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A turn is the period of time during which a player may play and buy cards, and then clean-up for their next turn. Almost all gameplay happens during a turn. Players alternate taking turns until the game ends. If a previous game has been played, the player with the fewest points of that game takes the first turn in the next one; otherwise, the first player should be determined randomly.

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[edit] Turn phases

At the start of their turn, a player is given 1 Action and 1 Buy. A player may accumulate more of these as their turn progresses.

  • Action phase (A): The current player may play Action cards as long as they have Actions remaining.
  • Buy phase (B): The current player may play any number of Treasures from their hand, and then may buy cards or Events as long as they have Buys remaining, and enough resources remaining to buy them.
  • Night phase (N): The current player may play any number of Night cards from their hand. This phase only happens in games using Night cards.
  • Clean-up phase (C): The current player discards all cards in their hand, and all cards in play other than Duration cards (and associated Throne Room variants and Command variants) that have not yet finished tracking effects are discarded, including those played by other players. Then the current player draws 5 new cards from their deck, and ends their turn.

Certain cards or card-shaped things have effects that can alter the sequence of phases, or change what happens in them.

[edit] Start and end of turn

Some cards and card-shpaed things specify effects that are to happen at the start or end of a turn.

The start-of-turn effects happen before the action phase. If there are multiple start-of-turn effects to be resolved, the player generally chooses the order in which the effects are resolved. The one exception is DonateDonate.jpg under its most recent errata, which specifies that its effect is to be done first. Start-of-turn effects are mostly created by Duration cards.

End-of-turn effects happen after the clean-up phase, which also means that they occur after the new hand has been dealt. The Boon The River's Gift creates an end-of-turn effect. If multiple end-of-turn effects are to be resolved, the player determined the ordering of the effects.

[edit] Turn count

It is useful to keep track of how many turns have been played by each player, for a number of reasons:

  • If more than one player has the highest score at the end of the game, the player who took the fewest turns wins. If they took the same number of turns, the game remains a tie. This is partly to remedy first player turn advantage.
  • In strategic discussions, the effectiveness of a strategy is often determined by the average number of turns it takes for it to gain four ProvincesProvince.jpg. A pure Big Money strategy typically does this in 16 turns; adding one or two copies of certain Action cards, such as SmithySmithy.jpg or Jack of all TradesJack of All Trades.jpg, can drop this to anywhere from 14 to 11 turns. This metric is less useful in engine or slog mirrors; the former is more concerned with gaining all (or most) of the Provinces in one or two turns after building up their deck, while the latter is slowed down by powerful Attacks.

[edit] Turn order

Whenever an effect happens to more than one player, or multiple effects involving different players try to resolve at the same time, they are resolved in turn order, starting with the player whose turn it is (or the player who last took a turn). This is important particularly with regards to gaining cards: for example, if a player plays WitchWitch.jpg, and there's only one CurseCurse.jpg left, only the player next in turn order gains a Curse.

[edit] Extra turns

Three cards (OutpostOutpost.jpg, PossessionPossession.jpg and VoyageVoyage.jpg) and four additional card-shaped objects (MissionMission.jpg, FleetFleet.jpg, Seize the DaySeize the Day.jpg and Island FolkIsland Folk.jpg) allow a player to take more turns than normal, each with its own penalties or restrictions. These extra turns do not add to a player's turn count, and are not used in breaking ties.

Extra turns happen in turn order—if a player plays Outpost and Possession on their turn, the Outpost turn happens first. The Possession turn is not their turn, but the turn of the next player; they are simply controlling what happens.

[edit] Skip turns

One card, LichLich.jpg, can cause you to skip turns. Skipping a turn means that the next time you would take a turn, you don't; nothing happens for that turn: no "start of turn" abilities, no phases. Play continues with the player to your left as usual.

  • You can skip an extra turn, like one from VoyageVoyage.jpg.
  • Skipped turns still count for the tiebreaker however they would have if taken.
  • Abilities that refer to your "last turn" or "next turn" skip the skipped turn as well. If you play a CaravanCaravan.jpg and skip a turn, the Caravan will draw you a card on the next turn you actually take; if someone plays a SmugglersSmugglers.jpg they'll gain a copy of a card you gained on the last turn you actually had.

[edit] Between turns

A few decisions, usually deciding which of multiple extra turns should occur first, take place between turns. In those cases, the player who took the last turn is considered to be in control, and is the one who makes such decisions. It does not matter if that player was Possessed on the previous turn; it is still their decision.

The original versions of the Event DonateDonateOld.jpg and the Landmark Mountain PassMountain PassOld.jpg, from EmpiresEmpires.jpg, resolve between turns (so that PossessionPossession.jpg is not in effect when decisions are made), but revisions of these cards have those abilities take place during the turn.


Deck archetypes Big MoneyComboEngineRushSlog
Strategic concepts CollisionCounterCyclingDeadDuchy dancingEndgameGreeningMegaturnMirrorOpeningOpportunity costPenultimate Province RulePayloadPinPiledrivingReshuffleSilver testStop cardSplit advantageStrictly betterSynergyTerminalityTerminal spaceThree-pile endingTurn advantageVictory pointVillage idiot
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