Pandemic
How do the Pharmacist's abilities work, and can he repeat them?
The designer answered this in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2024.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-03-03
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2019-03-02
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-04-06
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2018-08-10
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2016-05-23
He can, as actions, (1) reveal a City card to Treat Disease in that card's city, remotely, or (2) remove 1 cube of a cured disease from any city. Neither is limited to once per turn, so he may spend all four actions on it, even revealing the same card. The revealed card is not discarded. Remote treating can still send a cube to a lab dish. He can't remove cubes of an uncured Superbug. Once it is cured, his first ability removes purple cubes as Distribute Vaccine, which costs a vaccine dose, and his second removes one purple cube with no dose needed.