Some special terms are used in card text.
Four terms involve a number after a + symbol. +2 is the same as +1 twice, and so on.
"+1 Action" - You may play an additional Action card this turn.
• When this happens, it just adds to the number of Action cards you can play; you finish
resolving the current card before actually playing more Action cards.
• Actions are only usable in the Action phase.
• When you have multiple Actions, it can be helpful to say the number out loud to remember it.
Some players like to form a "tree" on the table, putting two played Actions on a Village or
Festival to show its Actions being used up.
"+1 Buy" - You may buy an additional card in your Buy phase this turn.
• You do not have to use extra Buys.
• You split up your among your Buys.
"+1 Card" - Draw a card.
• You draw the card immediately.
• If you have to draw more cards than are left in your deck, you shuffle your discard pile, put it
under your deck, and then draw. If there still are not enough cards to draw, you just draw as
many as you can.
"+ " - You have an extra to spend in your Buy phase this turn.
• + does not give you a Copper card; it just adds to how much you can spend this turn.
Other terms involve moving cards, seeing cards, and where cards are.
"Discard a card" - Move a card from your hand to your discard pile.
• Sometimes a card will tell you to discard a card from another location, but by default
discarded cards come from hands.
• You place the discarded card on top of your discard pile, face up.
• If you discard multiple cards at once, you do not need to reveal them all, just the one you put
on top.
"Gain a card" - Take a card from the Supply and put it into your discard pile.
• Sometimes a card will let you gain a card from a place other than the Supply, but by default
gained cards come from the Supply.
• Sometimes a card will let you gain a card to a location other than your discard pile, but by
default all gained cards are put into your discard pile.
• You do not play a card when you gain it; it just goes to your discard pile.
"In play" - Being in a player's play area.
• Cards become "in play" when played, and usually stay there until discarded from play in Clean-
up.
• Only played cards are in play; set aside cards, cards in the trash, in the Supply, in hands, etc.,
are not in play.
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