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Soft terminal is a nickname for a subcategory of terminal Actions that Donald X. Vaccarino finds useful to take into account in designing expansions. These are terminals that mitigate 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 Remodel and Vault.
Examples
Cards in italics have been removed.
- Terminals that trash Actions for some benefit:
- Terminals that require discarding:
- Intrigue: Secret Chamber
- Prosperity: Vault
- Cornucopia: Horse Traders, Young Witch
- Hinterlands: Embassy
- Dark Ages: Storeroom, Count
- Empires: Opulent Castle
- Terminals that put a card from your hand on top of your deck:
- Terminal draw with sifting that can sometimes prevent a terminal collision in the first place:
- Dominion: Library, Adventurer
- Hinterlands: Oracle, Jack of all Trades
- Dark Ages: Catacombs
- Guilds: Journeyman
- Masquerade (you can pass a dead card, though not always wise)
- Cultist (able to play other copies of itself)
- Avanto (able to play copies of Sauna)
- Ironworks (only terminal if you don't gain an Action)
- Island
- Gear (can save up to 2 other terminals for next turn)
- Werewolf (can be played during your Night phase if you run out of Actions)
Terminal Durations and 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.
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 self-synergy, supercollider, and mitigator. Donald X. himself suggested spammable terminal.
