Defiled Shrine
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Defiled Shrine | |
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Type | Landmark |
Set | Empires |
Illustrator(s) | Kurt Miller |
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When you gain an Action, move 1 from its pile to this. When you buy a Curse, take the from this. Setup: Put 2 on each non-Gathering Action Supply pile. |
Defiled Shrine is a Landmark from Empires. It acts kind of like a Gathering card, accumulating tokens as players gain Actions, and then giving them to a player when they buy a Curse.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- Note that this triggers on gaining an Action, whether bought or otherwise gained, but only on buying Curse, not on gaining Curse other ways.
- tokens will go on the Ruins pile (from Dominion: Dark Ages) when used, but not on Farmers' Market, Temple, or Wild Hunt (the three Action - Gathering cards).
Other Rules Clarifications
- Although Defiled Shrine itself does not place tokens on Gathering Action Supply piles, it will still move tokens off their piles when you gain one of them.
- When you gain a Temple, you can take all the on it before you send one to Defiled Shrine.
- Setup instructions should happen in an order that allows everything to happen, so an Action Bane added by Young Witch would still get 2 put on it.
- If you remove an Action from the Supply without gaining it (e.g., you exile it with Camel Train), the stays on the pile.
- If you gain an Action from the trash (with e.g. Lurker), you'll move 1 from its pile onto Defiled Shrine.
- With certain split piles, you can send Defiled Shrine's onto Aqueduct instead. For example, if you remove all the Gladiators from the supply without gaining them (e.g. by exiling them with Camel Train, then gaining a Fortune will move 1 onto Aqueduct.
- Defiled Shrine got errata in 2022 so that you take its when you gain a Curse in your Buy phase.
- This works if you gain the Curse by buying it, or if you gain it in another way (e.g. from Desperation or another player's Blockade).
- If you gain a Curse during another player's Buy phase (e.g. you gain a Curse from their Cauldron, you won't get the .
Strategy
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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When you gain an Action, move 1 from its pile to this. When you buy a Curse, take the from this. Setup: Put 2 on each non-Gathering Action Supply pile. |
Empires | June 2016 |
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Trivia
Why is the shrine "defiled"?
I don't think a plain Shrine would involve buying a Curse.
Secret History
It triggered on gaining a Curse, but it was not entertaining in games with Witches, so now you have to buy the Curse. The "non-Gathering" thing was a late change to deal with poor interactions between this and the cards that put on their own piles. It's kind of weird to have that type there just for this one thing, but it also ties the cards together. That's what I said when insisting on that change, and people's reactions to the Gathering cards has borne that out; they really are tied together.