Editing Trash

[[Image:TrashMat.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The Trash mat.]]

[[Image:Trash2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Trash pile card with alternate art from the [[Base Cards]] set.]]

To '''trash''' is to remove a card from your deck, placing it in an area called the ''trash'' or ''trash pile''. This is distinct from [[discard|discarding]], which removes a card from your hand or other area to your discard pile, waiting to be shuffled back into your deck. Trashing a card usually means removing it permanently from your deck, although there are a small number of cards, chiefly {{Card|Lurker}}, {{Card|Graverobber}} and {{Card|Rogue}}, that can retrieve a card from the trash, and one card, {{Card|Fortress}}, which returns itself to you if you try to trash it. In addition to these, {{Card|Forager}} has an effect that depends on what is in the trash. There are also cards that give an effect when they are trashed.  Cards that can send cards to the trash include [[trasher|trashers]] and [[trashing attack|trashing Attack]]s; cards that trash themselves are often called [[one-shot|one-shots]].

* When a player trashes a card, he places it in the Trash pile, not his Discard pile.  

* Trashed cards are not returned to the Supply and are not available for purchase.

* A player may look through the Trash pile.

There are currently 54 cards and 7 [[Event|Events]] in the game that can trash another of your cards (or a card from the Supply) during your turn. Some simply trash cards as their only effect, while others give some benefit in addition, usually varying depending on the specific card trashed.  There are also 13 cards that can trash themselves under different conditions; most are considered to be one-shots, though not all one-shots trash themselves.

There are 10 cards that can force an opponent to trash one of their cards. In general, they are considered to be weak relative to other Attacks; while having a card trashed can be one of the most damaging Attacks to happen to you, most trashing Attacks provide little to no other effect for the person who played it. In the long run, the benefit provided by other cards tends to outweigh the loss of a card due to a trashing Attack. Some trashing Attacks can even help to be hit by, if they're getting rid of cards you'd want to lose anyway, such as Coppers. {{Card|Swindler}} is typically regarded as the strongest trashing Attack, due to its unique ability to let the attacker choose which card the defender gains to replace the trashed card; this allows Swindler to be a fairly reliable Curser in the early game.

== When-trash ==

There are 11 cards that do something when trashed, and 1 card and 1 [[Landmark]] that do something when other cards are trashed, almost all in [[Dark Ages]], which has a major theme of trashing. These cards must be trashed by something else in order to get this effect; they can't simply trash themselves.

*Cards do something when itself is trashed:

** [[Victory]]: (Combo with {{Event|Salt the Earth}} except {{Card|Overgrown Estate}})

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Overgrown Estate}}

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Feodum}}

*** [[Empires]]: {{Card|Crumbling Castle}}

** [[Action]]: (Combo with {{Card|Lurker}})

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Squire}}

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Fortress}}

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Rats}}

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Catacombs}}

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Cultist}}

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Sir Vander}}

*** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Hunting Grounds}}

*** [[Empires]]: {{Card|Rocks}}

*Cards do something when one of your card is trashed:

** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Market Square}}

** [[Empires]]: {{Landmark|Tomb}}

Trashing is a cornerstone of Dominion strategy; the ability to cull your deck of your weak starting cards ({{Card|Copper|Coppers}} and {{Card|Estate|Estates}} or [[Shelter|Shelters]]) is quite powerful, and players who trash early and often will usually trounce players who ignore trashing when it is available. Trashing your weak starting cards has the effect of making your deck [[cycle]] more rapidly and have a greater concentration of strong cards. To this end, cheap trashers that can trash more than one card, such as {{Card|Chapel}} (considered the most powerful card in the game for its cost) and {{Card|Steward}}, will typically be bought on the first two turns. However, trashing without simultaneously adding new cards of value to your deck, namely more expensive [[Treasure|Treasures]] and [[Action|Actions]], can leave you unable to do anything. Therefore, players must weigh whether they want the fastest possible trashing (Chapel), or a slower trasher that continues to be useful after all their starting cards have been trashed (Steward).

Sometimes it is desirable to trash more valuable cards using so-called [[trash-for-benefit]] cards, which give greater benefits when trashing more valuable cards. Most are not as efficient at trimming down your deck, but the bonuses they provide counterbalance their slowness. {{Card|Remake}} manages to get the best of both worlds, combining relative speed, a cheap enough cost to open with, and the ability to turn your starting Estates into Silvers.

The most obvious use for trashers is to rid your deck of [[Junking attack|junk]] cards: {{Card|Curse|Curses}} and [[Ruins]]. While newer players don't always immediately understand the benefit of trashing Coppers and Estates, it's usually quite clear why they'd want to rid themselves of cards that give negative {{VP}}. While trashing is the obvious counter to junking, junking is actually more often a counter to trashing. By throwing Curses or other cards into your opponent's deck, you're giving them more cards they have to trash, and while all the junker has to do is draw their [[Attack]], the trasher has to manage to line their trashing card up with the junk they've received.

{{Card|Lurker}}, {{Event|Salt the Earth}} and {{Card|Gladiator}} are cards which can trash cards in [[Supply]], and they will combo with [[#When-trash|When-trash]] cards.

* Czech: Smetiště

* Dutch: Vernietigde kaarten

* French: Rebut

* German: Müll

* Korean: 폐기 (pron. ''pyegi'')

* Polish: Śmietnisko

* Russian: Свалка (pron. ''svalka'', lit. ''dump'')