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| {{CardVersionImage|Death CartOld|Death Cart}} || {{CardVersionImage|Death CartDigitalOld|Death Cart from Goko/Making Fun}} || +{{Cost|5}}. You may trash an Action card from your hand. If you don't, trash this.<br>When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. || Dark Ages 1st Edition || August 2012 | | {{CardVersionImage|Death CartOld|Death Cart}} || {{CardVersionImage|Death CartDigitalOld|Death Cart from Goko/Making Fun}} || +{{Cost|5}}. You may trash an Action card from your hand. If you don't, trash this.<br>When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. || Dark Ages 1st Edition || August 2012 | ||
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− | | {{CardVersionImage|Death | + | | {{CardVersionImage|Death CartPrint2|Death Cart}} || {{CardVersionImage|Death CartDigital|Death Cart from Shuffle iT}} || +{{Cost|5}}. You may trash an Action card from your hand. If you don't, trash this.<br>When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. || Dark Ages [[Second Edition|2nd Edition]] || September 2017 |
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| || {{CardVersionImage|Death CartDigital2|Death Cart 2019 Version from Shuffle iT}} || You may trash this or an Action card from your hand, for +{{Cost|5}}.<br>When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. || [[Dominion 2019 Errata and Rules Tweaks]] || September 24, 2019 | | || {{CardVersionImage|Death CartDigital2|Death Cart 2019 Version from Shuffle iT}} || You may trash this or an Action card from your hand, for +{{Cost|5}}.<br>When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. || [[Dominion 2019 Errata and Rules Tweaks]] || September 24, 2019 |
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Death Cart | |
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Type(s) | Action - Looter |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Dark Ages |
Illustrator(s) | Marco Morte |
Card text | |
You may trash this or an Action card from your hand, for +. When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. |
Death Cart is an Action–Looter card from Dark Ages. When played, it gives +; but it forces you to trash another Action card, or trashes itself if you cannot. It also gives you two Ruins, which, conveniently, make for good Actions to trash, if you can draw them with the Death Cart.
Death Cart is the only Looter that is not a junking attack.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- When you play Death Cart, you may trash it or an Action card from your hand. You do not have to do either.
- If you do either you get +.
- When you gain a Death Cart, either from buying it or from gaining it some other way, you also gain two Ruins.
- You just take the top two, whatever they are.
- If there are not enough Ruins left, take as many as you can.
- The other players get to see which ones you got.
Official FAQ for prior version
- When you play Death Cart, you get +, and either trash an Action card from your hand, or trash the Death Cart.
- If you have no Action card in your hand, you will have to trash the Death Cart, but you can trash the Death Cart whether or not you have an Action card in hand.
- When you gain a Death Cart, either from buying it or from gaining it some other way, you also gain two Ruins.
- You just take the top two, whatever they are.
- If there are not enough Ruins left, take as many as you can.
- The other players get to see which ones you got.
- If you use Trader (from Hinterlands) to take a Silver instead of a Death Cart, you do not gain any Ruins.
- It does not matter whose turn it is; if you use Ambassador (from Seaside) to give Death Carts to each other player, those players also gain Ruins.
- Passing cards with Masquerade (from Intrigue) does not count as gaining them.
Strategy Article
See here for a Death Cart strategy article.
is seriously a lot of money, so if you have a way to keep getting cheap junk for Death Cart to trash and a way to match the Death Cart up with the cheap junk, it's a superb money source. It can make for a great Treasure-less engine, where you get coin for playing 1-2 Death Carts each turn, trashing either Ruins or cheap cantrips like Vagrant or Pearl Diver.
However, Death Cart is not a good buy early in the game. When you rely on shuffle luck to match up your Death Cart with your Ruins, there's a high chance of missing, and the two extra cards severely slow down your cycling.
And when you play Death Cart many times, you'll need a way to replenish its fuel - +Buy is the easiest, since Ruins will always be available, but Fortress and Rats also serve the same function.
Synergies/Combos
- Fortress can provide endless fuel for Death Cart.
- Necromancer can play Death Cart in the trash without penalty.
- Death Cart weakens other Looters - the extra Ruins can be trashed with Death Cart for +$5
- Rats can provide free Death Cart fodder, turning your Coppers and Shelters into Actions.
- Market Square is extremely good with Death Cart, as it is with any other trasher. Death Cart/Market Square is probably one of the few good Death Cart openings.
- If you have Watchtower in hand, you can buy a Death Cart, trash one Ruins, and topdeck Death Cart and the other Ruins. This gives you all of Death Cart's benefit and none of the problems you normally have in lining up your Death Cart and your Ruins.
- Cultist : First you give the Ruins to your opponents, and then you buy Death Cart without Ruins and trash the Cultists for + and +3 cards.
- In combination with Capitalism it can become a short-lived Platinum.
Antisynergies
- Cursers will make it extremely difficult to match up your Death Cart with your Actions.
- Junking attacks that give out Copper, such as Mountebank, for the same reason as Cursers.
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+. You may trash an Action card from your hand. If you don't, trash this. When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. |
Dark Ages 1st Edition | August 2012 | ||
+. You may trash an Action card from your hand. If you don't, trash this. When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. |
Dark Ages 2nd Edition | September 2017 | ||
You may trash this or an Action card from your hand, for +. When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins. |
Dominion 2019 Errata and Rules Tweaks | September 24, 2019 |
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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Chinese | 運屍車 | +。你可以移除你手上一張行動卡,如果你沒有移除,則移除此卡。當你獲得此卡,獲得兩張遺跡。 | |||
Czech | Pohřební kára | ||||
Dutch | Dodenkar | + Je mag een actiekaart uit je hand vernietigen. Doe je dat niet, vernietig dan deze kaart. Als je deze kaart pakt, pak dan 2 Ruïnes. |
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Finnish | Ruumisvaunu | ||||
French | Charrette de cadavres | ||||
German | Leichenkarren | + Du darfst eine Aktionskarte aus deiner Hand entsorgen. Wenn du das nicht tust: Entsorge diese Karte. Wenn du diese Karte nimmst, nimm 2 Ruinen. |
(2019) | ||
German | Leichenkarren | German language Death Cart 2021 from Shuffle iT | Du darfst diese Karte oder eine Aktionskarte aus deiner Hand für + entsorgen. Wenn du diese Karte nimmst, nimm dir 2 Ruinen. |
(2021) | |
Japanese | 死の荷車 (pron. shi no niguruma) | +。 手札のアクションカード1枚を廃棄してもよい。廃棄しなかった場合、これを廃棄する。これを獲得するとき、廃墟カード2枚を獲得する。 | |||
Korean | 시체운반수레 (pron. siche-unbansule) | ||||
Polish | Trupi wóz | Although Polish version is not released, this card is referred to in the Polish version of Empires rulebook | |||
Russian | Труповозка (pron. trupovozka) | ||||
Spanish | Carro de los Muertos |
Trivia
Secret History