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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
[[Image:Candlestick_MakerArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]] | |||
If you look closely at the art, you'll notice the man depicted is making the candelabra featured on {{Card|Masterpiece}}. The cards' art share the same artist. | If you look closely at the art, you'll notice the man depicted is making the candelabra featured on {{Card|Masterpiece}}. The cards' art share the same artist. | ||
=== In other languages === | === In other languages === | ||
Revision as of 02:21, 28 January 2015
| Candlestick Maker | |
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| Info | |
| Cost |
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| Type(s) | Action |
| Kingdom card? | Yes |
| Set |
Guilds |
| Illustrator(s) | Kelli Stakenas |
| Card text | |
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+1 Action +1 Buy Take a Coin token. | |
Candlestick Maker is an Action card from Guilds. It provides Coin tokens and non-terminal +buy.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- You get +1 Action and +1 Buy, and take a Coin token.
Strategy Article
Guilds is still the most recent expansion, and we're still exploring this card. Feel free to add your thoughts!
Candlestick Maker is a fairly solid card that is beneficial to most kinds of decks - if you don't mind the spot it takes up in your hand, that is. While buying Candlestick Maker en masse is rarely advisable, it is a cheap source of non-terminal +Buy that can help engines get off the ground, and +1 coin token is a useful, underrated perk.
It is one of the better Gardens enablers in the game, as unlike Workshop or Woodcutter it is non-terminal, allowing multiple plays per turn. Being able to save coin tokens between turns helps smooth out your Gardens buys and keeps your deck running smoothly. Since having more Candlestick Maker is strictly better than Copper, you can afford to buy 5 or more Candlestick Makers before rushing the Gardens pile, ensuring ample +Buy and a very large deck very quickly - easily hitting a 50 card deck by turn 18 or so.
Synergies
Antisynergies
- Terminal draw Big Money, to an extent.
- Opposing handsize reduction attacks
Trivia
If you look closely at the art, you'll notice the man depicted is making the candelabra featured on Masterpiece. The cards' art share the same artist.
In other languages
- Dutch: Kandelaarmaker
- French: Cirier (lit. candlemaker)
- German: Leuchtenmacher
- Japanese: 蝋燭職人 (pron. rōsoku shokunin, lit. candlemaker)
Secret History
, with a +Buy, and tried "+1 Action +1 Buy +
." Some people preferred this to Herbalist, but some people felt like, hey what does this have to do with Potions. And I could make that card later. So I put Herbalist in Alchemy. I next tried the card out in Hinterlands, with "when you gain this, +1 Buy." As recounted in that secret history, some people though it was hilarious that two Highways let you just buy out the pile, but some people abhorred it. I couldn't tell you why, I thought it was hilarious. But the card was just not sufficiently hilarious to live with the hate. I bumped the card out again. Then it seemed like a great fit for Guilds, where the +
could become a more exciting "take a Coin token." And here it is.
