Mission

Mission
Info
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Type	Event
Set	Adventures
Illustrator(s)	Martin Hoffmann
Event text
Once per turn: If the previous turn wasn't yours, take another turn after this one, in which you can't buy cards.

Mission is an Event from Adventures. It gives the buyer an extra turn, in which they can't buy cards.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• You can only buy this once per turn.
• When you do, if the previous turn was not yours - if it was another player's turn before this turn - you take another turn after this turn ends.
• The extra turn is completely normal except that you cannot buy cards during it.
• You can still buy Events, and play cards, and gain cards in ways other than buying them (such as gaining a Silver from Amulet), and exchange Travellers.
• Buying Mission during a turn granted by Mission will not give you another turn, because the previous turn was yours.

Other rules clarifications

• If you buy a Mission and play an Outpost on the same turn, both extra turn effects try to happen at the same time. If you resolve Mission's first, your Mission turn will start with 3 cards, and you won't get an Outpost turn (and Outpost stays in play until the Clean-up phase of the player to your left). If you resolve Outpost first, you get the normal 3-card Outpost turn, then your Mission turn, giving you three turns in a row.
• Buying Mission does nothing if you were Possessed on your previous turn.
  • If the previous player played multiple Possessions, and tells you to buy a Mission on your first Possession turn, you get to decide whether to take the Mission turn first, or one of the other Possession turns; Possession does not grant control between turns, making the choice your decision.

Strategy

There is no strategy article for Mission, but it has been discussed on the forum.

Mission is a little bit more situational than most other Events, and it appears to be quite a high-skill Event. In order to be worth buying, you need to have cards in your deck that are still worth playing during a Mission turn. If all your deck can do is buy cards, Mission is probably not worth it. However, if you have stackable Attacks (like Torturer), or want to finish trashing, or have a remodeler or a gainer, it might be a good buy. Mission turns can also get Durations in play and Reserves on your mat (or off of it, in the case of Wine Merchant), and can be used to stockpile Coin tokens.

Mission also plays nicely with other Events, which are exempt from its prohibition on buying, though some Events will be more useful than others. Fortunately, it is often pretty easy to estimate what buying a Mission will get you and compare it to your other options; for example, if you think you will be able to play at least one Ironworks next turn while accomplishing something else, then going for Mission is often a good idea. If not, you should probably stick to just buying a card directly.

Synergies

• Gainers, especially gain-centric strategies such as Horn of Plenty, Artificer, Hermit and Graverobber
• Cursers and other junkers: Torturer, Witch, and especially Cultist
• Strong Trashers such as Chapel
• Page and Peasant and their upgrades, as you can exchange them on Mission turns
• Other Events, especially Events that can gain cards: Alms, Ball, Raid,
• Some Duration and Reserve cards
• Some cards that give coin tokens or victory tokens, but not Goons, Groundskeeper or Merchant Guild

Antisynergies

• Traditional engines with +Buy
• Big Money and slogs
• Haunted Woods and Swamp Hag lose their ability to attack between turns if played on your first turn

Alternate versions

• 
  Digital version for Dominion Online

Trivia

In other languages

• Dutch: Missie
• Finnish: Tehtävä
• French: Mission
• German: Mission
• Japanese: 使節団 (pron. shisetsu-dan)
• Polish: Misja (note: as referred to in Polish Empires rulebook)

Preview

Finally we have Mission, a trickier one. You get an extra turn, but, this seems like some kind of joke, you can't buy cards on that turn. What good is it then? Well. There are things you can do. You can gain cards without buying them, such as with Remodels and Workshops. You can play Duration cards, setting them up for your next turn. You can get Reserve cards onto your mat. You can play Attacks, it can be that kind of Mission. You can trash cards; you can just be getting through your deck to get back to your good cards; you can turn that Hero into a Champion. And hey you can buy other Events, that's not buying a card. That may seem weird - what do we call that rectangular object then - but you didn't buy a card, you bought an Event, a thing that happened once and didn't come with a card, and so that doesn't trigger Swamp Hag and it's not cheaper due to Bridge and so on. Event cards give you something to buy; that thing is not a card. There will be a rulebook and it will say stuff just like this.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Adventures Previews #4 - Expedition, Trade, Mission

Secret History

This one seems a little more complex, but it had no issues.

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