Editing Gain

'''Gaining''' a card adds it to the ones you own, usually by moving it to your [[discard]] pile.

== Official Rules ==
: "Gain a card" - Take a card from the Supply and put it into your discard pile.
* Sometimes a card will let you gain a card from a place other than the Supply, but by default gained cards come from the Supply.
* Sometimes a card will let you gain a card to a location other than your discard pile, but by default all gained cards are put into your discard pile.
* You do not play a card when you gain it; it just goes to your discard pile.

===Other rules clarifications===
* If a card lets you gain a card to a location other than your discard pile, the gained card is put into that location no matter where it would normally go when gained. For example, {{Card|Artisan}} lets you gain a {{Card|Nomad Camp}} to your hand, even though Nomad Camp is usually gained onto your deck.

== Description ==

Gaining a card is a specific keyword in Dominion. By default, gained cards go onto your discard pile and come from the [[Supply]]. The most common way to gain cards is by [[Buy#Buy_phase|buying]] them; they are gained after being bought. Other ways mainly include through [[gainer]] cards. Some cards have abilities that trigger when the card is gained (e.g. {{Card|Border Village}}) or when another card is gained (e.g. {{Card|Duplicate}}).

=== Ownership ===

Gaining is not the only way to make a card yours. Any effect that moves a card to a location that is yours makes the card yours as well. You can take ownership of cards without gaining by:
* Being [[Pass|passed]] them (via {{Card|Masquerade}})
* [[Exchange|Exchanging]] something for them (e.g. {{Card|Changeling}}, {{Card|Vampire}}, {{Card|Peasant}})
* [[Exile|Exiling]] a card you don't own (e.g. {{Card|Camel Train}})
* [[Set aside|Setting aside]] a card you don't own (e.g. {{Event|Inheritance}})

Abilities that trigger when a card is gained (or would be) won't trigger in these cases.

Buying a card also causes it to become yours at the moment it is bought (even before it is gained). This matters for older versions of {{Event|Inheritance}}, which will trigger "when you buy this" abilities from the card being "inherited". You lose ownership if another ability prevents the card from being gained (such as with {{Card|Possession}} or older versions of {{Card|Trader}}).

=== Gain location ===

By default, a card is gained into your discard pile. Certain cards specify other gain locations, either for themselves or other cards. For example, {{card|Develop}} and {{card|Bureaucrat}} both cause you to gain cards and put them on top of your deck, rather than in your discard pile; {{card|Nomad Camp}} contains an instruction that when you gain Nomad Camp itself, it goes to your deck.

If a card is gained directly into your hand, it may be used like any other card in your hand. For example:

* Any Treasure card gained by {{Card|Mine}} or {{Card|Treasurer}}
* Any [[Action]] card gained by {{card|Swap}}
* {{Card|Copper}} gained by {{Card|Ill-Gotten Gains}} or {{Card|Beggar}}
* {{Card|Silver}} gained by {{Card|Trading Post}} or {{Card|Rocks}}
* {{Card|Gold}} or Silver gained by {{Card|Explorer}}
* Any card gained by {{Card|Artisan}}, {{Card|Cobbler}}, {{Card|Transmogrify}}, {{Card|Wish}} or {{Card|Sculptor}}

Some cards gain themselves to your hand:

* {{Card|Den of Sin}}, {{Card|Ghost Town}}, {{Card|Guardian}}, {{Card|Night Watchman}}
* {{Card|Villa}} technically moves itself to you hand from its gain location, rather than being gained directly to your hand.

=== Gaining from ===
By default gained cards come from the Supply. You can't gain a card from somewhere else, such as the [[trash]] or a [[Supply#Non-Supply|non-Supply]] pile, unless explicitly instructed either to gain from that location, or to gain a non-Supply card by name. In the absence of an instruction to gain a ''specific, named'' non-Supply card, or a card from a specific location, all gains come from the Supply; being instructed to gain "a copy of" a card not named specifically does not count as an exception.

Examples include:

Gain from trash:
* {{Card|Lurker}}
* {{Card|Graverobber}}
* {{Card|Rogue}}
* {{Card|Treasurer}}
* {{Card|Lich}}

Gain from non-Supply pile:
* {{Card|Tournament}}
* {{Card|Urchin}}
* {{Card|Leprechaun}}

=== Who gains ===

Some cards cause others to gain a card instead of the person playing or otherwise activating the card:

* All the [[Curser|Cursers]]
* Those that [[Trashing_attack|trash with replacement]]: the cards ''{{Card|Saboteur}}'', {{Card|Swindler}}, and the [[Hex]] {{Hex|Locusts}} when other players receive it.
* {{Card|Noble Brigand}}
* {{Card|Embassy}}
* {{Card|Marauder}}
* {{Card|Cultist}}
* {{Card|Messenger}}




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