<p>You pay the cost a single time when you play the card. That is, you take an action that allows you to play an occupation or minor improvement, pay the cost, take the card from your (secret) hand and put it face up on the table.</p>

<p>Note that in your question, you seem to have conflated "play the card" and "use the card". In the rules, "play" is used as I have used it: playing the card from your hand. If you later use the card (i.e. take advantage of it) you're not playing it. You might have less confusion if you think of subsequent use of the card as using it, not playing it.</p>

<p>In any case, once you've paid and played the card, you're done paying. The card likely has some kind of ongoing benefit, and you don't have to pay again to get that benefit. For example, once you've played <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/ljB5j.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Field Watchman</a>, which lets you plow a field when you take a grain, you get that field plowed for free whenever you take a grain.</p>

<p>To make this feel really obvious, just look at the major improvements. You definitely don't have to spend clay every time you want to use your fireplace!</p>

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Oh ok because here I thought that we have to pay to play the cards every time we want to use them. So like you said once we pay for it we don't have to anymore through out the game. That makes sense since after paying for the card we have to face them up
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<p>Every time I want to play a minor improvement or occupation do I need to pay what is on the top right hand side every time i play that card? or is it just one time pay and then i can use it for the rest of the game?</p>

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# Agricola question about minor improvement and occupation cards

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-01-08)

Every time I want to play a minor improvement or occupation do I need to pay what is on the top right hand side every time i play that card? or is it just one time pay and then i can use it for the rest of the game?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-01-08. Score: 10

You pay the cost a single time when you play the card. That is, you take an action that allows you to play an occupation or minor improvement, pay the cost, take the card from your (secret) hand and put it face up on the table.

Note that in your question, you seem to have conflated "play the card" and "use the card". In the rules, "play" is used as I have used it: playing the card from your hand. If you later use the card (i.e. take advantage of it) you're not playing it. You might have less confusion if you think of subsequent use of the card as using it, not playing it.

In any case, once you've paid and played the card, you're done paying. The card likely has some kind of ongoing benefit, and you don't have to pay again to get that benefit. For example, once you've played [Field Watchman](https://i.sstatic.net/ljB5j.jpg), which lets you plow a field when you take a grain, you get that field plowed for free whenever you take a grain.

To make this feel really obvious, just look at the major improvements. You definitely don't have to spend clay every time you want to use your fireplace!

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Oh ok because here I thought that we have to pay to play the cards every time we want to use them. So like you said once we pay for it we don't have to anymore through out the game. That makes sense since after paying for the card we have to face them up  

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