Trashing cards lets you remove them from your deck so you draw cards with patron powers more frequently.

You should use this power to get rid of cards that are hard to match or have no patron powers.

Good cards to trash include your (because you can’t buy any other white or gray cards), or your 11-14 cards (because you can’t buy any other 11-14 cards, and they have no patron powers).

If you choose to trash a card you played instead of trashing one from your discard pile, you keep its money (because you get money at the start of your turn to buy).

You can choose to use your powers in any order. If the card you wish to trash has a power, you may choose to use it before you use your 3’s power to trash it.

Yes—well, kinda.

You have to discard all cards remaining in your hand before your turn to buy. So when you use your 3’s power, you can trash a card that was in your hand (and is now in your discard pile).

No, all patron powers are optional.

Yes!

Yes! You can use your patron powers in any order!

You can even tuck an extra card, use a different card’s power, and then come back and trash a card.

Yes! When you change a 4, its own patron power stays the same. For all other purposes, it has the color or number you change it to. So if you change it to a 2, other 2s’ patron powers count it towards having the most 2s.

Example: you play , changing your 4 into a “2.” You use your 2’s patron power—your opponent only has one 2, and you have two, so you get +$1.

For any other cards’ powers that check your cards’ colors or numbers, they count the card you changed your 4 into.

Nope, sorry. 4s can only change to 1-7, or purple, red, blue, or orange.

In Avant Carde, gray and white don’t count as colors.

As you play your 5, if you choose to draw a card, take the top card of your deck and add it to your hand. Then continue playing cards (you may or may not be able to play the new card you drew)!

If there aren’t any cards left in your deck, shuffle your discard pile to form your new deck, and draw from that.

Tip: when possible, it’s better to draw cards closer to the start of your turn. That way you’re more likely to be able to fit the new card into the sequence of cards you’re planning on playing.

As you play the 6, you’ll choose a card you’ve already played this turn. Treat your 6 as if it had all of the chosen card’s powers!

If you copy a card with a power, you use it immediately as you play the 6.

If you copy a card with a power, you can use that power on your turn to buy.

No. A 6 copies patron powers, but doesn’t change its number. In addition, copying a 2’s patron power won’t do anything useful, because you can only use the 2’s patron power once per turn.

Yes, but not completely. The 6’s “Copy another card’s patron power” power cannot be copied. But if you choose to copy a previous 6, you will get another +$1.

Example: You play  . Your first 6 copies nothing, and your second 6 copies the first 6’s powers. You get $5: $2 for playing 2 cards, +$1 for your first 6, +$1 for your second 6, and +$1 for your second 6 copying your first 6.

To draw a card, take the top card of your deck and add it to your hand. Then continue playing cards (you may or may not be able to play the new card you drew)!

If there aren’t any cards left in your deck, shuffle your discard pile to form your new deck, and draw from that.

Tip: when possible, it’s better to draw cards closer to the start of your turn. That way you’re more likely to be able to fit the new card into the sequence of cards you’re planning on playing.

Yes! If you change a 4, it changes for all purposes other than its own patron power. Other cards (including 7s), count its number or color as whatever you changed it to.

Example: you play changing your 4 to a 6. You draw 2 cards from your 7—one card, and then another because your 4 now counts as a 5-7.

You check if you have the most 2s (or are tied for most 2s) on your turn to buy, when you choose to use the 2’s patron power.

In rare cases, the number of 2s players have may change between turns (for example, if they used the Curator). When you check, you check only the 2s that players have in front of them among the cards they played—so if another player trashed a 2 before your turn, they have one fewer when you count 2s.

It’s possible for an opponent to have the most 2s on their turn, and you to have the most 2s on your turn.

Yes—well, kinda.

You have to discard all cards remaining in your hand before your turn to buy. So when you use your 2’s power, you can trash a card that was in your hand (and is now in your discard pile).

Trashing cards lets you remove them from your deck so you draw cards with patron powers more frequently.

You should use this power to get rid of cards that are hard to match or have no patron powers.

Good cards to trash include your (because you can’t buy any other white or gray cards), or your 11-14 cards (because you can’t buy any other 11-14 cards, and they have no patron powers).

