Scavenger
Scavenger | |
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Info | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Dark Ages |
Illustrator(s) | Franz Vohwinkel |
Card text | |
+ You may put your deck into your discard pile. Look through your discard pile and put one card from it onto your deck. |
Scavenger is an Action card from Dark Ages. It is a terminal silver and a deck discarder, like Chancellor. However, unlike Chancellor, it lets you fish out the best card from your discard pile and make it your new deck.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- Putting your deck into your discard pile is optional, but putting a card from your discard pile on top of your deck is not; you do it unless there are no cards in your discard pile.
- Putting your deck into your discard pile will not trigger Tunnel (from Hinterlands).
Other Rules clarifications
Strategy
Scavenger is a weak terminal silver with a deck-discarding effect that is situationally useful. Like many terminal silvers, Scavenger is often a mediocre use of terminal space. In money strategies, Scavenger is most impactful in weak Kingdoms where you are unable to get full deck control and instead can use Scavenger to bypass bad shuffles and find your best cards reliably. In engines, Scavenger can be useful in Kingdoms that do not have cheap, open-able deck control but do offer excess terminal space and powerful deck control later (e.g. a trasher such as Sentry), in which case Scavenger can quickly cycle through your early shuffles and topdeck powerful cards. Deciding when to discard your deck is best informed by keeping track of where your good cards are and how much junk is left in any given shuffle.
Scavenger’s effect is most relevant in the opening. If you play it on turn 3 it can help you afford a strong card such as Recruiter, discards your deck so that you cycle to that new card faster, and allows you to possibly play that on turn 4. Similarly, if you bought a good card on turn 3 and play your Scavenger on turn 4, you can discard your deck and topdeck that good card.
External strategy articles
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Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+ | . You may put your deck into your discard pile. Look through your discard pile and put one card from it on top of your deck.Dark Ages 1st Edition | August 2012 | ||
+ | . You may put your deck into your discard pile. Look through your discard pile and put one card from it onto your deck.Dark Ages 2nd Edition | September 2017 |
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