Animal Fair
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
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Illustrator(s) | Claus Stephan |
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+ +1 Buy per empty supply pile. Instead of paying this card's cost, you may trash an Action card from your hand. |
Animal Fair is an Action card from Menagerie. It gives + and more Buys as the game goes on. When you buy it, you can pay for it with , or by trashing an Action card from your hand.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- This only checks how many piles are empty when you play it; how many +Buys you got does not change if a pile becomes empty later in the turn (or non-empty, such as due to Ambassador from Seaside).
- This only counts Supply piles, not non-Supply piles like Horse.
- When buying this card, you can trash an Action card from your hand instead of paying . You can only do this if you have an Action card in hand to trash. You can do this even if you do not have . When buying Animal Fair this way, you spend no , but still use up a Buy.
- Animal Fair still has a cost of , regardless of how you pay for it.
Strategy
In games using Shelters, you can use an opening buy on Animal Fair by trashing Necropolis.
Versions
English versions
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+ +1 Buy per empty supply pile. Instead of paying this card's cost, you may trash an Action card from your hand. |
Menagerie | March 2020 |
Other language versions
Trivia
Preview
Animal Fair gives you a weird way to pay for it. The card costs
; the alternate payment just applies when you're buying one. At the point at which you'd pay your , you can trash an Action from your hand instead (and can do this when you don't have ). And then what do you get, you get + and some number of Buys.