Living Rules Reference · v2.0
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Readied
Cards have a readied state, which indicates that a player can exhaust or resolve the abilities on those cards.
A card that is readied is placed faceup in a player’s play area; a card that is exhausted is placed facedown in a player’s area.
A player can exhaust a readied planet card to spend resources or influence from that card’s planet.
A player can exhaust certain readied technology cards to resolve those cards’ abilities.
- Such a technology will specifically instruct a player to exhaust the card as part of the ability’s cost.
If a card is exhausted, a player cannot resolve that card’s abilities or spend resources or influence on that card until it is readied.
During a “Ready Cards” step, each player readies all of their exhausted cards by flipping them faceup.
When a player performs a strategic action, they exhaust their chosen strategy card.
- That card is later readied during the status phase.
Source: Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition — Living Rules Reference v2.0 (September 22, 2020), page 27. Rules text reproduced verbatim; the rulebook’s diagrams are omitted.