Animal Fair
| Animal Fair | |
|---|---|
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| Info | |
| Cost |
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| Type(s) | Action |
| Kingdom card? | Yes |
| Set |
Menagerie |
| Illustrator(s) | Claus Stephan |
| Card text | |
+ +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.
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
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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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.
; 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.Secret History
The premise was the alternate cost; the first version had +2 Cards +2 Actions on top. It was just too important to madly try to acquire them. Then for a long time it was + +1 Buy. This seemed to work out fine. But late in the going I was worried about player interaction and tried out +1 Buy per empty pile here. It worked great, it makes it less important early and well does have a little interaction.
+1 Buy. This seemed to work out fine. But late in the going I was worried about player interaction and tried out +1 Buy per empty pile here. It worked great, it makes it less important early and well does have a little interaction.
