Goblin • $4 • Action
You may trash a Treasure
from your hand.
If you trashed a Gold,
choose one: +4 Cards; or +3 Actions; or +1 Buy and +$3; or gain a Gold.
If you trashed something other than Gold, gain a Gold.
Why does it let you trash a Gold to gain a Gold? You're never going to do it and it adds an extra line of text.
Because that's the truest to the original implementation of the card.
Because I want it to.
Because the text is a reasonable size with that extra line of text and players aren't required to choose it.
Maybe you're using it with Livery or Labyrinth or Devils Workshop, where something cares about how many cards you've gained this turn.
Maybe you wanna run out the Gold pile to win a Keep or Palace balance.
Maybe you're obligated to play it via Herald or Piazza and want to keep your deck balance as-is.
Maybe you're behind in a Possession + Keep game and you want to catch up on Golds.
There's weird little edge cases where it'll matter and most of the time you can ignore it.