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[[Image:Chapel.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Chapel]], a trasher card.]]

'''Trasher''' is the generic term for any card with the ability to [[trash]] one or more cards from your hand or deck. (Cards which trash another player's cards are considered [[trashing attack|trashing attacks]], while cards that trash themselves are referred to as [[one-shot|one-shots]]).  

There are two main uses for trashers. The first is simply to eliminate weak cards from the deck ("deck-[[thinning]]"), in order to enable faster [[cycling]] and have more concentrated hands of useful cards—this chiefly involves trashing starting cards ({{Card|Copper|Coppers}} and {{Card|Estate|Estates}} or [[Shelter|Shelters]]) and {{Card|Curse|Curses}}, but can also apply to cards that were purchased for early-game use and have outlived their usefulness, such as [[curser|cursers]] after the Curse pile is depleted.

The second is to receive some benefit as a result of trashing a card—either by trashing a card that has an on-trash effect, or because the trasher itself has a useful effect that requires you to trash a card in order to activate it. Trashers in this last category are often referred to under the umbrella term "[[trash for benefit]]", though sometimes (as below) the term specifically refers to trashers that give better benefits for trashing more powerful cards.

=Types of trashers=

== Multi-card trashers ==

These cards allow rapid deck-thinning. {{Card|Chapel}} is the multi-card trasher ''par excellence'' due to the combination of its cheap price and the large number of cards it lets you trash; other multi-card trashers usually offer benefits in addition to trashing, or alternative effects that keep the card relevant after you've trashed all the cards you want to trash.

* [[Dominion (base set)|Dominion]]: {{Card|Chapel}}, {{card|Sentry}}
* [[Intrigue]]: {{Card|Steward}}, {{Card|Trading Post}}
* [[Prosperity]]: {{Card|Forge}}
** {{Card|Mint}} has an on-gain trashing effect.
* [[Cornucopia]]: {{Card|Remake}}
* [[Hinterlands]]: {{card|Souk}} has an on-gain trashing effect. 
* [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Mercenary}}, {{Card|Count}}, {{Card|Dame Anna}}
* [[Guilds]]: {{Card|Doctor}} (which also has an on-buy trashing effect)
* [[Adventures]]: {{Card|Amulet}}, {{Event|Bonfire}}, {{Event|Trade}}
* [[Empires]]: {{card|Temple}}, {{Event|Donate}}
* [[Nocturne]]: {{Card|Bat}}, {{Card|Monastery}} (dependent on how many cards you gained)
** {{Card|Cemetery}} has an on-gain trashing effect
* {{Set|Renaissance}}: {{project|Cathedral}}, {{Project|Sewers}} (requires at least one other trasher)
* {{set|Allies}}: {{card|Sentinel}}, {{Ally|Peaceful Cult}}
* [[Promo]]: {{Card|Sauna}} (dependent on how many {{Card|Silver|Silvers}} you play)

{{Event|Banish}}, from {{set|Menagerie}}, can be used to [[exile]], rather than trash, multiple cards from your hand.

== Trash for benefit ==

Several cards allow you to trash a card and receive a bonus or benefit that depends on the cost (or occasionally other properties) of the trashed card(s). These are commonly referred to as '''trash-for-benefit''' (or "TfB") cards (most trashers give you ''some'' benefit to your current turn other than trashing, and the term "trash-for-benefit" is sometimes used more broadly to refer to all such cards).  [[Terminal]] TfB cards are usually [[soft terminal|soft terminals]]; when they [[collision|collide]] with an expendable Action, they can use it for fodder, sometimes even to gain or buy a {{Card|Province}}.

Cards that allow you to trash one or more cards and gain cards to replace them depending on the cost of the trashed card(s) are nicknamed [[remodelers]]. The following is a list of trash-for-benefit cards that provide ''other'' benefits scaled to the cost of the trashed card:

* [[Seaside]]: {{Card|Salvager}}
* [[Alchemy]]: {{Card|Apprentice}}
* [[Prosperity]]: {{Card|Bishop}}
* [[Hinterlands]]: {{Card|Trader}}
* [[Adventures]]: {{Card|Raze}} 
* [[Empires]]: {{Event|Ritual}}
* [[Renaissance]]: {{card|Research}}, {{Card|Recruiter}}
* [[Menagerie (expansion)|Menagerie]]: {{Card|Scrap}}
* [[Allies]]: {{card|Broker}}

Related effects include the following:
* [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Counterfeit}} provides a benefit scaled to the ''value'' of the trashed Treasure, rather than its cost. 
* [[Empires]]: {{Card|Catapult}} has an effect with a cost ''threshold'', but not a scaling one.
* [[Empires]]: {{Card|Sacrifice}} has an effect that depends on the trashed card's [[type]], rather than its cost.

