Set aside

To set aside a card is to place it on the table apart from your play area; such cards are not discarded during Clean-up, and are not considered to be "in play" for any purpose. This can be temporary, or permanent; in either case, if the game ends while you have cards set aside, they are returned to your deck before scores are calculated. Setting aside can be used as a way to mark cards as not required for the effect of an Action or Treasure being resolved, as a way to save cards for later use, or as a way to permanently remove a card from your deck without trashing it. Duration cards that are not discarded during Clean-up are not considered set aside; they are still in play.

Putting cards on mats is not technically setting them aside, but is equivivalent for most purposes (with exception of the Trash mat). See Island, Pirate Ship, Reserve, and Exile.

Official rules

"Set aside a card" - Put the card on the table, outside of the play area.

• Set aside cards are not "in play."
• Set aside cards are face up unless otherwise specified.
• A card that sets a card aside will say when to move it somewhere else.

Timing

List of abilities that set cards aside, sorted by how long the set-aside cards remain set aside. Cards in italics have been removed.

• until end of execution
  • Innovation (pre-errata) - A gained Action card.
  • Library - Action cards from your deck.
• until you gain a Victory card
  • Cage - Up to 4 cards from your hand.
• until start of Clean-up
  • Encampment - Itself
  • Joust - A Province from your hand.
• until end of turn
  • Deliver - Gained cards.
  • Faithful Hound - Itself
  • Foresight - An Action card from your deck.
  • Possession - Cards trashed during the Possession turn.
  • Puzzle Box - A card from your hand.
  • Save - A card from your hand.
  • Trickster - A Treasure discarded from play.
• until start of next (or a later future) turn
  • Archive - The top 3 cards from your deck.
  • Biding Time - Your hand.
  • Blockade - The card gained by Blockade.
  • Cargo Ship - A gained card.
  • Church - Up to 3 cards from your hand.
  • Contract - An Action card from your hand.
  • Crypt - Any non-Duration Treasures you have in play.
  • Delay - An Action card from your hand.
  • Haven - A card from your hand.
  • Horse Traders - Itself
  • Farmhands - An Action or Treasure from your hand.
  • Gear - Up to 2 cards from your hand.
  • Ghost - An Action card from your deck.
  • Grotto - Up to 4 cards from your hand.
  • Hasty - A gained Hasty card.
  • Patient - A Patient card from your hand.
  • Prepare - Your hand.
  • Prince (pre-errata) - An Action card from your hand, and the same card after each time it's played.
  • Quartermaster - A card from the Supply costing up to .
  • Rapid Expansion - A gained Action or Treasure.
  • Reap - The Gold gained by buying Reap.
  • Research - Cards from you deck.
  • Royal Galley - A non-Duration Action from your hand.
  • Summon - An Action card from the Supply costing upt to .
  • Tireless - A Tireless card discarded from play.
  • Way of the Turtle - The card played as the Turtle.
• until end of game
  • Druid - The top 3 Boons.
  • Inheritance - A non-Command Action card from the Supply.
  • Prince (pre-errata) - Itself
  • Prince (post-errata) - A non-Duration non-Command Action card from your hand.
  • Riverboat - An unused non-Duration Action card costing .
  • Way of the Mouse - An unused Action card costing to .

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