Res Arcana
If the destroyed card has Gold in its cost, do you get Gold?
The designer answered this directly in a BGG reply.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2021-09-12
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2021-09-12
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2025-07-08
- Res Arcana rulebook · Rulebook · Fine Points
- LeonardQuirm · Community · 2021-09-12
- rattkin · Community · 2025-07-07
No. The Gold still counts as one essence toward the total, but you must take non-Gold essences. Destroying a card costing 1 Gold with the Corrupt Altar gives 3 non-Gold essences.