Mission
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| Type | Event |
| Set |
Adventures |
| Illustrator(s) | Martin Hoffmann |
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Take an extra turn after this one (but not a 3rd turn in a row), during which you can't buy cards. (You can still buy Events.) | |
Mission is an Event from Adventures. It gives the buyer an extra turn in which they can't buy cards.
FAQ
Unofficial FAQ
Mission has received errata so that you can't take multiple extra turns in a row [1].
- The extra turn is completely normal except that you cannot buy cards during it, including from Black Market.
- 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.
- If you buy Mission multiple times in one turn, you aren't able to take more than 2 turns in a row, so the 2nd Mission will fail.
- If you set up 2 extra turns at once (e.g. one from Mission, one from Voyage), you choose one turn to take, and the others fail.
- If you are Possessed, and they make you buy Mission, you will take a Mission turn, and then take your normal turn.
Official FAQ (2021)
- 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
- Buying Mission does nothing if you were Possessed on your previous turn.
Strategy
Even a restricted extra turn is often a very powerful effect, making Mission a strong Event. Although buying cards is an important objective of many turns, and the restriction on Mission turns is therefore significant, there are often many other ways to make meaningful progress during a turn, including thinning your deck, cycling through a shuffle, gaining cards by other means (e.g. using gainers), and attacking your opponents. Thus, Mission's value in a particular Kingdom hinges on the availability of such opportunities and the benefits of engaging in them. These benefits need to be weighed against the opportunity cost of buying Mission itself, since doing so eliminates another chance that you would otherwise have had to buy a card. This means that Mission is typically more viable if you have a source of +Buy which allows you to buy something alongside Mission on your non-Mission turns.
The value of an extra turn from Mission is heavily dependent on how much you can do without buying cards, as the more your turns center around these types of effects, the closer Mission is to simply providing a full extra turn and doubling your deck’s capabilities.
- The most common way to improve your deck is by adding strong cards to it without buying them. Gainers (e.g. University) often fulfill this purpose, while some Events (e.g. Alms or Summon) can also work. Hermit is a particularly notable example, as it can gain both cheap cards (likely more Hermits) and Madmen.
- Mission can be bought regularly in the endgame to amplify several alt-VP effects. This can include Events such as Dominate or Triumph, or cards such as Bishop.
- Extra turns means more opportunities to play key cards sooner. For example, if you are able to play a thinner on both your Mission and non-Mission turns, you are thinning twice as fast as a player who does not buy Mission. In the early game, playing thinners, Attacks (especially Cursers, where winning the Curse split can be important), and Travellers in this way will allow you to rapidly snowball into stronger overall turns (Mission or otherwise).
- Later in the game, Mission can double some types of payload. While this can include Attacks which stack, such as Knights, the most common use case is to double your total number of gainer plays, which can both rapidly improve your deck and allow you to more easily threaten a pileout.
- Other opportunities Mission can provide that are typically less powerful but may still be worthwhile include the chance to accumulate resources such as Villagers or Coffers or pay back
. - Occasionally, the value of Mission lies largely in the fact that it offers relatively cheap access to an extra turn, even if you can do little or nothing with that turn itself. Similar considerations might apply if you anticipate a dud for other reasons (e.g., by using deck tracking and noting that the remainder of your shuffle is mostly junk) and wish to cycle past it, or simply want a chance to set up your next turn, e.g. by playing Duration draw.
When and how often to buy Mission mostly depends on which of the above options you’re using it for. If an early Mission can accelerate your deck control or advance another high-priority early-game goal, it may be worth buying over another card. If, however, Mission’s main effect will be to amplify your payload, you’ll likely have to build up your deck first, as in the early game you likely lack both the specific type of payload you want and the deck control to reliably find it on your Mission turn. Once you have key payload options and sufficient deck control, you may then want to buy Mission consistently throughout the midgame or even the endgame, depending on how valuable and flexible the extra payload on your Mission turns is.
External strategy articles
Note: Article(s) below are by individual authors and may not represent the community's current views on cards, but may provide more in-depth information or give historical perspective. Caveat emptor.
Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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Once per turn: If the previous turn wasn't yours, take another turn after this one, in which you can't buy cards. | Adventures | April 2015 |
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Once per turn: If the previous turn wasn't yours, take another turn after this one, during which you can't buy cards. | Adventures (2016 printing) | August 2017 |
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Take an extra turn after this one (but not a 3rd turn in a row), during which you can't buy cards. (You can still buy Events.) |
Extra turn errata | December 2023 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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| Dutch | Missie | Eenmaal per beurt: als de vorige beurt niet de jouwe was, voer dan na deze beurt nog een beurt uit, waarin je geen kaarten mag kopen. |
(2015) | ||
| Finnish | Tehtävä | ||||
| French | Mission |  |
Une fois par tour : si le tour précédent n'était pas le vôtre, jouez un tour supplémentaire après celui-ci pendant lequel vous ne pourrez pas acheter de carte. | ||
| German | Mission |  |
Einmal pro Zug: Wenn der vorangegangene Zug nicht deiner war, spielst du nach diesem Zug einen weiteren Zug, in welchem du keine Karten kaufen darfst. | (2015) | |
| German | Mission |  |
Einmal pro Zug: Wenn der vorangegangene Zug nicht deiner war, spielst du nach diesem Zug einen weiteren, in dem du keine Karten kaufen kannst. | (Nachdruck 2021) | |
| Japanese | 使節団 (pron. shisetsu-dan) | 1ターンに1度のみ:直前のターンがあなたのものでない場合、このターンの後に、カードの購入ができない追加の1ターンを得る。 | |||
| Polish | Misja | Although Polish version is not released, this card is referred to in the Polish version of Empires rulebook | |||
| Russian | Миссия (pron. missiya) |
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