Transport

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Transport
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Type	Event
Set	Menagerie
Illustrator(s)	Brian Brinlee
Event text
Choose one: Exile an Action card from the Supply; or put an Action card you have in Exile onto your deck.

Transport is an Event from Menagerie. It can put an Action card from the Supply onto your Exile mat or take a card from your Exile mat onto your deck, letting you get any Action card you want with two purchases. It is the only way to retrieve uniquely-named cards, such as Knights, from the Exile mat, as there is no way to gain another copy of them.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• It only matters if the card is an Action, not if the whole pile is.
• This can take Action cards from your Exile mat that were put there by other cards.

Strategy

There isn't a Transport strategy article.

Transport is highly circumstantial, like many events, but in the right set it rapidly becomes game-defining.

The most obvious tactics treat its first effect like an action-specific Camel Train and its second effect like Royal Seal. Transport can bypass Swamp Hag or exile a string of Grand Markets for a power spike when you can first buy one, or it can top-deck a Crown to let you close out a slog that will be over before you reshuffle. With a couple of buys, it can even set up a reliable Treasure Map. But the most powerful uses of Transport make heavy use of its Event nature and ability to add a card to your deck without ever paying the normal cost. Not only can you bypass nasty on-gain conditions, you can get fast and reliable access to cards which are normally too slow or awkward to make proper use of.

A Transport/Transport opening guarantees you any one action in your third hand. On weak boards, that can be worthwhile simply to improve a Curse split, for instance letting your 3/4 keep up with an opponent's 5/2 Witch. On stronger boards, it truly shines when aimed at an early-game buy which normally requires two shuffles to get: turn three Goons, Hireling, or even Possession are likely stronger than any two buys you had planned. University also deserves special mention despite the low sticker price: it's much better than Transport at piling up 5-cost engine pieces like Market, and benefits hugely from being accelerated.

Beyond that, a pair of Transports can be used to draw into any action without purchasing it normally. This adds speed and consistency to expensive cards: King's Court and Golem aren't good opening cards, but are easily worth two buys later to set up major combos like King's Court/Bridge or Golem/Scheme/anything. It also lets you skip intermediate purchases to set up engines under weak draw or trashing, for instance skipping Silver and going straight to Forge or Altar.

Synergies/Combos

• Transport/Transport openings guarantee you any one action in your third hand, including cards like Hireling and Familiar which normally have to wait for the second shuffle at best.
• Transport is one of very few ways to gain Potion-costed actions without needing to buy Potion.
• High-cost actions like Prince and King's Court, or high-debt actions like Overlord and City Quarter.
• Hybrid action/VP cards like Nobles and even Island, which can be picked up for 3 without clogging your deck.
• Death Cart, Embassy, and Lost City because exiling isn't a gain.
• Grand Market, and opposing Swamp Hag because exiling isn't a buy.
• Both megaturns and slogs, where "onto your deck" can set up a card you might not see fast enough otherwise.
• Other Exile effects like Camel Train to fuel Transport's "on top of deck" ability.
• +Buy to Transport twice in a turn, or to exile a card and then immediately buy a second copy.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Choose one: Exile an Action card from the Supply; or put an Action card you have in Exile onto your deck.	Menagerie	March 2020

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Transport			Wähle eins: Verbanne eine Aktionskarte aus dem Vorrat; oder lege eine Aktionskarte aus deinem Exil auf deinen Nachziehstapel.	(2020)
Japanese	輸送 (pron. yusō)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Didn't change.

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