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Title: Coin token or treasure?
Post by: petegeo on January 21, 2015, 05:31:54 pm

Hi
I am unsure if you overpay for masterpiece etc in treasure or coin tokens.

Title: Re: Coin token or treasure?
Post by: A Drowned Kernel on January 21, 2015, 05:37:14 pm

Coin tokens are spent for "coins", which are the same thing that Treasure cards and action cards with the yellow +X symbol give you. You can overpay for masterpiece, or any overpay card, with either of them.

Title: Re: Coin token or treasure?
Post by: petegeo on January 21, 2015, 05:59:10 pm

Thank you
I had to ask as the rules are not entirly clear about payment method

Title: Re: Coin token or treasure?
Post by: GeoLib on January 21, 2015, 05:59:50 pm

Note that you have to choose to use your coin tokens for coins at the beginning of your buy phase (this is really only relevant in online play, assuming the people you're playing with IRL aren't dicks about it).

Title: Re: Coin token or treasure?
Post by: eHalcyon on January 21, 2015, 07:35:03 pm

To buy a card, you use "coins".  You can get coins by playing treasures (other than Horn of Plenty) and you can get coins by playing certain Action cards, such as Festival.  The latter is often referred to as "virtual coin". 

In Guilds, certain cards grant you coin tokens.  At the start of your buy phase, you can spend your coin tokens to receive 1 coin each.  Then you can play your treasures and use your total generated coins and buys that turn to buy cards.

Overpay is entirely separate.  When you buy a card with an overpay effect, you can pay more coins than the card actually costs in order to receive a benefit.  At this point, it no longer matters what the source of the coins was.

Title: Re: Coin token or treasure?
Post by: Beyond Awesome on January 27, 2015, 02:21:28 am

Quote from: petegeo on January 21, 2015, 05:31:54 pm

Hi
I am unsure if you overpay for masterpiece etc in treasure or coin tokens.

It's up to you. You can use both or one or the other.

Title: Re: Coin token or treasure?
Post by: polot38 on March 01, 2015, 09:56:18 am

Quote from: GeoLib on January 21, 2015, 05:59:50 pm

Note that you have to choose to use your coin tokens for coins at the beginning of your buy phase (this is really only relevant in online play, assuming the people you're playing with IRL aren't dicks about it).

And also when merchant's guild is in play.

Title: Re: Coin token or treasure?
Post by: pacovf on March 01, 2015, 09:58:29 am

Quote from: polot38 on March 01, 2015, 09:56:18 am

Quote from: GeoLib on January 21, 2015, 05:59:50 pm

Note that you have to choose to use your coin tokens for coins at the beginning of your buy phase (this is really only relevant in online play, assuming the people you're playing with IRL aren't dicks about it).

And also when merchant's guild is in play.

And Black Market (you can't use coins when you play it).