Wheelwright

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Wheelwright
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Hinterlands
Illustrator(s)	Elisa Cella
Card text
+1 Card +1 Action You may discard a card to gain an Action card costing as much as it or less.

Wheelwright is an Action card from Hinterlands (Second Edition). It is a cantrip gainer that can gain Actions of any cost, provided you can discard a card of equal or higher cost from your hand.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• You may discard any type of card, but can only gain an Action card.
• If you discard an Action card, you can gain a copy of it.

Other rules clarifications

• If you do discard, you have to gain an Action card if there is one to gain.

Strategy

If you can draw your deck with a wheelwright and a high-cost card (such as province, gold or loot) in hand, then you can repeatedly discard that high-cost card to gain all wheelwrights. Or other 5 coin cards, if you happen to have several.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Card +1 Action You may discard a card to gain an Action card costing as much as it or less.	Hinterlands (Second Edition)	July 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Radmacherin			+1 Karte +1 Aktion Du darfst eine Karte ablegen, um eine Aktionskarte zu nehmen, die gleich viel oder weniger kostet als die abgelegte Karte.

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Embassy is dull but okay; it lost out on numbers. It was a borderline card that people really didn't need to exist.

Wheelwright is unrelated. You discard a thing to gain a thing. Another way to discard those Tunnels and Weavers. And note that it's the second new way to gain cards, for the set where cards do things when you gain them.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Hinterlands 2E Preview 1

Secret History

This tried out for Seaside first, but was a good fit here, where it can activate when-discard abilities, or discard expensive cards that came with stuff.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Hinterlands 2E