Triggered effects

The default time in Dominion at which a card has an effect is when it is played. If an Action, Treasure, or Night card's text doesn't state specifically when the instructions on it are to be carried out, it is when the card is played. Since cards are played one at a time in Dominion (even Treasure cards), there is never any ambiguity about what order to resolve these effects in: play one card, resolving its effects; then play the next card, resolving its effects. Similarly, Events by default are resolved when you buy them.

Many cards and landscapes, however, have effects at specifically-stated other times. This page is an index of the various situations that can cause a card's abilities to be triggered. This can be interpreted as data for a flow chart: For example, if you are buying a card, look at the list of "when you buy a card" triggers to see if any of those effects apply, and if they do, execute them; then you can see if any of the effects triggered by buying a card themselves trigger other effects, and so on. It is often the case that a single trigger can activate multiple cards' abilities simultaneously, and then the abilities must be resolved one at a time using the rules below.

Some effects that take place at times other than when a card is played are thought of as being "set up" by playing a card; even though the effect itself takes place later, the act of playing the card is what causes it to happen. For example, playing the same card twice will cause the later effect to take place twice, and moving the card out of play will not prevent the set-up effect from taking place. Other effects are caused by a card being in a particular location, such as the play area, regardless of how or why it got there.

Cards in italics have been removed.

Official Rules

• If multiple cards resolve at the same time on your turn (for example, Duration cards that do something “at the start of your next turn”), you choose what order to resolve them.
• A card that affects multiple players during your turn still resolves in player order, affecting you first if it affects all players and then proceeding clockwise.

Other rules clarifications

• If an effect causes you to gain or draw multiple cards, you always in principle gain or draw them one at a time, resolving any on-gain or on-draw abilities of one before moving on to the next. However, if you are instructed to trash or discard multiple cards, unless that effect is explicitly sequential, they are trashed or discarded at the same time. For example, Steward can trash 2 cards; if you choose that option, you may not trash one card, resolve an on-trash effect (such as Market Square's), then trash the other card. Both cards must be trashed simultaneously, and on-trash effects resolved with afterwards. Conversely, Remake trashes two cards, but it instructs you specifically to trash them one at a time.

• At the end of the game, your discard pile, your hand, cards you have in play, cards you've set aside, and cards you've put on mats all count as part of your deck.

Punctual effects

These are abilities that are executed at a single point in time: you fully resolve the card's ability by following the instructions on the card in order, and then move on to the next ability to be resolved.

Setup

Setup instructions do not happen in any particular order, and should all be completely resolved before players shuffle their starting decks.

Some cards (e.g. Young Witch) add extra Supply piles and/or cards; those Supply piles will be affected by cards that care about all Supply piles (e.g. Tax). If these extra Supply piles and/or cards also have setup instructions (e.g. the Bane is Tracker), do those as well.

Grouped cards:

• Platinum and Colony: Randomly choose a Kingdom card. If it's from Prosperity, include Platinum and Colony in the Supply.
• Shelters: Randomly choose a Kingdom card. If it's from Dark Ages, each player replaces their 3 starting Estates with Hovel, Necropolis, and Overgrown Estate.
• Looters: Shuffle the Ruins, then count out 10 per player after the first. Keep them face down except for the top card.
• Journey token (Ranger, Giant, Pilgrimage): Each player starts with their Journey token face up.
• Certain Landmarks (Arena, Basilica, Baths, Battlefield, Colonnade, Labyrinth): Put 6  on this Landmark per player.
• Fate cards: Shuffle the Boons.
• Doom cards: Shuffle the Hexes.
• Heirloom (Cemetery, Fool, Pixie, Pooka, Secret Cave, Shepherd, Tracker): Each player replaces one of their starting Coppers with the listed Heirloom.
• Liaison: Each player gets +1 Favor. Put out one Ally.
• Trait: Choose a random Action or Treasure Supply pile that doesn't have a Trait.

Specific cards:

• Young Witch: Add an extra Kingdom card pile costing or to the Supply. Cards from that pile are Bane cards.
• Knights: Shuffle the Knights. Keep them face down except for the top card.
• Baker: Each player gets +1 Coffers.
• Tax: Add to each Supply pile.
• Aqueduct: Put 8  on the Silver and Gold piles.
• Defiled Shrine: Put 2  on each non-Gathering Action Supply pile.
• Obelisk: Choose a random Action Supply pile.
• Druid: Set aside the top 3 Boons face up.
• Necromancer: Put the 3 Zombies into the trash.
• Way of the Mouse: Set aside an unused Action costing or .
• Importer: Each player gets +4 Favors.
• Inherited: Each player starts the game with an Inherited card in place of a starting card of their choice.
• Black Market: Make a Black Market deck out of different unused Kingdom cards.
• Trade Route: Add a Coin token to each Victory card Supply pile.

Parts of the turn

When you would start a turn

• Lich: Skip this turn.

At the start of your turn, first

These effects take place "first", before other effects that trigger at the start of your turn.

• Donate (2022): Put your deck and discard pile into your hand, trash any number of cards from it, then shuffle the rest into your deck and draw 5 cards.

