Deck Building questions - purchase/build & stairs

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#1

I played a 4-player game of Deck Building tonight with some new players and some questions came up.

Suppose you have 4 screws in your hand. You buy a card that costs 4 screws. Clearly you cannot buy another card. But can you still build a card from your hand? The rule book does not say otherwise, so we've been playing that you can.

A question came up about what stairs were worth for purchasing other cards. Re-checking the rule book now, I see that it does mention that stairs are not worth any screws.

#2

The Grills if you have them in hand aren't worth any screws either.  

#3

Why wouldn't you be able to?

#4

Because in most deck building games that I've played, those cards would have been considered to be already "used up" for the turn. A strict reading of the rule book indicates that you can still use them, but a confirmation would be nice.

Another thing I noticed was the rule book specifies the requirements for purchasing twice in a turn, but not for purchasing 3 or 4 times. It would make sense that the total screw cost of all cards purchased may not exceed the total amount of screws in your hand. But by a strict reading of the rules, that's not the case.

#5

Fair point, and now that I think about it, I had the same question at first. FWIW, I had it confirmed by Christopher, Adam, and Paul when they taught me.

#6

Using the screws to buy cards does not mean the card those screws came from cannot be built.

#7

Thanks for the confirmation.  

#8

Thanks Christopher!