Dungeon

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Dungeon
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Duration
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Adventures
Illustrator(s)	Martin Hoffmann
Card text
+1 Action Now and at the start of your next turn: +2 Cards, then discard 2 cards.

Dungeon is an Action-Duration card from Adventures. It is a sifter that draws and discards both now and later.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• When you play this, you get +1 Action, draw 2 cards, and discard 2 cards; then at the start of your next turn, you again draw 2 cards and discard 2 cards.

Strategy

There is no strategy article for Dungeon, but it has been discussed on the forum.

Dungeon is a decent sifter, and a very close relative of Warehouse, except for the fact that it is a Duration. On play, it is weaker than Warehouse, since you only get to pick the best 4 cards out of 6 instead of 4 out of 7. On the other hand, next turn you will be able to pick the best 5 cards out of 7, which is nice.

Most players agree, however, that Warehouse is not a card you just want to play anytime you have it in your hand - it is best used to align certain cards you want to draw together. Examples include Baron with an Estate, Tournament with a Province, Urchin with another Attack and Treasure Map with another Treasure Map. Another reason to use a sifter like Dungeon or Warehouse is to get to your key cards faster; you might want to upgrade your Traveller, or play your Mountebank more often. In some cases, though, you want to avoid decreasing your handsize or triggering a shuffle by playing Warehouse. Dungeon has the weakness of being more inflexible than Warehouse; once you get it into play, you can't decide not to use it next turn. On the other hand, in a pinch, Dungeon can save a turn that would otherwise be a dud, not unlike Guide.

In the List of Cards by Qvist Rankings from 2016, Dungeon ranks 18th among cards, which is above both Warehouse and Guide.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Action Now and at the start of your next turn: +2 Cards, then discard 2 cards.	Adventures	April 2015
		+1 Action Now and at the start of your next turn: +2 Cards, then discard 2 cards.	Adventures (2016 printing)	August 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Kerker			+1 Actie Nu en aan het begin van je volgende beurt: +2 Kaarten, leg daarna 2 kaarten af.	(2015)
Finnish	Tyrmä
French	Donjon (lit. keep)
German	Verlies			+2 Karten +1 Aktion Lege 2 Handkarten ab. Zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges: +2 Karten Lege 2 Handkarten ab.	(2015)
German	Verlies			+1 Aktion Jetzt und zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges: +2 Karten, dann lege 2 deiner Handkarten ab.	(Nachdruck 2021) card text may have a misprint, unless replaced
Japanese	地下牢 (pron. chika rō)			+1 アクション 現在とあなたの次のターンの開始時に、+2 カードを引く、2枚捨て札にする。
Polish	Loch				Although Polish version is not released, this card is referred to in the Polish version of Empires rulebook
Russian	Подземелье (pron. podzyemyel'ye)

Trivia

Dungeon is one of the available backgrounds in Dominion Online.

Official card art.

Secret History

An early card, just trying to do a good basic thing that the Seaside Duration cards hadn't covered.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Adventures

Donald X.'s opinion

This was one of the first cards in the set; a very simple duration card, for an effect that didn't have one yet. And it was always fine, though it did start out at . Man what is there to say about. In all Adventures games it's great for upgrading Travellers faster. I get it a lot; obv. you can overdo it, but it's great to start a turn by improving your hand a little.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Let's Discuss Adventures Cards: Dungeon