Mining Village

Mining Village
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Intrigue
Illustrator(s)	Claus Stephan
Card text
+1 Card +2 Actions You may trash this for +.

Mining Village is an Action card from Intrigue. It is a village (i.e., it gives +2 actions), and can also be used for a one-shot . This means it has a few distinct uses—as a way to get a very early expensive card by trashing it as soon as possible, as a mainstay of a village/smithy engine by never trashing it until the very end, or as a mega-turn enabler by buying up many Mining Villages and trashing them all on the same turn.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• First draw a card and get +2 Actions; then choose whether or not to trash Mining Village before moving on to other actions or other phases, getting + if you did.
• You may not trash Mining Village later in the turn, only right then.
• If you Throne Room a Mining Village, you cannot trash it twice (and so cannot get the + twice).

Strategy Article

Original article by theory

Mining Village is best thought of as a one-shot Conspirator/Grand Market. Its ability makes it one of the best openers: by trashing it, you can slingshot to , , or possibly even much faster than you otherwise would be able to with a Silver. But to use it effectively, you have to commit to trashing it quickly; otherwise, you’ve used a critical opening buy on a useless card.

In the midgame, Mining Village is one of the most useful non-terminals; it’s good to stock up on them so you can cash them in all at once for a mega-turn to end the game.

The fact that Mining Village provides +Actions is really just a bonus. For pure Actions, you’re better off with the other special Villages (Native Village, Worker's Village, Fishing Village, Wandering Minstrel), since Mining Village’s special ability isn’t as helpful in an Action-oriented strategy (if you’re trashing the Mining Villages, you can’t count on them for Actions). But it’s a good foundation for a +Actions/+Cards chain if you remember to start scrapping them for cash near the end of the game.

Synergies/Combos

• Bridge (save up the Mining Villages until you can draw enough Bridges together, then trash them all for a game-ending turn)
• “Mega-turn” strategies in general
• Ironworks/Workshop for grabbing Mining Villages
• +Buy
• Good terminals, including +Cards
• Conspirator
• Grand Market
• Kingdoms where you need to get to as quickly as possible

Antisynergies

• The other slingshot cards (Baron, Moneylender)
• Throne Room/King's Court (since the benefit doesn’t get doubled/tripled)
• Good / cards that you’d form your strategy around

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Card. +2 Actions. You may trash this card immediately. If you do, +.	Intrigue 1st Edition	July 2009
		+1 Card. +2 Actions. You may trash this for +.	Intrigue 2nd Edition	October 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text
Chinese	礦業小鎮 (pron. kuàngyè xiǎo zhèn)
Czech	Důlní osada
Dutch	Mijndorp
Finnish	Kaivoskylä
French	Village minier
German	Bergwerk			+ 1 Karte. + 2 Aktionen. Du darfst diese Karte für + entsorgen.
Hungarian	Bányászfalu
Italian	Villaggio Minerario
Japanese	鉱山の村 (pron. kōzan no mura)			+1 カードを引く。 +2 アクション。 +のために、これを場から廃棄してもよい。
Korean	광산촌 (pron. gwangsanchon)
Norwegian	Bergstad
Polish	Osada górnicza
Russian	Шахтёрский посёлок (pron. shakhtyorskiy posyolok, Smart Ltd) Шахтёрская Деревня (pron. shakhtyorskaya dyeryevnya, Dominion Online)
Spanish	Aldea Minera

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Originally the first expansion had a one-shot theme. One-shots (cards that say "trash this," like Feast) were one of the most obvious things to do and I did several right away. The problem is, some people just don't like one-shots. Some people just don't like cards with penalties (although I do some here and there anyway, because some people like them fine and there are cool things you can't otherwise do); other people don't like the fact that the card doesn't end up in your deck. You know, you bought Feast, but you aren't playing a Feast deck, you won't even have any Feasts at all in the end. I don't know why, but that just rubs some folks the wrong way. Anyway the one-shot theme gradually eroded. Some went into the outtakes file, a few moved to other sets, some morphed into something without the one-shot part. Feast moved to the main set. The only surviving one-shot in this set is this card, and it isn't even a true one-shot, since trashing it is optional.

For much of its life, the abilities on Mining Village were flipped. It was "+; you may trash this for +1 card +2 actions." When I added Conspirator, I thought they were too similar, and so changed Mining Village to what it is now. Everyone liked the new one better and so much for that.

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

Retrospective

I would consider changing Mining Village to avoid invoking the enigmatic "lose track" rule.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, What Donald X. Might Do With a Dominion Time Machine