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{{Infobox Card
|name = Bandit
|cost = 5
|kingdom = Yes
|types = Action-Attack
|illustrator = Julien Delval
|text = Gain a Gold. Each other player reveals the top 2 cards of their deck, trashes a revealed Treasure other than Copper, and discards the rest.
}}

'''Bandit''' is an [[Action]]–[[Attack]] card from the [[second edition]] of the [[base]] set. It is a [[trashing attack]] that targets your opponent's [[Treasure]] cards and gives you free {{card|Gold}}.

It replaces the [[removed]] card {{card|Thief}}, an extremely weak Treasure-trashing Attack from the first edition.

== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* First you gain a {{Card|Gold}} from the [[Supply]], putting it into your discard pile. 
* Then each other player, in turn order, reveals their top 2 cards, trashes one they choose that is a Treasure other than {{card|Copper}} (e.g. {{Card|Silver}} or {{Card|Gold}}), and discards the other revealed cards. A player who did not reveal a Treasure card other than Copper simply discards both cards.

== Strategy ==
Bandit’s primary role is to add {{card|Gold}} to your engine after you are successfully drawing your deck. Typically, when building an engine, you will spend your initial turns trashing your starting cards and buying draw cards. This often leads to a deck that draws itself reliably but doesn’t achieve much once drawn. Buying a Bandit at this point will jumpstart the process of adding [[payload]] to your deck, as the Bandit will add a {{card|Gold}} every turn thereafter, assuming you successfully draw your deck. If you have [[overdraw]], you can even gain the Gold and play it on that same turn.

In order for Bandit to provide an ongoing benefit in this context, you need two things: 
# a way to keep adding additional draw cards to your deck so that you can still draw it after adding {{Card|Gold|Golds}} (which are [[stop card]]s)
# a reason why adding many {{Card|Gold|Golds}} will be worthwhile, typically either [[+Buy]] or [[trash-for-benefit]] cards like {{card|Remodel}}
Indeed, the combination of Bandit and {{Card|Remodel}} is one of the stronger forms of payload in the [[Base]] Dominion set, as it allows you to gain an extra {{card|Province}} each turn.

Bandit’s attack is rarely an important part of the card, but it can be helpful if its odds of hitting a [[Treasure]] are high enough. Typically this means it’s useful in kingdoms with strong [[trasher|trashing]] and where Treasure is a major source of payload (as opposed to Action cards like {{card|Festival}}). In games with more than two players, Bandit can trash more Treasures than it gains. If multiple opponents are playing Bandits, using Treasure payload becomes less attractive.

Despite the fact that gaining {{Card|Gold|Golds}} is a valuable thing to do in [[Big Money|money]] strategies, Bandit is only occasionally the best [[terminal]] Action to use in a money-oriented deck. This is because Bandit makes no {{Cost}} and draws no cards, so it worsens your current turn in exchange for a benefit that won’t be experienced until the next time you shuffle your deck. Cards with more immediate benefits should often be preferred.

== Versions ==
===English versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
|-
| {{CardVersionImage|Bandit|Bandit}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=s}} || Gain a Gold. Each other player reveals the top 2 cards of their deck, trashes a revealed Treasure other than Copper, and discards the rest. || Dominion [[Second Edition|(Second Edition)]] || October 2016 
|}

===Other language versions===
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible autocollapse" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!Chinese
| 強盜 (pron. ''qiángdào'') || || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| 獲得一張黃金，其他玩家展示牌庫頂的兩張牌，移除其中一張非銅幣的錢幣卡，棄掉剩下的卡片。||
|-
!rowspan=2|Dutch
| Bandiet || {{CardVersionImage|Bandit_nl}} || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| Pak een Goud. Iedere andere speler toont de 2&nbsp;bovenste kaarten van zijn trekstapel, vernietigt getoonde geldkaarten met uitzondering van Koper, en legt de rest af. || <p>Tweede editie<br>(2017)</p><hr><p>"...vernietigt <s>getoonde geldkaarten</s> één getoonde geldkaart&hellip;"
|-
| Bandiet || {{CardLangVersionImage|Dutch}} || || Pak een Goud. Iedere andere speler toont de 2 bovenste kaarten van zijn trekstapel, vernietigt één getoonde geldkaart met uitzondering van Koper, en legt de rest af. || Tweede editie<br>(herdruk 2019/2020)
|-
!French
| Brigand || || || ||
|-
!German
| Banditin<br>(Note: explicitly feminine) || {{CardVersionImage|BanditGerman2019rulebook|German language Bandit 2019 by ASS}} || {{CardVersionImage|BanditGerman2021Digital|German language Bandit 2021 from Shuffle iT}} || Nimm ein Gold. Jeder Mitspieler deckt die obersten 2&nbsp;Karten seines Nachziehstapels auf, entsorgt eine aufgedeckte Geldkarte außer Kupfer, und legt den Rest ab. || 2.&nbsp;Edition<br>(2019)<hr>''one or more other<br> versions listed [[%C3%9Cbersetzungsfehler_(German_translation_errors)#ASS_plus|here]]''
|-
!Japanese
| 山賊 (pron. ''sanzoku'') || || || style="padding:15px 0px;"| 金貨1枚を獲得する。他のプレイヤーは全員、山札の上から2枚を公開し、銅貨以外の公開した財宝カード1枚を廃棄し、残りを捨て札にする。||
|-
!Polish
| Bandyta || || || ||
|-
!Russian
| Бандит (pron. ''bandit'') || || {{CardLangVersionImage|Russian|d=1}} || Получите Золото. Каждый другой игрок раскрывает 2&nbsp;верхние карты своей колоды, выкидывает раскрытую карту Сокровища (не Медь) и сбрасывает остальные раскрытые карты. ||
|-
!Spanish
|Bandido || {{CardLangVersionImage|Spanish}} || || Ganas una carta de Oro.<br>Los demás jugadores tienen que revelar las 2&nbsp;cartas superiores de sus respectivos mazos, eliminar una carta de Tesoro revelada que no sea de Cobre y descartar las demás. || Segunda Edición<br>(2016, 2021)
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:BanditArt.jpg|thumb|right|354px|Official card art.]]
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote|Text=This of course replaces {{Card|Thief}}. You gain a Gold so that it's always doing something useful. It doesn't trash Coppers, so it both doesn't have that huge penalty, and can't threaten new players with eating all of their Treasures.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=16338.0 The Secret History of the Dominion 2nd Editions]
}}
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