Strategy Phase

Rules Reference

During the strategy phase, each player chooses a strategy card to use during the round.

To resolve the strategy phase, players perform the following steps:

• 84.1Step 1: Starting with the speaker and proceeding clockwise, each player chooses one strategy card from the common play area and places it faceup in their play area.

  • aIf there are one or more trade good tokens on a strategy card when a player chooses it, that player gains those trade goods.

  • bA player cannot choose a strategy card that another player has already chosen during the current strategy phase.

  • cWhen playing with three or four players, each player will choose a second strategy card. After the last player has received their first strategy card, each player chooses a second strategy card, starting with the speaker and proceeding clockwise.

• 84.2Step 2: The speaker places one trade good token from the supply on each strategy card that was not chosen.

  • aDuring a four- or eight-player game, all strategy cards will be chosen, and therefore no trade good tokens will be placed on strategy cards.

Then, players proceed to the action phase.