻す。
Polish	Jasnowidz				Although Polish version is not released, this name is referred to in Polish Dominion 2E rulebook.
Russian	Провидец (pron. providyets)
Spanish	Visionario (lit. visionary)			+1 Carta +1 Acción Revela las 3 cartas superiores de tu mazo. Las que cuesten de a , ponlas en tu mano. Devuelve las restantes al mazo, en cualquier orden.

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Seer draws cards costing from to . Those aren't your best cards but hey, you could get three of them.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Renaissance Previews #1: Mountain Village, Priest, Seer, Scholar, Experiment

Secret History

At first it got you cards costing or less, but that was too strong early on. Then or , then -.

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

Relevant outtakes

The first outtake mentioned eventually became Pursue.

There was a cantrip that had you name a card, reveal the top 4, and discard the non-matches. It seemed cute and innocuous, but was secretly strong and also slow. Then I tried it just discarding Coppers and Estates. I tried a cantrip that got you the top card if it was Copper or Estate - oh right, that's a lot like Will-o'-Wisp Then I got you all of the Coppers and Estates from the top 3, and from there we move to the cards that feel like versions of Seer.

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