Venture

Venture
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Treasure
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Prosperity
Illustrator(s)	Lee Smith
Card text
Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Treasure. Discard the other cards. Play that Treasure.

Venture is a Treasure card from Prosperity. When played, it generates of its own, and also digs through your deck to find and play a different Treasure as well.

It was removed from the second edition of Prosperity and replaced with Crystal Ball which also interacts with cards on your deck but offers a broader set of options beyond simply playing a Treasure.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• When you play Venture, you reveal cards from your deck until revealing a Treasure card.
• If you run out of cards before revealing a Treasure, shuffle your discard pile (but not the revealed cards) to get more; if you still don't find a Treasure, just discard all of the revealed cards.
• If you do find a Treasure, discard the other cards and play the Treasure.
• If that Treasure does something when played, do that something.
• For example if Venture finds you another Venture, you reveal cards again.

Strategy

Before it was removed, Venture was a niche Kingdom Treasure whose primary use case was in a money deck with no (or very limited) draw but good Copper trashing. In this case, Venture functions similarly to a Peddler variant, cycling through your deck to dig for high-value Treasure cards. Outside this specific scenario, Venture tends to be weak. If you can’t trash Copper, Venture is often little better than an expensive Silver and is unlikely to be the best purchase at . On the other hand, if you can draw all your Treasures, Venture becomes an expensive Copper. Drawing cards is generally much stronger than digging for Treasures with Venture (because you can play Action cards), so it’s rare to use Venture if draw is an option, except perhaps in junk-heavy decks.

When Venture is playable, how good it is varies depending on how good the available Treasure cards are. Powerful Treasures that you want to make sure to find and play every turn such as Platinum and Bank make Venture better, as does the Project Capitalism.

External strategy articles

Note: Article(s) below are by individual authors and may not represent the community's current views on cards, but may provide more in-depth information or give historical perspective. Caveat emptor.

• theory's 2011 article

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you play this, reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Treasure. Discard the other cards. Play that Treasure.	Prosperity	October 2010
		When you play this, reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Treasure. Discard the other cards. Play that Treasure.	Prosperity (2016 printing)	February 2017
		Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Treasure. Discard the other cards. Play that Treasure.	Prosperity (2020 printing)	October 2020

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Note
Chinese	募資			當你打出此卡時，持續展示你的牌庫頂，直到你展示了一張錢幣卡為止，打出錢幣卡，棄掉其他展示的卡片。
Czech	Odvážlivec (lit. daredevil)
Dutch	Waagstuk
Finnish	Palkkio (lit. reward)
French	Entreprise risquée (lit. risky undertaking)
German	Abenteuer (lit. adventure)			Spielst du diese Karte aus, decke solange Karten von deinem Nachziehstapel auf, bis du eine Geldkarte aufdeckst. Lege alle anderen aufgedeckten Karten ab und spiel die aufgedeckte Geldkarte aus.	(2016) one or more other versions listed here
German	Abenteuer (lit. adventure)			Decke Karten von deinem Nachziehstapel auf, bis du eine Geldkarte aufdeckst. Lege die anderen Karten ab. Spiele jene Geldkarte.	(Nachdruck 2021)
Italian	Soldo (lit. soldier's pay)
Japanese	投機 (pron. tōki)			財宝カード1枚が公開されるまで山札を上から公開する。公開した他のカードを捨て札にし、その財宝カードを使用する。
Polish	Złoty interes (lit. money business)			Po zagraniu odkrywaj karty ze swojej talii, aż natrafisz na kartę Skarbu. Odrzuć pozostałe karty. Zagraj ten Skarb.	(2016)
Russian	Авантюра (pron. avantyura)
Spanish	Especulación (lit. speculation)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

This replaced some other treasure midway through development, but never changed. I thought of doing a "when you play this" treasure that drew you a card, and well you'd be sad if the card wasn't a treasure, so it always is.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Other Secret History of the Prosperity Cards

Why does Venture immediately play the Treasure?

I do not remember any specifics there. My guess is that it just seemed simpler to play the card, which you were almost always going to do, than to put it into your hand. It's fewer words too. The original concept was a treasure that drew a card; it immediately turned into digging for a treasure since you'd be unhappy to draw an action.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Interview with Donald X.