Defiled Shrine

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Defiled Shrine
Info
Type	Landmark
Set	Empires
Illustrator(s)	Kurt Miller
Landmark text
When you gain an Action, move 1  from its pile to this. When you gain a Curse in your Buy phase, take the   from this. Setup: Put 2  on each non-Gathering Action Supply pile.

Defiled Shrine is a Landmark from Empires. It acts kind of like a Gathering card, accumulating   tokens as players gain Actions, and then giving them to a player when they buy a Curse.

FAQ

Unofficial FAQ (2022)

• Note that this triggers on gaining an Action at any time, but only on gaining Curse during the Buy phase; gaining Curse at other times will not get you any  .
•   tokens will go on the Ruins pile (from Dominion: Dark Ages) when used, but not on Farmers' Market, Temple, or Wild Hunt (the three Action–Gathering cards).

Other rules clarifications

• Although Defiled Shrine itself does not place   tokens on Gathering Action Supply piles, it will still move   tokens off their piles when you gain one of them.
  • However, when you gain a Temple, you can take all the   on it before attempting to send one to Defiled Shrine.
• If other Action Supply piles are added to the game during setup (e.g. Looters adding the Ruins pile, or Young Witch adding an Action Supply pile as its Bane), those piles starts with 2 .
• If you remove an Action from the Supply without gaining it (e.g. you exile it with Camel Train), the   stays on the pile.
• If you gain an Action from the trash (with e.g. Lurker), you'll move 1  from its pile onto Defiled Shrine.
• With certain split piles, you can send Defiled Shrine's   onto Aqueduct instead. For example, if you rotate the Odysseys to Sunken Treasure, then gaining a Sunken Treasure will move 1  to Aqueduct.
• Defiled Shrine got errata in 2022 so that you take its   when you gain a Curse in your Buy phase. This means that you now get   if you gain the Curse by buying it, or if you gain it during your Buy phase in another way (e.g. from Ritual).
  • If gaining an Action card in your Buy phase causes you to gain a Curse (e.g. from another player's Swamp Hag), you can move 1  from the Action card's pile to Defiled Shrine, and then gain the Curse and immediately take all the  .
  • If you gain a Curse during another player's Buy phase (e.g. you gain a Curse from their Cauldron), you won't get the  .

Deprecated official FAQ (2021)

Note that this triggers on gaining an Action, whether bought or otherwise gained, but only on buying Curse, not on gaining Curse other ways.   tokens will go on the Ruins pile (from Dominion: Dark Ages) when used, but not on Farmers' Market, Temple, or Wild Hunt (the three Action - Gathering cards).

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you gain an Action, move 1  from its pile to this. When you buy a Curse, take the   from this. Setup: Put 2  on each non-Gathering Action Supply pile.	Empires	June 2016
		When you gain an Action, move 1  from its pile to this. When you gain a Curse in your Buy phase, take the   from this. Setup: Put 2  on each non-Gathering Action Supply pile.		June 29, 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Geschonden altaar (lit. violated altar)
Finnish	Häväisty pyhättö (lit. profaned shrine)
French	Profanation (lit. desecration)
German	Entweihter Schrein			Wenn du eine Aktionskarte nimmst, nimm 1 -Marker von jenem Stapel und lege ihn hierher. Wenn du einen Fluch kaufst, nimm alle -Marker von dieser Karte. Spielvorbereitung: Legt 2 -Marker auf jeden Vorratsstapel, der den Typ AKTION, aber nicht den Typ SAMMLUNG enthält.	(2016)
	Entweihter Schrein			Wenn du eine Aktionskarte nimmst, lege 1  von deren Stapel hierher. Wenn du einen Fluch kaufst, nimm alle   von hier. Spielvorbereitung: Legt 2  auf jeden Vorratsstapel, der den Typ AKTION, aber nicht SAMMLUNG enthält.	2. Edition (2021)
	Entweihter Schrein			Wenn du eine Aktionskarte nimmst, lege 1  von deren Stapel hierher. Wenn du einen Fluch in deiner Kaufphase nimmst, nimm alle   von hier. Spielvorbereitung: Legt 2  auf jeden Vorratsstapel, der den Typ AKTION, aber nicht SAMMLUNG enthält.
Japanese	汚された神殿 (pron. yogosa reta shinden, lit. soiled temple)			あなたがアクションカード1枚を獲得するとき、この山の上の1 をこの上に移動する。あなたが呪い1枚を購入するとき、この上の を得る。 準備:集合以外の各アクションカードのサプライの山の上に2 置く。
Polish	Sprofanowane sanktuarium			Kiedy dodajesz kartę Akcji, przenieś tutaj 1  z jej stosu. Kiedy kupujesz Klątwę, weź wszystkie leżące tu  . Przygotowanie: połóż 2  na każdym stosie kart Akcji w Zasobach bez typu Gromadzenie.	(2017)
Russian	Осквернённая Святыня (pron. oskvyernyonnaya svyatynya)

Trivia

Official card art.

Why is the shrine "defiled"?

I don't think a plain Shrine would involve buying a Curse.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Interview with Donald X.

Secret History

It triggered on gaining a Curse, but it was not entertaining in games with Witches, so now you have to buy the Curse. The "non-Gathering" thing was a late change to deal with poor interactions between this and the cards that put   on their own piles. It's kind of weird to have that type there just for this one thing, but it also ties the cards together. That's what I said when insisting on that change, and people's reactions to the Gathering cards has borne that out; they really are tied together.

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