Steward clarification

[mangothedog]

How does Steward work and why? It says "gain gold on 2 purse cards until they are full". Why can't I decide which cards I want to choose? It seems to always choose himself as one card and another one randomly, even if this is a suboptimal choice. Is this intended by a rule I didn't notice or a bug?

[thoun]

It will automatically fill the most interesting cards for you. There is no real point on asking you to choose which card.

[mangothedog]

In the meantime, the publisher clarified the rulebook, see https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/349784 ... he-steward

In the rulebook, for the general application of card effects (page 9), it says every card "takes itself into account", which to me translates as "consider" or "optional". As a result, in eariler BGA games when it would have been better if Steward had filled two other purse cards and it didn't happen, I got confused. I think the rulebook should say it must consider itself or at least add a separate remark on the Steward card.

[mangothedog]

Alright, since then I played a game where the Steward works as expected, i.e. it only considers itself and chooses the best 2 options. The rule is correctly phrased.