Royal Carriage

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Royal Carriage
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Reserve
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Adventures
Illustrator(s)	Kelli Stakenas
Card text
+1 Action Put this on your Tavern mat. After you play an Action card, if it's still in play, you may call this, to replay that Action.

Royal Carriage is an Action–Reserve card from Adventures. It is a Throne Room variant that can be saved on your Tavern mat until you have an Action card that you want to play twice.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• When you play this, you get +1 Action and put it on your Tavern mat. It stays on your mat until you call it, directly after resolving a played Action card that is still in play.
• Royal Carriage cannot respond to Actions that are no longer in play, such as a Reserve card that was put on the Tavern mat, or a card that trashed itself (like a Raze used to trash itself).
• When called, Royal Carriage causes you to replay the card you just played.
• You can call multiple Royal Carriages to replay the same Action multiple times (provided the Action is still in play).
• You completely resolve the Action before deciding whether or not to use Royal Carriage on it.
• If you use Royal Carriage to replay a Duration card, Royal Carriage will stay in play until the Duration card is discarded from play, to track the fact that the Duration card has been played twice.

Other rules clarifications

• With Duration cards, you call Royal Carriage after resolving the Duration card's on-play effects; you don't wait for the next turn.
• You can't call a Royal Carriage to replay a called Reserve card, even though the Reserve card is in play after you call it.
• Royal Carriage can be called on a Crown played during your Buy phase, a Werewolf played during your Night phase.
• You can also call Royal Carriage on a card you play on another player's turn (e.g. Caravan Guard or Falconer). If it's a Duration, Royal Carriage will stay in play; otherwise you will discard the Royal Carriage during that player's Clean-up.
• If a card you play leaves and then immediately returns to your play area (e.g. you play a Transmogrify at the start of your turn with Piazza and then immediately call the Transmogrify), you can't call Royal Carriage on it.
• If an Action card plays a Royal Carriage (such as Disciple), you can immediately call the Royal Carriage to replay the Disciple.
• If an Action plays another Action (such as a Sauna that plays an Avanto), you will call Royal Carriages in the opposite order of when they were played. So you can't call Royal Carriage on Sauna before Avanto. If you call a Royal Carriage on Sauna, you can no longer call Royal Carriage on Avanto.
• If an Action is in play, and you replay it with a Royal Carriage to remove it from play (e.g. you replay a Tragic Hero and it trashes itself, then you can no longer call other Royal Carriages on it.
• If you have 3 Favors, play an Underling, and then replay it with Royal Carriage, you'll get a total of + from League of Shopkeepers.
• In a couple of rare and implausible scenarios, it is conceivably possible to play a card in someone else's play area. In the unlikely event that this ever happens, you can't call Royal Carriage on a card you played in another player's play area.

Strategy

There is no strategy article for Royal Carriage, but the card has been discussed on the forum.

Royal Carriage is a Throne Room variant, effectively doubling the effects of another Action card. Unlike most Reserve cards, Royal Carriage is not much slower than its non-Reserve counterparts, it just needs to be played in a slightly roundabout way: play Royal Carriage, play the card you want to double, then call the Carriage to double it. As it turns out, this is actually advantageous; if, after resolving the other action card, you decide you actually don't want to double its effects after all, that's also okay - the Carriage stays on the Tavern mat until you do need it. If you draw a Throne Room or King's Court without any other Action cards at all, you're sad; with Royal Carriage, you just save it for next turn. This flexibility is its main advantage over Throne Room.

There are also some other tricks that can be done with Royal Carriage. For example, it is the only Throne Room variant that can multiply Princed cards. It's also the only one that can be called multiple times on the same card; saving a stack of Royal Carriages (say, 7) on your Tavern Mat and then playing a single Bridge lets you piledrive the Provinces. On the other hand, it's impossible to successfully call Royal Carriage on a Royal Carriage. Therefore, the insane Throne/King trees that sometimes arise in action-dense engine decks cannot be achieved with Royal Carriage. You may even call Royal Carriage in the Buy phase to multiply Crown.

Its main disadvantage is its higher cost; in Dominion, is a lot more than , since it will be significantly harder to achieve in a lot of decks in the early game. However, it should be noted that Royal Carriage's cost doesn't actually make it compete with other cards that much. Buying a Carriage instead of the second copy of the action card you want is almost always better, especially if it's terminal, since it prevents collision.

Synergies

• Combo: Royal Carriage and Bridge
• Other stackable payload cards: Coppersmith, Miser
• Strong, densely powered action cards: Lost City, Grand Market
• The increased flexibility makes it good with offensive attacks such as Mountebank, Saboteur or Black Cat, since it doesn't have to collide

Antisynergies

• Cards with a 'while in play'-clause: Highway, Goons
• One-shots: Feast, Embargo, Pillage
• Other Reserve cards

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Action Put this on your Tavern mat. Directly after resolving an Action, if it's still in play, you may call this, to replay that Action.	Adventures	April 2015
	Royal Carriage from Shuffle iT	+1 Action Put this on your Tavern mat. Directly after you finish playing an Action card, if it's still in play, you may call this, to replay that Action.	Adventures (2017 printing)	August 2017
		+1 Action Put this on your Tavern mat. After you play an Action card, if it's still in play, you may call this, to replay that Action.	Adventures (2021 printing)

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Koninklijke koets
Finnish	Kuninkaalliset vaunut
French	Cortège royal (lit. royal procession)
German	Königliche Kutsche			+1 Aktion Lege diese Karte auf dein Wirtshaustableau. Sofort nachdem du eine Aktionskarte ausgeführt hast, die danach noch im Spiel ist, darfst du diese Karte von deinem Tableau aufrufen. Wenn du das tust: Führe die Aktion noch einmal aus.	(2015)
German	Königliche Kutsche			+1 Aktion Lege diese Karte auf dein Wirtshaustableau. Nachdem du eine Aktionskarte gespielt hast, darfst du, wenn jene Aktionskarte noch im Spiel ist, diese Karte aufrufen, um jene Aktionskarte noch einmal zu spielen.	(Nachdruck 2021)
Japanese	御料車 (pron. goryō-sha, lit. official state car)			+1 アクション これをあなたの酒場マットの上に置く。 アクションカード1枚の使用を解決した直後、それが場に残っている場合、再度使用するために、これを呼び出してもよい。
Russian	Королевская Карета (pron. korolyevskaya karyeta)

Trivia

Royal Carriage can be called during your Buy phase for Crown, and during your Night phase for Werewolf, making it the only Throne Room variant that can be used on a Night card, and the only Throne Room variant that can be used in three different phases.

Official card art.

Secret History

A Dark Ages outtake. We always liked it, but it needed a mat. It has a mat here and well that's pretty much the story. I briefly had a bad wording that could let you go infinite, and fixing it made it even more like the Dark Ages version.

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