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[[Image:Gear.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Gear]], a soft terminal card.]] | [[Image:Gear.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Gear]], a soft terminal card.]] | ||
− | '''Soft terminal''' is a subcategory of [[terminal]] [[Action]] | + | '''Soft terminal''' is a nickname for a subcategory of [[terminal]] [[Action|Actions]] that [[Donald X. Vaccarino]] finds useful to take into account in designing [[expansion|expansions]]. These are terminals that mitigate [[collision|collisions]] with other terminals by giving you ''some'' use for other Action cards that collide with them, such as allowing you to discard or [[trash]] a [[dead]] Action card for some benefit. They may be contrasted with "hard" terminals, which give no use for other terminals they collide with. The archetypes of the "soft terminal" category are {{Card|Remodel}} and {{Card|Vault}}. |
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== Examples == | == Examples == | ||
− | + | * Terminals that trash Actions for some benefit: | |
− | * | + | ** [[Dominion]]: {{Card|Remodel}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Intrigue]]: {{Card|Trading Post}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Seaside]]: {{Card|Salvager}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Alchemy]]: {{Card|Transmute}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Prosperity]]: {{Card|Bishop}}, {{Card|Expand}}, {{Card|Forge}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Cornucopia]]: {{Card|Remake}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Hinterlands]]: {{Card|Develop}}, {{Card|Trader}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Mercenary}}, {{Card|Death Cart}}, {{Card|Graverobber}}, {{Card|Altar}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Guilds]]: {{Card|Stonemason}}, {{Card|Butcher}} |
− | ** | + | ** [[Empires]]: {{Card|Catapult}}, {{Card|Sacrifice}} |
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* Terminals that require discarding: | * Terminals that require discarding: | ||
− | ** | + | ** Intrigue: {{Card|Secret Chamber}} |
− | ** | + | ** Prosperity: {{Card|Vault}} |
− | ** | + | ** Cornucopia: {{Card|Horse Traders}}, {{Card|Young Witch}} |
− | ** | + | ** Hinterlands: {{Card|Embassy}} |
− | ** | + | ** Dark Ages: {{Card|Storeroom}}, {{Card|Count}} |
− | ** | + | ** Empires: {{Card|Opulent Castle}} |
* Terminals that put a card from your hand on [[Top decker|top of your deck]]: | * Terminals that put a card from your hand on [[Top decker|top of your deck]]: | ||
− | ** | + | ** Intrigue: {{Card|Courtyard}} |
− | + | ** Hinterlands: {{Card|Mandarin}} | |
− | ** | + | ** Dark Ages: {{Card|Count}} |
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* Terminal draw with [[sifting]] that can sometimes prevent a terminal collision in the first place: | * Terminal draw with [[sifting]] that can sometimes prevent a terminal collision in the first place: | ||
− | ** | + | ** Dominion: {{Card|Library}} |
− | ** | + | ** Hinterlands: {{Card|Oracle}}, {{Card|Jack of all Trades}} |
− | ** | + | ** Dark Ages: {{Card|Catacombs}} |
− | + | * {{Card|Masquerade}} (you can pass a dead card, though not always wise) | |
− | + | * {{Card|Cultist}} (able to play other copies of itself) | |
− | + | * {{Card|Ironworks}} (only terminal if you don't gain an Action) | |
− | * | + | * {{Card|Island}} |
− | + | * {{Card|Gear}} (can save up to 2 other terminals for next turn) | |
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Terminal [[Duration|Durations]] and [[Reserve|Reserves]], in general, can fill a similar role to soft terminals, since they can be staggered over more than one turn while still providing their effects. | Terminal [[Duration|Durations]] and [[Reserve|Reserves]], in general, can fill a similar role to soft terminals, since they can be staggered over more than one turn while still providing their effects. | ||
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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
− | While many players say they had mentally sorted cards into a nameless category similar to this, there had not been a specific name for it until Donald X. revealed in his ongoing interview on the forums that it was a category he explicitly endeavored to make cards for. "Soft terminal" arose as the community favorite title for the category, but other names floated were | + | While many players say they had mentally sorted cards into a nameless category similar to this, there had not been a specific name for it until Donald X. revealed in his ongoing interview on the forums that it was a category he explicitly endeavored to make cards for. "Soft terminal" arose as the community favorite title for the category, but other names floated were '''self-synergy''', '''supercollider''', and '''mitigator'''. Donald X. himself suggested '''spammable terminal'''. |
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|Text=A category I refer to some that you guys don't so much is Remodel/Vault. I guess I don't have a catchy name for it. The category is, cards that if you draw two of them give you a use for the other one despite being terminal. Sets want a good number of Remodels/Vaults; it's a basic way to deal with the one-action-a-turn rule. To let you build basic different kinds of decks, you have terminals, Villages, cantrips, Remodels/Vaults. | |Text=A category I refer to some that you guys don't so much is Remodel/Vault. I guess I don't have a catchy name for it. The category is, cards that if you draw two of them give you a use for the other one despite being terminal. Sets want a good number of Remodels/Vaults; it's a basic way to deal with the one-action-a-turn rule. To let you build basic different kinds of decks, you have terminals, Villages, cantrips, Remodels/Vaults. | ||
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | ||
− | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg469143#msg469143 | + | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg469143#msg469143] |
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|Text=They give you a use for dead actions. They are useful with a copy of themselves but also with other dead actions. You use them on themselves especially often but that's not because they are especially good at that, it just falls out of this being the card you can spam. Spammable terminals, there you go. | |Text=They give you a use for dead actions. They are useful with a copy of themselves but also with other dead actions. You use them on themselves especially often but that's not because they are especially good at that, it just falls out of this being the card you can spam. Spammable terminals, there you go. | ||
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | |Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]] | ||
− | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=12673.msg469162#msg469162 | + | |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=12673.msg469162#msg469162] |
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