Remodel

Remodel
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Base
Illustrator(s)	Matthias Catrein
Card text
Trash a card from your hand. Gain a card costing up to more than it.

Remodel is an Action card from the Base set. When played, it makes you trash a card from your hand, and gain a card costing up to more. It's one of the first trash-for-benefit cards that players encounter when learning Dominion, and similar cards from future expansions, such as Expand, are sometimes called the "Remodel family".

FAQ

Official FAQ

• You cannot trash the Remodel itself, since it is not in your hand after you play it.
• If you do not have a card to trash, you do not gain one.
• If you do gain a card, it comes from the Supply and is put into your discard pile.
• The gained card does not need to cost exactly more than the trashed card; it can cost that much or less, and can even be another copy of the trashed card.
• You cannot use to increase how expensive of a card you gain.

Other Rules clarifications

• You must trash a card from your hand if you have one.

Strategy Article

Remodel is a flexible trasher and gainer.

Remodel doesn't reduce your deck size like Chapel or Sentry, but it can replace your starting cards or junk cards with better cards. Out of those, Remodel is best at trashing Estates. Usually there's a desirable Kingdom card you can gain, such as Village or Throne Room, but even gaining a Silver is fine. It is less common to be able to gain a good card when trashing a card such as Copper or Curse. Sometimes there is a decent kingdom card that you're happy to gain, such as Pawn. Usually, you will prefer to trash your Coppers in another way, such as with Moneylender.

Near the end of the game, Remodel can turn cards (often Gold) into Provinces. Losing the Gold is often harmful, but having the capacity to gain an extra Province or two with Remodel on the last turn of the game is powerful. In the presence of efficient Gold gainers, like Bandit, Remodel trashing Gold to gain Provinces can be a sustainable greening strategy. Remodel can also be used to trash a Province into another Province (which is called milling a Province). This doesn't gain any  , but it gives you more control over the end of the game. For example, if there are two Provinces left in the pile and you're down by no more than 5 , you can Remodel Province into Province and then buy the last Province to win.

Remodel has other uses that are more situational. Once you're done trashing Coppers, you can use Remodel to trash your Moneylender into something valuable. Once Curses are empty, you can trash your Witch and gain a stronger card. Midgame, you can trash a Silver and gain a engine piece, such as Festival or Laboratory. You can trash a Silver or other unneeded card to Duchy for more  . It's rarely efficient to Remodel a card in multiple steps (e.g. Curse to Estate to card), but sometimes it is the best thing to do.

Remodel is best in Kingdoms where you have good uses for it throughout the game: trashing Estates early and gaining Provinces late. Remodel makes it more difficult to afford expensive cards, so you should avoid opening Remodel if there are important cards to get. But Remodel can be valuable to add midgame, especially if you still have Estates to trash or have an efficient Gold gainer. Remodel is at its weakest in kingdoms with other strong Estate trashers (such as Chapel) and strong payload (such as Bridge).

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Trash a card from your hand. Gain a card costing up to more than the trashed card.	Dominion	October 2008
		Trash a card from your hand. Gain a card costing up to more than it.	Dominion (Second Edition)	October 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Chinese	重建 (pron. chóngjiàn)
Czech	Přestavba
Dutch	Verbouwing			Vernietig een kaart uit je hand. Pak een kaart die ten hoogste meer waard is dan de vernietigde kaart.	(2009)
	Verbouwing			Vernietig een kaart uit je hand. Pak een kaart die ten hoogste meer kost dan de vernietigde kaart.	Tweede editie (herdruk 2019/2020)
Finnish	Muutostyö
French	Rénovation
German	Umbau			Entsorge eine Karte aus deiner Hand. Nimm dir eine Karte, die bis zu mehr kostet als die entsorgte Karte.	(2008)
German	Umbau			Entsorge eine deiner Handkarten. Nimm eine Karte, die bis zu mehr als sie kostet.	2. Edition (2019)
Hungarian	Átépítés
Italian	Miglioria
Japanese	改築 (pron. kaichiku)			手札1枚を廃棄する。それよりコストが最大高いカード1枚を獲得する。
Korean	개조 (pron. gaejo)
Norwegian	Ombygging
Polish	Przebudowa			Wyrzuć na śmietnisko dowolną kartę z ręki. Dodaj kartę os koszcie większym maksymalnie o od kosztu wyrzuconej karty.	(2015)
Romanian	Remodelare
Russian	Реконструкция (pron. ryekonstruktsiya)			Выкиньте карту из руки. Получите карту стоимостью не более чем на дороже выкинутой.
Spanish	Remodelar			Elimina una carta de tu mano. Gana una carta que cueste hasta más que la carta eliminada.	First Edition (2008)
	Remodelar			Elimina una carta de tu mano. Gana una carta que cueste hasta más que la carta eliminada.	Second Edition (2016, 2021)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Another very early card with no story.

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

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