Silver Mine

Silver Mine
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Treasure
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Plunder
Illustrator(s)	Martin Hoffmann
Card text
Gain a Treasure costing less than this to your hand.

Silver Mine is a Treasure card from Plunder. It gains inexpensive Treasures, such as Silver, directly to your hand.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This can gain Silver, but also other Treasures costing less than Silver Mine, when in the Supply: Gondola, Jewelled Egg, and so on.

Strategy

In most games, this card tends to be limited in use to gaining Silver, but it becomes dramatically stronger in the presence of desirable alt-treasure, especially those costing as they tend to be stronger than Silver but can still be gained by this card. Gondola is a particularly nice combo and easy to utilize. In terms of immediate buying power, this card is usually only as strong as a silver, which makes it only worthwhile in the case where the gaining of silver is sufficiently beneficial.

This card can function well as a gainer in engines that have some ability to trash the silvers or other treasures for benefit. Ideally the engine would be set up so that you can spend the treasure this turn, and then trash it on the next turn.

This card also is powerful in a slog, where it improves the quality of your deck in addition to providing immediate buying power, but its high price point makes it so that it is not always the best purchase to this end.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Gain a Treasure costing less than this to your hand.	Plunder	December 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Zilvermijn			Pak een geldkaart die minder kost dan deze kaart en neem die in je hand.	(2023)
German	Silbermine			Nimm eine Geldkarte auf deine Hand, die weniger kostet als diese Karte.

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Initially it played the card; now it goes to your hand. Another one under frequent attack. It's just some Explorer, and can't even get Gold; I dunno what to tell you, Dominion needs some simple cards.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Plunder

Retrospective

I remain happy to have done [Silver Mine]. They can't all have a million words and require non-supply piles and do something no card has done that generates a dozen-page rules thread.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Interview with Donald X.