Dismantle

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Dismantle
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Promo
Illustrator(s)	Elisa Cella
Card text
Trash a card from your hand. If it costs or more, gain a cheaper card and a Gold.

Dismantle is a promotional Action card. It is a Remodel variant that trashes a card and gains both a cheaper card and a Gold.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Trashing is not optional.
• If you trash a card costing , or if you have no cards left in hand to trash, nothing else happens.
• If you trash a card costing or more, you gain a cheaper card and a Gold. Both come from the Supply, and are put into your discard pile. The cheaper card goes into your discard pile first. For example, if you trash a Silver (costing ), you could gain an Estate (costing ).
• There will almost always be a cheaper card in the Supply, since Copper and Curse cost , but if there aren't any, you still gain a Gold.
• If there aren't any Gold left in the Supply, you still gain the cheaper card.
• Cards that cost only $P (like Transmute from Alchemy) or only (like Engineer from Empires) do not cost or more.

Strategy

Dismantling a gold will allow you to gain a cheaper card and return the gold. In this way, dismantle can be used like a gainer.

Synergies/Combos

• Bonfire lets you get rid of your copper very early. This not only lets you dismantle the estates more reliably, but you can also get rid of the resulting copper.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Trash a card from your hand. If it costs or more, gain a cheaper card and a Gold.	Dismantle	December 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text
Dutch	Ontmantelen			Vernietig 1 kaart uit je hand. Kost deze of meer, pak dan een goedkopere kaart en een Goud.
Finnish	Purkutyö
French	Démantèlement
German	Abbruch			Entsorge eine Handkarte. Wenn sie oder mehr kostet, nimm eine billigere Karte und ein Gold.
Japanese	取り壊し (pron. torikowashi)			手札1枚を廃棄する。そのコストが以上の場合、それより安いカード1枚と金貨1枚を獲得する。
Russian	Разъединение			Выкиньте карту из руки. Если она стоит или больше, полусите карту дешевле и Золото.

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

Dismantle was in Nocturne for a while, moving over from Empires with the Boons. Now it is a promo. Adam Horton suggested it.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Nocturne

Altenburger wanted a promo, this time to be used in some way in conjunction with having a bunch of tournaments for Dominion's 10th anniversary. There was no time to make a card. Dismantle was a card I had that had been working fine but had been cut from Nocturne (due to Nocturne having other cards that gain Gold).

The initial card was suggested by playtester Adam Horton, for Empires (which had no room left). His initial suggestion was for "something like" "trash a card from your hand, gain a card costing up to less into hand (or a Curse?), +." Based on that I initially tried "Trash a card from your hand. Gain a cheaper card. If you did, +." It seemed promising and went into the Nocturne file. When the time came to work on it again, we tried it with +, then a Night version that gained Gold, then the final version.

Altenburger also wanted the world champion for this coming year to get to make a card. We said no! We are willing to put their face on a card, that is as far as we will go. However, as it happens, Adam is the current world champion. So a world champion did get to design a card.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Dominion Promos