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* When you shuffle your entire deck (with e.g. {{Card|Inn}} or {{Event|Donate}}), you can look through your entire deck, and use Favors to put cards into your discard pile. | * When you shuffle your entire deck (with e.g. {{Card|Inn}} or {{Event|Donate}}), you can look through your entire deck, and use Favors to put cards into your discard pile. | ||
* Putting cards into your discard pile with this doesn't count as discarding (for e.g. {{Card|Village Green}}). | * Putting cards into your discard pile with this doesn't count as discarding (for e.g. {{Card|Village Green}}). | ||
* | * When you need to shuffle your discard pile to access more cards from your deck, you only get to shuffle one time. This is true even if there are still cards in your discard pile due to Order of Masons. So if playing a {{Card|Sentinel}} makes you shuffle a discard pile with 5 cards, and you spend a Favor to leave 2 of them in your discard pile, the {{Card|Sentinel}} looks at the 3 cards in your deck, and you won't shuffle to include the 2 cards in your discard pile. | ||
* However, some cards access cards from your deck one at a time (e.g. {{Card| | * However, some cards access cards from your deck one at a time (e.g. {{Card|Watchtower}} and {{Card|Journeyman}}). So after shuffling, if there's not enough cards (due to Order of Masons), you'll shuffle again. | ||
* If you spend a Favor to look through the cards you're shuffling, but decide not to put any of them into your discard pile, you still lose that Favor. | * If you spend a Favor to look through the cards you're shuffling, but decide not to put any of them into your discard pile, you still lose that Favor. | ||
Revision as of 14:02, 30 April 2022
Order of Masons | |
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Info | |
Type(s) | Ally |
Set | Allies |
Illustrator(s) | Brian Brinlee |
Ally text | |
When shuffling, you may pick up to 2 cards per Favor you spend to put into your discard pile. |
The Order of Masons is an Ally from Allies. It allows you to spend Favors to leave out bad cards from your deck when you reshuffle.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- Each time you shuffle, you can spend Favors to look through the cards and pick up to two cards per Favor spent to put into your discard pile. Shuffle the other cards normally, but don't shuffle in those cards.
- You can't look through your cards unless you spend at least one Favor. You can look at any to-be-drawn cards while making this decision, as with Order of Astrologers.
- After spending a Favor and looking at the cards, you may still spend more Favors.
- Note that Emissary and Underling can cause you to shuffle before giving you Favors; the Favors you don't have yet can't be used on that shuffle.
Other rules clarifications
- Since you can only begin using Favors starting from the first turn of the game, you can't use Order of Masons when shuffling your starting deck during setup.
- If you have Star Chart, you can both choose a card to go on top of your deck, and spend Favors to leave cards in your discard pile.
- When you shuffle your entire deck (with e.g. Inn or Donate), you can look through your entire deck, and use Favors to put cards into your discard pile.
- Putting cards into your discard pile with this doesn't count as discarding (for e.g. Village Green).
- When you need to shuffle your discard pile to access more cards from your deck, you only get to shuffle one time. This is true even if there are still cards in your discard pile due to Order of Masons. So if playing a Sentinel makes you shuffle a discard pile with 5 cards, and you spend a Favor to leave 2 of them in your discard pile, the Sentinel looks at the 3 cards in your deck, and you won't shuffle to include the 2 cards in your discard pile.
- However, some cards access cards from your deck one at a time (e.g. Watchtower and Journeyman). So after shuffling, if there's not enough cards (due to Order of Masons), you'll shuffle again.
- If you spend a Favor to look through the cards you're shuffling, but decide not to put any of them into your discard pile, you still lose that Favor.
Strategy
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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When shuffling, you may pick up to 2 cards per Favor you spend to put into your discard pile. | Allies | March 2022 |
Other language versions
Trivia
Preview
Order of Masons is a novel one: it lets you keep cards out of a shuffle.
Secret History
This started out as a Reserve card. Reserve cards overlapped too much with Favors, so it turned into an Ally. Mostly it had you set aside exactly two cards per Favor, but my heart softened, and now it's "up to" two per.