Eagle's Wing strategy
Eagle's Wing starts one suit foundation with a base card, eight one-card wings, and a thirteen-card face-down trunk. Cards from wings go directly to suit foundations; there is no building between wings. When a wing empties, the trunk supplies its next card until one trunk card remains. The stock draws one to waste and allows two redeals.
Last updated: September 2026
Advance foundations to expose the trunk
Every legal wing-to-foundation move opens its wing, which immediately receives a trunk card while more than one trunk card remains. Compare available wing moves by the suit foundation they advance and by the next trunk card they expose. The trunk is not a freely playable reserve: its final card becomes available for a foundation move only when it is the sole card left.
Use empty wings after the trunk is spent
Once one trunk card remains, an empty wing can take the waste top or the stock top directly. That choice can preserve a useful waste card or reveal a different stock card. Earlier in the game, an empty wing is automatically filled from the trunk, so this choice is unavailable.
A short position
Constructed position: the Hearts foundation needs Seven of Hearts and one wing shows that card. Playing it advances Hearts and, while two or more trunk cards remain, refills the wing from the trunk. A Seven of Hearts on waste would advance the same foundation without opening a wing.
Read the related guide
The Canfield guide explains shared base-rank suit foundations. Eagle's Wing has wing-to-foundation play and trunk refills instead of Canfield's alternating-color tableau groups.