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Sauna is not good here because: | Sauna is not good here because: |
Revision as of 17:45, 1 July 2020
Sauna | |
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Info | |
Cost | |
Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Promo |
Illustrator(s) | Ossi Hiekkala |
Card text | |
+1 Card +1 Action You may play an Avanto from your hand. While this is in play, when you play a Silver, you may trash a card from your hand. |
Sauna is a promotional Action card. It's a cantrip that allows you to trash a card when you play a Silver. It is a split pile card, with five copies of Sauna sitting on top of five copies of Avanto.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- When you play Sauna, you first draw a card and get +1 Action.
- You may then immediately play an Avanto from your hand. This does not take up one of your Actions, including the Action provided by Sauna.
- You can only play an Avanto this way directly after playing the Sauna, not if you played another Action card in between, even if you have a Sauna in play.
- When you play Avanto, you first draw 3 cards.
- You may then immediately play a Sauna from your hand. This does not take up any of your Actions, and Sauna will still give you +1 Action if you play it this way.
- You can only play a Sauna this way directly after playing the Avanto, not if you played another Action card in between, even if you have an Avanto in play.
- You can play Sauna and Avanto in alternation this way, taking up only the Action for the first of the cards you play.
- You can do this until you don't have the respective card in hand after playing the other.
- When you play a Sauna, you cannot immediately play a Sauna from your hand without using up one Action. The same goes for playing Avanto after Avanto.
- While Sauna is in play, you can trash a card from your hand anytime you play a Silver.
- If you play the same Silver several times, such as with Counterfeit (Dominion: Dark Ages) or Crown (Dominion: Empires), you may trash a card each time you play the Silver.
- You do not have to trash anything when you play a Silver.
- You can decide to trash a card every time you play a Silver, you do not have to decide once for the entire turn.
- When Sauna leaves play, such as being trashed with Procession (Dominion: Dark Ages), you cannot use its effect anymore.
- When you have several Saunas in play and play a Silver, you can trash a card from your hand for every Sauna you have in play. You can still decide to not trash a card each time.
Strategy
There is not a full strategy article for Sauna available yet. Still, Sauna/Avanto is a dominating combo on many boards, and Sauna/Silver is a strong opening.
An odd but occasionally important tactics note: if you have more Saunas than Avantos in your draw pile, and you draw both a Sauna and an Avanto, you should probably play the Sauna first. The situation is reversed if you have more Avantos than Saunas in your draw pile. This maximizes the number of likely free plays.
Example Kingdoms
Where Sauna is strong
Example 1 [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Bridge Troll | Rabble | Scepter | Wayfarer | Prince | ||||||||||||||||
Caravan Guard | Masterpiece | Trade Route | Village | Sauna | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Dominate | Way of the Monkey | |||||||||||||||||||
Sauna is good here because:
- The board allows for playing a large number of Bridge Trolls, which makes that the goal - trashing will help this deck become consistent faster
- Sauna is a better trasher than Trade Route - it is non-terminal and is not a stop card
- Avanto may not be uncovered here - there is plenty of draw with Wayfarer coming at a lower price and a player is unlikely to feel the need to have more than 2 Saunas for trashing
Example 2 [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Embassy | Mint | Soothsayer | Tragic Hero | Nobles | |||||||||||||
Raze | Amulet | Sauna | Artificer | Displace | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Trade | |||||||||||||||||
Sauna is good here because:
- The presence of Displace makes it liekly that you will want to play multiple terminal actions each turn, which requires a village
- The other village here is Nobles, which is too expensive to be using exclusively when there are other options
- Using Sauna/Avanto chains for draw will lessen the number of villages here which need to be used for draw, which allows more payload playing
Where Sauna is weak
Example 3 [images] | ||||||||||||||
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Sauna | Coven | Pooka | Recruiter | Forge | ||||||||||
Candlestick Maker | Bureaucrat | Conspirator | Diplomat | Port |
Sauna is not good here because:
- Recruiter and Pooka together provide ample trashing which Sauna will be slower than
- Port and Recruiter are both strong villages, so that aspect of Sauna is not needed
- Diplomat provides draw; however, Avanto will be better if an opponent takes the time to uncover it, but by then you should be well ahead from not using your buys on unnecessary Saunas
Versions
English versions
Other language versions
Trivia
Sauna/Avanto was the first Promo to be released under the second edition format.
Secret History
I tried a couple different concepts, mostly trying to key off of Baths, the Empires Landmark. You know, so stuff where if you didn't do anything you got something. The final concept was instead based on the idea of them being therapeutic.
It seemed nice to try to promote the most recent expansion, something only previously done with Summon. We talked about potential Landmarks, e.g. Northern Lights. I felt like it would be better to have a full pile this time, and it was hard coming up with more Landmarks. A split pile was perfect; it's novel to Empires, it doesn't require anything else, you can just play with it like a regular pile. And there's this thing, where they go back and forth from the sauna to the avanto. That sounded cool to simulate and I mean there it is.
Avanto started as printed but I did try other versions at some point. There were a few versions of the trashing Sauna, trying to be fair and exciting. Towards the end the big thing was, should it trigger multiple times. It will be very slow early on, and then there will be a turn where you can trash a bunch of cards, due to multiple triggers. I felt like it was better to have that.
The card was done in May, but it took a while for the Finns to get the artist going. It was for them so we didn't rush them. It looks like it's coming out at Essen.