Puffin

When paying the costs to activate Puffin’s first ability, you may choose to destroy any Gold you control, not just Gold tokens. This includes objects which count as a Gold (e.g. Aurum Aegis)

You can only gain action points during your action phase. You may crank during your start and end phase and during your opponent’s turn but you will not gain any action points. If Puffin’s second ability is triggered during your start or end phase, you will still draw a card.