Royal Galley

Basic Info

• Type: Action-Duration
• Cost: 4
• Effect: Play an Action from your hand. If it's not a Duration, set it aside, and play it again at the start of your next turn.

Rating

Cost-4 Throne Room equivalent. Replays the same Action next turn for double-effect over two turns.

Killer feature: cross-turn doubling via duration. Plan two-turn spans efficiently.

Limit: non-Duration only. Can't double Highwayman-style attacks. Still doubles Smithy, Market, Festival, etc.

Overall A-tier. Cost-4 reusable doubler is excellent.

How to Play

Mid-game cost-4 buy. Have strong 5-cost Actions ready to double.

Each turn: Royal Galley fires strong Action twice (once now, once next turn).

Key Combos

Royal Galley + Festival/Market: doubled +2 Buys / +2 Coins / +2 Actions / +2 Cards.

Royal Galley + Smithy: +6 Cards across two turns.

Royal Galley + Guildmaster: +6 Coins + sustained gain trigger.

Royal Galley + Throne Room: TR + RG = quadruple-fire chain.

Synergies

• Strong 4-5 cost Actions: doubling target.
• Smithy: doubled draw.
• Festival/Market: multi-resource.
• Throne Room: doubling-of-doubling.

Counters & Bad Matchups

• Duration cards: not doublable.
• Weak Actions: doubling weak still weak.
• BM: Throne-style weak in BM.

Advanced Tips

"What to double next turn" is the core decision. Pick the strongest available (Smithy, Guildmaster).

2 copies stable. 3+ overkill.

TR + Royal Galley = 4 fires. Explosive resource.

Royal Galley is Duration → slow cycle. Adjust copy count for cycling speed.