Editing 2016 Errata and Formatting Changes

As part of a plan to adjust wordings in all pre-{{Set|Empires}} sets, the following changes were made to very few cards for their sets' next print runs between the years 2016 and 2018.

This was the first [[Errata]] and coincided with the [[Second Edition]]s of {{Set|Base}} and {{Set|Intrigue}}.

Changes to card layout were first announced in May 2016, a few days before Empires was previewed.

== Errata ==

=== Shuffling rule ===
Previously, when you wanted to draw a card (or otherwise do something with your deck), and your deck was empty, you shuffled, then continued drawing. So if you played {{Card|Smithy}} with 2 cards left in your deck, you would have drawn those 2, then shuffled, and drawn 1 more. With the new rule, when your deck is running low, you first check to see if there's enough left to do something with, and if there's not, you shuffle your discard pile, and put that under what's left of your deck. So in the aforementioned situation, with 2 cards left in your deck when you play Smithy, you'd shuffle your discard pile, slide it under those 2 cards, and then draw your 3 cards. Donald X. has cited the ruling as making it easier for situations other than drawing with a near-empty deck.

Except when {{Card|Stash}} is used, this change has no functional effect.

=== Coffers ===
The name [[Coffers]] was introduced to refer to the Coin tokens from {{Set|Guilds}} and all references to "take X Coin tokens" were changed to "'''+X Coffers'''". This has no effect on any actual gameplay, but does let the text on the relevant cards take up a little less space, and highlights the taking of Coffers by making it a [[vanilla]] bonus.

=== Functional card changes ===
* {{Card|Mine}}, {{Card|Moneylender}}, and {{Card|Throne Room}} received a "you may" wording for accountability purposes.<ref name=change>In the first edition of Dominion, Moneylender's text did not include "you may": trashing a Copper was mandatory if Moneylender was played. [[Donald X. Vaccarino]] revised the card because that offered no provision for keeping the player honest: if a player claimed that they had no Coppers in hand, and that was why they weren't activating Moneylender's ability, there was no way for their opponents to verify that this was the case. This rarely made a difference in gameplay—if a player didn't want to trash a Copper, they simply refrained from playing Moneylender.</ref>
* {{Card|Masquerade}} was changed so players with no cards in hand are skipped.
* {{Card|Embargo|oi=2}} was changed so each {{Card|Curse}} gained per token on a pile is a separate event, rather than gaining all of them at once.
* {{Card|Outpost||oi=2}} was changed to function in a similar way to <span class="card-popup">[[Mission#Versions|Mission]]<span class="noprint">[[File:MissionOld2.jpg|320px|link=]]</span></span>.
* {{Card|Possession}} was changed so the Possessing player also receives all {{Debt}} tokens (from {{Set|Empires}}) gained.
* {{Card|Trade Route}} was changed to trash before gaining {{Cost}}, which matters if trashing a card that can gain [[Victory]] cards when trashed (such as {{Card|Hunting Grounds}}).
* {{Card|Scheme}} no longer allows you to discard [[Action]]s that are not discarded that turn, such as [[Duration]]s.
* {{Card|Oracle||oi=2}} was rephrased to "draw 2 cards" instead of "+2 Cards". (This was later reverted by the [[2020 Errata]].)

=== Other card changes ===
A few cards did not receive functional changes, but instead had their wording changed to match their intended function, where previously it was ambiguous:
* {{Card|Nomad Camp}} was changed to make it clear it [[No Visiting rule|doesn't visit]], as previously its wording matched {{Card|Villa|Villa's}}, which ''does'' visit.
* {{Card|Coin of the Realm}}, {{Card|Royal Carriage}} now refer to finishing "playing" an [[Action]], as opposed to "resolving", which had never been referenced on any other card.
* {{Card|Black Market}} now explicitly says the player may play [[Treasure]]s before buying a card from the Black Market deck.
* {{Card|Envoy}} now says "put in hand" rather than "draw", matching its intended function to ignore the [[Adventures tokens|-1 Card token]].
* {{Card|Stash}} lets you look at what remains of your deck when you [[Reshuffle|shuffle]], in order to retain its function despite the new rule.

== Formatting changes ==
* The font size was increased when the amount of text is small enough to allow it.
* '''+X Cards''', '''+X Buys''', etc. in the body text were changed to bold.
* References to players were changed from masculine pronouns ("he", "his") to the gender-neutral pronouns ("them", "their").
* Card texts became better centered.
* All {{Set|Promo}} cards now have the same icon [[Image:Promo icon.png|||16px]] instead of having individual icons.

== Card Gallery ==
Examples of cards where the formatting changes are notable:

[[Image:PawnOld.jpg||||200px|Original version of Pawn from 2009.]]
[[Image:Pawn.jpg||||200px|Revised version of Pawn from 2016.]]
[[Image:BishopOld.jpg||||200px|Original version of Bishop from 2010.]]
[[Image:BishopOld2.jpg||||200px|Revised version of Bishop from 2016.]]
[[Image:TaxmanOld.jpg||||200px|Original version of Taxman from 2013.]]
[[Image:Taxman.jpg||||200px|Revised version of Taxman from 2017.]]

== Trivia ==

=== Reasoning ===

{{Quote
|Text=Well this is unprecedented, but I'm not made of stone. Here are some spoilers about card layout.

* A bigger font is used on cards that don't have lots of text.
* "They" is used instead of "he."
* +'s in the body of text are now in bold.
* Card texts are more carefully centered than ever before.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=14665.msg594525#msg594525 Dominion: Empires Announced!]
}}
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