At the start of your turn

• Haven: Put the set-aside card into your hand.
• Lighthouse: +
• Astrolabe: +1 Buy and +
• Fishing Village: +1 Action and +
• Monkey: +1 Card
• Blockade: Put the set aside card into your hand.
• Caravan: +1 Card
• Sailor: + and you may trash a card from your hand.
• Tide Pools: Discard 2 cards.
• Corsair: +1 Card
• Merchant Ship: +
• Pirate: Gain a Treasure costing up to to your hand.
• Sea Witch: +2 Cards, then discard 2 cards.
• Tactician: +5 Cards, +1 Action, +1 Buy.
• Wharf: +2 Cards and +1 Buy.
• Clerk: You may play this from your hand.
• Horse Traders: If this is set aside, +1 Card and return this to your hand.
• Teacher: You may call this, to move your +1 Card, +1 Action, +1 Buy, or + token to an Action Supply pile you have no tokens on.
• Ratcatcher: You may call this, to trash a card from your hand.
• Amulet: Choose one: +; or trash a card from your hand; or gain a Silver.
• Caravan Guard: +
• Dungeon: +2 Cards, then discard 2 cards.
• Gear: Put the set aside cards into your hand.
• Guide: You may call this, to discard your hand and draw 5 cards.
• Transmogrify: You may call this, to trash a card from your hand, and gain a card to your hand costing up to more than it.
• Bridge Troll: +1 Buy
• Haunted Woods: +3 Cards
• Swamp Hag: +
• Hireling: +1 Card
• Enchantress: +2 Cards
• Archive: Put one of the set aside cards into your hand.
• Guardian: +
• Ghost Town: +1 Card and +1 Action
• Secret Cave: +.
• Blessed Village: Receive the Boon you took.
• Ghost: Play the set aside Action twice.
• Cobbler: Gain a card to your hand costing up to .
• Crypt: Put one of the set aside Treasures into your hand.
• Den of Sin: +2 Cards
• Raider: +
• Lost in the Woods: You may discard a card to receive a Boon.
• Cargo Ship: Put the set aside card into your hand.
• Research: Put the set aside cards into your hand.
• Key: +
• Cathedral: Trash a card from your hand.
• City Gate: +1 Card, then put a card from your hand onto your deck.
• Fair: +1 Buy.
• Silos: Discard any number of Coppers, revealed, and draw that many cards.
• Sinister Plot: Add a token here, or remove your tokens here for +1 Card each.
• Piazza: Reveal the top card of your deck. If it's an Action, play it.
• Barracks: +1 Action.
• Crop Rotation: You may discard a Victory card for +2 Cards.
• Village Green: +1 Card and +2 Actions.
• Barge: +3 Cards and +1 Buy.
• Gatekeeper: +
• Mastermind: You may play an Action card from your hand three times.
• Delay: Play the set aside Action.
• Reap: Play the set aside Gold.
• Conjurer: Put this into your hand.
• Contract: Play the set aside Action.
• Garrison: Remove the tokens here for +1 Card each.
• Highwayman: Discard this from play and +3 Cards.
• Importer: Gain a card costing up to .
• Royal Galley: Play the set aside Action card.
• Stronghold: +3 Cards.
• Warlord: +2 Cards.
• Cave Dwellers: You may spend a Favor, to discard a card then draw a card. Repeat as desired.
• Crafters' Guild: You may spend 2 Favors to gain a card costing up to onto your deck.
• Desert Guides: You may spend a Favor to discard your hand and draw 5 cards. Repeat as desired.
• Forest Dwellers: You may spend a Favor to look at the top 3 cards of your deck, discard any number and put the rest back in any order.
• Gang of Pickpockets: Discard down to 4 cards in hand unless you spend a Favor.
• Mountain Folk: You may spend 5 Favors for +3 Cards.
• Grotto: Discard the set aside cards, then draw that many.
• Shaman: Gain a card from the trash costing up to .
• Siren: Draw until you have 8 cards in hand.
• Stowaway: +2 Cards.
• Taskmaster: Repeat this card's ability.
• Cabin Boy: Choose one: +; or trash this to gain a Duration card.
• Gondola: +
• Rope: +1 Card and you may trash a card from your hand.
• Buried Treasure: +1 Buy and +.
• Crew: Put this onto your deck.
• Enlarge: Trash a card from your hand, and gain a card costing up to more.
• Longship: +2 Cards
• Quartermaster: Choose one: gain a card costing up to , setting it aside on this; or put a card from this into your hand.
• Amphora: +1 Buy and +.
• Endless Chalice: +1 Buy and +.
• Figurehead: +2 Cards.
• Jewels: Put this on the bottom of your deck.
• Prepare: Play the set-aside Actions and Treasures in any order, and discard the rest.
• Shy: You may discard one Shy card for +2 Cards.
• Hasty: Play the set aside Hasty card.
• Patient: Play the set aside Patient card.
• Summon: Play the set aside Action.
• Church: Put the set aside cards into your hand, then you may trash a card from your hand.
• Captain: Play a non-Duration, non-Command Action card from the Supply costing up to , leaving it there.
• Prince (2022): Play the set aside Action, leaving it there.
• Prince (2014): Play the set aside Action, setting it aside again when you discard it from play.

At the start of your Buy phase

• Arena: You may discard an Action card. If you do, take 2  from here.
• Deluded: Return this, and you can't buy Actions this turn.
• Envious: Return this, and Silver and Gold make this turn.
• Treasure Chest: Gain a Gold.
• Family of Inventors: You may put a Favor token you have on top of a non-Victory Supply pile.
• League of Bankers: + per 4 Favors you have (round down).
• Market Towns: You may spend a Favor to play an Action card from your hand. Repeat as desired.
• Peaceful Cult: You may spend any number of Favors to trash that many cards from your hand.
• Woodworkers' Guild: You may spend a Favor to trash an Action card from your hand. If you did, gain an Action card.

