Tax

Tax
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Type(s)	Event
Set	Empires
Illustrator(s)	Raina Kuptz
Event text
Add to a Supply pile. Setup: Add to each Supply pile. When a player buys a card, they take the from its pile.

Tax is an Event from Empires. Simply by being in a game, it causes the first buy of any card to give the buyer . In addition, Tax can be bought to add more to a pile, functioning as a kind of pseudo-Attack, similar to Embargo.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Every Supply pile starts with , including Kingdom cards and basic cards like Silver.
• The Event itself, when bought, adds to a single pile, whether or not that pile has any on it already.
• The is taken by the next player to buy a card from that pile; gaining a card without buying it leaves the on the pile.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Add to a Supply pile. Setup: Add to each Supply pile. When a player buys a card, they take the from its pile.	Empires	June 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text
Dutch	Belasting
Finnish	Verotus (lit. taxation)
French	Taxe
German	Steuer			Lege 2 -Marker auf einen beliebigen Vorratsstapel. Sobald ein Spieler eine Karte kauft, nimmt er alle -Marker dieses Stapels. Spielvorbereitung: Legt 1 -Marker auf jeden Vorratsstapel.
Japanese	徴税 (pron. chōzei, lit. tax collection)			サプライ1山の上にを追加する。 準備:すベてのサプライの山の上にを追加する。カードを購入するプレイヤーは、その山の上のをすベて得る。
Polish	Podatek
Russian	Налог (pron. nalog)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

This started as an Action that gave + and put two tokens on a pile. Then it got a Setup rule that made piles start with . It was hard squeezing everything into the set, and one trick was to turn this into an Event.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Empires Cards