Top decker
A top decker is a card which causes a card (sometimes itself, sometimes a different card) to be placed on top of the deck rather than somewhere else (often the discard pile).
Top deckers come in four general types:
- on gain: You place a gained card on your deck rather than in the discard pile giving quicker access to the card and sometimes allowing gain-and-play.
- from hand: This is typically a drawback or Attack effect that reduces handsize but can sometimes be used to set up your next turn.
- from play: enables you to reuse the played card on your next turn.
- from your discard pile: enables you to play a card more quickly without having to wait for a reshuffle.
List of top deckers
Cards in italics have been removed.
On gain
Optional
These abilities offer you the option of putting a gained card on your deck.
- Prosperity: Royal Seal, Tiara, Watchtower (when Reacting)
- Adventures: Travelling Fair
- Nocturne: Tracker
- Menagerie: Sleigh (when Reacting), Way of the Seal
- Allies: Bauble, Trappers' Lodge
- Plunder: Insignia
- Rising Sun: Sickness
Mandatory
These abilities specifically instruct you to put a gained card on top of your deck, even if you don't want it there.
- Base: Bureaucrat
- Intrigue: Replace, Secret Chamber
- Seaside: Sea Hag (Attack), Treasure Map
- Prosperity: Clerk (Attack)
- Hinterlands: Develop, Fool's Gold (when Reacting), Nomad Camp
- Dark Ages: Armory, Beggar (when Reacting), Graverobber
- Cornucopia & Guilds: Bag of Gold, Taxman, Tournament
- Adventures: Artificer
- Empires: Rocks
- Nocturne: Greed
- Menagerie: Demand, Stampede, Supplies
- Allies: Crafters' Guild
- Plunder: Invasion
- Rising Sun: Progress
From your hand
These cards place a card (or cards) from your hand on top of your deck. Some of these targets other players to perform a handsize attack.
- Base: Artisan, Bureaucrat (Attack)
- Intrigue: Courtyard
- Seaside: Ghost Ship (Attack)
- Hinterlands: Mandarin (when played)
- Dark Ages: Count
- Adventures: Haunted Woods (Attack)
- Empires: Haunted Castle (Attack, when gained)
- Nocturne: Haunting
- Renaissance: City Gate
- Allies: Sibyl
- Plunder: Pilgrim
From play
These cards allow you to place one or more of the cards you have in play on top of your deck rather than being discarded.
- Alchemy: Herbalist
- Hinterlands: Mandarin (when gained), Scheme
- Renaissance: Horn
These cards allow you to top-deck themselves.
- Seaside: Treasury
- Alchemy: Alchemist
- Allies: Merchant Camp, Student, Tent
- Plunder: Crew, Landing Party, Tireless
- Promo: Walled Village
From discard pile
- Base: Harbinger
- Cornucopia & Guilds: Herald (when bought)
- Dark Ages: Scavenger
- Nocturne: Bad Omens, The Moon's Gift
- Renaissance: Star Chart
- Menagerie: Way of the Frog
- Allies: Order of Astrologers
- Plunder: Fated
From Exile
Related
The following cards allows cards to be placed at the bottom of your deck:
The following cards allow cards to be placed anywhere in your deck:
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