Cemetery

Cemetery
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Victory
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Nocturne
Illustrator(s)	Marcel-André Casasola Merkle
Card text
2  When you gain this, trash up to 4 cards from your hand. Heirloom: Haunted Mirror

Cemetery is a Victory card from Nocturne. It's an on-gain trasher worth 2 . It has an Heirloom, Haunted Mirror.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• In games using this, replace one of your starting Coppers with a Haunted Mirror.
• When you gain a Cemetery, trash from zero to four cards from your hand.

Strategy

The discussion topic for Cemetery (and its Heirloom, Haunted Mirror) can be found here.

Cemetery is a trasher that works upon gaining instead of being able to play it, which is an interesting twist. You'll have to make sure that you have plenty of cards in hand to trash before you gain it. The most straightforward way is to use a gainer such as Workshop, but you might also just go for a big handsize with, for example, Laboratory and then buy a Cemetery when you have a sufficient amount of junk cards in hand.

So what is considered a sufficient amount of junk cards? This question was answered by user Awaclus in the following way:

A good basic rule of thumb is at least EE or ECC or CCCC where E=Estate or other junk card that doesn't do anything and C=Copper or other junk card whose value is roughly comparable to Copper. The more other trashing and/or draw you already have (including previous Cemetery purchases), the less inclined you are to trash your Coppers with Cemetery — i.e. if you have 8 cards in your deck, you'd much rather buy a Smithy than replace four Coppers with a Cemetery, because the Smithy helps your tempo but the Cemetery hurts it. On the other hand, if you have extra stop cards in your deck that you wouldn't normally have, that makes you more inclined to trash Coppers. As long as you have two or more Estates, trashing them is basically always better than buying any engine component for $4 unless you have a better way of trashing them coming up really soon, but if your engine is already working smoothly, adding more payload or greening in order to pressure your opponent or to answer your opponent's pressure can situationally be better.

Although Cemetery has a couple of other properties, such as being worth 2  and coming with a Heirloom, Haunted Mirror, these are not too often a consideration when Cemetery is on the board. Haunted Mirror is a fairly weak Heirloom, since it only gains one Ghost and it's fairly difficult to achieve, and Cemetery is weaker than Duchy as a VP card. It should primarily be thought of as a trasher, and if you happen to have a use for the other effects, then that's a nice bonus. Late-game, keep in mind how many Cemeteries each player has when counting points and determining whether or not you should pile out.

Synergies

• Gainers
• Trash for benefit such as Remodel can turn gained Cemeteries into something great, since it costs

Antisynergies

• Artificer is a gainer that doesn't work so well, since you have to discard for it
• Other cards

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Notes	Release	Date
		2 . When you gain this, trash up to 4 cards from your hand. Heirloom: Haunted Mirror	Digital version doesn't have yellow Heirloom banner.	Nocturne	November 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text
Dutch	Kerkhof
French	Cimetière
German	Friedhof			2  Wenn du diese Karte nimmst, entsorge bis zu 4 Handkarten. Erbstück: Zauberspiegel
Japanese	墓場 (pron. hakaba)			2 。 これを獲得するとき、手札から4枚以下のカードを廃棄する。(家宝: 呪いの鏡)
Russian	Погост (pron. pogost, lit. churchyard)

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Cemetery trashes cards when you gain it, that's pretty sweet. I will just tell you now, it is great to gain it with a Workshop or something. It means everyone has a Haunted Mirror, which gives you a little sub-game to play to get a Ghost.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Nocturne Previews #2: Shepherd, Pooka, Cemetery

Secret History

Hinterlands tried and failed to get a when-gain trasher. Guilds managed it via having the card's ability also be trashing. Cemetery manages it by not doing anything else, it's just  . I was pretty thrilled with this when I thought of it, and then it played great, hooray.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Nocturne