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{{Infobox Card
 |name = Gatekeeper
 |cost = 5
 |set = Menagerie
 |type1 = Action
 |type2 = Duration
 |type3 = Attack
 |illustrator = Garret DeChellis
 |text = At the start of your next turn, +{{Cost|3}}. Until then, when another player gains an Action or Treasure card they don't have an Exiled copy of, they Exile it.
}}

'''Gatekeeper''' is an [[Action]]-[[Duration]]-[[Attack]] card from {{Set|Menagerie}}. It forces other players to [[Exile]] any [[Action]] and [[Treasure]] cards they gain without already having a copy in Exile.

== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* While under this [[attack]], whenever you gain an [[Action]] or [[Treasure]] that you do not have a copy of on your [[Exile mat]], you Exile the gained card.
* Gaining a card that you do have a copy of on your Exile mat is unaffected, and lets you discard copies from your Exile mat if you want to as usual.
* Other abilities that happen when you gain a card happen at the same time, and you can only put the card on your mat if it [[Stop-Moving rule|has not moved]] anywhere since gaining it; so you can, for example, use a {{Card|Sleigh}} to put a gained card into your hand, then fail to put it on your Exile mat.
* Gatekeeper only Exiles Actions and Treasures, it does not Exile, for example, {{Card|Province}}.
* It only cares about cards in Exile, it does not care how they got there.
=== Official rules clarifications ===
* While most cards that move gained cards can "beat" Gatekeeper (like {{Card|Sleigh}}), there are also cards that move gained cards after they have been gained (such as {{Card|Replace}} and {{Event|Summon}}). In these cases, Gatekeeper will be able to exile the card before you can move the card elsewhere.
* If a card is gained directly to somewhere (such as how {{Card|Supplies}} gains a {{Card|Horse}} onto your deck), Gatekeeper can still exile it.
* This does not lose track of a card if it never moves. So if you gain a {{Card|Nomad Camp}} onto your deck, then revealing {{Card|Watchtower}} to topdeck the {{Card|Nomad Camp}} will not block Gatekeeper.
* This can exile cards if another player gains a card during the turn you play it. For example, if you {{Event|Bargain}} and give them a {{Card|Horse}}, their {{Card|Horse}} will get exiled.

== Strategy ==

Gatekeeper is viewed as one of the weakest cards from Menagerie. Actions costing {{Cost|5}} can be very powerful, and Gatekeeper's effect is often too slow and not effective enough to be worth the opportunity cost of buying a different {{Cost|5}} Action. It is strongest against cards that gain cards of different names, such as {{Card|Black Market}}, [[Prize|Prizes]] from {{Card|Tournament}}, or [[Loot]] [[Gainer|Gainers]].

== Versions ==
=== English versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date
|-
| {{CardVersionImage|Gatekeeper|Gatekeeper}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || At the start of your next turn, +{{Cost|3}}. Until then, when another player gains an Action or Treasure card they don't have an Exiled copy of, they Exile it. || Menagerie || March 2020
|}

=== Other language versions ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
! Dutch
| Poortwachter || {{CardLangVersionImage|Dutch}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|Dutch|d=s}} || Aan het begin van je volgende<br>beurt, +{{Coin|3}}. Tot dan:<br>Als een andere speler een<br>actie- of geldkaart pakt waar-<br>van hij geen exemplaar op<br>zijn verbanningstableau heeft,<br>verbant hij deze. || (2020)
|-
!German
| style="padding:0px 30px;"| Wache || [[File:Gatekeeper.German.png|100px|German language Gatekeeper 2020 by ASS]] || {{CardVersionImage|GatekeeperGerman2021Digital|German language Gatekeeper 2021 from Shuffle iT}} || Zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges: {{nowrap|+{{Cost|3}}.}} Bis dahin: Nimmt ein Mitspieler eine Aktions- oder Geldkarte, von der er keine gleiche Karte im Exil hat, verbannt er jene. || (2020)
|-
!Japanese
| 門番 (pron. ''monban'') || || || ||
|-
|}

== Trivia ==
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=== Secret History ===
{{Quote
|Text=The premise remained constant. Some versions always [[exile]]d the card; you'd get back the previous one, so once you had e.g. {{Card|Silver}} in exile, gaining {{Card|Silver}} would work, you would just technically put one {{Card|Silver}} into exile and discard the other one. I never liked that much, plus the card felt too oppressive, so it changed to just not working every other time. Some versions cost {{Cost|4}}, but man you don't want to be under this right away.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20260.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Menagerie]
}}
=== Retrospective ===
{{Quote|Text= As a potentially really oppressive attack (and there were more oppressive playtest versions), the intention was for it to be at a below-average power level, but not so weak that you'd never play it. It's weaker than intended but also more rules-messy than I'd like. So it's not just a dud, I'd have liked to replace it anyway.

Attacks are tricky. These days attacks try to skew weaker (though sometimes they're still strong). In the early days there were a bunch of strong attacks and the feedback I get is that, while some players love attacks, players in general do not enjoy e.g. discarding every turn to {{Card|Militia}}. But I'm not trying to make attacks awful.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg854265#msg854265 Interview with Donald X.]
}}
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