Set: Alchemy
$2P Action- +1 Card; +1 Action. Reveal the top 4 cards of your deck. Put the revealed Coppers and Potions into your hand. Put the other cards back on top in any order.
Well, it's non-terminal, which is to its credit, but it has two effects, neither of which are that great. If you have enough Coppers or Potions that the first effect is significantly useful, you probably have other problems. (unless you're running coppersmith or alchemists or maybe goons or gardens, I guess?) One or two coppers isn't likely to make a huge difference in your buying power or streamlining, although I guess the Potion can be handy if you're ogling a better potion card. The thing is, either you don't have enough Coppers and Potions to really make it work, or....you have a deckful of Coppers and Potions. >_> Even if there's not much trashing on the board, your deck shouldn't be staying in the "fulla copper" stage for long at all, and that's really when this card is useful.
The rearranging effect isn't BAD per se, but it's situational. If you don't have +Cards in your hand, its applications are very limited, and Navigator does the same thing much better. (admittedly, it's terminal) AND the two applications of the card anti-synergize with each other: if you got three cards out of the first effect, all the second part does is let you know what's next, but if you get nothing, this card is just a crappy non-terminal Navigator.
This is a card that illustrates how two mediocre things is quite frequently less useful in Dominion than 1 great thing. It's rarely a HORRIBLE card, especially since it's still a bit better than a cantrip, but there are very few situations where this card is particularly useful, and most of them are in junk decks. It's reliably mediocre, but unless there's a good potion card, it's probably not worth the effort to run potions for it, much less spend buys on it.
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