Druid

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Druid
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Fate
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Nocturne
Illustrator(s)	Grant Hansen
Card text
+1 Buy Receive one of the set-aside Boons (leaving it there). Setup: Set aside the top 3 Boons face up.

Druid is an Action-Fate card from Nocturne. It provides +Buy and gives you a choice between three Boons that were set aside for it at the start of the game.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• At the start of the game, deal out three Boons face up for Druid.
• If there are other Fate cards in the same game, those Fate cards will not produce those Boons that game; the deck will consist of the other nine Boons.
• When you play Druid, you choose one of its three Boons to receive, and leave it there in the set-aside area for Druid, even if it is one of the Boons that says to keep it until Clean-up (e.g. The Field's Gift).

Strategy

Synergies and Combos

• Travelling Fair can be used to get an early Druid on a 4 coin start, useful for boons such as The Sky's Gift.
• When The Swamp's Gift is selected as one of the boons, it becomes easy to gain multiple copies of Will-o'-Wisp early on, creating an efficient engine. Will-o'-Wisp can even draw Druid since it has cost .

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Buy Receive one of the set-aside Boons (leaving it there). Setup: Set aside the top 3 Boons face up.	Nocturne	November 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Chinese	德魯伊 (pron. délǔyī)			+1 購買 收到一張被此卡放到一邊的祝福(祝福保持不動)。 起始設置：將三張祝福放到一邊，並且正面向上。
Dutch	Druïde
French	Druide
German	Druidin			+1 Kauf Empfange eine der zur Seite gelegten Gaben (lasse sie dort liegen). Spielvorbereitung: Lege die obersten 3 Gaben aufgedeckt zur Seite.
Japanese	ドルイド (pron. doruido)			+1 購入 脇に置いてある祝福のうち1つを受ける(祝福は移動しない)。 準備: 祝福3枚を脇に表向きで置く。
Polish	Druid			+1 zakup Otrzymaj jedną z odłożonych na bok Łask (pozostaw ją na miejscu). Przygotowanie: odłóż na bok (awersem do góry) 3 Łaski z wierzchu stosu.
Russian	Друид (pron. druid)

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Druid gives you a choice of three Boons. It's just those three all game. Maybe this game Druid is your choice of, oh, those three Boons. Well that's a Wisp-making machine, that's pretty nice. And it can also draw you a card or order your deck, if those are important or the Wisps are gone. And there's the +Buy, sometimes you need that.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Nocturne Previews #3: Blessed Village, Idol, Druid

Secret History

One of the original Fate cards was gain a Silver, receive a Boon but don't discard it unless your top card is Silver; when it was the only Fate card, the Boon might stay the same all game. When the Boons switched to being choice-of-3, this card switched to being choice-of-3. When the Boons switched to being random, this card got setup to stay a choice of 3. And it sat on the list of cards that might get cut for a while, and then I replaced "gain a Silver" with "+1 Buy" and suddenly I liked it a lot more.

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

Previous version from Intrigue and Adventures

Intrigue had had gain a Silver to hand, reveal the top card of your deck, if it's Silver trash this. I tried a new version here: +, Gain 2 Silvers, reveal top, if it's Silver trash this and gain a Duchy. It was the kind of thing that casual players might turn out to adore but which playtesters tend not to.

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