Butcher
Butcher | |
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Type(s) | Action |
Kingdom card? | Yes |
Set | Guilds |
Illustrator(s) | Lynell Ingram |
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+2 Coffers You may trash a card from your hand. If you do, remove any number of tokens from your Coffers and gain a card, costing up to the cost of the trashed card plus per token removed. |
Butcher is an Action card from Guilds. It is a Remodel variant that puts money in your Coffers and allows you to spend from your Coffers to increase the cost of the card you gain with it. If you don't want to remodel a card, you can spend the Coffers tokens for + or save them for later, as usual.
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FAQ
Official FAQ
- First add two tokens to your Coffers mat.
- Then you may trash a card from your hand and remove any number of tokens from your Coffers.
- The number of tokens you remove can be zero.
- If you trashed a card, you gain a card costing up to the cost of the trashed card plus the number of tokens you removed. For example you could trash an Estate and remove six tokens to gain a Province, or you could trash another Butcher and remove zero tokens to gain a Duchy.
- You can remove the tokens you just added.
- Removing tokens for this ability doesn't get you to spend, it just changes what cards you can gain with this ability.
Strategy Article
See here for a short article about Butcher
Synergies
- Peddler, Border Village, and other cards with value disproportionate to their cost.
- Other Coin token cards that can fuel it
Anti-Synergies
Versions
English versions
Digital | Text | Release | Date | |
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Take 2 Coin tokens. You may trash a card from your hand and then pay any number of Coin tokens. If you did trash a card, gain a card with a cost of up to the cost of the trashed card plus the number of Coin tokens you paid. | Guilds 1st Edition | June 2013 | ||
+2 Coffers. You may trash a card from your hand. If you do, remove any number of tokens from your Coffers and gain a card, costing up to the cost of the trashed card plus per token removed. | Guilds 2nd Edition | March 2018 |
Other language versions
Trivia
Butcher is the only card that allows you to remove tokens from your Coffers outside your Buy phase.
Preview
Butcher also fits the 5th theme of Guilds, which is, wordy cards. Take two coin tokens, you may trash a card, something something, gain a card, something something, man I'll just buy one, I'll figure out what it does when I play it. Butcher is a Remodel that you spend coin tokens to pump up. With enough coin tokens you can go straight from Curse to Colony. You can also just trade a card in for something at the same cost or less, while keeping the two coin tokens for later. There are a lot of ways you can go.
Butcher gives you a special use for coin tokens. That's not a theme of the set, that's just Butcher. It provides some coin tokens itself, so it's not like you have to have another Guilds card with it to make it do its thing. It's all been taken care of.Secret History