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Can the Merchant be placed on a gold field?

Replies are few or split, so this is the best-supported reading rather than a settled ruling.

  • RedPiranha · Community · 2012-08-30
  • queenc · Community · 2012-08-30
  • toku42 · Community · 2009-04-26
  • ackmondual · Community · 2009-04-27
  • Octavian · Community · 2005-08-16

Most players say no. The Merchant goes on a hex that produces a resource, and a gold field produces gold rather than a resource, so it would trade nothing useful. One early reply says yes, but nobody builds on that reading.

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