Diadem

Diadem
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Treasure - Prize
Kingdom card?	No
Set	Cornucopia & Guilds
Illustrator(s)	Ryan Laukat
Card text
When you play this, + per unused Action you have (Action, not Action card). (This is not in the Supply.)

Diadem is a Treasure-Prize card from Cornucopia. It is not in the Supply, and can only be gained through playing the Tournament card. It gives you for each unused Action you have—amazing when you have an engine with too many villages, but not useful in Big Money games.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• When you play Diadem, you get an extra + per unused Action you have. This means Actions, not Action cards. So for example if you play Farming Village (which gives you +2 Actions), then Diadem, Diadem will give you an extra +, for total.
• If you play no Action cards at all on your turn, you will have one unused Action, so you will get total from Diadem.

Other Rules clarifications

• It is possible to steal Diadem from another player by using Thief.
• If you play Diadem during your Action phase, such as with Black Market, it does not use up your remaining Actions; it only gives equal to their number.

Strategy Article

There isn't a strategy article for Diadem.

It's a great card to pick up if you, for whatever reason, have an oversupply of Actions. Maybe you built a City stack for the +Card, +, and +Buy, and don't have enough terminals. Maybe your Throne Room/King's Court/Grand Market engine is generating a huge surplus of Actions.

However, in a Tournament game, this will rarely be the case, since Tournament games are often a race to the first Province, with no time to set up a huge engine. Even so, Diadem will often be worth , and can be a good Prize to take if the situation demands it.

Synergies/Combos

• Champion

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Notes	Release	Date
		. When you play this, + per unused Action you have (Action, not Action card). (This is not in the Supply.)		Cornucopia 1st Edition	June 2011
		. When you play this, + per unused Action you have (Action, not Action card). (This is not in the Supply.)	Digital version has a cost of rather than .	Cornucopia 2nd Edition	March 2018

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Czech	Diadém
Dutch	Tiara (lit. tiara)
Finnish	Otsakoru (lit. forehead jewel)
French	Diadème			. Quand vous jouez cette carte, + par Action inutilisée (Action, et non carte Action). (ne fait pas partie de la réserve).
German	Diadem			+ für jede nicht genutzte Aktion in deinem Zug. (Diese Karte gehört nicht zum Vorrat.)	ASS translation errors: omitted "When you play this," omitted "(Action, not Action card)"
Italian	Diadema
Japanese	王冠 (pron. ōkan)			。 未使用のアクション使用権1つにつき+。 (このカードはサプライに置かない。)
Polish	Diadem
Russian	Диадема (pron. diadyema)
Spanish	Diadema

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Diadem started in the large version of Alchemy long ago, as an Action: "+. Return this to your hand." It was a cute combo with Villages, but useless without them. I then tried some "choose one" versions, which solved the problem of it sometimes being dead, but didn't make the actions-to-money part any better. I eventually gave up on it, and well here it is at last.

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