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TopicTom Ranks the Dominion Cards
Tom Bombadil
08/30/11 8:18:00 PM
#109:


132. Navigator
Set: Seaside
$4 Action: +$2. Look at the top 5 cards of your deck. Either discard all of them, or put them back on top of your deck in any order.
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There's not much to say here. It's a great support/defense card on a board that screws with the top of your deck in any fashion, and fairly underwhelming for the price otherwise.

With any sort of card that deals with the top of your deck, you can't really find a better solution than Navigator. It can shrug off Sea Hag and Ghost Ship, shut down Tribute, twist Thief to your advantage, help out a +card/+action engine that landed too heavily on +action, optimize Lookout or Scrying Pool or Hunting Party, and just generally rock face with anything of the sort.

When you don't have any top-deck shenanigans, though, it's a lot harder to justify. Discarding is one of those "how often is it REALLY helpful" abilities- you can get crappy hands out of the way, but can you really be sure with any frequency that the new hand will be better than whatever you draw? It is helpful for cycling the deck, but you know what's better at cycling and gives you +$2 and costs less? Chancellor. And in the absence of any of its nifty synergies and counters, the rearranging shtick does pretty much zero good unless you have an extra action and some +Cards to play. It quite frequently winds up as- you guessed it!- terminal silver.

It's just kinda there. It can be a lifesaver on some boards, but is pretty weak on the rest, and the interactions aren't QUITE fun enough to make up for it. There's nothing even close to filling its niche as well as it does, but that's a niche that frequently needs no filling.

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