Emporium

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Emporium
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Empires
Illustrator(s)	Garret DeChellis
Card text
+1 Card +1 Action + When you gain this, if you have at least 5 Action cards in play, +2 .

Emporium is an Action card from Empires. It is a Peddler variant that gives you a   tokens bonus when you gain it, if you can get a lot of Actions in play first. It is a split pile card, with 5 copies of Emporium sitting under 5 copies of Patrician.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This counts Action cards in play, including Action cards played this turn, Duration cards in play from previous turns, and Reserve cards (from Dominion: Adventures) called into play this turn.

Other Rules clarifications

• Since the attempt to gain 2  (and thus, the check to see how many Actions are in play) has "when-gain" timing, if another effect with "when-gain" timing brings more Actions into play (such as Duplicate being called), the player can choose to resolve the effect bringing the Actions into play first, delaying the attempted   gain until after those effects are resolved. This can lead to instances where when an Emporium is first gained, fewer than 5 Actions are in play, but the player still gets 2 , since they have chosen to do so after bringing a sufficient amount of Actions into play. For example, with only four Actions in play, a player could buy an Emporium, choose to call Duplicate first, then gain 2  (since they now have 5 Actions in play), then another 2  from the Duplicated Emporium.

Strategy

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Combos

• Duplicate

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Card +1 Action + When you gain this, if you have at least 5 Action cards in play, +2 .	Empires Empires (2021 printing)	June 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Emporium			+1 Kaart +1 Actie + Als je deze kaart pakt en je hebt ten minste 5 actiekaarten in het spel,+2 .	(2016)
Finnish	Markkinapaikka (lit. marketplace)
French	Emporium
German	Handelsplatz			+1 Karte +1 Aktion + Wenn du diese Karte nimmst und du mindestens 5 Aktionskarten im Spiel hast: +2 -Marker	(2016)
	Handelsplatz			+1 Karte +1 Aktion + Wenn du diese Karte nimmst und du mindestens 5 Aktionskarten im Spiel hast, +2 .	2. Edition (2021)
Japanese	エンポリウム (pron. enporiumu)			+1 カードを引く +1 アクション + これを獲得するとき、場に5枚以上のアクションカードがある場合、+2 。
Polish	Emporium			+1 karta +1 akcja + Kiedy dodajesz tę kartę i masz w grze co najmniej 5 kart Akcji, +2 .	(2017)
Russian	Эмпорий (pron. emporiy)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Emporium started out as a village you could trash for +  based on how many Action cards you had in play. I tried a few sizes. I liked that whole idea of cashing in cards for  , but you don't so much want to do it until your last turn of the game, which is not great, and making it fair when it's good can mean making it weak most of the time. I fixed up the concept by making it a threshold; you either get   or don't, and can't get more with more Actions. Patrician is a combo with it both ways (finds it, helps reach the threshold), which is cute. The threshold was 6 Actions for a while; one day Matt said, why not 5.

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