Sycophant

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Sycophant
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Liaison
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Allies
Illustrator(s)	Elisa Cella
Card text
+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

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

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+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	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Schmeichler			+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

Official card art.

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.

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