At the end of your Buy phase

• Treasury (2022): If you didn't gain a Victory card during this Buy phase, you may put this onto your deck.
• Hermit (2022): If you didn't gain any cards during this Buy phase, exchange this for a Madman.
• Merchant Guild (2022): +1 Coffers per card you gained during this Buy phase.
• Wine Merchant: If you have at least unspent, you may discard this from your Tavern mat.
• Pageant: You may pay for +1 Coffers.
• Exploration (2022): If you didn't gain any cards during this Buy phase, +1 Coffers and +1 Villager.
• Exploration (2018): If you didn't buy any cards during this Buy phase, +1 Coffers and +1 Villager.

At the start of Clean-up

• Alchemist (2022): If you have a Potion in play, you may put this onto your deck.
• Encampment: Return this to its pile.
• Improve: You may trash an Action card you would discard from play this turn, to gain a card costing exactly more than it.
• Walled Village: If you have this and no more than one other Action card in play, you may put this on top of your deck.
• Friendly: If it's your Clean-up, you may discard a Friendly card to gain a Friendly card.
• Patient: If it's your Clean-up, set aside any number of Patient cards from your hand, to play them at the start of your next turn.

When discarding your hand during Clean-up

• Coastal Haven: You may spend any number of Favors to keep that many cards in hand for next turn (you still draw 5).

When you would draw your hand during Clean-up

• Outpost: Only draw 3 cards (instead of 5).

When you draw your hand during Clean-up

• Expedition: Draw 2 extra cards.
• Flag: +1 Card.

End of turn

At the end of your turn:

• Possession: Put the set aside cards in your discard pile.
• Save: Put the set aside card into your hand.
• Baths: If you haven't gained a card this turn, take 2  from here.
• Island Folk: If the previous turn wasn't yours, you may spend 5 Favors to take another turn.
• Deliver: Put the set aside cards into your hand.
• Donate (2020): Put all cards from your deck and discard pile into your hand, trash any number, shuffle your hand into your deck, then draw 5 cards.

At the end of this turn:

• Faithful Hound: Put this into your hand.
• Necromancer: Turn the face down cards in the trash face up again.
• The Field's Gift: Discard this.
• The Forest's Gift: Discard this.
• The River's Gift: +1 Card and discard this.
• Way of the Squirrel: +2 Cards.
• Cage: Put the set aside cards into your hand.
• Trickster: Put the set aside Treasure into your hand.
• Tireless: Put the set aside Tireless card onto your deck.
• Puzzle Box: Put the set aside card into your hand.
• Mountain Pass (2020): Each player bids once, up to , ending with you. High bidder gets +8  and takes the they bid.

After this turn

These happen after checking if the game has ended.

• Donate (2016): Put all cards from your deck and discard pile into your hand, trash any number, shuffle your hand into your deck, then draw 5 cards.
• Mountain Pass (2016): Each player bids once, up to , ending with you. High bidder gets +8  and takes the they bid.

In between turns

• Outpost: Take an extra turn (but not a 3rd turn in a row)
• Possession: The player to your left takes an extra turn (but not a 2nd extra turn in a row), during which you can see all cards they can and make all decisions for them. Any cards or they would gain that turn, you gain instead; any cards of theirs that are trashed are set aside and put in their discard pile at end of turn.
• Mission: Take an extra turn, (but not a 3rd turn in a row) during which you can't buy cards.
• Seize the Day: Take an extra turn.
• Voyage: Take an extra turn (but not a 3rd turn in a row), during which you can only play 3 cards from your hand.
• Island Folk: Take an extra turn (but not a 3rd turn in a row).
• Journey: Take an extra turn (but not a 3rd turn in a row).

Playing a card

When you would play a card from your hand

• Voyage: If you already played 3 cards from your hand this turn, you can't play that card.
• Warlord: If that card is an Action, and you already have 2 or more copies of that Action in play, you can't play it.

When you play a card, first

These effects take place "first", before other effects triggered by playing a card (assuming that you played it on your turn).

For any type of played card…

• Vanilla bonus Adventures tokens (Teacher, Seaway, Lost Arts, Training, Pathfinding): If your token is on the played card's Supply pile, you get that bonus.
• Kiln: If it's the card that you played after this, and it's the same turn, you may gain a copy of that card.

If it's an Action…

• Champion: +1 Action.

If it's an Attack…

• Urchin: You may trash this, to gain a Mercenary.

When another player plays a card, first

These effects take place after "when you play a card, first" effects (assuming that another player played it on their turn).

If the played card is an Attack…

• Moat: You may reveal this from your hand, to be unaffected by that Attack.
• Diplomat: You may reveal this from a hand of 5 or more cards, to draw 2 cards then discard 3.
• Horse Traders: You may set this aside from your hand. If you do, at the start of your next turn, +1 Card and return this to your hand.
• Guard Dog: You may play this from your hand.
• Beggar: You may discard this to gain two Silvers, putting one onto your deck.
• Caravan Guard: You may play this from your hand.
• Shield: You may reveal this from your hand, to be unaffected by that Attack.
• Secret Chamber: You may reveal this from your hand. If you do, +2 cards, then put 2 cards from your hand on top of your deck.

When you play a card

These effects take place after all players resolve any "when a player plays a card, first" effects. This means that if any players reveal a Moat to your Attack, you may opt to use a Way instead.

• Enchantress: If it's your turn, and it's the first time you played an Action card, you get +1 Card and +1 Action instead of following its instructions.
• Ways: If this is an Action, you may perform the Way instead of following this Action's instructions.
• Highwayman: If it's the first time you played a Treasure this turn, it does nothing.