If you choose to trash a card you played instead of trashing one from your discard pile, you keep its money (because you get money at the start of your turn to buy).

You can choose to use your powers in any order. If the card you wish to trash has a power, you may choose to use it before you use your 2’s power to trash it.

No, all patron powers are optional.

No, all patron powers are optional. But if you don’t discard a card, you don’t get to draw a card.

To draw a card, take the top card of your deck and add it to your hand. Then continue playing cards (you may or may not be able to play the new card you drew)!

If there aren’t any cards left in your deck, shuffle your discard pile to form your new deck, and draw from that.

Tip: when possible, it’s better to draw cards closer to the start of your turn. That way you’re more likely to be able to fit the new card into the sequence of cards you’re planning on playing.

Yes! It doesn’t matter what you change your 4 into—you always draw a card if you haven’t played a 4 yet this turn.

If you’ve already played a 4 this turn, you don’t draw another card, no matter what you turned that 4 into.

Yes! When you change a 4, its own patron power stays the same. For all other purposes, it has the color or number you change it to. So if you change it to a 2, other 2′ patron powers count it towards having the most 2s.

Example: you play , changing your 4 into a “2.” You use your 2’s patron power—your opponent only has one 2, and you have two, so you can trash a card.

For any other cards’ powers that check your cards’ colors or numbers, they count the card you changed your 4 into.

To draw a card, take the top card of your deck and add it to your hand. Then continue playing cards (you may or may not be able to play the new card you drew)!

If there aren’t any cards left in your deck, shuffle your discard pile to form your new deck, and draw from that.

Tip: when possible, it’s better to draw cards closer to the start of your turn. That way you’re more likely to be able to fit the new card into the sequence of cards you’re planning on playing.

Yes! If you play , you’ll draw three cards.

Yes. The 5’s power only works for cards you play after it this turn.

To draw a card, take the top card of your deck and add it to your hand. Then continue playing cards (you may or may not be able to play the new card you drew)!

If there aren’t any cards left in your deck, shuffle your discard pile to form your new deck, and draw from that.

Tip: when possible, it’s better to draw cards closer to the start of your turn. That way you’re more likely to be able to fit the new card into the sequence of cards you’re planning on playing.

You can only trash cards in your row of played cards, not from your discard pile. If you trash a played card, you keep its money (because you get money at the start of your turn to buy).

You can choose to use your powers in any order. If the card you wish to trash has a power, you may choose to use it before you use your 6’s power to trash it.

Yes, but you can’t trash itself. If you played two 6s, you can trash one with the other.

(They can’t both trash each other)

No, all patron powers are optional. But if you don’t trash a card, you don’t get any bonus money.

Yes! For every second card you play of the chosen color, you get to draw one card. If you have enough cards of the chosen color in your deck, you might be able to draw and play your whole deck!

7s can stack and each 7 counts forward from itself, so it depends on how you play them!

Example 1—You play two red 7s naming red for both of them. Now every red card you play, you draw one card:

(draw for first 7’s power) (draw for second 7’s power) (draw for first 7’s power), etc.

Example 2—You play one red 7 and one blue 7, both naming red. Now every second red card you play, you draw two cards:

(draw two cards) (draw two cards), etc.

To draw a card, take the top card of your deck and add it to your hand. Then continue playing cards (you may or may not be able to play the new card you drew)!

If there aren’t any cards left in your deck, shuffle your discard pile to form your new deck, and draw from that.

Tip: when possible, it’s better to draw cards closer to the start of your turn. That way you’re more likely to be able to fit the new card into the sequence of cards you’re planning on playing.

Why would you?

No. You can only choose purple, red, blue, or orange.

In Avant Carde, gray and white don’t count as colors.

It depends on when you unveil the concealed card.

If you unveil it using a power, you will get its +$1 at the start of your turn to buy, just like normal. If you unveil it using a power, you will not (but most powers that unveil cards give you +$1 as if you had).

No matter when you unveil a concealed card, you don’t get to use any of its powers (unless the unveiling card says otherwise). So long as it’s number side up at any point during your turn to buy, you can use its powers like normal.

Yes! This is just fine—matching only matters as you play the cards, not afterwards. Unveiling a card may make it so when you look back on the cards you played, they don’t all match in sequence like normal.

