Debt
Debt (represented by the symbol cost for some cards and Events in Empires. It allows the buyer to take tokens instead of paying the full cost of the card. A cost in is orthogonal to a cost in a ; cards with in their cost do not cost less or more than cards with a cost. and are similarly not comparable. Players who have tokens may not buy cards or Events. tokens can only be removed from a player by paying per token at any point after playing Treasures or spending Coin tokens during the player's Buy phase, unless otherwise specified (e.g. Capital allows paying off tokens during the Clean-up phase). A player cannot play any more Treasures or spend any more Coin tokens once they have begun to pay off . may not be paid off when Black Market allows you to buy a card from the Black Market deck.
) is an alternateEmpires comes with 40
tokens, but the mechanic is not intended to be component-limited.List of Debt cards
City Quarter, Royal Blacksmith
Fortune
Capital does not incur debt when it is bought, but when it is cleaned up from play—in effect, allowing you to buy other things for instead of that turn.
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