Editing Siren

{{Infobox Card
 |name = {{PAGENAME}}
 |cost = 3
 |type1 = Action
 |type2 = Duration
 |type3 = Attack
 |illustrator = Marcel-André Casasola Merkle
 |text = Each other player gains a Curse. At the start of your next turn, draw until you have 8 cards in hand.
 |text2 = When you gain this, trash it unless you trash an Action from your hand.
}}

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an [[Action]]-[[Duration]]-[[Attack]] card from {{Set|Plunder}}. It is an inexpensive [[curser]] and source of [[duration draw]]; its low {{cost}} cost is offset by the fact that you ordinarily have to trash an [[Action]] card to keep it once you've gained it. Occasionally, loopholes involving the [[stop-moving rule]] can allow you to get around that requirement.

== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* When you gain a Siren, it's immediately trashed unless you trash an [[Action]] card from your hand.
* However if you manage to move the Siren from where it was gained (whether it was gained to your discard pile or somewhere else) before resolving this ability - for example putting it on top of your deck with {{Card|Insignia}} - then it will fail to be trashed (though you can still trash an Action card if you want).

=== Other rules clarifications ===
* The important part of getting around Siren's self-trashing effect is to move it ''when'' it's gained. This is why {{Card|Insignia}} works, but the following does not:
** Some cards directly gain a card somewhere (e.g. {{Event|Invasion}} gains an Action directly onto your deck). This does not actually move the Siren, so it will still trash itself.
** A few other cards gain a card and then move it later. So if you gain a Siren with {{Card|Spell Scroll}}, the Siren will trash itself, and the {{Card|Spell Scroll}} will fail to play it.
* If you have an Action in hand, you can decline to trash it, and let the Siren trash itself. This may still be useful if you want to trigger when-trash effects (such as {{Project|Sewers}} or {{Card|Market Square}}).

== Strategy ==

== Versions ==
===English versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date 
|-
| {{CardLangVersionImage}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|d=1}} || Each other player gains a Curse. At the start of your next turn, draw until you have 8 cards in hand.{{divline}}When you gain this, trash it unless you trash an Action from your hand. || Plunder || December 2022
|}

===Other language versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!German 
| Sirene || {{CardLangVersionImage|German}} || {{CardLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} || Jeder Mitspieler nimmt einen Fluch.<br>Zieh zu Beginn deines nächsten<br>Zuges, bis du 8 Handkarten hast.{{divline}}Wenn du diese Karte nimmst,<br>entsorge sie, es sei denn, du<br>entsorgst eine Aktionskarte<br>aus deiner Hand. ||
|}

== Trivia ==
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=== Preview ===
{{Quote|Text=Siren is just some new [[Duration]] card. It's a little hard to get; someone has to get lured to their doom. There are some subtle combos for getting around that penalty; see if you can find them.
 |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=21533.0 * Plunder Previews #2: Durations & Traits *]
}}
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote|Text= A flavor-based card; what could a Siren do? They lure sailors to their deaths, but I didn't want an attack that punished Duration cards. Finally I thought of having to trash an Action to get one. And that's that, the card was done.
 |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=21589.msg899073#msg899073 The Secret History of Plunder]
}}
=== Rules ===
Many tricks around dodging Siren's self-trashing effect require knowledge of the [[stop-moving rule]], and paying attention to how specific cards are phrased.
{{Quote|Text= 
There were concerns about, making it work, and making it clear how it worked.

At some point, when I've got a cool card on my hands and you can say, "but these interactions require you to know the stop moving rule," I throw my hands in the air and say, "15th expansion!" It's the 15th expansion. The cards have to keep doing new things. This is what happens.

Maybe there is a phrasing that better does the concept, with less rules knowledge invoked. When you look for it, make sure to avoid "would," and try to keep the text fitting on the card in that font size.
 |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg899651#msg899651 Interview with Donald X.]
}}
{{Quote|Text= 
I wouldn't possibly have said "additional costs must be paid to gain cards" or what have you; when you gain a card directly, you aren't paying the cost, and man let's not confuse those things.

The best way to do an additional cost is to make a symbol for it and put it right in the cost, like {{Cost|P}}. I've considered that family of mechanics, for different costs. Then of course you couldn't {{Card|Workshop}} it. So far I haven't felt like I was getting enough there, relative to how confusing symbols in the cost have turned out to be.

I could have just added "first" to get rid of a bunch of the combos and thus confusion associated with them. Somehow I didn't.
 |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg899714#msg899714 Interview with Donald X.]
}}
{{Quote|Text= 
The Siren shenanigans aren't a deliberate part of the design. They're just what fell out of the wording. 

For me the combos mostly came up in online testing. And I had fun with them and also may have signed off on the set already, not sure. But I didn't think, "wait this requires knowing stuff." It was just me and the bot, and the bot was showing me what for.

As I mentioned there's "first." "When you gain this, first..." I didn't consider that at the time. I haven't worked through if it basically fixes it. "When you gain this, first," if ever used, does not mean "when you buy this." "When you gain this" happens directly after putting the card wherever it goes, e.g. in the discard pile. "First" means "before other things that trigger at the same time." (Except, if multiple things have "first" then obv. you still order those between each other.)
 |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[https://discord.com/channels/212660788786102272/212660788786102272/1066421071303168061 Dominion Discord, 2023]
}}
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