Monument
| Monument | |
|---|---|
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| Info | |
| Cost |
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| Type(s) | Action |
| Kingdom card? | Yes |
| Set |
Prosperity |
| Illustrator(s) | Julien Delval |
| Card text | |
+ +1  | |
Monument is an Action card from Prosperity. It is one of the four current Prosperity cards which utilize tokens, along with Bishop, Investment, and Collection. It is a terminal silver which grants a single token on play.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- You get + and take a token.
Strategy
Monument is a terminal silver that also provides alt-VP in the form of tokens. The value of 1 per terminal play of a stop card heavily depends on the Kingdom, so fairly often other cards will provide a better benefit for the price and terminal space.
Monument is most important when the amount of it provides is large relative to the other scoring options. There are two main cases for this:
- If additional gains are hard to come by (e.g., Kingdoms that allow you to gain a maximum of a single Province per turn), an additional 1 every few turns can be relevant.
- If the Kingdom has a way to reliably play multiple Monuments per turn (e.g., via an engine with King's Court or Captain, or a draw-to-X deck using Cursed Village), you may be able to score at a similar pace to another strategy that gains multiple Victory cards per turn, without the typical deck deterioration associated with greening.
Monument may also be useful as a form of early payload, if you have no better use for the terminal space and need the to help you afford expensive deck control components (i.e., its opportunity cost is only a Silver). Monument is unlikely to be important when the Kingdom offers a way to take many very quickly; in the extreme case, it's usually not relevant when a megaturn is possible, especially since this typically involves a stronger terminal payload card, e.g. Bridge.
Since Monument provides slowly accumulating , it benefits from the ability to play it early and often. Assuming it’s a good way to score, this means it can be best to acquire a copy at least by the early midgame and effectively use it as a Silver, while aiming to establish strong enough deck control to play it consistently. The problem with gaining Monuments later in the game is that you will be able to play those copies fewer times than if you had gained them earlier, and the total amount of you are able to get by adding additional copies late in the game is often limited (on top of the usual payload ramping concerns of increasing your terminal space and draw requirements). For the same reason, Monument also provides more benefit in longer games, including slogs.
External strategy articles
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Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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+ +1 |
Prosperity | October 2010 |
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+ +1 |
Prosperity (2016 printing) | February 2017 |
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+ +1 |
Prosperity (Second Edition) | June 2022 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 紀念碑 | + +1 |
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| Czech | Památník | ||||
| Dutch | Monument |  |
+ +1 |
(2011) | |
| Finnish | Monumentti | ||||
| French | Monument | ||||
| German | Denkmal |  |
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+ +1 |
(2010; Nachdruck 2021) |
| Denkmal |  |
+ +1  -Marker |
(2016) The Marker wording was introduced in a 2016 printing and removed again in a 2021 print run. Similarly, this wording was initially used in the German Empires expansion, where it was removed in a 2021 printing (see Plunder). | ||
| Denkmal |  |
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+ +1 |
2. Edition (2022) | |
| Italian | Monumento | ||||
| Japanese | 記念碑 (pron. kinenhi) |
+ +1 |
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| Polish | Monument |  |
+ +1 |
(2016) | |
| Monument |  |
+ +1 |
II Edycja (2022) | ||
| Russian | Памятник (pron. pamyatnik) | ||||
| Spanish | Monumento |
Trivia
Secret History
. It got that in order to be playable. After Seaside it was clear this would use tokens, so I rephrased it, and eventually added more VP token cards so it wouldn't be lonely. Late in the going I realized it could be phrased as "+1 VP" rather than "Take a VP token."
