Research

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Research
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Duration
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Renaissance
Illustrator(s)	Julien Delval
Card text
+1 Action Trash a card from your hand. Per it costs, set aside a card from your deck face down (on this). At the start of your next turn, put those cards into your hand.

Research is an Action-Duration card from Renaissance. It is a trash-for-benefit card that provides non-terminal draw for your next turn, functioning like a Duration Apprentice. It is poor at trashing Coppers, Curses, and Ruins and shines when used strategically to trash more expensive cards for huge starting hands.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• For each the trashed card costs, you set aside the top card of your deck for next turn; for example if you trash a Silver, you set aside the top 3 cards for next turn.
• If there are not enough cards, just set aside as many as you can.
• The cards are set aside face down; you can look at them and other players cannot.

Strategy

Synergies and Combos

• Gold gainers, such as Hoard or Market Square
• Fortress

Antisynergies

• Cost reduction
• Shelters

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Action Trash a card from your hand. Per it costs, set aside a card from your deck face down (on this). At the start of your next turn, put those cards into your hand.	Renaissance	November 2018

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Chinese	研究 (pron. yánjiū)
Dutch	Onderzoek			+1 Actie Vernietig een kaart uit je hand. Leg per dat de vernietigde kaart kost 1 kaart van je trekstapel gedekt opzij (op het Onderzoek). Aan het begin van je volgende beurt neem je deze kaart(en) in je hand.
French	Recherche
German	Forscherin			+1 Aktion Entsorge eine deiner Handkarten. Pro , das sie kostet, lege eine Karte von deinem Nachziehstapel mit der Bildseite nach unten zur Seite (auf diese Karte). Zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges: nimm jene Karten auf deine Hand.	(2019)
Japanese	研究 (pron kenkyū)			+1 アクション 手札1枚を廃棄する。そのコストにつき1枚、山札の一番上のカードを(このカードの)脇に伏せて置く。あなたの次のターンの開始時に、それらを手札に加える。
Russian	Исследование (pron. isslyedovaniye)
Spanish	Investigación			+1 Acción Elimina una carta de tu mano. Por cada que cueste, deja una carta de tu mazo boca abajo sobre esta carta. Al iniciar tu siguiente turno, pon esas cartas en tu mano.

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Gradually, the set developed an at-first unintentional trash-for-benefit theme - cards that do something when gained or trashed, plus nice ways to trash them. So when I was filling the last few slots, I tried to get in some more of that. This is like Apprentice, but you get the cards next turn, and since they're set aside you have to have cards left to set aside for it.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Renaissance

Further development comments

It was no secret that Research was Research, we knew all about it. The cards don't have to all be all things to all people, especially not all things to people who are drawing their decks but want pity. We weren't blind to it being what it is. It wasn't just not thought of that hey what if you're drawing your deck, wouldn't you rather not be setting cards aside. We've had, in playtest, the experience repeatedly of cards that draw set aside cards and get complained about because if everything's going your way they don't draw. This one made it through.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Dominion Discord, 2019