Cures and the discard pile: How to do?


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Most curing effects instruct you to recharge random cards from your discard pile. However, the rules state that the order of your cards in your discard pile is static and shouldn't be altered. So, the question becomes, what's the best way to randomly select those cards? Until I re-read the rules the other day I totally forgot that you're not supposed to mess with your discard pile order; so far we've always just shuffled our discard piles face-down in order to pick random cards.

I can't really think of a better way to randomize your cure selections; the closest I can think of would be for you fan your discard pile and have another player pick the cards, but that's not very random - if I knew a card my teammate really wanted back in his deck was on the top of his discard pile, how do I make a random choice?

My group is probably going to ignore the ordered discard pile rule for the time being, especially since the only card - to my knowledge - that cares about the order of your discard pile is the Apothecary.

What do other groups do?


Shuffle them up and choose.

S&S Rulebook p17 wrote:
Rules: Dealing With Cards Whenever you’re instructed to randomly choose cards, shuffle the cards you’re drawing from and draw from the top.
S&S Rulebook p10 wrote:
You can look through your displayed, discarded, and buried cards at any time, but you may not change the order of cards in your discard pile...Don’t shuffle any stack of cards unless you’re instructed to do so.

Mike's comment on this.


Hawkmoon269 wrote:

Shuffle them up and choose.

Mike's comment on this.

Thanks!

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I believe the rules state that random cards are selected by shuffling the available cards and drawing the X amount needed. If a card ever conflicts with the book, the card wins. Technically you are supposed to shuffle and draw random cards to be healed, but really it isn't going to make a difference unless we end up with a card that relies of discard pile order. I tend to roll a die if it's simple enough (if I have 8 cards in the discard pile and heal six, I roll 2d8 to see which two stay, it's just quicker).

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I often do the dice thing too, it cuts down on any subconscious "tracking" of cards when the pile is small.


You get some dice in this game... So I see a very easy way to pick a random card in a pile without changing the order.

Actually that is the main reason why we will have a d20 in the next box!!

Just kidding (old joke on why on earth Mike is adding a d20 to the game :-))

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