Mandate of Heaven (Civ5)

Mandate of Heaven is a social policy in Civilization V. It is part of the Piety tree.
When God has ordained that your ruler occupies the place of an intermediary between Heaven and the world, all people must rejoice and obey. Their faith becomes stronger, and allows that ruler to channel it much more efficiently to the empire's benefit.
== Game Info ==
* 50% of excess added each turn to the amount of that may be spent on Social Policies (Vanilla and ).
* 20% discount on all purchases of religious units and buildings with ( only).
== Strategy ==
This is a standalone level 1 Policy (similar to Aristocracy), and you may adopt it whenever you want. The discount is great for the initial stages of spreading your Religion, and it becomes especially useful when and if you have a Belief for buying a special religious building (Cathedral or the like); otherwise the benefit is limited to purchasing Missionaries, and maybe Inquisitors, if your empire suffers from a bad form of foreign religious infiltration. Still, remember that you do need to produce - this Policy only reduces, but does not eliminate the cost.
It is important to note that the cost of spawning or purchasing Great Prophets does NOT benefit from this Policy! Their minimum requirements remain the same. This is also valid for all other Great People that can be purchased later in the game.
== Civilopedia entry ==
== See also ==
* Mandate of Heaven in other games
Category:Social policies (Civ5)