Editing Artifact

[[Image:Flag.jpg|thumb|right|320px|[[Flag]], an Artifact.]]
[[Image:Artifact-back.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The Artifact card back.]]

'''Artifacts''', introduced in [[Renaissance]], are effects that apply to one player, that are not tracked by normal cards or [[Event]]s. They function similarly to [[State]]s, from [[Nocturne]].

Artifacts are not "cards"; any text referring to a "card" does not apply to Artifacts. However, for reference, the Artifact effects are printed on cards in a landscape orientation with light brown frames.

There is only one copy of each Artifact; when a player takes an Artifact, the Artifact card is placed in front of them until another player takes it.

{{state|Lost in the Woods}}, from {{set|Nocturne}}, functions like an Artifact (and, according to [[Donald X.]], was the inspiration for them), though it is not technically labeled an Artifact itself. <!-- which makes sense, since it's not a thing (like an artifact), but a figure of speech (like a state of mind)!-->

== List of Artifacts ==
* {{Artifact|Flag}}
* {{artifact|Horn}}
* {{Artifact|Key}}
* {{artifact|Lantern}}
* {{Artifact|Treasure Chest}}

==Cards associated with Artifacts==
* {{card|Border Guard}}
* {{card|Flag Bearer}}
* {{card|Swashbuckler}}
* {{card|Treasurer}}

== Official Rules ==
* Artifact cards are abilities that players may acquire somehow due to a particular kingdom card. 
* When taking an Artifact, if another player has it, you take it from them; only one player will have a given Artifact at once. 
* If no other player has it, you just take it. 
* While you have the Artifact, you have its ability, and you lose that ability when someone else takes the Artifact. 
* For example when playing {{Card|Treasurer}}, you can choose to take the {{Artifact|Key}}, which will give you +{{Cost|1}} at the start of each of your turns until someone else takes it.

== Card gallery ==
{{LandscapeImage|Flag}}{{LandscapeImage|Horn}}{{LandscapeImage|Key}}{{LandscapeImage|Lantern}}{{LandscapeImage|Treasure Chest}}

===Cards associated with Artifacts===
{{CardImage|Border Guard}}{{CardImage|Flag Bearer}}{{CardImage|Swashbuckler}}{{CardImage|Treasurer}}

== Trivia ==
=== In other languages ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Text
|-
!Dutch
| Artefact|| {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|Dutch|n=ArtifactBack}} || Artefacts
|-
!German
| Artefakt || ||
|-
!Spanish
| Objeto || {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|Spanish|n=ArtifactBack}} || Objeto
|}

=== Preview ===
{{Quote|Text=Artifacts are abilities only one player can have. When you take the Flag, you take it from whoever had it, if someone had it. So, they go back and forth. They're like {{State|Lost in the Woods}} (from {{Set|Nocturne}}); hey could I do more with that kind of thing, I thought, and I could. There are five Artifacts total, and here are three of them and their parent cards.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19024.0 Renaissance Previews #4: Flag Bearer, Swashbuckler, Treasurer]
}}
=== Why aren't Artifacts just States? ===
{{Quote|
|Text=Artifact was a better term, and I didn't feel like I had to stick to a poor precedent. Artifact helps convey that it's a thing only one player will have.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19024.msg771560#msg771560 Renaissance Previews #4: Flag Bearer, Swashbuckler, Treasurer]
}}

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