== Single-card trashers ==

These trashers have effects that are independent of the properties of the cards being trashed, and most can trash any card. These have a variety of uses: many are deck thinners or improvers; but for {{Card|Death Cart}}, for example, which can only trash [[Action]] cards, the trashing is in part a penalty to compensate for the strong +{{Cost|5}} effect.

* Intrigue: {{Card|Lurker}}, {{Card|Masquerade}}
** Lurker is the only [[Action]] card that can trash any Action card from the [[Supply]].
* [[Seaside]]: {{Card|Lookout}}, {{card|Sailor}}
* [[Prosperity]]: {{card|Crystal Ball}}, {{card|Investment}}, ''{{Card|Trade Route}}''
** {{Card|Watchtower}} is not usually considered a trasher, since it can only trash cards when you gain them. This is useful as a defense against [[junker]]s and as a way of activating cards' on-trash effects instantaneously, however.
* [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Altar}}, {{Card|Death Cart}}, {{Card|Forager}}, {{Card|Junk Dealer}}, {{Card|Rats}}
** Altar and Rats resemble Remodelers in that they trash one card and gain one card, but what card can be gained is not dependent on what card is trashed.
* [[Adventures]]: {{Card|Ratcatcher}}, {{Event|Plan}}
* [[Empires]]: {{Card|Small Castle}}, {{Event|Advance}}
** {{Card|Gladiator}} can trash copies of itself from the [[Supply]].
** {{Event|Salt the Earth}} trashes a [[Victory]] Card from the [[Supply]].
** {{Event|Advance}} resembles a Remodeler in that it trashes one card and gains one card, but what card can be gained is not dependent on what card is trashed.
* [[Nocturne]]: {{Boon|The Flame's Gift}}, {{card|Goat}}, {{card|Zombie Apprentice}}
* [[Renaissance]]: {{Card|Hideout}}, {{Card|Priest}}
* [[Menagerie]]: {{Card|Goatherd}}, {{Way|Way of the Goat}}
* [[Allies]]: {{card|Student}}, {{card|Acolyte}}, {{Ally|Woodworkers' Guild}}
** Acolyte resembles a Remodeler in that it trashes one card and gains one card, but what card can be gained is not dependent on what card is trashed.
** {{Ally|Woodworkers' Guild}} resembles a Remodeler in that it trashes one card and gains one card, but what card can be gained is not dependent on what card is trashed.
* [[Promo]]: {{card|Church}}
** {{card|Sauna}} in effect allows you to use {{card|Silver}} as a single-card trasher.

The Menagerie card {{Card|Sanctuary}} functions like a trasher, but [[Exile]]s cards instead of trashing them. 
=== Copper trashers ===

These cards are primarily used for trashing {{Card|Copper}}: {{Card|Moneylender}} and {{Card|Ducat}} can ''only'' trash Copper, while the others can trash other [[Treasure]] cards as well, but do not provide better benefits for trashing more useful Treasures.

* [[Dominion]]: {{Card|Moneylender}}
* [[Prosperity]]: ''{{Card|Loan}}''
** {{Card|Mint}}'s on-gain effect, while not a single-card trasher, is also best used for trashing Copper.
* [[Hinterlands]]: {{Card|Spice Merchant}}
* [[Nocturne]]: {{Card|Pooka}}
* [[Renaissance]]: {{card|Treasurer}}
** {{Card|Ducat}} has an on-gain trashing effect

Trashing Copper is also an important function of {{Card|Counterfeit}} and {{Card|Catapult}}, though they do give more powerful effects for trashing more valuable (or expensive) Treasures.  {{Card|Miser}} removes Coppers from your deck without trashing them.

=== Estate trashers ===

These cards can't trash [[Treasure]] cards and don't give better benefits for trashing better cards. Therefore in the early game they're most likely to be used for trashing {{Card|Estate|Estates}} or [[Shelter]]s specifically; later in the game, they may be used on {{Card|Curse|Curses}}, obsolete early-game [[Action]]s, and cards with on-trash benefits.

* Hinterlands: {{Card|Jack of all Trades}}
* Dark Ages: {{Card|Hermit}}

== Pseudo-trashers ==

These cards offer ways of removing cards from your deck other than trashing them. This can sometimes allow sneaky combos with {{Card|Possession}}.

* Intrigue: {{Card|Masquerade}}
** Masquerade ''both'' allows you to pseudo-trash a card by passing it away ''and'' allows you to actually trash another card.
* Seaside: {{Card|Native Village}}, ''{{Card|Ambassador}}'', {{Card|Island}}
* Adventures: {{Card|Miser}}
* [[Menagerie (expansion)|Menagerie]]: {{Event|Banish}}, {{Card|Bounty Hunter}}, {{Card|Sanctuary}}, {{Event|Way of the Butterfly}}, {{Event|Way of the Turtle}}
* Promo: {{Card|Prince}}
** (However, removing undesirable Action cards from the deck is not the best use of Prince.)

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