Cage
Cage | |
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Type(s) | Treasure - Duration |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Plunder |
Illustrator(s) | Jessi J |
Card text | |
Set aside up to 4 cards from your hand face down (on this). The next time you gain a Victory card, trash this, and put the set aside cards into your hand at end of turn. |
Cage is a Treasure-Duration card from Plunder. It is a one-shot that lets you thin your deck by temporarily pseudo-trashing up to four cards. The cards return to your deck when you start greening, however, so you may need to be prepared for a larger-than-usual decrease in deck quality at that stage of the game.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- The cards go to your hand after drawing your regular hand of 5 cards for next turn.
- For example you might set aside two Estates and two Coppers on a Cage on an early turn; then on a late turn, buy a Province, trash the Cage, and add the two Estates and two Coppers to your hand at end of turn.
Other rules clarifications
- If you set aside nothing with this, it will still stay in play until you gain a Victory card.
- If gaining a Victory card causes you to play this (e.g. you gain a Province, then gain a Cage with Haggler, and play it with Mining Road), that won't trigger the Cage (it triggers off the next Victory card you gain).
Strategy
Versions
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Trivia
Secret History
Why is it a Treasure?
We can make this argument the other way. Militia is basically a Treasure; why wasn't it tweaked to a version that could have the +1 Action and then made a Treasure? Originally, Actions didn't randomly get + like that; that changed because I had to give them resources to make the game work, and man they didn't all want +Cards or gains.
Historically Treasures have made or gained cards. It's great to have conventions like that. But a Treasure can do other things and here's one that does. It's also fun to defy conventions sometimes; to get this fun, you have to have a convention, and then have to break it.
Grotto was also a Treasure at one point; one reason it changed was to distinguish it more from Cage. That was only possible by having one of them be a Treasure.
Now I am looking through the cards, wishing I'd tried Shaman as a Treasure. +1 Action, + - it's perfect. Of course it would have needed the verboten small font then.