I Cameled a Border Village. (exiled it).
The next turn I bought a Border Village and retrieved the exiled Border Village.
If I understand the rules right about gaining, when you claim a card from exile, you gain it. I thought I should have been able to get 2 cards for < 6, because I gained 2 Border Villages. (one bought, 1 retrieved from exile). But I was allowed to get only 1. Is that a bug?
This general issue has come up in a number of threads. Dominion goes not consider "getting" from exile to be "gaining" it. Linguistically, of course, this is a weak read. But Dominion has been pretty consistent about this. There are several ways that one should get something good (eg, coins, villages, VP) or something bad (curses) when a card is gained, per the language on the card. As far as I can tell, getting via exile has never triggered those secondary effects. You could make the cards' language more accurate, I suppose; but that would mean rewriting a lot of cards, so that they read, "...whenever a card is gained,except when gained from an Exile Pile..."
The Exile section of the Menagerie rulebook is very clear.
QuoteExiling a card from the Supply is not "gaining" the card, and will not cause "when you gain this" abilities to happen. Discarding a card from your Exile mat is not gaining it either.
Thank you for that clarification. Somehow I missed that in the rulebook even though I looked for something about it several times when we played the table version.
Because I couldn't find it, we followed what the online game did.