Butcher
Butcher | |
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Info | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Guilds |
Illustrator(s) | Lynell Ingram |
Card text | |
Take 2 Coin tokens. You may trash a card from your hand and then pay any number of Coin tokens. If you did trash a card, gain a card with a cost of up to the cost of the trashed card plus the number of Coin tokens you paid. |
Butcher is an Action card from Guilds. It is a Remodel variant that gives Coin tokens and allows you to spend the Coin tokens to increase the cost of the card you gain with it. If you don't want to remodel a card, you can spend the Coin tokens for + or save them for later, as usual.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- First take two Coin tokens.
- Then you may trash a card from your hand and pay any number of Coin tokens (returning them to the pile). The number of Coin tokens you pay can be zero.
- Butcher itself is no longer in your hand and so cannot trash itself (though it can trash another copy of Butcher).
- If you trashed a card, you gain a card costing up to the cost of the trashed card plus the number of Coin tokens you paid. For example, you could trash an Estate and pay six Coin tokens to gain a Province, or you could trash another Butcher and pay zero Coin tokens to gain a Duchy.
- You can pay the Coin tokens you just got.
- Paying Coin tokens for this ability does not get you coins to spend, it just changes what cards you can gain with this ability.
Strategy Article
See here for a short article about Butcher
Synergies
- Peddler, Border Village, and other cards with value disproportionate to their cost.
- Other Coin token cards that can fuel it
Anti-Synergies
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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Dutch | Slager | ||||
Finnish | Teurastaja | ||||
French | Boucher | ||||
German | Metzger | ||||
Japanese | 肉屋 (pron. nikuya) | ||||
Korean | 도살자 (pron. dosalja) | ||||
Russian | Мясник (pron. myasnik) |
Trivia
Butcher is the only card that allows you to pay Coin tokens outside your Buy phase.
Preview
Butcher also fits the 5th theme of Guilds, which is, wordy cards. Take two coin tokens, you may trash a card, something something, gain a card, something something, man I'll just buy one, I'll figure out what it does when I play it. Butcher is a Remodel that you spend coin tokens to pump up. With enough coin tokens you can go straight from Curse to Colony. You can also just trade a card in for something at the same cost or less, while keeping the two coin tokens for later. There are a lot of ways you can go.
Butcher gives you a special use for coin tokens. That's not a theme of the set, that's just Butcher. It provides some coin tokens itself, so it's not like you have to have another Guilds card with it to make it do its thing. It's all been taken care of.Secret History