Draft & Build

How Point City’s shared market changes and how to construct buildings.

Optional market flip

Before drafting, you may flip one Resource card to its Building side if its entire row or column currently shows Resources. You may do this once per turn; you cannot flip a Building back into a Resource.

Draft two cards

Take any two horizontally or vertically adjacent cards from the Market. Diagonal cards are not adjacent. You may instead take the top two cards of the Draw Pile; if you choose this option, take both from the pile and do not combine a pile card with a Market card.

You may take any Resource card and keep it in front of you. A double-resource card counts as two of its pictured type; an Ingenuity card is one wild resource. You may use a Resource card taken this turn to pay for a Building drafted with it.

Construct a Building

You must pay a Building’s complete pictured cost immediately or you cannot draft it. Spend Resource cards from your hand, permanent resources from buildings you constructed on earlier turns, or any combination. Discard spent Resource cards. Each permanent resource can be used once per turn, even if you build two cards. A newly built Building’s permanent resource cannot be used until a later turn.

Place constructed cards in your City with their permanent-resource icons visible. A Civic Building has a civic symbol in its upper-right corner instead of points or a permanent resource; after constructing one, take any available Civic Token and keep it visible.

Refill the Market

After you take two cards, pay for buildings, and claim Civic Tokens, refill empty spaces from top-left to bottom-right. A space vacated by a Resource card receives the next card showing its Building side; a space vacated by a Building receives its Resource side. If you drafted from the Draw Pile, skip this refill step.

If you cannot make a legal market draft

You must draft two cards each turn. If no legal adjacent pair of Market cards lets you take both, draw the top two cards from the Draw Pile instead. A building you cannot afford is never a legal draft.