You don’t have to play a card concealed; all patron powers are optional.

If you choose not to play a card concealed, you can still choose a color, and the next card you play concealed (from a different card’s power) will count as that color.

Example: You play and choose orange. You play and use its power to play a concealed card . That card counts as orange, so you can play your . Like this:

No—if a concealed card has a color, and you go to play a card after it, the card you play must match the color.

If you’d like to match to the 4 instead, you may choose not to use its first power. So long as you don’t give the concealed card a color, you match to the card before it.

If you choose to copy an opponent’s buy later this round, each time an opponent buys for the rest of the round, you get to see the next card in the Gallery and must immediately choose whether or not to buy it for free, or to pass.

Careful: if you pass and nobody buys any more cards, your copied buy will be wasted. You don’t get to go back and choose one of the previous things to buy.

Yes, you get to see the color before you decide to buy it. Whether or not you can tuck a card though depends on when you are copying an opponents buy.

If you are copying a buy from earlier this round during your own buy phase, you can tuck a card before using this power as you normally would! This may help you get a more ideal color for your deck.

However, if you choose to copy an opponent’s buy later this round, you may not tuck before buying because you may only tuck during your turn to buy. In this case, you can only take whatever color is currently at the top of the stack.

If you play multiple 5s, they can’t copy the same buy.

Example: your two opponents each buy a 7. You play three 5s. With the first 5, you copy your first opponent’s buy and get a 7 for free. With your second 5, your copy your second opponent’s buy and get another 7 for free. You have nothing left to copy with your third 5, so you don’t get any other cards for free.

If multiple players play 5s, and each choose to copy a future opponent’s buy, they copy a buy in turn order.

Example: The first player plays a 5. The second player plays a 5. The third player buys a 7. The first player chooses not to copy the buy, because the next 7 isn’t a color that they want. The second player chooses to copy the buy, and gets the next 7 for free. The first player may not longer copy this buy because it has already been copied once.

You check if you have the most 2s (or are tied for most 2s) on your turn to buy, when you choose to use the 2’s patron power.

In rare cases, the number of 2s players have may change between turns (for example, if they used the Curator). When you check, you check only the 2s that players have in front of them among the cards they played—so if another player trashed a 2 before your turn, they have one fewer when you count 2s.

It’s possible for an opponent to have the most 2s on their turn, and you to have the most 2s on your turn.

Usually so you can unveil it later with another card’s power, like another 3’s power!

Yes! Since this is a power, the card you unveil will be number side up at the start of your turn to buy. That means that you count it as $1, and can use any of its powers like normal.

If the card you unveil has any powers, the 3’s power lets you use those powers immediately, as if you had just played the unveiled card.

(Normally, unveiling cards does not let you use their powers.)

Yes! When you draw the card you can look at it before you play it concealed. You can also always peek at your concealed cards.

Usually, you want to use this power to allow you to match with a card in your hand whose color or number you otherwise wouldn’t be able to match with, like a wild!

In addition, for any other cards’ powers that check your cards’ numbers, they count the 4 as the odd number as well. (For example, 7 The Eccentric patron power will count your 4 as the odd number as well as a 4)

If you conceal a card, it basically doesn’t count among your played cards. This means a 5 with a concealed card after it is still last!

Example: You played

On your turn to buy, you use your blue 5’s power to get +$1 (because it’s last), and trash a card in your discard. Then you use your pink 5’s power to conceal your blue 5 giving you

Because your pink 5 is now the last card in your line, you use its power to get +$1. You have a total of $5 to buy with.

(If you conceal a card during your turn to buy, you keep its money, because you get money at the start of your turn to buy)

Yes—well, kinda.

You have to discard all cards remaining in your hand before your turn to buy. So when you use your 5’s power, you can trash a card that was in your hand (and is now in your discard pile).

If you choose to trash a card you played instead of trashing one from your discard pile, you keep its money (because you get money at the start of your turn to buy).

You can choose to use your powers in any order. If the card you wish to trash has a power, you may choose to use it before you use your 5’s power to trash it.

No, each patron power is optional. You can still get +$1 if your 5 is last, even if you choose not to trash or conceal a card.