On-play effects

By definition, Action, Treasure, and Night cards have effects when you play them, and are not listed here.

Unlike the cards in the previous section, these on-play effects modify card instructions (instead of making you do something else). This means that these effects take place afterwards, and can be overridden (e.g. Highwayman overrides Envious).

• Envious: If it's Silver or Gold, it makes .
• Lantern: If it's Border Guard, it reveals 3 cards and discards 2.
• Reckless: Follow this card's instructions again.
• Coppersmith: If it's Copper, it produces an extra .

After playing a card

For any type of played card…

• Inspiring: If it's your turn, and that card was an Inspiring card, you may play an Action from your hand that you don't have a copy of in play.

If it's an Action…

• Coin of the Realm: You may call this, for +2 Actions.
• Royal Carriage: If that Action is still in play, you may call this, to replay that Action.
• Citadel: If it's your turn, and that Action is the first Action you played this turn, replay it.
• Fellowship of Scribes: If you have 4 or fewer cards in hand, you may spend a Favor for +1 Card.
• Harbor Village: If it's the next Action you played after this on the same turn, and that Action gave you +, +
• Flagship: If it's the next time you played a non-Command Action card, replay that Action.
• Frigate: Discard down to 4 cards in hand.

If it's a Liaison…

• Circle of Witches: You may spend 3 Favors to have each other player gain a Curse.
• League of Shopkeepers: If you have 5 or more Favors, +, and if you have 10 or more, +1 Action and +1 Buy.

If it's a Treasure…

Although some of the following cards have different wordings from each other, they are all timed the same.

• Merchant: If it's the first Silver you played this turn, +.
• Sauna: If it's a Silver, you may trash a card from your hand.
• Corsair: If it's the first time you played a Silver or a Gold this turn, trash it.
• Landing Party: If it's the next time you played a Treasure as the first card during a turn, put this onto your deck.

Buying a card

When you would pay for a card you just bought

• Animal Fair: Instead of paying this card's cost, you may trash an Action card from your hand.

When paying for a card you just bought

• Overpay (2022) (Stonemason, Doctor, Masterpiece, Herald): You may pay extra .

When you buy a card

By definition, Events have effects when you buy them, and are not listed here.

Remember that buying a card happens before gaining it, so all these effects happen before you gain the relevant card, and before any of its on-gain effects happen.

In 2022, when-buy effects got changed to be when-gain.

Removed and errata'ed cards

When you buy any card: Hoard (2010): If it is a Victory card, gain a Gold. Haggler (2010): Gain a cheaper non-Victory card. Hovel (2012): If that card is a Victory card, you may trash this from your hand. Merchant Guild (2013): +1 Coffers Haunted Woods (2015): Put your hand on top of your deck in any order. Swamp Hag (2015): Gain a Curse. Plan (2015): If that card has your Trashing token on its pile, you may trash a card from your hand. Charm (2016): If that card is the next card you've bought this turn, you may also gain a differently named card with the same cost. Tax (2016): Take the from its pile. Basilica (2016): If you have or more left, take 2  from here. Colonnade (2016): If that card is an Action card, and you have a copy of it in play, take 2  from here. Defiled Shrine (2016): If that card is a Curse, take the   from this. Embargo: For each Embargo token on that pile, gain a Curse. Talisman: If that card is a non-Victory card that costed or less, gain a copy of it. Goons: +1 . When you buy this card: Mint (2010): Trash all Treasures you have in play. Farmland (2011): Trash a card from your hand and gain a card costing exactly more than the trashed card. Stonemason (2013): You may overpay for this. If you do, gain 2 Action cards each costing the amount you overpaid. Doctor (2013): You may overpay for this. For each you overpaid, look at the top card of your deck; trash it, discard it, or put it back. Masterpiece (2013): You may overpay for this. For each you overpaid, gain a Silver. Herald (2013): You may overpay for this. For each you overpaid, put a card from your discard pile onto your deck. Messenger (2015): If this is your first buy in a turn, gain a card costing up to , and each other player gains a copy of it. Port (2015): Gain another Port. Forum (2016): +1 Buy. Noble Brigand: Each other player reveals the top 2 cards of their deck, trashes a revealed Silver or Gold you choose, and discards the rest. If they didn’t reveal a Treasure, they gain a Copper. You gain the trashed cards.

Gaining a card

When you would gain

When you would gain any card:

• Possession: The player to your right gains that card instead.
• Trader (2011): You may reveal this from your hand, to instead gain a Silver.

When you would gain this to your discard pile:

• Guardian: Gain this to your hand instead.
• Ghost Town: Gain this to your hand instead.
• Night Watchman: Gain this to your hand instead.
• Den of Sin: Gain this to your hand instead.
• Nomad Camp: Gain this onto your deck instead.

When you gain

When you gain another card:

