Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
131 questions players ask about Pandemic Legacy: Season 0. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-01.
Campaign and Legacy Basics
- Do I need to play Pandemic Legacy Season 1 or 2 before Season 0?
- What does the funding level do, and how high or low can it go?
- Can I play the Prologue more than once, and does it affect January?
- Which After the Game steps do I do after the Prologue?
- Are the Prologue objectives the same each time, and must they be done in a set order?
- Where are the Prologue objective cards?
- How long does an effect last when it says "for the rest of the game" (for example a removed restriction or a used event)?
- Do Restriction cards stay in effect from month to month?
- Can I play Season 0 solo?
Setup
- At setup, do infection cards go into the Threat deck or the Threat discard pile?
- Where do the pawns start each game?
- How do I set up an objective with an unknown target city?
- How do the Discretionary Budget boxes add Event cards?
- Is the Threat deck rebuilt for each new game?
- If a Relapse card is dealt in my opening hand, when does it resolve?
Characters, Aliases and Assets
- Which alias does each character start with?
- Do I create aliases for all four passports even with fewer than four players?
- With two players, how many characters do I play?
- In what order do I scratch off cover?
- What happens when an alias is burned, and when do I use a temporary alias?
- What if all of a character's aliases are burned?
- Can I buy assets for aliases I did not play or have not unlocked?
- Do assets work for any alias or only the one that holds them?
- How do I pick the city for a city-specific asset such as a contact or visa?
Actions and Movement
- How does Commercial Flight work for Allied, Neutral and Soviet destinations?
- Do Soviet aliases change the flying rules for Soviet cities?
- Which card does Unrecorded Flight need?
- What does Identify Target City require?
- Does the extra City card from the Operation 54 restriction need to match the region?
- Must the Electrician still discard the extra City card when a restriction raises the Identify Target City cost?
- Does the Shortwave Radio let me use any City cards to identify a city?
- What do I need to Assemble a Team?
- For Drive/Ferry Team, is the move measured from my pawn or the team?
Teams, Objectives and Acquire Targets
- When is a team active?
- When do teams remove agents, and where do those agents go?
- Can teams remove disease cubes?
- Does a player have to be in the target city to Acquire Targets?
- Can one Acquire Targets action complete two objectives?
- If an objective needs teams in several cities, must they all be in place at once?
- Do I need an active team to Acquire Targets when the city is still unknown?
- Can I place teams in several possible target cities to improve my odds?
- Can I deliberately fail an Acquire Targets objective by picking a city I know is wrong?
Infiltration and PEARL
- Do I have to leave an infiltration site at the end of my turn, including PEARL?
- Does exiting an infiltration site or entering each room cost an action?
- When crossing between infiltration rooms, do I match all the security tokens or just one?
- Can one card satisfy two security tokens at the same crossing?
- Do I discard cards to move between rooms during an infiltration?
- Do PEARL abilities that move or flip tokens affect other infiltration sites?
- Are PEARL security tokens and codes reset at the start of each game?
- Does a PEARL room bonus or penalty apply each time I enter the room?
- How do hatchways and tunnels work in PEARL?
Threat Cards, Incidents and Pursuit
- Can incidents chain repeatedly into the same city in one turn?
- What happens when a city would get a fourth agent?
- Does an Incident token stay on the city, and what if I run out?
- Do agents keep losing cover while they stay in a city with an incident?
- Does "Players in Europe or Africa (not in a safehouse) each lose 1 cover" hit both regions?
- Does Teams Compromised move teams one space or straight to Washington?
- Do I resolve each Threat card before drawing the next?
- What if an Escalation's Add Agents step lands on a city that already has agents?
- Are Outbreak tokens counted as Incident tokens?
Exposed Cities, Infection and Symptoms
- How does a city become Exposed, and does an outbreak expose cities?
- What is the difference between an Exposed and a Contaminated city?
- When a city becomes Exposed, do I remove its normal Threat card?
- When do I take Symptom cards, and how many?
- Do Symptom cards count toward the hand limit?
- What if I must take a Symptom card and none are left?
- Can I complete a Disrupt Trial objective by stopping only some of the trial cities?
- In September, can I disrupt just some of the three North American trials?
- If I fail a Disrupt Trial objective but the debrief doesn't mention it, do the trial cities become Exposed?
Event Cards
- When can I play an Event card?
- Can I play an Event during an Escalation or another effect?
- Can I play an Event on someone else's turn?
- Can I play an Event just to get rid of it?
- Can Encoded Messages swap Symptom cards?
- Does Scramble Teams move a team through the cities in between?
- What can Counter-Intelligence remove?
- Where can Diversion move incident tokens?
- What actions does Cover of Darkness work with?
- How long does the Event that waives a restriction last?
Game End and After the Game
- What ends the game?
- What happens to unfinished objectives when the game ends?
- When do I repeat a month?
- When I repeat a month, are the objectives the same?
- What if a failed debrief gives me a replacement objective?
- Which failed debrief do I read if an objective fails in the first half and again in the second?
- Do failure consequences apply again on a replayed month?
- After failing an unknown-target objective, is the city rerolled on the replay?
- What does "second half of the month" mean?