| Role |
From |
Pawn |
Abilities
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| Archivist |
OtB |
Blue |
- Your hand limit is 8 cards.
- Once per turn, as an action, you may take the City card that matches the city you are in from the Player Discard Pile into your hand.
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| Bio-Terrorist |
OtB |
Black |
- Basic actions: Drive/Ferry, Direct Flight, Charter Flight, Draw A Card, Pass.
- Once each per turn, only if not currently spotted: Infect Locally, Infect Remotely, Sabotage.
- If captured, only these actions are possible: Draw A Card, Escape, Pass.
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| Colonel |
SoE |
Purple |
- When you enter a city with a “1” quarantine marker, flip it to its “2” side.
- As an action, you may discard a City card to place a quarantine marker in any city.
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| Containment Specialist |
OtB |
Ivory |
- When you enter a city with 2 or more disease cubes of the same color, remove 1 of them.
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| Contingency Planner |
10th |
Cyan |
- As an action, take any discarded Event card and store it on this Role card (limit 1).
- You can play a stored Event card as if it were in your hand. When you do, return it to the box.
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| Dispatcher |
10th |
Pink |
- As an action, move any pawn to any city containing another pawn.
- As an action, move another player’s pawn as if it were your own.
Get permission before moving another player’s pawn.
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| Epidemiologist |
OtB |
Peach |
- Once during your turn, you may (with permission) take any City card from a player in the same city with you. Doing this is not an action.[’15]
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| Field Director |
ItL |
Purple |
- You may Treat Disease in a city connected to the city you are in.
- Once per turn, you may (with permission) move another player’s pawn in your city, or a city connected to it, by Drive/Ferry. Doing this is a free bonus action.
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| Field Operative |
OtB |
Yellow |
- Once per turn, as an action, you may move 1 disease cube from the city you are in onto this Role card.
- When you Discover a Cure, you may replace 2 of the needed City cards with 3 cubes of the cure color from this card.
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| First Responder |
SoE |
Emerald |
- As an action, you may move to any city with a research station.
- Immediately after an Epidemic, you may—out of turn—move to the epidemic city and Treat Disease there (before infections).
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| Gene Splicer |
SoE |
Navy |
- You may Discover a Cure at a research station—in a city of the color being cured—by turning in 2 City cards of the cure color, plus 1 City card each of the 3 other (standard) disease colors.
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| Generalist |
OtB |
Gray |
- You may do up to 5 actions each turn.[’15 & Ls1]
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| Local Liaison |
ItL |
Pink |
- Once during your turn, as an action, you may give a City card that matches the color of the city you are in to a player in any city of the same color.
- Lab Challenge: once per turn, at a research station, you may either Characterize a Disease or Test a Cure as a free bonus action.
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| Medic |
10th |
Orange |
- Remove all cubes of one color when you do the Treat Disease action.
- Automatically remove cubes of cured diseases from your city (and prevent them from being placed there). To remove superbug cubes you must also discard a vaccine dose.[𝚂𝚘𝙴]
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| Operations Expert |
10th |
Green, light |
- As an action, build a research station in your city (no City card needed).
- Once during each of your turns, as an action, discard any City card to move from a research station to any city.†
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| Pharmacist |
SoE |
Ivory |
- As an action, reveal a City card to Treat Disease (or Distribute Vaccine) there.
- As an action, remove 1 cube of a cured disease from any city to the supply.
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| Pilot |
ItL |
Sky blue |
- You cannot do movement actions (Drive/Ferry or flights), nor build research stations.
- You may, as an action, fly to any city within 3 connections of the city you are in, skipping cities in between. You may (with permission) take 1 other pawn with you.
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| Quarantine Specialist |
10th |
Green, dark |
- Prevent disease cube placement (and outbreaks) in your city and all cities connected to it.
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| Researcher |
10th |
Brown |
When you are involved in a Share Knowledge action:
- You may give any card from your hand.
- Another player can take any card from your hand.
(In both cases, the card does not need to match the city you are in.)
- Lab Challenge: once per turn, at a research station, you may Sequence a Disease as a free bonus action.[ItL]
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| Scientist |
10th |
White |
- You need only 4 City cards (instead of 5) of the same color to do the Discover a Cure action for that disease.
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| Troubleshooter |
OtB |
Red |
- Start your turn by looking at as many Infection cards as the current infection rate.
- When you do a Direct Flight, reveal the City card used (but do not discard it).
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| Veterinarian |
SoE |
Brown |
- As an action at a research station, you may move to any Hinterlands space.
- In a Hinterlands space, remove 2 cubes of an uncured disease when you Treat Disease.
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| Virologist |
ItL |
Green |
- When you Discover a CUre, you may discard 2 City cards of the same color to replace 1 City card of the cure color.
- As an action, discard a City card to remove 1 cube of its color from any city, returning it to the supply.
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| Z-Force Team Member |
ɢᴄ16 |
Outline |
- Start the game in Montréal.
- When you Discover a Cure, players in your city may collectively contribute up to 2 cards toward the 5 needed for a cure.
- For an action, you may move directly to Montréal or Essen.
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