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Dominion: Adventures Previews / Re: Preview: Transmogrify
« on: April 01, 2015, 10:24:15 am »My current thought is that any when-gain that changes the destination of a card (as long as you actually end up getting it into your possession, and not, say, trashing it) is just rerouting it; the card doesn't visit where it was trying to go. So to me, gain destinations should be the only exception to lose-track (provided it doesn't get covered up in the meantime).I'm not quite sure what I'm being asked. "No visiting" is a real thing, Transmogrify's gain does not visit the discard pile, it goes straight to your hand. It is not trying to have a novel phrasing, just to be phrased well.
I would defer to Donald X, though, of course.
I think the question boils down to when there are multiple "on gain"-like effects which change the destination of the card, what happens? The specific example is that if you use Transmogrify to get a Noble Brigand, where does the Noble Brigand end up? In your hand? On your deck? Player's choice? (Answered as "Player's Choice" before I finished posting this)
I believe that "would gain" effects resolve earlier, so you could transmogrify a shelter into an estate, reveal a trader, and put a silver into your hand. (Hmmm, that would imply you could use Transmogrify to trash an overgrown estate, draw a trader as part of the when trashed effect, gain an estate, reveal the trader, and gain a silver instead, into your hand).
