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== Examples == | == Examples == | ||
* Terminals that trash Actions for some benefit: | * Terminals that trash Actions for some benefit: | ||
** [[Dominion]]: {{Card|Remodel}} | ** [[Dominion]]: {{Card|Remodel}} | ||
** [[Intrigue]]: {{Card|Trading Post}} | ** [[Intrigue]]: {{Card|Trading Post}} | ||
** [[Seaside]]: {{Card|Salvager}} | ** [[Seaside]]: {{Card|Salvager}} | ||
** [[Alchemy]]: {{Card|Transmute}} | ** [[Alchemy]]: {{Card|Transmute}} | ||
** [[Prosperity]]: {{Card|Bishop}} | ** [[Prosperity]]: {{Card|Bishop}}, {{Card|Expand}}, {{Card|Forge}} | ||
** [[Hinterlands]]: {{Card|Trader}} | ** [[Cornucopia]]: {{Card|Remake}} | ||
** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Mercenary}}, {{Card|Death Cart}}, {{Card|Altar}} | ** [[Hinterlands]]: {{Card|Develop}}, {{Card|Trader}} | ||
** [[Guilds]]: {{Card|Stonemason}} | ** [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Mercenary}}, {{Card|Death Cart}}, {{Card|Graverobber}}, {{Card|Altar}} | ||
** [[Guilds]]: {{Card|Stonemason}}, {{Card|Butcher}} | |||
* Terminals that require discarding: | * Terminals that require discarding: | ||
** Intrigue: {{Card|Secret Chamber}} | ** Intrigue: {{Card|Secret Chamber}} |
Revision as of 14:28, 10 March 2015
Soft terminal is a subcategory of terminal Actions that give you a use for other, dead Action cards in your hand, often other copies of themselves. They are contrasted with "hard" terminals, which force a player to pick one of them to play. The archetypes of this are Remodel and Vault.
Examples
- Terminals that trash Actions for some benefit:
- Terminals that require discarding:
- Intrigue: Secret Chamber
- Prosperity: Vault
- Cornucopia: Horse Traders, Young Witch
- Hinterlands: Embassy
- Dark Ages: Storeroom, Count
- Terminals that put a card from your hand on top of your deck:
- Masquerade (you can pass a dead card, though not always wise)
- Cultist (able to play other copies of itself)
- Island
Trivia
While many players say they had mentally sorted cards into a nameless category similar to this, there had not been a specific name for it until Donald X. revealed in his ongoing interview on the forums that it was a category he explicitly endeavored to make cards for. "Soft terminal" arose as the community favorite title for the category, but other names floated were self-synergy, supercollider, and mitigator. Donald X. himself suggested spammable terminal.