Rapid Expansion

Rapid Expansion is a Prophecy from Rising Sun. Once activated, it essentially makes all Actions and Treasures Hasty for the rest of the game, playing themselves automatically the turn immediately after you gain them.

Rapid Expansion
Info
Type	Prophecy
Set	Rising Sun
Illustrator(s)	Donald Crank
Prophecy text
When you gain an Action or Treasure, set it aside, and play it at the start of your next turn.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This is not optional.
• You can order playing each card at the start of your next turn, relative to other such cards and also anything else that happens at the start of that turn.

Other rules clarifications

• This even applies to cards that would ordinarily be gained directly to your hand for immediate use. For instance, if you use Mine while Rapid Expansion is in effect, the gained Treasure will be set aside and can't be played on the current turn.
• The stop-moving rule can in some cases allow you to interrupt Rapid Expansion's effect. For instance, if you gain a Villa while Rapid Expansion is in effect, you get two competing "when you gain this" movement instructions: Villa telling you to put it in your hand, and Rapid Expansion telling you to set it aside. Since these two instructions activate at the same time, you can choose which one to follow first (and then the other will be blocked by the stop-moving rule). However, this doesn't apply in the case of cards such as Mine (see above) because of the No Visiting rule: in the case of Mine, the Treasure is gained directly to your hand, rather than moved to your hand at a time that conflicts with Rapid Expansion.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you gain an Action or Treasure, set it aside, and play it at the start of your next turn.	Rising Sun	August 2024

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Schnelle Expansion			Wenn du eine Aktions- oder Geldkarte nimmst, leg sie zur Seite und spiele sie zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges.

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

DZ suggested this one. Unchanged, and one of my favorite Prophecies.

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

Playtester's Secret History

Not many playtesters get to say that they suggested a card and it survived to print without ever changing, but I get to. My thought process was to turn Hasty on its head: instead of one pile being Hasty for the whole game, it’s instead all piles being Hasty for the second half. JNails complained about how this messed up gain and play but I think it’s funny.

—DZ, Secret History of Rising Sun by a Playtester