• Blockade: If it's your turn, and another player has a copy of that card set aside with Blockade, gain a Curse.
• Watchtower: You may reveal this from your hand, to either trash that card, or put it on top of your deck.
• Tiara: You may put that card onto your deck.
• Trader (2021): You may reveal this from your hand, to exchange that card with a Silver.
• Haggler (2022): If you bought that card, gain a cheaper non-Victory card.
• Duplicate: If that card costed up to , you may call this, to gain a copy of it.
• Haunted Woods (2022): If you bought that card, put your hand onto your deck in any order.
• Swamp Hag (2022): If you bought that card, gain a Curse.
• Travelling Fair: You may put that card onto your deck.
• Plan (2022): If you have your Trashing token on that card's Supply pile, you may trash a card from your hand.
• Charm (2022): If it's the next card you gained this turn, you may also gain a differently named card with the same cost.
• Forum (2022): +1 Buy.
• Tax (2022): If it's your Buy phase, take the from that card's Supply pile.
• Basilica (2022): If it's your Buy phase and you have or more, take 2  from here.
• Defiled Shrine (2022): If it's your Buy phase and that card is a Curse, take the   from here.
• Labyrinth: If it's your turn, and that's the 2nd card you gained this turn, take 2  from here.
• Changeling: If that card costed or more, you may exchange it for a Changeling.
• Cargo Ship: If you haven't set aside a card with this, you may set that card aside face up (on this).
• Exile: You may discard all other copies of that card from here.
• Sleigh: You may discard this, to put that card into your hand or onto your deck.
• Sheepdog: You may play this from your hand.
• Falconer: If that card has 2 or more types (Action, Attack, etc.), you may play this from your hand.
• Livery: If that card costed or more, gain a Horse.
• Way of the Seal: You may put that card onto your deck.
• Bauble: You may put that card onto your deck.
• Galleria: If that card costed either or , +1 Buy.
• Garrison: Add a token here.
• Guildmaster: +1 Favor.
• Architects' Guild: You may spend 2 Favors to gain a cheaper non-Victory card.
• Band of Nomads: If that card costed or more, you may spend a Favor, for +1 Card, or +1 Action, or +1 Buy.
• Trappers' Lodge: You may spend a Favor to put that card onto your deck.
• Insignia: You may put that card onto your deck.
• Taskmaster: If that card costed exactly , then at the start of your next turn, repeat this ability.
• Deliver: Set it aside, and put it into your hand at end of turn.
• Trade Route: Move the Coin token from that card's pile to the Trade Route mat.
• Royal Seal: You may put that card onto your deck.

When you gain an Action card:

• Collection: +1 .
• Cauldron: If that's the 3rd Action card you gained this turn, each other player gains a Curse.
• Colonnade (2022): If it's your Buy phase and you have a copy of that Action in play, take 2  from here.
• Defiled Shrine: Move 1  from its pile to this.
• Academy: +1 Villager.
• Innovation (2022): If it's your turn, and you haven't used this ability yet this turn, you may play that Action.
• Gatekeeper: If you don't have an Exiled copy of that card, Exile it.
• City-state: If it's your turn, you may spend 2 Favors to play that Action.
• Abundance: If it's the next time you gained an Action card, +1 Buy and +.
• Rush: If it's the next time you gained an Action card this turn, play it.
• Mirror: If it's the next time you gained an Action card this turn, gain a copy of it.
• Innovation (2018): If it's your turn, and that card is the first Action card you gained this turn, you may play it.

When you gain a Treasure card:

• Pirate: You may play this from your hand.
• Aqueduct: Move 1  from that card's pile to this.
• Guildhall: +1 Coffers.
• Gatekeeper: If you don't have an Exiled copy of that card, Exile it.
• Secluded Shrine: If it's the next time you gained a Treasure, trash up to 2 cards from your hand.
• Cutthroat: If it's the next time a a Treasure costing or more was gained, gain a Loot.
• Mining Road: If you haven't used this ability yet this turn, you may play that Treasure.

When you gain a Victory card:

• Hoard (2022): If you bought that card, gain a Gold.
• Hovel (2022): You may trash this from your hand.
• Groundskeeper: +1 .
• Aqueduct: Take the   from this.
• Battlefield: Take 2  from here.
• Mountain Pass (2022): If that card is the first Province gained this game, each player bids once, up to , ending with you. High bidder gets +8  and takes the they bid.
• Cage: If it's the next time you gained a Victory card, trash this, and put the set aside cards into your hand at end of turn.
• Mapmaker: You may play this from your hand.
• Fawning: If that card is a Province, gain a Fawning card.
• Mountain Pass (2016): If that card is the first Province gained this game, after this turn, each player bids once, up to , ending with you. High bidder gets +8  and takes the they bid.
• Mountain Pass (2020): If that card is the first Province gained this game, at end of turn, each player bids once, up to , ending with you. High bidder gets +8  and takes the they bid.
• Duchess: If that card is a Duchy, you may gain a Duchess.

When you gain an Attack card:

• Skirmisher: Each other player discards down to 3 cards in hand.

When you gain a Duration card:

• Sailor: If you haven't used this ability yet this turn, you may play that Duration.
• Stowaway: You may play this from your hand.

When you gain this:

