Pandemic
How does Infection Rumor work, and with Rate Effect?
The designer answered this in 2018, 2023 and 2024.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-01-30
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-03-11
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2018-03-21
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2023-07-30
- Cadd · Community · 2023-08-03
Play it before Infections, never during the actions phase. Look at as many cards as the infection rate, discard 1, return the rest, then infect cities drawing 1 fewer. Rate Effect doesn't apply to the first draw but applies in the Infect step if a Virulent Strain city is drawn. If it discards a Mutation card, that still counts as an Infection card.