Cemetery

Cemetery
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Victory
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Nocturne
Illustrator(s)	Marcel-André Casasola Merkle
Card text
2  When you gain this, trash up to 4 cards from your hand. Heirloom: Haunted Mirror

Cemetery is a Victory card from Nocturne. It's an on-gain trasher worth 2 . It has an Heirloom, Haunted Mirror.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• In games using this, replace one of your starting Coppers with a Haunted Mirror.
• When you gain a Cemetery, trash from zero to four cards from your hand.

Strategy

Cemetery is an on-gain trasher and a supplementary source of alt-VP. Its most powerful use case occurs when you can gain it early in the game while still having a hand full of multiple junk cards to trash. Its presence also guarantees that you have at least one way to trash its Heirloom, Haunted Mirror, in order to gain a Ghost, although the value of going out of your way to achieve this is variable.

Several trashers are easier and faster to use than Cemetery in most cases (e.g. Chapel), so Cemetery tends to be of minor importance if such a card is available. Since trashing with Cemetery involves gaining what amounts to a junk card, at least in the early game, it's usually only worthwhile as thinning if you can trash three or four cards. This means that, in order to use Cemetery effectively, you need to gain it while still having a large number of targets in hand. One way to achieve this is with strong draw, although this may be difficult early in the game when trashing is a top priority, since Coppers are still your main source of payload; ways to spike either hand size (e.g. Gear) or (e.g. Bounty Hunter) may be helpful. An often preferable alternative is to avoid the need for an increased hand size by using a gainer to obtain the Cemetery; Workshop variants tend to be best for this, as they can be acquired in the opening. Gainers that can gain cards to hand such as Cobbler and Sculptor can be particularly useful as you can also trash the Cemetery alongside your starting junk. Finally, Alms synergizes well with Cemetery, as it allows you to gain the card with nothing in play at all, thereby providing a Chapel-like effect as early in the game as you want it, including in the opening.

A Cemetery gained early in the game is often a useful trash-for-benefit target later: for example, Upgrade or Transmogrify can turn it into a strong Action card costing . Later on, it can offer a reasonable source of alt-VP as an intermediate option between Estate and Duchy—in the endgame, it is therefore once again a good target for Workshop variants, especially if you’ve picked up additional junk to trash, e.g. Curses.

Trashing your Haunted Mirror is usually a good plan, as it is identical to a Copper for most purposes. Gaining a Ghost in doing so is often a nice bonus as Ghost is a sifter and Throne Room variant that can ensure a good start to a big turn, but it’s not always worth the opportunity costs of waiting for a suitable chance to trash your Haunted Mirror and also declining to play an Action card so that you can discard it. However, the prospect of obtaining a Ghost as compensation for terminal collision might slightly alter your calculation when considering two terminals in the opening (e.g. double Amulet). As with other Kingdoms that offer Ghost, the value of gaining one may be higher than usual if it is the only village, and lower than usual if you will risk hitting inconvenient targets, such as mandatory trashers (e.g. Remodel).

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		2  When you gain this, trash up to 4 cards from your hand.   Heirloom: Haunted Mirror	Nocturne	November 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Kerkhof
French	Cimetière			2  Quand vous recevez cette carte, écartez jusqu'à 4 cartes de votre main.   Patrimoine : Miroir hanté
German	Friedhof			2  Wenn du diese Karte nimmst, entsorge bis zu 4 Handkarten.   Erbstück: Zauberspiegel	(2017)
Japanese	墓地 (pron. bochi)			2  これを獲得するとき、手札から4枚以下のカードを廃棄する。   (家宝: 呪いの鏡)
Russian	Погост (pron. pogost, lit. churchyard)

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Cemetery trashes cards when you gain it, that's pretty sweet. I will just tell you now, it is great to gain it with a Workshop or something. It means everyone has a Haunted Mirror, which gives you a little sub-game to play to get a Ghost.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Nocturne Previews #2: Shepherd, Pooka, Cemetery

Secret History

Hinterlands tried and failed to get a when-gain trasher. Guilds managed it via having the card's ability also be trashing. Cemetery manages it by not doing anything else, it's just  . I was pretty thrilled with this when I thought of it, and then it played great, hooray.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Nocturne