Storeroom

Storeroom
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Dark Ages
Illustrator(s)	Alex Drummond
Card text
+1 Buy Discard any number of cards, then draw that many. Then discard any number of cards for + each.

Storeroom is an Action card from Dark Ages. It is a terminal sifter, which lets you discard cards first to draw more cards, and then for .

FAQ

Official FAQ

• You gain +1 Buy
• Discard any number of cards from your hand, and draw as many cards as you discarded.
• Then, discard any number of cards - which could include cards you just drew - and you get + per card you discarded that time.

Strategy

Storeroom is a terminal sifter and payload card offering both +Buy and a discard-for-benefit effect. It can therefore serve multiple purposes in a deck.

1. Storeroom is a passable source of +Buy. If this is its only feature you're interested in, there are often better alternatives, but a copy or two of Storeroom added later in the game can still be helpful if you have the terminal space, especially if its other abilities can be useful.
2. Storeroom can discard cards to generate virtual coin, so you can use multiple copies of it as payload in several different kinds of decks. This is most effective in decks with strong draw but poor trashing (where you can discard your junk), decks with overdraw (e.g. with Scrying Pool), or decks using draw-to-X. Cursed Village and Hunting Lodge are fairly good enablers of Storeroom payload, because they offer both draw and additional terminal space.
3. Storeroom is a sifter. While it is terminal and therefore liable to draw Action cards dead without village support, its ability to discard and draw an arbitrary number of cards provides good flexibility and cycling, and is especially useful for setting up clean reshuffles. Because of these two traits and its ability to convert hand size into payload, Storeroom can function well alongside non-Action cards such as Potion in the early game, when your main goal is sifting to them. However, because Storeroom is handsize-negative, using more than one or two copies for sifting is usually inefficient.
4. Storeroom is a fairly good way to activate discard-for-benefit effects such as Tunnel and Village Green, as it gives you two chances to discard cards and a fairly large search space in which to find your intended target.

Given Storeroom’s flexibility in the number of cards it allows you to discard, there’s a fair amount of choice in how to use it within a turn. Generally, your goals will be the following:

1. Sifting to find your important cards, which entails discarding as much as needed to draw to them.
2. Discarding as many excess or junk cards as possible to generate .
3. Practicing good reshuffle control, both by avoiding bad reshuffle triggers containing many stop cards (possibly discarded by an earlier Storeroom), and by setting up clean reshuffles when possible, by discarding and drawing exactly as many cards remain in your shuffle.

While this first goal may require you to play Storeroom somewhat early in your turn, the other two goals will generally incentivize you to play it later in your turn, after drawing with your other cards.

Storeroom synergizes very well with Stampede, as it lets you generate significant without putting many cards into play, while the draw from the Horses can in turn be converted into a large amount of . With a deck consisting of two Storerooms, a Gold, two Silvers, and your starting cards, you can repeatedly buy a Province and Stampede, setting up the other Storeroom for next turn by discarding one more card than you have remaining in your shuffle.

External strategy articles

Note: Article(s) below are by individual authors and may not represent the community's current views on cards, but may provide more in-depth information or give historical perspective. Caveat emptor.

• Qvist's 2012 article

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Buy Discard any number of cards. +1 Card per card discarded. Discard any number of cards. + per card discarded the second time.	Dark Ages 1st Edition	August 2012
		+1 Buy Discard any number of cards, then draw that many. Then discard any number of cards for + each.	Dark Ages 2nd Edition	September 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Czech	Komora			+1 nákup Odlož libovolný počet karet. +1 karta za každou takto odloženou kartu. Odlož libovolný počet karet. + za každou takto odloženou kartu.
Dutch	Berghok (lit. shed)
Finnish	Kellarivarasto (lit. basement storage)
French	Salle d'entreposage			+1 Achat Défaussez autant de cartes que souhaité, puis piochez-en autant. Ensuite, défaussez autant de cartes que souhaité pour + par carte.
German	Lagerraum			+1 Kauf Lege eine beliebige Anzahl Karten aus deiner Hand ab. +1 Karte pro abgelegter Karte. Lege eine beliebige Anzahl Karten aus deiner Hand ab. + pro nun abgelegter Karte.	(2012)
German	Lagerraum			+1 Kauf Lege beliebig viele deiner Handkarten ab und ziehe dann genauso viele Karten. Dann lege beliebig viele deiner Handkarten ab für jeweils +.	(2019)
Japanese	物置 (pron. monooki)			+1 購入 好きな枚数のカードを捨て札にし、同じ枚数のカードを引 く。 その後、好きな枚数のカードを捨て札にし、1枚につき+。
Korean	저장실 (pron. jeojangsil)
Polish	Przechowalnia (lit. "Store")				Although Polish version is not released, this card is referred to in the Polish version of Empires rulebook
Russian	Кладовая (pron. kladovaya)
Spanish	Depósito

Trivia

Official card art.

The art for Storeroom is the only known instance of official card art being used on isotropic, probably due to it being turned in for an earlier set.

Card Art

This art was turned in as an alternate option for Vault.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, 'Art Trivia'

Secret History

This was an old idea that I had briefly tried and forgotten about long ago. I wanted a card-filterer to help dig through your Ruins and saw this on a list and thought hey, let's try that again.

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

Donald X.'s thoughts on Storeroom being weak

Mic seems to get this all the time. And then draws back all the cards he discarded. I almost never get this. Sure, it can be your Ruined Market.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, $3 Cost Card Rankings Bottom Half