Virtual +Buy

Black Market, a virtual +Buy card.

"Virtual +Buy" is an informal term for cards that do not provide +Buy per se, but can serve a similar function to those that do in that they allow you to gain multiple cards per turn.

Cards that provide virtual +Buy include:

• Black Market lets you buy a card during your Action phase which is completely independent from the normal process of buying cards.
• Extra turn effects (for example Outpost, Possession, and Voyage) give you an extra turn which comes with a Buy like a normal turn.

Gainers are distinct from sources of +Buy, but some card-gaining effects generate multiple gains from a single Buy. While many of these effects are very restricted, often gaining a specific card only, some a rather flexible.

List of cards

Cards in italics have been removed.

Cards that are gained with additional cards

• Border Village — a card cheaper that Border Village
• Cache — two Coppers
• Duchess — a Duchess
• Farmland — a non-Farmland card costing exactly more than the trashed card
• Noble Brigand — all Silvers and Golds trashed due to its Attack
• Death Cart — two Ruins
• Ferryman — a card from the extra card pile selected at setup
• Masterpiece — a Silver per overpaid
• Stonemason — two cards costing exactly the amount overpaid
• Messenger — a card costing up to
• Port — another Port
• Crumbling Castle — a Silver
• Fortune — a Gold per Gladiator in play
• Haunted Castle — a Gold
• Rocks — a Silver
• Sprawling Castle — a Duchy or three Estates
• Skulk — a Gold
• Experiment — another Experiment
• Camel Train — a Gold (Exiled instead of gained)
• Hostelry — a Horse per discarded Treasure
• Cursed — a Loot and a Curse
• Rich — a Silver

Cards that provide gains when other cards are gained

• Hoard — a Gold
• Talisman — copies of all bought non-Victory cards costing up to
• Haggler — a non-Victory card cheaper than the gained card
• Duplicate — a copy of a gained card
• Livery — a Horse
• Architects' Guild — a non-Victory card cheaper than the gained card
• Cutthroat — a Loot
• Fawning — a Fawning card
• Bureaucracy — a Copper
• Growth — a card cheaper than the gained Treasure

Allowing cards to be bought without using Buy

• Black Market

Events that gain multiple cards

• Ball — two cards each costing up to
• Banquet — two Coppers and a card costing up to
• Pilgrimage — three differently named cards you have copies of in play
• Raid — a Silver per Silver in play
• Trade — up to two Silvers
• Conquest — two Silvers
• Demand — a Horse and a card costing up to
• Invasion — a Duchy, an Action, and a Loot
• Prosper — a Loot plus any amount of differently named Treasures
• Gather — three cards, one each costing exactly , , and
• Receive Tribute — three differencly named Action cards you don't have copies of in play
• Windfall — three Golds
• Alliance — a Province, a Duchy, an Estate, a Gold, a Silver, and a Copper
• Commerce — a Gold per card gained the same turn
• Enclave — a Gold and a Duchy (the Duchy is Exiled instead of gained)
• Populate — one card from each Action Supply pile
• Stampede — five Horses

Gallery

For a gallery of extra turn effects, see here.

Gained with additional cards

Gain with other cards

Buying cards without using Buy

Events that gain multiple cards

Removed cards