Buy Cards at the Rat Market

Your rat companions may not be any help in a fight, but they are happy to sell you some cards to make you stronger. Time to be a greedy pig! All players can now spend money to buy transparent upgrade cards from the Rat Market and sleeve them into cards in their hand.

The cards in the Rat Market are separated into 2 rows for the 2 types of upgrade cards:

Attack cards (on the top row) feature only icons on the left for attacks, movement, card drawing, healing, etc.

Special cards (on the bottom row) have text with special rules on the bottom, a star icon on the top left, and may have other icons on the left.

The cost of an upgrade card is in the coin icon on the top right. Track the money you spend by moving your cube down on your money track.

There is no turn order. Players can discuss which cards they want and buy them in any order.

You can buy as many cards as you can afford.

After buying a card, flip over a new card of the same type so the Market is always full.

After refilling the Market, sleeve the card you bought into a card currently in your hand. Do not cover any text or icons with the upgrade card. See Sleeving Cards for details.

Buying cards is optional. Keep any money you have at the end of this step.

You may pay $1 to flush the Market. Discard as many cards from the Market as you wish, and then replace them with new cards. (You can pay to flush the Market multiple times.)