Inheritance on Death Cart

[phedra60]

Hello everybody !
This is my first post, I'm happy to be closer with the Dominion comunity.
So, I have a question. Like my title said, I played Inheritance, and put my token on Death Cart.
With the +1 buy cards, the trashers, and Lackeys, was thinking it should be fun to populate the game with my special estates...
I was expecting to trash them to gain my +5 money, but can't : when I played my estate i was unable to trash it.
Someone can help me to understand the logic why it's impossible ?
Thanks for your answer

[Ingix]

In September 2019, a large batch of errata was released by Donald X., the game's creator, to the so-called shapeshifter cards, including Inheritance. Also some other cards got errata to work more "as intended" with the new wordings of the shapeshifter cards. You can find the whole set of errata and additional rules changes here (original post and an update to prevent infinite loops)

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19893.0

I'll just copy the current text of Inheritance and Death Cart out if it (can be found in the online game as well):

Inheritance: Event, $7
Once per game: Set aside a non-Command Action card from the Supply costing up to $4. Move your Estate token to it. (During your turns, Estates are also Actions with "Play the card with your Estate token, leaving it there.")

Death Cart: Action - Looter, $4
You may trash this or an Action card from your hand, for +$5.
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When you gain this, gain 2 Ruins.

As you can see, Inheritance no longer has the Estates "become" the inherited card, it makes (on your turn) Estates just Actions that play the set aside card.

So in your case, an Estate plays the set aside Death Cart. In other words, if you want to trash the "this" mentioned in Death Carts on-play ability, you would have to trash the set aside Death Cart, not the Estate that played it.

This however is not possible, because the Death Cart expects itself to be in play, which it isn't. So your only chance to get $5 would be to trash an "Action card from your hand". This can be an Estate (the Inheritance effect made an Action card), or any other Action cards, but it can't be the one in play.

So some nice combos from the "old days" of Inheritance no longer work, unfortunately, and this is one. OTOH, gaining an Estate when you inherited Death Cart doesn't mean you get Ruins any more, which is generally a good thing but of course they were often good Death Cart fodder.

[phedra60]

Thanks for your answer, I understand now.
It's misleading that the interface print the text of the card played on the estate. But I don't have any other proposition to indicate better this action :)

Thanks again !