Editing Clerk

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{{Infobox Card
 |name = Clerk
 |cost = 4
 |type1 = Action
 |type2 = Reaction
 |type3 = Attack
 |illustrator = Harald Lieske
 |text = +{{Cost|2}}<br>Each other player with 5 or more cards in hand puts one onto their deck.
 |text2 = At the start of your turn, you may play this from your hand.
}}

{{Card|Clerk}} is an [[Action]]-[[Reaction]]-[[Attack]] card from the second edition of [[Prosperity]]. It is a [[handsize attack]] that causes opponents to return a card to their deck instead of discarding it, thus slowing down their [[cycling]]. It is a [[terminal silver]], but can be played without using up an Action if it happens to be in your hand at the start of your turn.

== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* A player with no cards in their [[deck]] will have the card they put on top become the only card in their deck.
* At the start of your turn, you may play any number of Clerk cards from your hand, one at a time, without using up your regular Action play.

=== Other Rules clarifications ===
* You may use Clerk's self-playing start-of-turn ability before, between, or after other start-of-turn effects. For instance, if you draw Clerk due to the effect of {{card|Den of Sin}}, it's not too late to use Clerk's Reaction ability.

== Strategy ==

== Versions ==
===English versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date 
|-
| {{CardLangVersionImage}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || +{{Cost|2}}<br>Each other player with 5 or more cards in hand puts one onto their deck.{{divline}}At the start of your turn, you may play this from your hand. || Prosperity (Second Edition) || June 2022
|}

===Other language versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!German 
| Buchhalterin || || {{CardLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} || +{{Cost|2}}<br>Jeder Mitspieler mit 5 oder mehr Handkarten legt eine Handkarte auf seinen Nachziehstapel.{{divline}}Zu Beginn deines Zuges darfst du diese Karte aus deiner Hand spielen. ||
|}

== Trivia ==
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=== Preview ===
{{Quote|Text=<p>{{Card|Trade Route}} is simply a very weak trasher. It also requires [[coin token]]s, which the set would rather not include (or, would like to do a lot with, but it also had VP tokens).</p><p>I'd already covered replacing the trashing part; Clerk covers being another interactive card. It's the one-card {{Card|Ghost Ship}}; it somehow ended up {{Set|Prosperity|ed=2|here}} instead of in {{Set|Seaside|ed=2|Seaside}}. It hurts a lot less than Ghost Ship but still hurts plenty.</p>
 |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=21255.msg892148#msg892148 Prosperity 2E Preview 2]
}}
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote|Text=Long ago, Prosperity had a card called Bureaucrat: {{nowrap|+{{Cost|2}},}} each other player puts a card from their hand onto their deck. It's broken because you can play five of them and lock them out of the game. {{Card|Bureaucrat|I fixed that}} by having you also gain {{Card|Silver|Silvers}} with it, and it's in the {{Set|Dominion|main set}}, though the story is a little more complex than that (see other secret histories okay). Now {{Set|Prosperity|ed=2|Prosperity}} gets it back, this time with a perk that lets you play it sometimes without spending an [[Action#Actions remaining|Action]] on it. The [[Hand size#H|hand size]] check of course solves the lock-out problem. {{Set|Seaside}} was losing {{Card|Ghost Ship}}; here is the new one. Hopefully not the new most hated attack ever.
 |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=21263.0 The Secret History of Prosperity 2E]
}}

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