Factory

Special Effects
Negative area effects to horizontally and vertically adjacent tiles.

Strategy
The factory is a very useful early game card to use. The economy boost can be amazing when you need to add cards to your deck. However, the area effects make it hard to place them in effective spots. I find placing it on a corner, or on an edge next to a non-point-collecting tile is the most effective. This minimizes the negative area effects. The standard deck has a default of two of these but once you reach level three, it might suit your interests to exchange one of these for a Wholesaler.