Pandemic
How does Rate Effect work?
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If at least one drawn Infection card is a Virulent Strain card, you draw one extra card during Infections, not one per Virulent Strain card. It applies from the Infections step of the very turn its Epidemic was drawn, and to every separate Infections step. A card pulled from the bottom to resolve a Mutation card does not count as a draw and does not trigger it; the Troubleshooter also gets no extra peek.