Overgrown Estate

Overgrown Estate
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Victory - Shelter
Kingdom card?	No
Set	Dark Ages
Illustrator(s)	Martin Hoffmann
Card text
0  When you trash this, +1 Card.

Overgrown Estate is one of the three Shelter cards that players start with instead of Estates in their decks in Dark Ages games. It is a Victory card even though it is worth 0 ; it gives you a small bonus when you manage to trash it.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This is a Victory card despite being worth 0 .
• If this is trashed, you draw a card, right then, even in the middle of resolving another card.
• For example if you use Altar to trash Overgrown Estate, you first draw a card, then gain a card costing up to .
• This card does not give you a way to trash itself, it merely does something if you manage to trash it.

Other Rules clarifications

• When an Overgrown Estate is revealed when playing Ambassador, it is not returned to the Supply (since it is not in the Supply) and opponents do not gain a copy of it.
• If you buy a Farmland and trash an Overgrown Estate, you immediately draw a card. However, even if the drawn card is a treasure, you are unable to play it since you must play all treasure before you buy a card.

Strategy

Refer to the Shelter strategy section for overall discussion of strategy for the three Shelters collectively.

Overgrown Estate is often an attractive target for trashing as early as possible, since doing so provides some cycling and is reasonably likely to draw a Copper in the early game, increasing your output that turn. However, it's worth paying attention to cases where this effect could trigger an undesirable shuffle or draw a card dead, in which case it may be better to trash something else. Since Overgrown Estate does have the Victory type, it does interact with some of the same effects as Estate (such as Rebuild and Shepherd), but these are still unlikely to be worth using.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		0  When you trash this, +1 Card.	Dark Ages 1st Edition	August 2012
		0  When you trash this, +1 Card.	Dark Ages 2nd Edition	September 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Czech	Zpustlý statek (lit. derelict estate)			0  Pokud zahodíš tuto kartu na smetiště, +1 karta.
Dutch	Verwilderd Landgoed (lit. haggard estate)			0  Als je deze kaart vernietigt: +1 Kaart.	(2012)
Finnish	Autiotila (lit. deserted domain)
French	Domaine luxuriant (lit. lush domain)			0  Quand vous écartez cette carte, +1 Carte.
German	Verfallenes Anwesen			0  Wenn du diese Karte entsorgst: +1 Karte	(2012)
Japanese	草茂る屋敷 (pron. kusashigeru yashiki)			0  これを廃棄するとき、+1 カードを引く。
Korean	잡초투성이 사유지 (pron. jabchotuseong-i sayuji, lit. estate full of weeds)
Russian	Заросшее Поместье (pron. zarosshyeye pomyest'ye)
Spanish	Finca Abandonada (lit. abandoned estate)			0  Cuando elimines esta carta, +1 Carta.

Trivia

Official card art.

Overgrown Estate is the only Victory card that is never worth any points.

Card Art

The art shows an overgrown version of the art for Estate, from Base Cards.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, 'Art Trivia'

Secret History

Shelters: Tom Lehmann suggested replacing starting Estates with something else, to make the environment feel more Dark Ages-y. I thought this was a great idea. Ruins obv. doesn't work, because some people would make out, unless we picked specific ones. And Curse isn't very interesting. But I could just make up three new cards, which is what I did. Necropolis shakes up early turns, since you can stomach more in the way of terminal actions; Overgrown Estate gives you a little prize if you crack it open eventually; and Hovel tempts you into buying a victory card when you might not have.

Hovel is the only one that changed. Originally it was an action you could trash by discarding your hand. It turned out that trashing it turn 1-2 usually seemed like the correct play, even if you drew it with four Coppers. So that was no good. Hovel as printed has nice flavor going for it; you move out of your old Hovel and into a nice Duchy.

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