Pandemic
Do Virulent Strain effects always resolve in the order printed?
The designer answered this directly on BoardGameGeek.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2009-12-29
No, it depends on the card. Hidden Pocket must happen before the Intensify step, since otherwise the discard pile would be empty, while the designer described Unacceptable Loss and Uncounted Populations as happening after it. The current rulebook words all three as before Intensify. For those two it makes no practical difference, so follow your card.