Walled Village
Walled Village | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
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Illustrator(s) | Doris Matthäus |
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+1 Card +2 Actions At the start of Clean-up, if you have this and no more than one other Action card in play, you may put this onto your deck. |
Walled Village is a promotional Action card. It functions as a village, giving +2 Actions; and you can return it to the top of your deck for your next turn if you didn't play many Actions alongside it. The idea is that you can save it until you actually need the +2 Actions that it gives you. In practice, this benefit is usually less helpful than the abilities of other villages of the same cost.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- When you play this, you draw a card and can play two more Actions this turn.
- At the start of your Clean-up phase, before discarding anything and before drawing for next turn, if you have a Walled Village in play and no more than two Action cards in play (counting the Walled Village), you may put the Walled Village on top of your deck.
- If the only cards you have in play are two Walled Villages, you may put either or both of them on top of your deck.
- Walled Village has to be in play to be put on top of your deck.
- Walled Village only checks how many Action cards are in play when its ability resolves; Action cards you played earlier this turn but which are no longer in play (such as Feast from Dominion (Base Set)) are not counted, while Action cards still in play from previous turns (duration cards from Dominion: Seaside) are counted, as are Action cards that are in play now but may leave play after resolving Walled Village (such as Treasury from Dominion: Seaside).
Other Rules clarifications
- Walled Village's ability doesn't care about whether or not it actually helped you avoid terminal collision. If you play Walled Village and two cantrips, you can't top-deck your Walled Village even though you got no real benefit out of it.
- If you have 3+ Actions in play, but you remove some of them at the start of Clean-up (e.g. by topdecking Alchemist or using Improve), that will let you topdeck your Walled Village.
- Playing this using a Way, or under the influence of Enchantress, doesn't stop you from top-decking it in Clean-up.
Strategy
Walled Village is a comparatively weak village with a narrowly useful topdecking effect. While in theory this self-topdecking can help ensure you avoid terminal collision, by the time you reach the point of having two terminals in your deck you’ll also likely have more than one Action card to play alongside Walled Village, meaning you rarely even have the option to use its ability as the game goes on. As a result, Walled Village is often skippable if there is any other village at the same price point with a more usable bonus effect, such as Blessed Village. Despite the weak extra effect, Walled Village is a serviceable source of terminal space in Kingdoms lacking stronger options. Like other villages, Walled Village should be added to your deck once you have gained some terminals that might collide, although waiting for better deck control is slightly less important than with other villages since Walled Village can be topdecked each turn if it doesn’t collide with multiple other Actions.
Walled Village’s topdecking can occasionally be relevant in the opening with particular Ways, as if you can play it using the Way on turn 3, you can likely topdeck it and again benefit from the Way on turn 4. Way of the Sheep can allow you to more easily hit twice, without the long-term drawbacks usually associated with opening with Silver. Similarly, Way of the Squirrel, Way of the Otter, or Way of the Owl can be useful to quickly draw through your reshuffle, and Way of the Goat can be an acceptable method of thinning if better alternatives are not available.
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Card +2 Actions At the start of Clean-up, if you have this and no more than one other Action card in play, you may put this on top of your deck. |
Walled Village 1st Edition | June 2011 |
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+1 Card +2 Actions At the start of Clean-up, if you have this and no more than one other Action card in play, you may put this onto your deck. |
Walled Village 2nd Edition | February 2017 |
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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Czech | Hrazená vesnice | ||||
Finnish | Linnoitettu kylä | ||||
French | Ville fortifiée | ![]() |
+1 Carte +2 Actions Au début de la phase Ajustement, si vous avez cette carte et au plus une autre carte Action en jeu, vous pouvez remettre cette carte sur votre pioche. |
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German | HiG: Carcassonne [notes 1] ASS: Befestigtes Dorf |
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+1 Karte +2 Aktionen Zu Beginn deiner Aufräumphase: Wenn du diese Karte und nicht mehr als eine weitere Aktionskarte im Spiel hast, darfst du diese Karte auf deinen Nachziehstapel legen. |
(2019) one or more other versions listed here |
Japanese | 囲郭村 (pron. ikakuson) |
+1 カードを引く +2 アクション クリーンアップフェイズの開始時に、場のアクションカ一ドがこれ以外に1枚以下の場合、これを山札の上に置いてもよい。 |
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Norwegian | Befestet landsby (lit. fortified village) |
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Polish | Kasztel (lit. castle) | ![]() |
+1 Karta +2 Akcje Jeśli na początku fazy porządków masz tę kartę i nie więcej niż jedną inną kartę akcji w grze, możesz położyć tę kartę na wierzchu swojej talii. |
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Russian | Укреплённая Деревня (pron. ukryeplyonnaya dyeryevnya, lit. fortified village) |
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Spanish | Pueblo amurallado |
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Notes
- ↑ named after the game, which is named after the french city
- ↑ Guilds had originally been slated to come out before Dark Ages.