Sycophant
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| Sycophant | |
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| Info | |
| Cost |
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| Type(s) | Action - Liaison |
| Kingdom card? | Yes |
| Set |
Allies |
| Illustrator(s) | Elisa Cella |
| Card text | |
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+1 Action Discard 3 cards. If you discarded at least one, +  .When you gain or trash this, +2 Favors. | |
Sycophant is a card from Allies. It is a non-terminal discard-for-benefit card, and gives you Favors when you gain or trash it.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- You can play this regardless of how many cards are left in your hand.
- When you play this, if you have at least three cards left in hand, you discard three and get +. If you have one or two cards, you discard them and get +. If you have no cards, you don't get the +.
- When you gain or trash this, you get +2 Favors; you can immediately spend them, for example on the ability of City-state.
Strategy
External strategy articles
Synergies/Combos
- Toil, allowing the player to put Gold and other valuable Treasures in play, making these unavailable for Sycophant's normal drawback of discarding cards from hand
Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Action Discard 3 cards. If you discarded at least one, + . When you gain or trash this, +2 Favors. |
Allies | March 2022 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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| Dutch | Hielenlikker |  |
+1 Actie Leg 3 kaarten af, Heb je er ten minste 1 afgelegd; + .Pak of vernietig je deze kaart, dan +2 Diensten. |
(2022) | |
| German | Schmeichler |  |
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+1 Aktion Lege 3 Karten aus deiner Hand ab. Hast du mindestens 1 Karte abgelegt: + . Wenn du diese Karte nimmst oder entsorgst: +2 Gefallen. |
Trivia
Secret History
Initially this had no when-gain/trash; "+1 Action, +, discard 3 cards." A little bit of Vaulting, with an extra reward if you had ditched your other cards. It quickly got the when-gain/trash and for a while seemed fine. One day online tester JNails noticed that it could be nuts with a few of the Allies - League of Shopkeepers especially. You just buy nothing but Sycophants and Provinces. So I had to scale it back to requiring at least one card discarded.
, discard 3 cards." A little bit of Vaulting, with an extra reward if you had ditched your other cards. It quickly got the when-gain/trash and for a while seemed fine. One day online tester JNails noticed that it could be nuts with a few of the Allies - League of Shopkeepers especially. You just buy nothing but Sycophants and Provinces. So I had to scale it back to requiring at least one card discarded.
Retrospective
It would have been great to not have "If you discarded at least one" on Sycophant. It's so much cleaner. It's worlds better... except for how with [League of Bankers or League of Shopkeepers] you get a game that sucks, which JNails found.
I killed it so that other people wouldn't have those sucky games. You can argue that the card then shouldn't have gotten to exist at all, some other ability on top (the bottom is unrelated to this obv.). It did get to exist though, there it is in Allies.
"This other card also has this problem" is absolutely never an excuse for a new card having that problem, whatever the problem is. Cards also don't get a free pass to make games suck with a particular player count from 2-4. (Iffy on 5, and I super don't care if they hurt 6-player.)
