Tomb

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Tomb
Info
Type	Landmark
Set	Empires
Illustrator(s)	Martin Hoffmann
Landmark text
When you trash a card, +1 .

Tomb is a Landmark from Empires. It gives players +1  whenever they trash a card.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• This works even when it is not your turn, such as when you trash a card to Swindler (from Dominion: Intrigue), and works when told to trash a card that is not yours, such as with Salt the Earth.

Other rules clarifications

• You get +1   for each card you trash, even if you trash multiple cards at the same time.

Strategy

There is a combo with Sauna/Avanto and Beggar. Sauna allows very high amounts of trashing, since it's number of Saunas times the number of Silvers, and doesn't require actions to trash. Beggar will put 3 Coppers into your hand to trash. The usual Sauna/Avanto combo helps draw the deck, then your remaining actions can be played on Beggars, then you can trash the gained copper by playing Silver. There is no need to weigh down the deck with Victory cards when you can gain 6 or 9  per turn. An even better combo is with Fortress; you could trash a single copy as many times as you have silvers.

Synergies

• Fortress
• Mint, enables late game trashing-for-VP when Victory card piles may already be empty

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When you trash a card, +1 .	Empires	June 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Tombe (lit. tombs)
Finnish	Hauta
French	Tombe			Lorsque vous écartez une carte, +1 .
German	Grabmal			Wenn du eine Karte entsorgst: +1 -Marker	(2016)
German	Grabmal			Wenn du eine Karte entsorgst, +1 .	2. Edition (2021)
Japanese	墓標 (pron. bohyō, lit. tombstone)			あなたがカード1枚を廃棄するとき、+1 。
Polish	Grobowiec			Kiedy wyrzucasz kartę na śmietnisko, +1 .	(2017)
Russian	Гробница (pron. grobnitsa)

Trivia

Official card art.

Preview

Tomb works during the game but has no limit, beyond what you're able to trash. There's no guarantee that you can trash cards in a particular game, but that won't come up too often; it spices up trashers, Remodels, one-shots, and some other random cards like Hovel or Knights or Gladiator.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Empires Previews #4: Landmarks

Secret History

This one just worked.

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

Retrospective

I still like Tomb. Many of the Landmarks just don't have enough of an impact in terms of what you do. Tomb does not have that issue. Some games it does nothing but I decided I could live with that, and so far so good.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Interview with Donald X.