Treasury

Treasury
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Seaside
Illustrator(s)	Ryan Laukat
Card text
+1 Card +1 Action + When you discard this from play, if you didn't buy a Victory card this turn, you may put this onto your deck.

Treasury is an Action card from Seaside. It is a Peddler variant—a cantrip that gives +. Fitting with the next-turn theme of Seaside, you can place Treasury on top of your deck during Clean-up to set up your next turn; however, this doesn't work if you bought any Victory cards.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• If you did not buy any Victory cards during your turn, you may put any or all of your played Treasuries on top of your deck during Clean-up.
• If you did buy at least one Victory card, all of the Treasuries are discarded normally.
• Gaining a Victory card without buying it, such as with Smugglers, does not prevent you from putting Treasuries on your deck.

Strategy

Treasury is a weak and expensive Peddler variant that offers a small amount of consistent payload even if you can't draw your deck, so long as you don't buy Victory cards. This benefit is usually insufficient to compensate for its significant opportunity cost, in large part because Treasury's topdecking effect is mostly irrelevant when you have good deck control. Conversely, Kingdoms in which deck control is difficult or impossible may lead to earlier greening, negating the bonus. However, Treasury can be a reasonable form of supplementary payload in the absence of better options, especially if draw is weak, as it can be added to your deck in arbitrary amounts without impeding deck control. This is more likely to be viable in games where its opportunity cost is reduced, usually because there is a suitable gainer like Artisan or Vampire and a shortage of better targets for it; a specific need for Action-based payload (such as with Tactician) can also somewhat increase Treasury's appeal.

In occasional cases, the topdecking effect can be relevant even if you have good deck control: for example, it can enhance the benefit of added tokens, particularly the +Card token from Pathfinding. Notably, it can also guarantee that you will have a reasonable target in hand for certain start-of-turn and similar effects, such as Mastermind or Citadel. The topdecking effect can continue to be useful in the endgame if there is a strong way of scoring without buying Victory cards, such as Alliance or Dominate; however, such strategies usually are only viable with good deck control (which would make the topdecking effect mostly superfluous) or with stronger payload than Treasury alone can provide. Treasury’s bonus is somewhat counteracted by discard attacks (particularly Minion), so this effect has even less value than usual in their presence. Similarly, its value is attenuated if you want to buy Victory cards early, for example to use them with Shepherd or Inheritance.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Card +1 Action + When you discard this from play, if you didn’t buy a Victory card this turn, you may put this on top of your deck.	Seaside	October 2009
		+1 Card +1 Action + When you discard this from play, if you didn’t buy a Victory card this turn, you may put this onto your deck.	Seaside (2017 printing)	July 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Chinese	金庫 (pron. jīnkù)
Czech	Pokladnice
Dutch	Schatkamer (lit. treasure room)
Finnish	Aarrekammio
French	Trésorerie
German	Schatzkammer			+1 Karte +1 Aktion + Wenn du diese Karte aus dem Spiel ablegst und du in diesem Zug keine Punktekarte gekauft hast, darfst du diese Karte auf deinen Nachziehstapel legen.	(Nachdruck 2018) one or more other versions listed here
Italian	Tesoro (lit. treasure)
Japanese	宝物庫 (pron. hōmotsuko, lit. treasure house)			+1 カードを引く +1 アクション + これを場から捨て札にするとき、このターン勝利点カードを購入していない場合、これを山札の上に置いてもよい。
Korean	보물창고 (pron. bomulchang-go, lit. treasure house)
Polish	Skarbiec			+1 karta +1 akcja + Kiedy odrzucasz tę kartę z gry, możesz zamiast tego położyć ją na wierzchu swojej talii, jeżeli w tej turze nie kupiłeś żadnej karty Zwycięstwa.
Russian	Казна (pron. kazna)			+1 Карта +1 Действие +1 Когда вы сбрасываете эту карту из игры, если вы не покупали карт Победы в этот ход, то можете положить эту карту на верх колоды.
Spanish	Tesorería

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

This replaced a card that had rules problems. I eventually figured out a way to deal with the problems, but not in time for it to make the set. It will make it somewhere else eventually. I considered various things for a replacement, eventually settling on a card that you can have every turn if you want, which had been something I'd been meaning to get into the set but hadn't. Instead of sitting in play, it replaces itself (+1 Card +1 Action) and goes back on top of your deck each turn. The "but not if you bought a Victory card" clause keeps it more interesting and fairer. I had a version that you trashed when you bought a Victory card, but it was fine to let you keep it.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Seaside Cards