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Can you still cure a disease with five cards of one colour in the Lab challenge?

The designer said so in 2013 and 2015; the revised Discover a Cure action in the rulebook agrees.

  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2013-08-30
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-08-17
  • tanik · Community · 2017-05-22
  • I Eat Tables · Community · 2014-03-05

No. In the Lab challenge the card-based cure is replaced by the lab process, so every cure must go through characterizing, sequencing and testing first. The old five-card Discover a Cure is not available on the revised reference card.

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