Small Castle
| Small Castle | |
|---|---|
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| Info | |
| Cost |
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| Type(s) | Action - Victory - Castle |
| Kingdom card? | Yes |
| Set |
Empires |
| Illustrator(s) | Julien Delval |
| Card text | |
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Trash this or a Castle from your hand. If you do, gain a Castle. 2  | |
Small Castle is an Action-Victory-Castle card from Empires. It allows you to trash a Castle you already have to gain a more powerful Castle.
FAQ
Official FAQ
- Small Castle gains you the top Castle, whichever one that is.
Other Rules clarifications
- You are allowed to choose to trash a Castle from your hand, even if you don't have any Castles in your hand, though this means you will not gain a Castle.
Strategy
Refer to the Castle strategy section.
Versions
English versions
| Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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Trash this or a Castle from your hand. If you do, gain a Castle. 2 |
Empires | June 2016 |
Other language versions
| Language | Name | Digital | Text | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 迷你的城堡 (pron. mínǐ de chéngbǎo) |
移除此卡或是你手中的一張城堡，如果你移除了，獲得一張城堡。 2
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| Dutch | Klein Kasteel | |||
| Finnish | Pieni linna | |||
| French | Petit château |  |
Écartez cette carte ou un Château de votre main. Dans ces cas, recevez un Château. 2
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| German | Kleines Schloss |  |
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Entsorge diese Karte oder ein Schloss aus deiner Hand. Wenn du das tust, nimm ein Schloss. 2
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| Japanese | 小さい城 (pron. chīsai shiro) |
手札の城カード1枚か、これを廃棄する。廃棄した場合、城カード1枚を獲得する。 2
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| Polish | Mały zamek |  |
Wyrzuć na śmietnisko tę kartę lub Zamek z ręki. Jeśli to zrobisz, dodaj Zamek. 2
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| Russian | Маленький Замок (pron. malyen'kiy zamok) |
Trivia
Preview
Trash a card to gain another card from its pile; there’s a proposition that’s not usually attractive. But with Small Castle, it means that you can potentially pick up a very powerful Castle later in the game for a fraction of the price.
Secret History by LastFootnote
The very first version in my prototype just had the "trash another Castle from your hand" part, but it became apparent pretty quickly that it needed the Feast option for all the times that it didn't collide (a.k.a. most of the time). So that ability got added before I handed it over to Donald.
Wording
For Small Castle, the "if" is so that one Small Castle doesn't turn into multiple Castles. I still want to do that; it affects how powerful the card is, and better matches intuition. I might reword it today though, because these days I don't like mandatory things to say "if you do." I don't need to rule it out completely but don't like it. It looks weird. I prefer a "you may" typically, though the "you may" is annoying online, where it has to ask you but you sure wanted to do the thing. Here as noted you might be able to say "to" instead. I guess the jury is still out on "to," is that really good enough for casual players.
