Editing Grotto

In most circumstances, it is best to set aside your entire hand with this card, giving you a 9-card following turn, which, early game, usually guarantees buying power of {{Cost|6}} or more. This can be good if there is a key card in this price range that you want to buy early. Usually, leaving one or two cards will result in too weak of a turn to be useful, while it will take away considerably from the chance of reaching a high price point on the next turn. However, late game you may end up with some circumstances where you can buy a {{Card|Province}} with three cards and then use this card to set aside only one; although these circumstances may be uncommon in most games, the flexibility that this sort of move is possible is an added benefit.

In most circumstances, it is best to set aside your entire hand with this card, giving you a 9-card following turn, which, early game, usually guarantees buying power of {{Cost|6}} or more. This can be good if there is a key card in this price range that you want to buy early. Usually, leaving one or two cards will result in too weak of a turn to be useful, while it will take away considerably from the chance of reaching a high price point on the next turn. However, late game you may end up with some circumstances where you can buy a {{Card|Province}} with three cards and then use this card to set aside only one; although these circumstances may be uncommon in most games, the flexibility that this sort of move is possible is an added benefit.

This card synergizes with discard-for-benefit cards. {{Card|Village Green}} is a particularly good combo, as it is useful in engines on its own. {{Card|Trail}} is almost as good, a cantrip that has a similar benefit when discarded. {{Card|Faithful Hound}} combines to provide extra draw, which, although modest, is being added to a draw-heavy turn for strong results. {{Card|Tunnel}} is yet another good combo, and a card that tends to work well in engines with strong draw, transitioning in late game to a gold-dense deck. Yet another discard-for-benefit card is {{Card|Weaver}}, which when combined with this card is useful for gaining cards for building an engine.

This card synergizes with discard-for-benefit cards. {{Card|Village Green}} is a particularly good combo, as it is useful in engines on its own. {{Card|Trail}} is almost as good, a cantrip that has a similar benefit when discarded. {{Card|Faithful Hound}} combines to provide extra draw, which, although modest, is being added to a draw-heavy turn for strong results. {{Card|Tunnel}} is yet another good combo, and a card that tends to work well in engines with strong draw, transitioning in late game to a gold-dense deck. Yet another discard-for-benefit card is {{Card|Weaver}}, which when combined with this card is useful for gaining cards for building an engine.

This card's strength is reduced by handsize attacks, but not as much as most sifters, especially in a strong engine with two Grottos with one played each turn. When played in isolation, unlike Cellar which is completely crippled by handsize attacks, this card can still produce a slight buffer against these attacks, sacrificing a weak 3-card turn for guaranteeing +2 cards that are immune to handsize attacks, because they are not drawn until the start of your next turn. However in an engine where Grotto is played with discarding 4 cards each turn, each turn gets a +4 card benefit which is usually enough to start off the engine, and the handsize attack usually just results in some harmless sifting, discarding a few cards unnecessary to start the engine, and they will often be drawn anyway during the next turn. The presence of discard-for-benefit cards only strengthens the resistance of this card to handsize attacks.

This card's strength is reduced by handsize attacks, but not as much as most sifters, especially in a strong engine with two Grottos with one played each turn. When played in isolation, unlike Cellar which is completely crippled by handsize attacks, this card can still produce a slight buffer against these attacks, sacrificing a weak 3-card turn for guaranteeing +2 cards that are immune to handsize attacks, because they are not drawn until the start of your next turn. However in an engine where Grotto is played with discarding 4 cards each turn, each turn gets a +4 card benefit which is usually enough to start off the engine, and the handsize attack usually just results in some harmless sifting, discarding a few cards unnecessary to start the engine, and they will often be drawn anyway during the next turn. The presence of discard-for-benefit cards only strengthens the resistance of this card to handsize attacks.

The main scenario in which this card is weaker is in the absence of +Buy, especially in the absence of junking attacks. Without +Buy it can be hard to capitalize on the added coin that tends to result from 9-card turns, and in that scenario this card ends up taking up valuable hand space and preventing a good turn on a draw that might have been able to buy a province if only it had a {{Card|Silver}}.

The main scenario in which this card is weaker is in the absence of +Buy, especially in the absence of junking attacks. Without +Buy it can be hard to capitalize on the added coin that tends to result from 9-card turns, and in that scenario this card ends up taking up valuable hand space and preventing a good turn on a draw that might have been able to buy a province if only it had a {{Card|Silver}}.

== Versions ==

== Versions ==

===English versions===

===English versions===

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This started as an Action, turned into a Treasure, then back to an Action. It originally had no limit, and was secretly powerful. And one version had you draw before discarding, so you couldn't draw the cards you were storing (when it was an unlimited giant pile of junk).

This started as an Action, turned into a Treasure, then back to an Action. It originally had no limit, and was secretly powerful. And one version had you draw before discarding, so you couldn't draw the cards you were storing (when it was an unlimited giant pile of junk).

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=== Relevant outtake ===

=== Relevant outtake ===

Cantrip, set aside a card, may take it back at the start of a future turn. Overlapped too much with {{Card|Cage}} / Grotto.  

Cantrip, set aside a card, may take it back at the start of a future turn. Overlapped too much with {{Card|Cage}} / Grotto.  

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|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]

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