• Mint (2022): Trash all non-Duration Treasures you have in play.
• Nomads: +
• Trail: If it isn't Clean-up, you may play this.
• Berserker: If you have an Action in play, play this.
• Inn: Reveal any number of Action cards from your discard pile and shuffle them into your deck.
• Souk: Trash up to 2 cards from your hand.
• Border Village: Gain a card costing less than this.
• Farmland (2022): Trash a card from your hand and gain a non-Farmland card costing exactly more than it.
• Death Cart: Gain two Ruins.
• Stonemason (2022): If you overpaid for this, gain 2 Action cards each costing the amount overpaid.
• Doctor (2022): Per overpaid, look at the top card of your deck; trash it, discard it, or put it back.
• Masterpiece (2022): Gain a Silver per overpaid.
• Herald (2022): Per overpaid, put any card from your discard pile onto your deck.
• Port (2022): Gain another Port (that doesn't come with another).
• Messenger (2022): If this is the first card you gained in your Buy phase, gain a card costing up to , and each other player gains a copy of it.
• Lost City: Each other player draws a card.
• Emporium: If you have at least 5 Action cards in play, +2 .
• Crumbling Castle: +1  and gain a Silver.
• Haunted Castle: If it's your turn, gain a Gold, and each other player with 5 or more cards in hand puts 2 of them onto their deck.
• Sprawling Castle: Gain a Duchy or 3 Estates.
• Grand Castle: Reveal your hand. +1  per Victory card in your hand and/or in play.
• Rocks: If it's your Buy phase, gain a Silver onto your deck; otherwise gain a Silver to your hand.
• Fortune: Gain a Gold per Gladiator you have in play.
• Temple: Take the   from the Temple pile.
• Villa: Put this into your hand, +1 Action, and if it's your Buy phase return to your Action phase.
• Cemetery: Trash up to 4 cards from your hand.
• Blessed Village: Take a Boon. Receive it now or at the start of your next turn.
• Skulk: Gain a Gold.
• Cursed Village: Receive a Hex.
• Ducat: You may trash a Copper from your hand.
• Lackeys: +2 Villagers.
• Experiment: Gain another Experiment (that doesn't come with another).
• Flag Bearer: Take the Flag.
• Silk Merchant: +1 Coffers and +1 Villager.
• Spices: +2 Coffers.
• Camel Train: Exile a Gold from the Supply.
• Cavalry: +2 Cards, +1 Buy, and if it's your Buy phase return to your Action phase.
• Hostelry: You may discard any number of Treasures, revealed, to gain that many Horses.
• Sycophant: +2 Favors.
• Territory: Gain a Gold per empty Supply pile.
• Siren: Trash this unless you trash an Action from your hand.
• Gondola: You may play an Action from your hand.
• Buried Treasure: Play this.
• Wealthy Village: If you have at least 3 differently named Treasures in play, gain a Loot.
• Doubloons: Gain a Gold.
• Cursed: Gain a Loot and a Curse.
• Hasty: Set this aside, and play it at the start of your next turn.
• Nearby: +1 Buy
• Pious: You may trash a card from your hand.
• Rich: Gain a Silver.
• Cache: Gain two Coppers.
• Embassy: Each other player gains a Silver.
• Ill-Gotten Gains: Each other player gains a Curse.
• Mandarin: Put all Treasures you have in play on top of your deck in any order.

When another player gains a card

These effects happen after "when you gain" effects. This means that, if they gain a Haunted Castle, they attack you before you get to react with Falconer or Black Cat.

When another player gains a Treasure card

• Pirate: You may play this from your hand.
• Cutthroat: If this was the next time a Treasure costing or more was gained, gain a Loot.

When another player gains a Victory card

• Road Network: +1 Card.
• Black Cat: You may play this from your hand.
• Mapmaker: You may play this from your hand.

When another player gains a Duration card

• Stowaway: You may play this from your hand.

When another player gains any card

• Monkey: If they're the player to your right, +1 Card.
• Fool's Gold: If that card is a Province, you may trash this from your hand to gain a Gold onto your deck.
• Falconer: If that card has 2 or more types (Action, Attack, etc.), you may play this from your hand.
• Invest: If you Invested in a copy of that card, and you still have that copy in Exile, +2 Cards.

Trashing a card

When you trash

When you trash any card:

• Tomb: +1 .
• Priest: +.
• Sewers: If that card wasn't trashed with this, you may trash a card from your hand.

When you trash one of your cards:

• Possession: Set aside that card, and return it to your discard pile at end of turn.
• Market Square: You may discard this from your hand to gain a Gold.

When you trash this:

• Nomads: +
• Trail: If it isn't Clean-up, you may play this.
• Overgrown Estate: +1 Card.
• Squire: Gain an Attack card.
• Feodum: Gain three Silvers.
• Fortress: Put this into your hand.
• Rats: +1 Card.
• Catacombs: Gain a card costing less than this.
• Cultist: +3 Cards.
• Sir Vander: Gain a Gold.
• Hunting Grounds: Gain a Duchy or 3 Estates.
• Crumbling Castle: +1  and gain a Silver.
• Rocks: If it's is your Buy phase, gain a Silver onto your deck; otherwise gain a Silver to your hand.
• Haunted Mirror: You may discard an Action card, to gain a Ghost.
• Flag Bearer: Take the Flag.
• Silk Merchant: +1 Coffers and +1 Villager.
• Sycophant: +2 Favors.
• Lich: Discard this and gain a cheaper card from the trash.
• Jewelled Egg: Gain a Loot.

Discarding a card

When you discard this other than during Clean-up

• Tunnel: You may reveal this to gain a Gold.
• Trail: You may play this.
• Weaver: You may play this.
• Faithful Hound: You may set this aside, and put it into your hand at end of turn.
• Village Green: You may play this.

When you discard a card from play

Normally, these effects happen during Clean-up, at the same time as Coastal Haven. However, Highwayman discards itself from play before then; if you already played a Scheme, you can use its ability before Clean-up.

When you discard this from play:

• Page: You may exchange this for a Treasure Hunter.
• Peasant: You may exchange this for a Soldier.
• Soldier: You may exchange this for a Fugitive.
• Treasure Hunter: You may exchange this for a Warrior.
• Fugitive: You may exchange this for a Disciple.
• Warrior: You may exchange this for a Hero.
• Disciple: You may exchange this for a Teacher.
• Hero: You may exchange this for a Champion.
• Capital: Take , and then you may pay off .
• Way of the Frog: If this was played this turn, put this onto your deck.
• Merchant Camp: You may put this onto your deck.
• Tent: You may put this onto your deck.
• Reckless: If this is a Reckless card, return it to its pile.
• Tireless: If this is a Tireless card, set it aside, and put it onto your deck at end of turn.
• Treasury (2009): If you didn’t buy a Victory card this turn, you may put this on top of your deck.
• Herbalist (2010): You may put one of your Treasures from play onto your deck.
• Alchemist (2010): If you have a Potion in play, you may put this onto your deck.
• Hermit (2012): If you didn’t buy any cards this turn, trash this and gain a Madman.

