Advance

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Advance
Info
Cost
Type	Event
Set	Empires
Illustrator(s)	Martin Hoffmann
Event text
You may trash an Action card from your hand. If you do, gain an Action card costing up to .

Advance is an Event from Empires. It is in effect a buy-phase remodeler for Action cards.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• If you do not trash an Action, nothing else happens.

Strategy

Advance is a good way to get rid of early game Actions that lose their usefulness later in the game, such as Chapel and other trashers.

Synergies/Combos

• Trashers like Chapel, Stonemason, Rats
• Ruins, especially with +Buy
• Grand Market
• +buy in general
• Fortress can be trashed multiple times for it in a turn if you have multiple buys, requiring you only to hold back one action.
• Shelters
• If you have an extra buy and only , you can buy a Villa, and then in the same turn Advance it to a card

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		You may trash an Action card from your hand. If you do, gain an Action card costing up to .	Empires	June 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text
Dutch	Promotie (lit. promotion)
Finnish	Ylennys (lit. promotion)
French	Adoubement (lit. accolade)		Vous pouvez écartez une carte action de votre main. Dans ce cas, recevez ne carte action coutant jusqu’à $6.
German	Aufstieg			Du darfst eine Aktionskarte aus deiner Hand entsorgen. Wenn du das tust: Nimm eine Aktionskarte, die bis zu kostet.
Japanese	昇進 (pron. shōshin, lit. promotion)			手札のアクションカード1枚を廃棄してもよい。 廃棄した場合、コスト以下のアクションカード1枚を獲得する。
Polish	Awans
Russian	Продвижение (pron. prodvizhyeniye)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

This never changed.

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