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Revision as of 15:46, 20 January 2018
Changeling | |
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Info | |
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Type(s) | Night |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Nocturne |
Illustrator(s) | Jason Slavin |
Card text | |
Trash this. Gain a copy of a card you have in play. In games using this, when you gain a card costing or more, you may exchange it for a Changeling. |
Changeling is a Night card from Nocturne. It's a one-shot gainer that copies any card that you have in play, making it one of the few gainers in the game with no cost or type restriction. It also has an ability that lets you swap any card you gain (that costs more than ) for a Changeling; this can let you avoid expensive junk (like Rats or a Silver from an opponent's Governor), or get the on-gain effect of a card without taking the card itself.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- When Changeling is in the Supply, any time you gain a card costing at least , you may exchange it for a Changeling from the Supply.
- You can only do this if you can actually return the card you gained, and there is at least one Changeling in the Supply.
- The Changeling goes to your discard pile, no matter where the gained card went.
- Things that happen due to gaining the gained card still happen.
- So for example you could gain Skulk, exchange it for a Changeling (returning Skulk to the Supply and putting Changeling into your discard pile), and still gain a Gold from Skulk's ability.
- Exchanging for a Changeling is optional.
- You cannot do it if the gained card costs less than Transmute from Alchemy). , even if it normally costs or more, and you cannot do it if the cost is neither more or less than (such as
- When you play Changeling, you trash it and gain a copy of a card you have in play; that can be any card you have in play, including Actions, Treasures, and Night cards, and including Duration cards you played on a previous turn that are still in play.
Other rules clarifications
- Changeling cannot gain a copy of Changeling, since it is not in play when the effect happens - it's either in the trash (in normal turn) or set aside (when played in a Possessed turn).
- Changeling can gain only Supply cards - for example it cannot gain an Imp, any Traveller upgrades, etc.
- Changeling cannot gain cards that are not available - for example it cannot gain any of Knights (since all Knights are different), a Ruins when the Ruins card you have in play is not the same as the top card on the Ruins pile, a card from a split pile when it is covered by the other card from that pile (like Plunder, when it is covered by Encampment), etc.
- You can choose any card you have in play, but if that card's pile is empty, or its name does not match the name of the top card on that pile, or that card's pile is not in the Supply, or that card has no pile, you gain nothing.
- You can exchange for Changeling when gaining non-Supply cards, as long as they come from a pile, such as Ghost, and the more expensive Traveller upgrades. You cannot exchange for non-Supply cards that do not have an associated pile, such as the Zombies.
- Remember that you can choose the order in which simultaneous effects happen. When you gain a card that either gains other cards (like Skulk above) or moves itself (like Villa), and you allow that gaining or moving effect to happen first, Changeling will lose track of the card and not be able to exchange with it. If you want to exchange, make sure you do that first.
Strategy
Versions
English versions
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | |
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French | Changelin | |||
German | Wechselbalg | |||
Japanese | 取り替え子 (pron. torikaeko) | これを廃棄すろ。場のカード1枚と同じカード1枚を獲得する。取り替え子を使用するゲームで、コスト | 以上のカード1枚を獲得するとき、それを取り替え子と交換してもよい。||
Russian | Подменыш (pron. podmyenysh) |
Trivia
Secret History
For a while this was just the top, a sleek simple classic card. We liked it but Matt's group not so much. I tried putting the gained card on your deck, but I like to go light on that as it's easy to forget and a more complex concept. Then I thought of the bottom as a way to hit the flavor harder; your Skulk is swapped at birth for a Changeling.