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* Note that {{Card|Emissary}} and {{Card|Underling}} can cause you to shuffle before giving you Favors; the Favors you don't have yet can't be used on that shuffle. | * Note that {{Card|Emissary}} and {{Card|Underling}} can cause you to shuffle before giving you Favors; the Favors you don't have yet can't be used on that shuffle. | ||
=== Other rules clarifications === | === Other rules clarifications === | ||
* Since you can only begin using Favors starting from the first turn of the game, you can't use Order of Masons when shuffling your starting deck during setup. | |||
* If you have {{Project|Star Chart}}, you can both choose a card to go on top of your deck, and spend Favors to leave cards in your discard pile. | * If you have {{Project|Star Chart}}, you can both choose a card to go on top of your deck, and spend Favors to leave cards in your discard pile. | ||
* If you shuffle your entire deck (with e.g. {{Card|Inn}}), you can look through your entire deck, and use Favors to put cards into your discard pile. | * If you shuffle your entire deck (with e.g. {{Card|Inn}}), you can look through your entire deck, and use Favors to put cards into your discard pile. | ||
* Putting cards into your discard pile with this doesn't count as discarding (for e.g. {{Card|Village Green}}). | |||
* If you spend a Favor to look through the cards you're shuffling, but decide not to put any of them into your discard pile, you still lose that Favor. | |||
* The cards you put into your discard pile are are ignored by the thing that caused you to shuffle. For example, if playing a {{Card|Sentinel}} makes you shuffle a discard pile with 5 cards, and you spend a Favor to leave 2 of them in your discard pile, the {{Card|Sentinel}} will only look at 3 cards (and ignores the 2 cards in your discard pile). | |||
== Strategy == | == Strategy == |
Revision as of 04:21, 30 March 2022
Order of Masons | |
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Info | |
Type(s) | Ally |
Set | Allies |
Illustrator(s) | Brian Brinlee |
Ally text | |
When shuffling, you may pick up to 2 cards per Favor you spend to put into your discard pile. |
The Order of Masons is an Ally from Allies. It allows you to spend Favors to leave out bad cards from your deck when you reshuffle.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- Each time you shuffle, you can spend Favors to look through the cards and pick up to two cards per Favor spent to put into your discard pile. Shuffle the other cards normally, but don't shuffle in those cards.
- You can't look through your cards unless you spend at least one Favor. You can look at any to-be-drawn cards while making this decision, as with Order of Astrologers.
- After spending a Favor and looking at the cards, you may still spend more Favors.
- Note that Emissary and Underling can cause you to shuffle before giving you Favors; the Favors you don't have yet can't be used on that shuffle.
Other rules clarifications
- Since you can only begin using Favors starting from the first turn of the game, you can't use Order of Masons when shuffling your starting deck during setup.
- If you have Star Chart, you can both choose a card to go on top of your deck, and spend Favors to leave cards in your discard pile.
- If you shuffle your entire deck (with e.g. Inn), you can look through your entire deck, and use Favors to put cards into your discard pile.
- Putting cards into your discard pile with this doesn't count as discarding (for e.g. Village Green).
- If you spend a Favor to look through the cards you're shuffling, but decide not to put any of them into your discard pile, you still lose that Favor.
- The cards you put into your discard pile are are ignored by the thing that caused you to shuffle. For example, if playing a Sentinel makes you shuffle a discard pile with 5 cards, and you spend a Favor to leave 2 of them in your discard pile, the Sentinel will only look at 3 cards (and ignores the 2 cards in your discard pile).
Strategy
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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When shuffling, you may pick up to 2 cards per Favor you spend to put into your discard pile. | Allies | March 2022 |
Other language versions
Trivia
Preview
Order of Masons is a novel one: it lets you keep cards out of a shuffle.
Secret History
This started out as a Reserve card. Reserve cards overlapped too much with Favors, so it turned into an Ally. Mostly it had you set aside exactly two cards per Favor, but my heart softened, and now it's "up to" two per.