Market Square
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Market Square | |
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Type(s) | Action - Reaction |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Dark Ages |
Illustrator(s) | Lorraine Schleter |
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+1 Card +1 Action +1 Buy When one of your cards is trashed, you may discard this from your hand to gain a Gold. |
Market Square is an Action-Reaction card from Dark Ages. When played, it is a cantrip source of +Buy; however, when paired with a trasher (or as a defense against a trashing attack), it can gain you Golds!
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- When you play this, you draw a card and get +1 Action and +1 Buy.
- When one of your cards is trashed, you may discard Market Square from your hand.
- If you do, you gain a Gold.
- If there is no Gold left in the Supply, you do not gain one.
- You may discard multiple Market Squares when a single card of yours is trashed.
Other Rules clarifications
- Market Square has the same timing as "when you trash this" effects on other cards, such as Cultist, and you choose the order they happen in.
- Market Square doesn't have to have been in your hand when you trash a card; you could trash Cultist, drawing one or more Market Squares, and still discard them. This is allowed since your opponents can't see what's in your hand.
- Market Square cannot be discarded if you trash a card you don't own, such as with Lurker.
- If you trash a Haunted Mirror, you can discard Market Square for either a Gold or a Ghost, but not both.
Strategy Article
There is no strategy article yet for Market Square. Feel free to add your thoughts!
An obvious use case for Market Square is as a cheap +Buy in an engine. Sometimes you'll buy a Woodcutter or Herbalist for the +Buy, and Market Square is probably better - a lot of the time you'd rather have your +Buy be a cantrip that doesn't get in the way rather than a terminal.
Market Square has an obvious synergy with Hovel - if you draw your Market Square with Hovel, you can buy a Victory card, trash the Hovel, and discard the Market Square to gain a Gold. This could be either on a lucky early hand, or once you've ramped up your engine and want to add a little bit of buying power while starting to green.
Market Square typically won't help a Big Money game, with one big exception - Masquerade. Big Money+Masquerade+Market Square can supply a steady stream of Golds. I'm not sure how best to play it, but presumably you want more than one Masquerade and Market Square.
Obviously, when setting up an engine, Market Square can help with early buying power. If you open Chapel or Steward with Market Square, you can safely trash everything, buy engine components like Villages and Terminal Draws, and forgo Silver entirely, jumping straight to Gold when your Market Square and your trasher collide.
Market Square has great synergy with a lot of trashers. Since it is a cantrip, you can freely load up on Market Squares, to match up with your smaller number of trashers. - Moneylender, Forager, Mine, Upgrade, Remodel, Junk Dealer, all can be used to activate Market Square to good effect.
Synergies/Combos
- early-game trashers like Chapel, Steward
- Hovel
- Masquerade
- Bishop
- Donate
- Remodel can trash cards to activate Market Square, and can then turn the Golds into Provinces.
- Combo: Hermit and Market Square
- Combo: Donate and Market Square
- Combo: Highway and Market
- Apprentice or Research
Antisynergies
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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+1 Card +1 Action +1 Buy When one of your cards is trashed, you may discard this from your hand. If you do, gain a Gold. |
Dark Ages 1st Edition | August 2012 | ||
+1 Card +1 Action +1 Buy When one of your cards is trashed, you may discard this from your hand to gain a Gold. |
Dark Ages 2nd Edition | September 2017 |
Other language versions
Language | Name | Digital | Text | Notes | |
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Czech | Náměstí (lit. square) | +1 karta +1 akce +1 nákup Jestliže je některá tvá karta zahozena na smetiště, můžeš odložit Náměstí z ruky. Pokud tak učiníš, vezmi si Zlaťák. |
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Dutch | Marktplein (lit. market square) | ||||
Finnish | Kauppatori (lit. marketplace) | ||||
French | Place du marché | ||||
German | Marktplatz | +1 Karte +1 Aktion +1 Kauf Wenn du eine Karte entsorgst, darfst du diesen Marktplatz aus deiner Hand ablegen. Wenn du das machst: Nimm dir ein Gold. |
translation error: "When you trash..." (2012) | ||
German | Marktplatz | +1 Karte +1 Aktion +1 Kauf Wenn eine deiner Karten entsorgt wird, darfst du diese Karte aus deiner Hand ablegen, um ein Gold zu nehmen. |
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Japanese | 青空市場 (pron. aozoraichiba, lit. open-air market) | +1 カードを引く +1 アクション +1 購入 あなたのカード1枚が廃棄されるとき、これを手札から捨て札にしてもよい。 捨て札にした場合、金貨1枚を獲得する。 |
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Korean | 시장 광장 (pron. sijang gwangjang) | ||||
Polish | Plac targowy | Although Polish version is not released, this card is referred to in the Polish version of Empires rulebook | |||
Russian | Рыночная Площадь (pron. rynochnaya ploshshad') | ||||
Spanish | Plaza del Mercado |
Trivia
Secret History
Once Intrigue had the top half. By the time I was working on Intrigue for publication, it didn't seem worth a slot. I brought it back here because I needed a simple top for the reaction. Before that I tried the reaction paired with Fool's Gold's top.
Originally the reaction was, you could trash this to gain a Gold when one of your cards was trashed. Time has shown that gaining a Gold is not as awesome as it looks (btw spoilers), and I eventually got around to testing the stronger version that made it into the set.
The reaction also dates back to Intrigue. I had a reaction that let you gain a copy of a card of yours that was trashed. To be good enough it had to give you Gold instead.