Blessed Village
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Blessed Village | |
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Type(s) | Action - Fate |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Nocturne |
Illustrator(s) | Brian Brinlee |
Card text | |
+1 Card +2 Actions When you gain this, take a Boon. Receive it now or at the start of your next turn. |
Blessed Village is an Action-Fate card from Nocturne. It's a vanilla village when played, but gives you a Boon when gained, to receive either now or later.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- You see the Boon before deciding to resolve it immediately or at the start of your next turn.
- If you save it for next turn, it sits in front of you until then (or until the end of that turn if it says to keep it out until Clean-up).
Other rules clarifications
Strategy
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Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Card. +2 Actions. When you gain this, take a Boon. Receive it now or at the start of your next turn. |
Nocturne | November 2017 |
Other language versions
Trivia
Preview
Blessed Village gives you a Boon when you gain it. You can save the Boon for next turn and well some of them are still handy at the end of your Buy phase, but not all of them. The Sea's Gift for example is one you probably save. That word Fate at the bottom just means, shuffle the Boons for this game. See they all have it.
Secret History
A late card. Empires had had a Woodcutter that gave you a Boon when you gained it or trashed it. We all liked it a lot. It came under fire in Nocturne when you no longer knew what the Boon would be. One day it was one of the cards least able to cling to existence, and went. Then later still a village slot was freed up, see Ghost Town for details. I needed a new village. I tried a lot of crazy scaling villages, seeing if I could find something cool but fair. There were some cool things but not so much fair things. Finally I tried this, the most obvious idea but because I'd killed the Woodcutter I didn't go straight to it. It was great though. It's okay that you don't know what the Boon is; it's something, and you probably wanted a village anyway. You had not so much wanted the Woodcutter.
Relevant outtakes
Relatively late, I had room for a village, and tried a bunch of villages. Most of them scaled in some way. You drew a card when you trashed a card; you drew a card for next turn when you gained a card. There were some fun games seeing those cards go nuts. One village didn't fit this mold; it was trying to be good with Night cards, and gave + per treasure in your next two plays, then just + if either was a treasure. So, essentially if you didn't get village value from it, it gave you instead. It just wasn't very interesting.
The Woodcutter version as "Honest Merchant"
We had fun buying Honest Merchant even though it was a Woodcutter. A village is much nicer, but also, getting to save a Boon is huge for how much fun you get out of the Boon on Blessed Village.
The lesson for me though was "Honest Merchant could totally be fixed up." Sure that fix involved having it not be a Woodcutter - to me that wasn't the premise so the trail is clear.
And then because of that card dying it took forever for me to try Blessed Village, and then I let you save the Boon and now it's a star of the set. A lesson for us all.