Reply: Pandemic:: General:: Re: Drawing two Epidemic cards back to back

by lithy

MaceQuantex wrote:

danieldukai wrote:

So this just happened to us last night in our third game. It was absolutely devastating and cost us the game.

I remember vaguely, but I believe that the first outbreak happened in Madrid, and then in New York and London. But this is not as important as my next point.

Drawing an Epidemic card on an empty discard pile is going to make your life a living hell, since the card that you just infected is going to be put on top and going to get an outbreak, possibly causing chain reactions, which just happened to us and we lost the game because of the outbreaks, and there wasn't much we could do to prevent this.

Do you just suck it up in games like this and start over? Btw, we used 5 Epidemic cards.

I believe the way this gets resolved is that you pull two cards from the bottom of the deck, move the infection rate marker twice, shuffle the infection discard pile, and then infect however many cities there are. Happened to me once on the app and in one of The Dice Tower's games of Legacy Season 2. I'm almost positive that this is how both instances resolved it.

That isn't correct, if you draw two Epidemic cards you process both cards separately, then move on to the infect step, so the first bottom deck card will get shuffled with rest of the discard pile but the card drawn for the Infect step of the second Epidemic will be the only card in the discard and will be on top so this is a guaranteed outbreak unless you can play One Quiet Night or Resilient Population or some other event that may help.