Fugitive

Fugitive
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Traveller
Kingdom card?	No
Set	Adventures
Illustrator(s)	Harald Lieske
Card text
+2 Cards +1 Action Discard a card. When you discard this from play, you may exchange it for a Disciple. (This is not in the Supply.)

Fugitive is an Action-Traveller card from Adventures. It is a non-terminal sifter that maintains hand size. It is not in the Supply, but can be exchanged for using a Soldier. Fugitive itself, once discarded from play, can be exchanged for a Disciple. There are only 5 copies of Fugitive in the Fugitive pile.

Fugitive is the third step in its line of Travellers: Peasant - Soldier - Fugitive - Disciple - Teacher.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• When you play this, you draw 2 cards, get +1 Action, and then discard a card from your hand.
• The discarded card does not have to be one of the cards just drawn.

Strategy

To better understand the Kingdoms and contexts in which Soldier appears, it may be useful to refer to the overall strategy section for this Traveller line.

Fugitive offers a somewhat useful sifting effect. While this effect is non-terminal, maintains your hand size, and provides potentially useful cycling, Fugitive is usually the least impactful card in the Peasant line. Although Fugitive can help both with advancing Travellers more quickly and with aligning Disciple with good targets, it is rarely worthwhile to keep a copy for extended periods: usually you will advance them as quickly as possible, and sometimes you may prefer to keep Soldiers rather than advancing them to this stage.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Notes	Release	Date
		+2 Cards +1 Action Discard a card. When you discard this from play, you may exchange it for a Disciple. (This is not in the Supply.)		Adventures	April 2015
		+2 Cards +1 Action Discard a card. When you discard this from play, you may exchange it for a Disciple. (This is not in the Supply.)	Digital version may show a cost of rather than .	Adventures (2017 printing)	August 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Vluchteling			+2 Kaarten +1 Actie Leg 1 kaart af. Als je deze kaart vanuit het spel aflegt, mag je deze tegen een Leerknecht ruilen. (Deze kaart bevindt zich niet in de voorraad.)	(2015)
Finnish	Pakolainen
French	Fugitif
German	Flüchtling (lit. refugee)			+2 Karten +1 Aktion Lege eine Handkarte ab. Ist diese Karte im Spiel, darfst du sie gegen einen Schüler eintauschen, anstatt sie abzulegen. (Diese Karte gehört nicht zum Vorrat.)	(2015)
	Flüchtling (lit. refugee)			+2 Karten +1 Aktion Lege eine deiner Handkarten ab. Wenn du diese Karte aus dem Spiel ablegst, darfst du sie in einen Schüler eintauschen. (Diese Karte gehört nicht zum Vorrat.)	(Nachdruck 2021)
Japanese	脱走兵 (pron. dassō-hei, lit. deserter)			+2 カードを引く +1 アクション 1枚捨て札にする。 これを場から捨て札にするとき、これを門下生と交換してもよい。 (このカードはサプライに置かない。)
Russian	Дезертир (pron. dyezyertir, lit. deserter)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Fugitive was an old old card, from the 2nd expansion before it split into Seaside and Hinterlands, that didn't exist previously because it was too strong at .

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