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* {{Card|Marauder}} and {{Card|Cultist}} distribute [[Ruins]]. | * {{Card|Marauder}} and {{Card|Cultist}} distribute [[Ruins]]. | ||
* {{Card|Swindler}}, {{Card|Ambassador}}, {{Card|Masquerade}}, and {{Card|Jester}} can distribute a wide variety of junk cards, depending on the luck of when they are played. | * {{Card|Swindler}}, {{Card|Ambassador}}, {{Card|Masquerade}}, and {{Card|Jester}} can distribute a wide variety of junk cards, depending on the luck of when they are played. | ||
* | * {{hex|Locusts}} and {{card|Barbarian}} can let the victim choose what card to gain, subject to certain [[cost]] and [[type]] restrictions; if there are no desirable cards available meeting those criteria, they may be forced to gain a junk card. | ||
* {{Card|Messenger}} can act as a junker, depending on what you choose for everyone to gain. | * {{Card|Messenger}} can act as a junker, depending on what you choose for everyone to gain. | ||
Revision as of 22:02, 9 March 2022
A junking attack or junker is an Attack card that puts undesirable cards—i.e., "junk"—into an opponent's deck, thus weakening the average strength of their hands and usually slowing cycling. The undesirable card par excellence is the Curse, and most junking attacks are cursers.
Some cards distribute undesirable cards other than Curse:
- Mountebank, Noble Brigand and Greed distribute Copper. (Mountebank is also a curser.)
- Marauder and Cultist distribute Ruins.
- Swindler, Ambassador, Masquerade, and Jester can distribute a wide variety of junk cards, depending on the luck of when they are played.
- Locusts and Barbarian can let the victim choose what card to gain, subject to certain cost and type restrictions; if there are no desirable cards available meeting those criteria, they may be forced to gain a junk card.
- Messenger can act as a junker, depending on what you choose for everyone to gain.
Embassy and Governor are sometimes jokingly called junkers because they distribute Silver to opponents, and Silver can often have a negative impact on engine decks or decks trying to buy Colonies, but this is nowhere near as harmful as actual junkers.
