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How do purple outbreaks work in the Mutation challenge?

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A fourth purple cube causes an outbreak like any colour, and the origin city keeps its three cubes. Flare-out applies only in the Bio-Terrorist challenge. Each colour is resolved separately: a city with three of the card's colour and three purple cubes has two outbreaks at once, moving the outbreak marker twice, and Containment Failure applies to both.

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