Card stacks - If I have to place a card under a stack, can the stack contain zero cards?

General Questions

Yes. The Catanian rules system defines a stack as a place where cards are located or were located. Therefore, if a stack was completely depleted during the course of the game, it continues to be a stack and can be used to deposit cards there.

Card Stacks - In a tournament, on whose discard pile do I place the cards I took from my game partners and then played myself?

General Questions

On your own discard pile.

Card stacks - When exchanging cards, I may pay resources to search an expansion card stack. Do I have to draw from that stack, even if I don't like any of its cards?

General Questions

Yes. Once you have chosen a stack and looked at it, you also have to draw a card from it.

City expansions - May I place four city expansions in a city, or only two city expansions and two settlement/city expansions?

General Questions

You may combine city expansions and settlement/city expansions at will.

City expansions - May I swap the positions of the expansions in a city for optical reasons?

General Questions

As long as this doesn't have effects other than purely optical ones: yes.

Discard pile - Is it permitted to view all cards in the discard pile, in order to determine which cards are still in play or to check which cards are in the discard pile before playing a card that allows you to retrieve a card from it?

General Questions
  • You may only examine your own discard pile if you play a card that allows you to take a card from the discard pile.

 

  • You may only examine your opponent's discard pile if you play a card that allows you to take a card from your opponent's discard pile. Currently, Guido the Ambassador is the only card of this type.

Event - Celebration - Is the player who rolls the dice the only one to receive a resource?

General Questions

No. Either both players receive one resource each (if they don't have any skill points at all or an equal number of skill points) or only the player who has the most skill points receives one resource.

Event - Trade - Do I receive the resource for the trade advantage only if the trade token is physically placed on one of my settlements?

General Questions

You are entitled to the resource if you meet the requirements for the "trade advantage." The trade token serves as a reminder of this fact. The same applies to the hero token.

Event - Trade - Does my opponent loose a resource if I don't have room to accommodate it?

General Questions

No.

Extraordinary sites - Is it allowed to remove extraordinary sites?

General Questions

Yes.

Foreign cards - May I remove my opponent's foreign cards in my principality?

General Questions

No.

Foreign cards - May I remove my own foreign cards in my opponent's principality?

General Questions

Yes.