Villain
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Villain | |
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Type(s) | Action - Attack |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Renaissance |
Illustrator(s) | Jason Slavin |
Card text | |
+2 Coffers Each other player with 5 or more cards in hand discards one costing or more (or reveals they can't). |
Villain is an Action-Attack card from Renaissance. It produces Coffers and makes your opponents discard a card costing or more.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- For example a player could discard an Estate which costs .
Strategy
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+2 Coffers. Each other player with 5 or more cards in hand discards one costing or more (or reveals they can't). | Renaissance | November 2018 |
Other language versions
Trivia
Mountebank was originally called Villain during playtesting.
Preview
Villain has +2 Coffers, there you go, it's that easy. It makes the other players discard something good, except early on they'll have Estates and later on Provinces. But you know, in the middle there, it demands a good card.
Secret History
I tried a few different Militias before getting here. When it got close to what it is, there were versions that looked for cards costing + or +, versions that made you discard all copies of what you discarded, and versions that only attacked if you had enough Coffers tokens.
Relevant outtakes
Prior to Villain, there was an attack that had your opponents discard a card they had 2+ copies of in hand (an idea from Cornucopia); there was "each other player discards a copy of the most recently gained Treasure"; there was "if you have 5+ Coffers tokens, they discard down to 1 then draw 3." There was "they discard an Action, if they did they get +1 Coffers"; that looks like, why did I try that, but the idea was to be a simpler way of implementing an Enchantress that turned a card play into "+1 Action +1 Coffers." There was "Each other player with 5+ cards puts one on the bottom of their deck"; it's uh, it hasn't been done yet is what it is. And there was "they reveal their hand and discard all copies of one card in it," which bled into Villain.