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As we all know from countless games of Dominion, the excessive troubles of war can be quite exhausting. From time to time, the nobles and liege lords like to spend a nice vacation at a restorative place. Rustic houses at a clean-water lake, trees and birds and stuff… that’s a place you spend your opening $4 for.
Sanitarium is the draw-up-to-x village that for some reason still doesn’t exist in Dominion. It comes with a very engine-friendly on-gain bonus that only works in Spring. Otherwise it would be overpowered. The trash-on-gain incentivizes you to gain Sanitarium during the opening and, with weak or no other trashing around, as many of them as possible on turns 3 to 5. Of course that’s not always going to be the best strategy but most of the time, Sanitarium’s unique abilities will make the decision not to prematurely gain a village non-trivial.