Set aside

To set aside a card is to place it on the table apart from your play area; such cards are not discarded during Clean-up, and are not considered to be "in play" for any purpose. This can be temporary, or permanent; in either case, if the game ends while you have cards set aside, they are returned to your deck before scores are calculated. Often, cards that set aside themselves and/or other cards come with mats to help mark the set aside area as special. Setting aside can be used as a way to mark cards as not required for the effect of an Action or Treasure being resolved, as a way to save cards for later use, or as a way to permanently remove a card from your deck without trashing it. Duration cards that are not discarded during Clean-up are not considered set aside; they are still in play.

Official rules

"Set aside a card" - Put the card on the table, outside of the play area.

• Set aside cards are not "in play."
• Set aside cards are face up unless otherwise specified.
• A card that sets a card aside will say when to move it somewhere else.

Timing

List of abilities that set cards aside, sorted by how long the set-aside cards remain set aside.

• until end of execution
  • Library
  • Innovation (pre-errata)
• until start of Clean-up
  • Encampment (self)
• until end of turn
  • Possession
  • Save
  • Faithful Hound (self)
• until start of next turn
  • Haven
  • Blockade
  • Horse Traders (self)
  • Gear
  • Archive
  • Crypt
  • Ghost
  • Cargo Ship
  • Research
  • Delay
  • Reap
  • Way of the Turtle
  • Royal Galley
  • Contract
  • Church
  • Prince (pre-errata)
  • Summon
• until end of game
  • Inheritance
  • Way of the Mouse
  • Prince (pre-errata) (self)
  • Prince (post-errata)