Pearl Diver

Pearl Diver
Cost
Type	Action
Set/Expansion	Seaside
Illustrator	Maura Kalusky
+1 Card +1 Action Look at the bottom card of your deck. You may put it on top.

Pearl Diver is an Action card from Seaside. It is a cantrip, meaning that it gives both +1 Card and +1 Action; it rarely hurts to have it in your deck, but its ability to move cards from the bottom of your deck to the top rarely helps very much either.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Draw a card before you look at the bottom card of your deck.
• If placing the card on top of your deck, be sure not to look at the next card on the bottom of your deck while moving the card.
• If you have no cards left when it's time to look at the bottom, you shuffle first.

Strategy Article

No comprehensive strategy article exists for this card.

Pearl Diver is a perfect example of a card which very often has no impact on the game. It is never the card you will build a strategy around, but it rarely hurts you if you have and an extra buy. Pearl Diver is a cantrip with the ability to rescue the card on the bottom of your deck. However, if you play a number of Pearl Diver's you'll quickly find that once you have a bad card there, you aren't getting any real benefit.

Because it is so ignorable, there is almost always something better to buy. It can hurt you in a few situations as well. First, any time you have terminal draw, you risk drawing Pearl Diver dead. Second, by having the Pearl Diver in hand, you lose information about what card you would have drawn had the Pearl Diver been nothing instead. So for instance, if you play a Warehouse, or your opponent plays a Militia, you may not know whether to discard the Pearl Diver or something else. It can also make it less likely to have your Moat in hand, or a Curse in hand against an opponent's Mountebank.

Pearl Diver can be useful as a source of cheap actions to buy for Vineyard or Goons. Additionally, it can be used with Throne Room or King's Court to act as a Village.

Synergies/Combos

• Goons
• Throne Room, King's Court
• Vineyard

Antisynergies

• Warehouse, Cellar
• Militia
• Mountebank

Trivia

Card Art

The art depicts playtester Wei-Hwa Huang. He won a tournament at the Gathering of Friends where being depicted was the prize.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, 'Art Trivia'

Secret History

Borrowed from a later expansion to replace Haven. Nothing changed during testing but the name.

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