Baker

Baker
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Guilds
Illustrator(s)	Lynell Ingram
Card text
+1 Card +1 Action Take a Coin token. Setup: Each player takes a Coin token.

Baker is an Action card from Guilds. It is a cantrip that gives the player a Coin token. The most notable feature of Baker is its setup, which can drastically change players' opening buys.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• When you play this, you draw a card, get +1 Action, and take a Coin token.
• In games using this card, each player starts the game with a Coin token. This includes games using the promo card Black Market in which Baker is in the Black Market deck.

Strategy Article

There is no strategy article for Baker. See here for a discussion about Baker on the forums.

Baker is an interesting card. The main use of Baker is to get a lot of coin tokens throughout the game. The main way to enable this is to buy a lot of Bakers very early on. The "+1 Action +1 Card" bonuses give Baker the advantage of being a non-terminal action card that can be very useful in engine-based strategies, which leads to another benefit: The "take a coin token" bonus. This is what makes Baker a very good engine card, primarily because the more Bakers you have in your deck, the higher chance of them stacking, and the more coin tokens you have to spend, almost eliminating those very annoying or hands that are hated by practically all Dominion players. Baker also combos really well with Nobles and King's Court. KCing a Nobles generally leads to +6 Cards and +2 Actions, thus allowing all of your Bakers to be played in one turn, assuming multiple Nobles have been either played or KC'd. Repeated several turns, this can cause a massive income gain in the form of coin tokens, as well as can KCing multiple Bakers turn after turn.

Synergies

• Engines that rely on actions as a source of income
• / turns - a coin token could help get that Province or Colony
• King's Court - Multiple KCs + multiple Bakers leads to not only a very efficient engine, but a massive income gain potential in the form of coin tokens generated by Baker

Anti-Synergies

• Trashing/Cursing/Junking attack cards
• Big Money (coin tokens not really necessary here)

Trivia

In other languages

• French: Boulanger
• German: Bäcker

Secret History

Originally it didn't have the setup part. It was just a very basic coin token card. When I thought of the setup thing, I realized that whatever card I put it on might sometimes not be bought, such that that starting coin token was all the card did. I decided that was okay though, and to just put the ability on something simple and likely to be bought.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Guild Cards