Res Arcana
What is the difference between destroying and discarding an artifact?
The designer answered this directly in a BGG reply.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2019-04-25
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2019-04-24
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- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2020-02-26
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- Res Arcana rulebook · Rulebook · Fine Points
Discard means from your hand; destroy means from play. Destroyed artifacts go to your discard pile, not out of the game, and any essences on them go back to the supply. Mages, monuments and Places of Power are not artifacts and cannot be destroyed.