Princess

Princess
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Prize
Kingdom card?	No
Set	Cornucopia
Illustrator(s)	Lynell Ingram
Card text
+1 Buy This turn, cards cost less. (This is not in the Supply.)

Princess is an Action-Prize from Cornucopia. It provides substantial cost reduction, with +Buy to help make the most of it. It is not in the Supply, and can only be gained by playing a Tournament.

In the second edition of Cornucopia & Guilds, Princess was renamed Renown, as part of the replacement of Tournament and Prizes with Joust and Rewards.

FAQ

Unofficial FAQ (2022)

• This makes all cards cheaper (to a minimum of ) for the rest of the turn.
• This applies to cards everywhere - cards in the Supply, cards in hand, cards in decks. For example if you played Princess, then Remake, trashing a Copper, you could gain a Silver, as Silver would cost while Copper would still cost .
• This is cumulative with itself and with other forms of cost reduction: for instance, if you play a Bridge and then Princess, costs will be reduced by a total of ; if you use Throne Room on a Princess, costs will be reduced by

Other rules clarifications

Princess's cost-reduction ability was originally below a dividing line checking to see "while it is in play", but since 2022, it simply counts "this turn" when played.

Deprecated official FAQ (2017)

This makes all cards cheaper (to a minimum of ) as long as it is in play. When it leaves play, it stops making cards cheaper. This applies to cards everywhere - cards in the Supply, cards in hand, cards in decks. For example if you played Princess, then Remake, trashing a Copper, you could gain a Silver, as Silver would cost while Copper would still cost . Using Throne Room on Princess will not make cards cost less, as there is still only one copy of Princess in play.

Strategy

For discussion of Princess' interaction with Tournament, refer to the Tournament strategy section.

Princess is a strong payload card and is especially worthwhile if you have very good deck control, enabling you to use its cost reduction every turn and in conjunction with gainers. In particular, it may be extremely desirable if there are no other sources of +Buy, in which case it gives you a lot of flexibility to outmaneuver your opponent in the endgame or to possibly gain two Provinces per turn.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Notes	Release	Date
		+1 Buy While this is in play, cards cost less, but not less than . (This is not in the Supply.)		Cornucopia	June 2011
		+1 Buy While this is in play, cards cost less, but not less than . (This is not in the Supply.)	Digital version may show a cost of rather than .	Guilds & Cornucopia (2017 printing)	March 2018
		+1 Buy This turn, cards cost less. (This is not in the Supply.)	Digital version may show a cost of rather than .	Replacing "while this is in play"	June 29, 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Czech	Princezna
Dutch	Prinses
Finnish	Prinsessa
French	Princesse			+1 Achat Tant que cette carte est en jeu, les cartes coûtent de moins. (Ne fait pas partie de la réserve.)
German	Prinzessin			+1 Kauf Solange diese Karte im Spiel ist, kosten alle Karten weniger, aber nie weniger als . (Diese Karte gehört nicht zum Vorrat.)	(2019)
	Prinzessin			+1 Kauf In diesem Zug kosten alle Karten weniger. (Diese Karte gehört nicht zum Vorrat.)
Italian	Principessa
Japanese	王女 (pron. ōjo)			+1 購入 これが場にある間、(サプライ 以外も含めた)すべてのカードの コストは下がる(未満にはならない) (このカードはサプライに置かない。)
Polish	Księżniczka			+1 Zakup Póki ta karta jest w grze karty kosztują mniej, ale nie mniej niż . (Ta karta nie należy do zapasów)
Russian	Принцесса (pron. printsyessa)
Spanish	Princesa

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

...at one point Princess gave you +1 Action too.

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