Desert Guides
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| Desert Guides | |
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| Type(s) | Ally |
| Set |
Allies |
| Illustrator(s) | Martin Hoffmann |
| Ally text | |
| At the start of your turn, you may spend a Favor to discard your hand and draw 5 cards. Repeat as desired. | |
Desert Guides is an Ally from Allies. It allows you to spend Favor tokens to discard and replace your hand at the beginning of your turn, like the Reserve card Guide.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- After discarding your hand and drawing 5 cards, you may spend another Favor to do it again, repeatedly.
Other rules clarifications
- Unlike Guide, once you decline to spend more Favors for Desert Guides, you can't come back to it later in the same turn.
Strategy
- When combined with Captain, card effects can happen before the hand is discarded and replaced. This can include discard for benefit, trash for benefit, or cards that play actions from your hand, such as Throne Room.
Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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At the start of your turn, you may spend a Favor to discard your hand and draw 5 cards. Repeat as desired. | Allies | March 2022 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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| Dutch | Woestijngidsen |  |
Aan het begin van je beurt mag je een Dienst besteden om je hand af te leggen en 5 kaarten te trekken. Herhaal dit zo vaak je wilt. |
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| German | Wüstenführer |  |
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Zu Beginn deines Zuges darfst du 1 Gefallen einlösen, um deine Handkarten abzulegen und 5 Karten zu ziehen. Wiederhole das beliebig oft. |
Trivia
Secret History
Unchanged, though at one point attention focused on it.
Further development comments
Desert Guides actually happened; your eyes aren't deceiving you. [LastFootnote] complained about it for the worry that you'd pile up tokens and shuffle multiple times a turn, but there it is. Underling + Desert Guides is basically better than Guide, again not a subtle detail I missed. Obv. we can edge case it, but it's a lot closer than e.g. Ducat and Candlestick Maker.
