Vineyard

Vineyard
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Victory
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Alchemy
Illustrator(s)	Julien Delval
Card text
Worth 1  per 3 Action cards you have (round down).

Vineyard is a Victory card from Alchemy. Keeping with Alchemy's theme of Actions, Vineyard is an Alt-VP card worth points based on how many Actions you have in your deck.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This is worth 1  per 3 Action cards you have, rounded down; for example if you have 11 Action cards, your Vineyards are worth 3  each.

Other Rules clarifications

• Cards with multiple types, one of which is Action, are Actions and so are counted by Vineyard.

Strategy

Vineyard is an alt-VP Victory card that rewards you for having many Actions in your deck; this is likely to be the case when you are building an engine, and especially so when the Kingdom offers many non-terminals that you want in your deck (e.g., Peddler variants, cantrips, and non-terminal draw), and gainers or additional +Buy to quickly add them to your deck. In some Kingdoms, Vineyards may score more than (and be a full alternative to) Provinces. However, Vineyard requires a Potion to buy, which has a couple of consequences.

1. First, it means the rest of your payload (likely in the form of gainers and ) cannot be used to score via Vineyards.
2. Second, like all cards, the amount of Vineyards you can buy per shuffle is restricted by the number of Potions you already have in your deck.

The first problem is most easily solved by +Buy, preferably in the form of a cheap Action that is easy to acquire and play in bulk. Some good examples of such are Hamlet and Market Square.

The second consequence usually means that you’ll want to buy a Potion the shuffle before you want to start greening. It also means that you’ll want to be able to consistently draw your Potion every turn (likely by just drawing your entire deck), and so when scoring with Vineyards you’ll usually want to achieve full deck control first (while building and adding Actions as usual) before getting a Potion. It is possible that with other cards such as University you will already have a Potion in your deck anyway, which can make the transition to greening less marked. Gain and play, for example via Sculptor, also allows you to more quickly transition to buying Vineyards. It can be a good idea to buy additional Potions after you’ve already started greening, as doing so both allows you to score more per turn and threaten to pileout the Vineyards.

It’s generally a good idea to keep a close count of how many Action cards you have in your deck when scoring with Vineyards. This will allow you to both evaluate how much you will score with the Vineyards you buy, and help you determine if you’re close to the next multiple-of-three threshold needed to score more. The latter can be especially important if you need to score more to fend off a pileout (e.g., by buying Ruins), or if some of your Actions are one-shots (e.g., Horses from Paddock).

Other cards that synergize with gaining lots of Action cards tend to work well in decks that are scoring with Vineyards, for example City Quarter or Scrying Pool.

External strategy articles

Note: Article(s) below are by individual authors and may not represent the community's current views on cards, but may provide more in-depth information or give historical perspective. Caveat emptor.

• ehunt's 2011 article

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Worth 1  for every 3 Action cards in your deck (rounded down).	Alchemy	May 2010
		Worth 1  per 3 Action cards you have (round down).	Alchemy (2018 printing)	December 2018

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Chinese	葡萄園 (pron. pútáo yuán)
Czech	Vinice
Dutch	Wijnberg
Finnish	Viinitarha
French	Vignoble			Vaut 1  pour chaque lot de 3 cartes Action que vous avez (arrondi inférieurement).
German	Weinberg			Wert 1  pro 3 Aktionskarten im eigenen Kartensatz (abgerundet).	(2019) one or more other versions listed here
	Weinberg			Wert 1  pro 3 Aktionskarten, die du besitzt (abgerundet).
Italian	Vigna
Japanese	ブドウ園 (pron. budō-en)			あなたのアクションカード3枚(端数切り捨て)につき1 。
Russian	Виноградник (pron. vinogradnik)			Приносит 1  за каждые 3 карты Действия, которые у вас есть (с окрулением вниз).
Spanish	Viñedo			Consigue 1   por cada 3 cartas de Acción que tengas en tu mazo al final de la partida (redondeando hacia abajo).

Trivia

Official card art.

As of the release of Plunder, Vineyard is the only card that, after it is trashed, can never be removed from the trash (unless it is trashed on a Possession turn). Most other cards can be gained from the trash by one or more of Graverobber, Rogue, Shaman, Lich, Lurker, and Treasurer.

Preview

The obvious card to compare this to is Gardens. There are a lot of differences though. The cards that make each one good are completely different. Gardens wants Coppers, Estates, and other copies of Gardens. Vineyard doesn't like any of those, or even other Vineyards. It wants cheap actions and lots of them. This makes playing a Vineyard deck a lot different than playing a Gardens deck. Another thing is, when you're going for Gardens, other players will buy a few to stop you from going too nuts. They can't buy Vineyards without Potions though. Did they get Potions? They didn't always get them.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Dominion: Alchemy Preview

Secret History

This was originally in the main set! And Gardens was in Alchemy (with the costs switched). I moved Gardens into the main set because it was easier to go for. I moved Vineyard to another set, but when the time came I wanted it here after all.

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