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Can you take the Builder or Nomads, pay for them, and skip their benefit that turn?

The rulebook says you may pay either card and choose not to build or place a monument.

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Yes. Paying for the Builder or the Nomads counts as using them, even if you do not take the matching action. Their discount or placement benefit applies only when you do take that action.

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