Editing Alms

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{{Infobox Event
 |name = Alms
 |cost = 0
 |set = Adventures
 |type1 = Event
 |illustrator = Matthias Catrein
 |text = Once per turn: If you have no Treasures in play, gain a card costing up to {{Cost|4}}.
}}

'''Alms''' is an [[Event]] from [[Adventures]].  It allows you to gain a card costing up to {{Cost|4}} if you have no [[Treasure|Treasures]] in play—even if you have no available {{cost}} to spend at all!

== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* You can only buy this once per turn. 
* When you do, if you have no Treasures in play, you gain a card costing up to {{Cost|4}}. 
* The gained card comes from the Supply and is put into your discard pile.

== Strategy ==
There is no strategy article for Alms, but it has been discussed on the [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=14787.0 forum.]

Events are harder to rate than cards, but Alms is a game-changer, no doubt. For one thing, it completely throws a lot of opening theory out of the window, since it now enables {{cost|4}}/{{cost|4}} or even {{cost|4}}/{{cost|5}} openings. Alms typically does nothing on your big turns, as it does nothing when you have any Treasures in play, but it is almost always bought at least once in a game, as it mitigates the effects of bad draws or otherwise weak turns.

Alms is awesome with heavy trashing. Usually, your {{Card|Chapel}} turns end without buying a card. With Alms, however, you can trash all of the junk out of your deck and STILL gain a good card up to {{cost|4}}.

=== Synergies ===
* Heavy trashing: {{Card|Chapel}}, {{Card|Count}}, {{Card|Steward}}
* Good {{cost|4}} cards you might want multiples of in the opening: {{Card|Spice Merchant}}, {{Card|Ironmonger}}
* [[Virtual money]] with +Buy: {{Card|Baron}}, {{Card|Wine Merchant}}, {{Card|Storeroom}}
* In Treasure-less decks, such as with {{Card|Poor House}}, Alms can be bought even on your good turns
* Gainers: {{Card|Workshop}} and friends
* [[rush (strategy)|Rushes]] and [[slog]]s, such as with {{Card|Gardens}}
* Cards like {{Card|Mint}} and {{Card|Mandarin}}, which can remove played Treasures
* {{Card|Treasure Map}} as you can get two of them into your deck before the first reshuffle.
* When used with {{Card|Villa}}, you can get one extra coin and a +buy before playing treasures.
*{{Card|Spoils}} since when they are played immediately go back to their pile.

=== Antisynergies ===
* Most money-based strategies
* Lack of good cards below {{cost|5}}
* {{Card|Horn of Plenty}}
* [[Handsize attack]]s like {{Card|Militia}} and {{Card|Cutpurse}} are less effective
* Since buying Alms is not buying a card, the attacks from {{Card|Haunted Woods}} and {{Card|Swamp Hag}} also suffer
== Versions ==
===English versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date 
|-
| {{LandscapeVersionImage|AlmsOld|Alms}} || {{LandscapeVersionImage|AlmsDigitalOld|Alms from Goko/Making Fun}} || Once per turn: If you have no Treasures in play, gain a card costing up to {{Cost|4}}. || Adventures 1st Edition || April 2015
|-
| {{LandscapeVersionImage|Alms|Alms}} || {{LandscapeVersionImage|AlmsDigital|Alms from Shuffle iT}} || Once per turn: If you have no Treasures in play, gain a card costing up to {{Cost|4}}. || Adventures [[Second Edition|2nd Edition]] || August 2017
|}

===Other language versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Notes
|-
!Dutch 
| Aalmoes || {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|Dutch}} || {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|Dutch|d=s}} || Eenmaal per beurt: heb je geen geldkaarten in het spel,<br>pak dan een kaart die ten hoogste {{Coin|4}} kost. || (2015)
|-
!Finnish 
| Almut || || || ||
|-
!French 
| Aumône || || || Une fois par tour : si vous n'avez pas de carte Trésor en jeu, recevez une carte coûtant jusqu'a {{Cost|4}}. ||
|-
!German 
| Almosen ||{{LandscapeLangVersionImage|German}}|| {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} ||Einmal pro Zug: Wenn du keine Geldkarten im Spiel hast, nimm dir eine Karte, die bis zu {{Cost|4}} kostet. ||
|-
!Japanese 
| 施し (pron. ''hodokoshi'', lit. ''charity'') || || || 1ターンに1度のみ:場に財宝カードがない場合、コスト{{Cost|4}}以下のカード1枚を獲得する。||
|-
!Russian 
| Милостыня (pron. ''milostynya'') || || || ||
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:AlmsArt.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Official card art.]]
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote|Text=Late in the going, an Event wasn't seeming too hot, we never bought it. I needed a replacement and tried this. First it just gained you a card costing up to {{Cost|4}}, no limits, because what, why not try that. As you can see instead it is a more sane thing that just means, you're never doing worse than a {{Cost|4}}.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13082.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Adventures]
}}
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