Change

Change
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Rising Sun
Illustrator(s)	Julien Delval
Card text
If you have any , +. Otherwise, trash a card from your hand, and gain a card costing more than it. + equal to the difference in .

Change is an Action card from Rising Sun. It is a remodeler that allows you to trash a card for one of arbitrarily higher cost, but makes up for the difference in cost by putting you in debt. To prevent you from overusing this remodeling ability, you can't use it if you're already in debt; instead, it gives you to help you start paying it off.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Remember you can repay at any point during your turn, which can sometimes let you choose which thing Change will do.
• If you have any , Change gives you + ; otherwise you trash a card from your hand, gain any card costing more , and take equal to the difference. For example you could trash a Copper, gain a Province, and take .
• You can't gain a card costing the same amount of or less .
• This ignores other special aspects of cost; for example you could trash an Estate and gain an Alchemist, from Alchemy, which costs and

Other rules clarifications

• The amount of you take depends on the costs of the gained and trashed cards after you gain it. If cost reduction kicks in between gaining a card and taking the (e.g., you gain a Bridge and play it immediately with Innovation), the is calculated based on the reduced costs.
  • If you didn’t actually gain the card, you don’t take any debt. This can happen when being controlled by Possession, and this means debt will not be passed on to the player who played Possession.
• It is occasionally possible for cost reduction to make the gained card cost less than the trashed card after gaining. In this case the incurred is the absolute value of the new difference.
  • For example, if you trash a Fisherman and gain a Silver, the Fisherman now costs , and you take .

Versions

English Version

Print	Digital	Text	Notes	Release	Date
		If you have any , +. Otherwise, trash a card from your hand, and gain a card costing more than it. + equal to the difference in .		Rising Sun	August 2024

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Wandel			Wenn du hast: +. Ansonsten entsorge eine beliebige deiner Handkarten und nimm eine Karte, die mehr kostet als jene. + in Höhe der Differenz in .

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

The initial card didn't have the "no " clause. So you'd just go nuts with Changes, piling up debt you were never going to pay off. The "no " clause solved this perfectly. A few players complained that they couldn't Remodel with this much because you know, they'd be in debt from the last one or something. And I mean for me that's just part of the overall package, it's a delightful card that yes may not just quickly Remodel all of your Estates, but hey can turn them into anything more expensive.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Rising Sun Cards