If you’ve played one 6, powers happen twice. If you have played two 6s, powers happen three times.

Note: This power itself cannot be copied. So playing a 6 and then another 6 doesn’t copy the second 6’s power.

No! You can make different decisions for each copy.

Example 1: You play . For your 3’s power, you choose to draw a card and play it concealed. Then for the copy, you choose the 3’s other power and unveil the concealed card. If the unveiled card has a power, you get to use it, and copy it!

Example 2: You play . Using your 4’s power, you choose an odd number to make the 4 count as in addition to being a 4. You make it a “1.” Using the 6’s copy power, you also choose to make it a “13.” Now the 4 counts as a 4, a 1, and a 13!

Nothing. Because 2s’ patron powers can only be used once per turn, copying them has no effect.

You get $1 more than you had at the start of your turn. (If you recount your cards, the number of cards should equal the amount of money)

When you successfully match using the gambling power, it’s too late to get extra money for just playing more cards, so the gambling power gives you +$1 to compensate.

If the card you draw has any powers, it’s too late to use those. But if the card you draw has any powers, you can use those after you play it.

Example: you played a single . When you gamble, you draw another (which matches, so you play it). You can’t use the new 3’s power to change it into a “2.” But you can use it’s power to gamble again!

Yes! In rare cases, you may choose to upgrade your last played card. In this case, when you gamble, you’re attempting to match the remaining final card in your row of played cards.

Similarly, if you are gambling multiple times, each time you’re attempting to match the current final card in your row of played cards. Depending on how successful your gambling is, the final card may change between each gamble.

Normally in Avant Carde, every time you play a card, you get to use its patron power. For example, if you played four 3s, you’d get to use the 3 power four times.

Powers labeled “once per turn” are an exception. These powers can only be used up to once each turn, no matter how many copies of the card you play, or how many times you copy the power.

When you play The Protester, any cards you play for the rest of the turn with “once per turn” powers (2s, 5s, 6s, 7s) have the limit raised to twice per turn. If you play at least two of a card with a “once per turn” power, you can use that power twice.

For example, 7s have the power “Get one bonus award, once per turn:”

• You play  . You get one bonus award because the power can only be used once per turn.
• You play . You get one bonus award, because you played a 7.
• You play  . You get two bonus awards because the limit is now twice per turn.
• You play . You get two bonus awards because the limit is twice per turn.

Not usually. As long as you’ve played a 4, all of your “once per turn” powers can be used up to twice per turn on your turn to buy.

Exception: The Promoter (5)’s “once per turn” power lets you draw 2 cards (and lose $1) when you play the card. As long as you haven’t played a 4, that power can only be used once per turn.

For example, you play:

• . You draw 2 cards, once, because you played the 4 after you played the second 5.
• . You draw 4 cards total. Two for each of the two 5s.

The 5’s first power is “once per turn.” This means if you play two 5s, only one of them can give you the drawing cards power (unless you’ve played a 4).

If you play two 5s and choose the second power for each, whenever you buy a card this turn you’ll get to use its powers twice!

Note: You can’t get around powers that are labeled “once per turn” by copying them. It still counts as the same power.

No. The 5’s power only happens when you buy a card, not when you upgrade a card.

Any one time you could use a power (during your turn to buy), you can choose to check how much money you currently have unspent, and collect award(s) based on that number.

Because the 5’s second power can change how much money you have after buying, you have to decide whether to check for awards before or after buying. In almost all cases, it’s better to check before you’ve spent money buying.

Normally, you can’t upgrade 7s.

If you play a 6, once for the rest of this turn you can treat the Awards Stack as one number higher than a 7. So if you upgrade a 7, it goes to the bottom of its stack, and you take an award and add it to your score pile.

You can alternatively spend to upgrade a 6 to an award. Or to upgrade a 5 to an award, etc. You can only get 1 award this way per turn.

Normally in Avant Carde, every time you play a card, you get to use its patron power. For example, if you played four 3s, you’d get to use the 3 power four times.

Powers labeled “once per turn” are an exception. No matter how many 6s you play, you can only upgrade into 1 award per turn. (This limit can be raised to twice per turn if you play a 4)