Hovel
Hovel | |
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Type(s) | Reaction - Shelter |
Kingdom card? | No |
Set | Dark Ages |
Illustrator(s) | Eric J Carter |
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When you buy a Victory card, you may trash this from your hand. |
Hovel is one of the three Shelter cards that players start with instead of Estates in their decks in Dark Ages games. It is a Reaction; when you buy a Victory card, you can trash your Hovel if you have it in hand at the time. It's thematic - you move out of your Hovel into a nice Duchy.
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Additional rules
The rules for playing with Shelters are described in the Dominion: Dark Ages rulebook and are reproduced here.
Preparation
- If only Kingdom cards from Dark Ages are being used this game, the Shelters cards replace starting Estates - each player's starting deck is seven Coppers, a Hovel, a Necropolis, and an Overgrown Estate.
- If a mix of Kingdom cards from Dark Ages and other sets is being used, then the use of Shelters should be determined randomly, based on the proportion of Dark Ages cards in use. For example, choose a random Kingdom card being used - such as the last card dealt from the Randomizer deck - and if it is from Dark Ages, use Shelters in place of starting Estates.
- Do not use the same card to choose whether or not to use Shelters as you use to choose whether or not to use Platinum and Colony (from Prosperity).
- Using Shelters does not change the Estate Supply pile; it still contains 8 Estates for 2 players and 12 Estates for 3 or more players.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- This is a Shelter; see Preparation.
- It is never in the Supply.
- When you buy a Victory card, if Hovel is in your hand, you may trash the Hovel.
- A card with multiple types, one of which is Victory, is a Victory card.
- You do not get anything for trashing Hovel; you just get to get rid of it.
Other Rules clarifications
- When a Hovel is revealed when playing Ambassador, it is not returned to the Supply (since it is not in the Supply) and opponents do not gain a copy of it.
Strategy Article
General Shelters strategy is on the Shelters page.
You typically will not want to buy a Victory card such as a Duchy or Estate very early just to trash Hovel. However, having a Hovel in hand does provide an incentive to buy a Province when you'd otherwise forgo it for a Gold, or to buy a Duchy a little earlier than you usually would.
Synergies/Combos
- Market Square can gain you a Gold when you trash Hovel.
- Alt-VP rushes and other situations where you might be buying Victory cards earlier than usual, such as with Rebuild.
Antisynergies
- Chapel or other forms of strong trashing which will let you trash the Hovel before using its Reaction ability.
Trivia
Hovel is the only Dominion card to date that is not an Action, Treasure, Victory, or Curse.
In other languages
- French: Cabane
- German: Hütte
- Spanish: Casucha
Secret History