When you discard another card from play:

• Herbalist (2022): Once a turn, if it's a Treasure, you may put it onto your deck.
• Scheme: Once a turn, if it's an Action card, you may put it onto your deck.
• Horn: Once per turn, if it's a Border Guard, you may put it onto your deck.
• Trickster: Once a turn, if it's a Treasure, you may set it aside. Put it into your hand at end of turn.
• Prince (2014): If that card was played by Prince this turn, set it aside.

Miscellaneous

When you would make any decision

• Possession: The player to your right makes that decision for you.

When a Supply pile is emptied

• Search: Trash this and gain a Loot.

When shuffling

• Star Chart: You may pick one of the cards to go on top.
• Order of Astrologers: You may pick one card per Favor you spend to go on top.
• Order of Masons: You may pick up to 2 cards per Favor you spend to put into your discard pile.
• Fated: You may reveal Fated cards to put them on the top or bottom.
• Avoid: If it's the next time you shuffled this turn, pick up to 3 cards to put into your discard pile.
• Stash: You may look through your remaining deck, and may put this anywhere in the shuffled cards.

When you would get coins

• – token (Bridge Troll, Ball): Earn less and lose this token.
• Way of the Chameleon: Get +Cards instead.

When you would draw cards

• –1 Card token (Relic, Borrow, Raid): Lose this token and draw 1 less.
• Way of the Chameleon: Get + instead.

When you make a choice

• Elder: You may choose an extra (different) option.

When you reveal this

• Patron (2022): If it's any player's Action phase, +1 Coffers.
• Patron (2018): +1 Coffers.

After the game ends

• Fleet: There is an extra round of turns just for players with this.

When scoring

By definition, Victory cards have effects when scoring, and are not listed here.

• Bandit Fort: -2  for each Silver and each Gold you have.
• Fountain: 15  if you have at least 10 Coppers.
• Keep: 5  per differently named Treasure you have, that you have more copies of than each other player, or tied for most.
• Museum: 2  per differently named card you have.
• Obelisk: 2  per card you have from the chosen pile.
• Orchard: 4  per differently named Action card you have 3 or more copies of.
• Palace: 3  per set you have of Copper-Silver-Gold.
• Tower: 1  per non-Victory card you have from an empty Supply pile.
• Triumphal Arch: 3  per copy you have of the 2nd most common Action card among your cards (if it's a tie, count either).
• Wall: -1  per card you have after the first 15.
• Wolf Den: -3  per card you have exactly one copy of.
• Plateau Shepherds: Pair up your Favors with cards you have costing , for 2  each.

Persistent effects

The cards listed below have effects that persist over some extended period of time, rather than being resolved at a specific, unique point in time. Many of them have the effect of setting up a trigger for a punctual event as listed above, which can be triggered any number of times as long as whatever factor conditions the persistent effect remains active. Others cause more general changes to gameplay while they obtain, such as changing the costs or other characteristics of cards.

While a card is in play

In 2022, while-in-play effects got changed to “this turn.”

While you have this in play:

• Urchin: When you play another Attack card, you may first trash this, to gain a Mercenary.

While another card is in play:

• Grand Market: You can't buy this if you have any Coppers in play.

Removed and errata'ed cards

While this is in play: Quarry (2010): Action cards cost less. Highway (2011): Cards cost less. Band of Misfits (2012): This is the played card. Overlord (2016): This is the played card. While you have this in play: Lighthouse (2009): When another player plays an Attack card, it doesn’t affect you. Hoard (2009): When you buy a Victory card, gain a Gold. Princess (2010): Cards cost less. Haggler (2011): When you buy a card, gain a cheaper non-Victory card. Merchant Guild (2013): When you buy a card, +1 Coffers. Bridge Troll (2015): If it is your turn, cards cost less. Groundskeeper (2016): When you gain a Victory card, +1 . Tracker (2017): When you gain a card, you may put that card onto your deck. Sauna (2016): When you play a Silver, you may trash a card from your hand. Talisman: When you buy a non-Victory card costing or less, gain a copy of it. Royal Seal: When you gain a card, you may put that card on top of your deck. Goons: When you buy a card, +1 .

Turns

During a turn

During your turn

• Possession: The player to your right can see all cards they can and make all decisions for your. Any cards or your would gain this turn, they gain instead, and any cards of yours that are trashed are set aside and put in your discard pile at end of turn.
• Bridge Troll (2022): If you played this last turn, cards cost less.
• Coffers (2022): You may remove tokens from this for + each.
• Mission: You can't buy cards.
• Inheritance (2022): Estates are also Command Actions with "Play the card with your Estate token, leaving it there."
• Capitalism: Actions with + amounts in their text are also Treasures.
• Canal: Cards cost less.
• Innovation: Once this turn, when you gain an Action card, you may play it.
• Voyage: You can only play 3 cards from your hand.
• City-state: When you gain an Action card, you may spend 2 Favors to play it.

During any player's turn

• Fisherman: If that player's discard pile is empty, this costs less.
• Destrier: This costs less for each card that player gained this turn.
• Wayfarer: This has the same cost as the last other card gained this turn, if any.

