Horse

Horse
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	No
Set	Menagerie
Illustrator(s)	Claus Stephan
Card text
+2 Cards +1 Action Return this to its pile. (This is not in the Supply.)

Horse is an Action card from Menagerie. It is a one-shot non-terminal draw card, similar to Experiment from Renaissance; but unlike Experiment, it is not in the Supply, and therefore can only be gained in more restricted ways.

List of cards

There are 8 Kingdom cards that use Horse:

• : Sleigh, Supplies
• : Scrap
• : Cavalry, Groom, Hostelry
• : Livery, Paddock

In addition, there are 4 landscapes that use Horse:

• : Ride
• : Bargain
• : Demand, Stampede

Way of the Horse does not use Horse, but lets any Action be like a Horse instead.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+2 Cards +1 Action Return this to its pile. (This is not in the Supply.)	Menagerie	March 2020

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Pferd

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Horse is a non-supply pile. There are 30 of them. You get one via a card saying "gain a Horse" or something. If the pile is empty you can't gain one, but let's hope that doesn't happen much. So Horse is a one-use Laboratory; it puts you up a card and then is gone. Or, you know, you don't have to play it; you can Remodel it or something. It's there for you. Once in your deck, it's just like Experiment, from Renaissance; it turns out, they were experimenting on Horses. Eight total kingdom cards use Horses, and four landscapes.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Menagerie Previews 2: 5 Horses

Secret history

The other idea was for a particular way to do "+1 Card tokens." I considered them for Renaissance, but it didn't sound great to have a pile of tokens you could constantly consider cashing in for cards. What I ended up doing for Renaissance was Sinister Plot, which just happens at the start of a turn. But another approach was to have a pile of one-use Labs you could gain. It was like a +1 Card token, except different in all the ways it's different - you can only use it when drawing it, you can Remodel it, and so on. There wasn't room for a big pile of those in Renaissance, though it got Experiment. So this was another thing to try right away, and right away I liked it. Horse itself started and ended costing , but I tried having it cost , to make it weaker with trash-for-benefit. I preferred it being stronger there.

The first two cards using Horses were "Gain 3 Horses" and "+1 Action, discard any number of cards for that many Horses." They both immediately showcased the beauty of Horses. "Gain 3 Horses" is like Smithy... but it doesn't draw dead cards, and doesn't draw at all the first time you play it, and well more differences, Remodel and stuff. It was a pretty neat variation on Smithy and still really simple. And then the Cellar variant was nothing like Cellar. It was pretty neat too. Well as you may have noticed, these cards aren't in the set. They both just produced too many Horses. Another way "Gain 3 Horses" is different from Smithy is, it takes longer to resolve - not just playing it, but playing it and playing the three Horses. So in the end there are "Gain 2 Horses" cards, but no 3, and only Livery gets to really go nuts gaining Horses.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Menagerie