Harsh Winter

Harsh Winter
Info
Type	Prophecy
Set	Rising Sun
Illustrator(s)	Julien Delval
Prophecy text
When you gain a card on your turn, if there's on its pile, take it; otherwise put on its pile.

Harsh Winter is a Prophecy from Rising Sun. Once it is activated, every other time a card is gained from any given pile, the player gaining it must take , like an automatic Tax.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This applies to both Supply piles and non-Supply piles. Cards gained from the trash affect the pile the card is from, if any. Coppers and Estates are "from" their piles, even if they're cards the players started with in their decks.
• When it's not your turn, gaining a card neither puts on the pile nor removes from the pile.

Other rules clarifications

• Gaining a card with no pile (e.g. using Treasurer to gain an Heirloom) won't add anywhere.
• Reward and Loot are piles and can have ; the Black Market deck is not.
• If you gain a card in your Buy phase in the same game as Tax, you can order the effects. Usually, you'll want to resolve Tax first.
  • If the pile has , your choices are: take the with Tax and add with Harsh Winter; or take the with Harsh Winter and take with Tax.
  • If the pile has no , your choices are: take with Tax and then add with Harsh Winter; or add with Harsh Winter and then take the with Tax.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you gain a card on your turn, if there's on its pile, take it; otherwise put on its pile.	Rising Sun	August 2024

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Strenger Winter			Wenn du in deinem Zug eine Karte nimmst, auf deren Stapel liegen: Nimm die . Falls nicht, lege auf ihren Stapel.

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

This started out as a kingdom card, Jito. It was, cost , next turn +, until then other players take with their cards. A debt Swamp Hag. Then it changed to +, no that's no good. Then okay not a duration, +1 Buy +, and this turn when you gain a card you put on its pile, that works basically like Tax. And we had that experience for a while. It was problematic in multiples or Throned, piles could get giant amounts of debt. As a Prophecy, it's never duplicated; a pile has or no . At first I thought the wording would try to line up perfectly with Tax (with Tax possibly getting errata to make this happen; however it worked best, man, I didn't care if Tax was slightly different in exotic cases). This didn't quite work out, and well if you have it in a game with Tax, you will want to pay attention to what order you resolve them.

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