During your Action phase

• Villagers: You may remove tokens from this for +1 Action each.

During a Buy phase

During your Buy phase

• Debt: You may pay to pay off .
• Coffers (2013): If you haven't bought anything, you may remove tokens from this for + each.

During any player's Buy phase

• Peddler: This costs less per Action card that player has in play.

During Clean-up

• Journey: You don't discard cards from play.

For the rest of this turn

• Bridge: Cards cost less.
• Quarry (2022): Action cards cost less.
• Tiara: When you gain a card, you may put it onto your deck.
• Collection: When you gain an Action card, +1 .
• Hoard (2022): When you gain a Victory card, if you bought it, gain a Gold.
• Princess (2022): Cards cost less.
• Haggler (2022): When you gain a card, if you bought it, gain a cheaper non-Victory card.
• Highway (2022): Cards cost less.
• Bridge Troll (2022): Cards cost less.
• Travelling Fair: When you gain a card, you may put it on top of your deck.
• Groundskeeper (2022): When you gain a Victory card, +1 .
• Tracker (2022): When you gain a card, you may put it onto your deck
• Deluded: You can't buy Actions.
• Envious: Silver and Gold make .
• Inventor: Cards cost less.
• Priest: When you trash a card, +.
• Snowy Village: Ignore any +Actions you get.
• Livery: When you gain a card costing or more, gain a Horse.
• Way of the Chameleon: Each time this card would give you +Cards, you get + instead, and vice-versa.
• Way of the Seal: When you gain a card, you may put it onto your deck.
• Bauble: When you gain a card, you may put it onto your deck.
• Garrison: When you gain a card, add a token here.
• Elder: When the card you played with this gives you a choice of abilities (e.g. "choose one"), you may choose an extra (different) option.
• Galleria: When you gain a card costing or , +1 Buy.
• Guildmaster: When you gain a card, +1 Favor.
• Skirmisher: When you gain an Attack card, each other player discards down to 3 cards in hand.
• Insignia: When you gain a card, you may put it onto your deck.
• Deliver: When you gain a card, set it aside, and put it into your hand at end of turn.
• Sauna (2022): When you play a Silver, you may trash a card from your hand.
• Coppersmith: Copper produces an extra .
• Contraband: You can't buy the named card.

Until your next turn

As soon as you start your turn (e.g. before 2022 Donate resolves), these effects all expire. [1]

• Lighthouse (2022): When another player plays an Attack card, it doesn't affect you.
• Monkey: When the player to your right gains a card, +1 Card.
• Corsair: Each other player trashes the first Silver or Gold they play each turn.
• Haunted Woods (2022): When any other player gains a card they bought, they put their hand on top of their deck in any order.
• Swamp Hag (2022): When any other player gains a card they bought, they gain a Curse.
• Enchantress: The first time each other player plays an Action card on their turn, they get +1 Card and +1 Action instead of following its instructions.
• Guardian: When another player plays an Attack card, it doesn't affect you.
• Gatekeeper: When another player gains an Action or Treasure card they don't have an Exiled copy of, they Exile it.
• Highwayman: The first Treasure each other player plays each turn does nothing.
• Warlord: Other players can't play an Action from their hand that they have 2 or more copies of in play.
• Frigate: Each time another player plays an Action card, they discard down to 4 cards in hand afterwards.
• Haunted Woods (2015): When any other player buys a card, they put their hand on top of their deck in any order.
• Swamp Hag (2015): When any other player buys a card, they gain a Curse.

Longer

In games using this

• Charlatan: Curse is a Treasure worth .
• Changeling: When you gain a card costing or more, you may exchange it for a Changeling.
• Cheap: Cheap cards cost less.
• Shaman: At the start of your turn, gain a card from the trash costing up to .
• Embargo (2009): When you buy a card, gain a Curse per Embargo token on that card’s pile.
• Duchess: When you gain a Duchy, you may gain a Duchess.

While your token is on a supply pile

• Ferry: If it's your turn, cards from the pile cost less.
• Vanilla bonus Adventures tokens (Teacher, Seaway, Lost Arts, Training, Pathfinding): When you play a card from that card's Supply pile, you first get that bonus.
• Plan (2022): When you gain a card from the pile, you may trash a card from your hand.
• Plan (2015): When you buy a card from the pile, you may trash a card from your hand.

While you have debt

• Debt: You can't buy cards, Events, or Projects.

While a card is in Exile

• Invest: When another player gains or Invests in a copy of that card, +2 Cards.

While a card is set aside

• Blockade: If the card is set aside with this, when another player gains a copy of that card on their turn, they gain a Curse.

For the rest of the game

By definition, Projects have effects for the rest of the game once you've bought them, and are not listed here.

• Hireling: At the start of your turn, +1 Card.
• Champion: When another player plays an Attack card, it doesn't affect you, and when you play an Action, you first get +1 Action.
• Family of Inventors: Cards cost less per Favor token on their pile.
• Inheritance (2022): During your turns, Estates are also Command Actions with "Play the card with your Estate token, leaving it there."
• Quartermaster: At the start of your turn, choose one: gain a card costing up to , setting it aside on this; or put a card from this into your hand.
• Endless Chalice: At the start of your turn, +1 Buy and +.
• Prince (2022): At the start of your turn, play the set-aside Action card, leaving it set aside.
• Inheritance (2015): Your Estates gain the abilities and types of the card with your Estate token.
• Prince (2014): At the start of your turn, play the set-aside Action, setting it aside again when you discard it from play.
• Embargo (2016): When you buy a card from a pile with an Embargo token, gain a Curse.