Editing Disappearing money

[[Image:Festival.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Festival]], a disappearing money card.]]

'''Disappearing money''' is an informal term for [[non-terminal]] [[Action]] cards that give +{{Cost|}} but are [[stop card]]. They resemble most [[Treasure]] cards in that they give +{{Cost|}} and reduce handsize when played, and any number of them can be freely played on a turn; but unlike Treasure cards they can be played from your hand ''before'' other Action cards are played which makes them relevant as [[payload]] in certain kinds of [[engine]]s that do not work well with Treasures.

With sufficient [[terminal space]], [[terminal]] Actions that give +{{Cost|}} (like {{Card|Guildmaster}}) can work the same way.

== Engines which benefit from disappearing money ==
* [[Draw-to-x]] cards like {{Card|Library}}, {{card|Cursed Village}}, {{card|Minion}}
* {{Card|Tactician}} which typically prevents you from using Treasures on the turn it is played.
* {{Card|Menagerie}}: unlike Treasure, you can have any number of copies of the same disappearing-money Action and play them all before Menagerie to create a hand with no duplicates.
* Engines that draw Actions much more easily than Treasures: {{Card|Scrying Pool}} and {{Card|City Quarter}}
* {{card|Diplomat}}: reducing your handsize first before playing Diplomat allows you to use Diplomat as a [[village (card category)|village]].

== List of cards that can provide disappearing money ==

* [[Dominion]]: {{Card|Festival}}
* [[Intrigue]]: {{Card|Courtier}}, {{Card|Minion}}, {{Card|Pawn}}
* [[Seaside]]: {{Card|Lighthouse}}, {{Card|Fishing Village}}
* [[Dark Ages]]: {{Card|Forager}}, {{Card|Mystic}}, {{Card|Squire}}
* [[Guilds]]: {{Card|Candlestick Maker}}
* [[Adventures]]: {{Card|Treasure Hunter}}
* [[Empires]]: {{Card|Villa}}
* [[Nocturne]]: {{Card|Conclave}}
* [[Renaissance]]: {{Card|Patron}}
* [[Menagerie (expansion)|Menagerie]]: {{Card|Bounty Hunter}}, {{Card|Coven}}, {{Card|Paddock}}, {{Way|Way of the Mule}}
* [[Allies]]: {{card|Sycophant}}, {{card|Merchant Camp}}
* [[Plunder (expansion)|Plunder]]: {{card|Mining Road}}, {{card|Shaman}}, {{card|Taskmaster}}

{{Card|Oasis}} and {{Card|Junk Dealer}} each draw a card but also remove a card from your hand, so they have the same effect on your hand size as if they were a stop card.

=== Conditional and related effects ===

* [[Base]]: {{Card|Poacher}} -- Only reduces your handsize if at least one [[Supply]] pile is empty.
* [[Prosperity]]: {{card|Clerk}} -- Is only [[non-terminal]] if it is in your hand at the start of your turn.
* [[Seaside]]: {{card|Sailor}} -- disappears from your hand on one turn to provide money on the next turn.
* [[Guilds]]: {{Card|Plaza}} -- requires you to discard a [[Treasure]] or it doesn't reduce your handsize.
* [[Nocturne]]: {{Boon|The Field's Gift}} -- unreliable because it will only be revealed by a [[Fate]] card 1/12 of the time.
* [[Allies]]: {{card|Courier}} and {{card|Elder}} -- need to play a non-terminal [[stop card]]. In the latter case, a [[cantrip]] also works.

==Gallery==
{{CardImage|Bounty Hunter}}{{CardImage|Candlestick Maker}}{{CardImage|Conclave}}{{CardImage|Courtier}}{{CardImage|Coven}}{{CardImage|Festival}}{{CardImage|Fishing Village}}{{CardImage|Forager}}{{CardImage|Lighthouse}}{{CardImage|Merchant Camp}}{{CardImage|Minion}}{{CardImage|Mystic}}{{CardImage|Paddock}}{{CardImage|Patron}}{{CardImage|Pawn}}{{CardImage|Squire}}{{CardImage|Sycophant}}{{CardImage|Treasure Hunter}}{{CardImage|Villa}}{{LandscapeImage|Way of the Mule}}

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